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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 8h
Fish rot from the head!
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Minor Mobius @minormobius.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Oh yeah. It slaps. Calling all mineheads! games.mino.mobi/orb
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 9h
hey not bad
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 9h
Why is always the most reliable things that take forever to fail 😥
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 30/09/2026
It turns out you can make a living shipping proprietary hardware supported by open-source software and drivers. Let's see more of this github.com/dalathegreat...

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Internet of Things (IoT) communication, MOSFET and relay module

The Stark CMR v2 is the only commercially available and CE certified product specifically designed for the excellent battery emulator project.
 
The SCMR is DIN-rail mountable unit equipped with a small SoC (system on a chip) which allows the user to control three hardware communications buses as well as four independently controlled DC voltage outputs with clearly visible indicator lights on the front of the unit. The outputs can be used for example to control external DIN-mountable relays while the communications buses can be used to interact with other control systems or controllable hardware. It is equipped with WiFi and Bluetooth to allow remote control operation. It is a perfect fit where any combination of the above functions are desired. Battery-Emulator ⚡🔋

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What is Battery Emulator?

Many manufacturers sell home battery systems to enable homeowners to store power collected from the grid, or renewable sources, to use at times when electricity demand is higher. However almost all of these home battery systems charge a high cost for every kilowatt hour (kWh) of capacity you buy.

At the same time, EV manufacturers have been putting high capacity battery packs into their cars, with no firm plan for what should happen to those batteries if the car is damaged in a crash, or reaches the end of its life as a vehicle.

Battery Emulator enables EV battery packs to be repurposed for stationary storage. It acts as a translation layer between the EV battery and the home inverter. This makes it extremely cheap and easy to use large EV batteries in a true plug'n'play fashion!

Caution

Working with high voltage is dangerous. Always follow local laws and regulations regarding high voltage work. If you are unsure about the rules in your country, consult a licensed electrician for more information.
Quickstart guide 📜

    Pick a supported inverter (solar panels optional) 🌞
    Pick a supported battery 🔋
    Order the Battery-Emulator compatible hardware 🤖
    Follow the installation guidelines section for how to install and commission your battery properly 📓
Two EV batteries bracketed to a wall next to a pair of inverters, used as a powerwall.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 29/09/2026
Can't wait for Congress to pass a law mandating that every school have armed autonomous Elbit drones installed in every corridor of every elementary, middle, and high school. It'll do wonders for kids' motivation, I'm sure
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 24/09/2026
@proptermalone.bsky.social
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 22/09/2026
Probably nothing
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 21/09/2026
I wrote something about this last year paulhansel.com?p=157
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The untapped potential of whale brains: FishBux(tm) – Paul Hansel
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 18/09/2026
How do you know?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 18/09/2026
this is a sick header image who drew it
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
reinventing XPlane 12 from first principles and saving negative money
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
Neat way to explore the space of durable pigments
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
Remember to go outside and play
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First-ever study shows bumble bees 'play'
YouTube video by Science X
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
I advise writing to your representatives.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
If Silicon Valley itself is an example to pay attention to, fraud by self-dealing management is a substantially bigger problem at present www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/i...
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Interim Silicon Valley Water CEO faces conflict of interest concerns
Interim Santa Clara Valley Water CEO Melanie Richardson is set to temporarily lead the water agency, despite coming under scrutiny 10 years ago for benefiting from contracts between the agency and her...
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
Breaking news: cooperating with other people who have the same problem tends to improve the likelihood of success
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
I confess I don't understand the question.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
How did you do the stacking here? linear rail / sliding plate or just by hand?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
I count three clichés in this skeet. Cities have hours- to days-long *planned* outages in essential services all the time. Doing another few planned outages once or twice in the next 50 years -- to upgrade the PLCs and firewalls -- is not going to be the end of the world.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 14/09/2026
Whatever message you're trying to communicate to me, I'm not getting it.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
$1B is what they've agreed to so far. It is OAI saying "don't bother fining us only $1B because we're giving that away for public benefit." They can give more and more can be demanded of them
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
In the context of an airgapped PLC / industrial control network, sure don't just nmap randomly, but if any system exposed to the open internet can't survive an nmap, it needs to be retired. I think you're mixing up the two here.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
I wouldn't classify dealing with the externalities of your company's production as "charity" either, but that doesn't mean they're being directionally harmful here.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
They're dipping their toes in
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
Not an OpenAI fan here by any means, but you are probably wasting your time by interpreting this in the most uncharitable way possible. Subsidized access can mean anything from "40% off the first 10B tokens" to "10B tokens free, then 40% off for 100B tokens".
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
You don't have to give any model access to any of your proprietary tooling. You can just point it at any public attack surface and tell it to fire away
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
is it a horseshoe or just a rotary positional embedding
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
it seems like a good start!
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
If OpenAI and Anthropic are worried about water plants, they should be volunteering to red-team them and patch whatever vulnerabilities exist post haste. We are way behind in applying the level of cryptographic security we demand for fake internet money (Monero) to our real public infrastructure.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
Outlawing open weights is not far off from "possessing or contributing to OSS ML tools" qualifying as probable cause for a warrant to search or seize someone's possessions. "When the day comes, you'll agree with me -- in public, because other opinions are subversive behavior & will get you jailed"
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
It doesn't matter whether models are open-weight or not. Jailbreaking is so trivial that no serious attacker is slowed down by any guardrails. What could change is how prosecutors excuse abuses of power. As each murdered driver "wielded a deadly weapon," programmers now "wield scary hacking tools"
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What it means when federal authorities say vehicles are 'weaponized'
The term weaponized vehicle has become commonplace at news conferences and in statements released by federal officials during the Trump administration's immigration crackdown.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
Nice bait. Remember when public opinion turned against private ownership / rentals of trucks after terrorists used them as weapons against festivals and demonstrations? Remember how possessing unlicensed compilers was outlawed after thousands of companies were extorted with ransomware?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
And when someone turns off the breaker?
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 13/09/2026
The powerplants don't exist
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 11/09/2026
These aren't x -- they're y
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
www.datacenterbans.com
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Data Center Moratoriums
Tracking state-level data center legislation across the United States. Interactive map, live news, and AI-powered analysis.
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Geoengineering Info @geoengineering1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
🚨🗞️Weekly Solar Geoengineering Updates from 31 August - 06 September 2026🗞️🚨 solargeoengineeringupdates.substack.com/p/weekly-sol...
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Weekly Solar Geoengineering Updates (31 August - 06 September 2026)
Weekly SRM roundup of research papers, web posts, events, jobs, projects, podcasts, videos and much more.
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
you can call them and notify them a JDAM is enroute
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
they're not paid nearly well enough to be that helpful
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
inside of you are two wolves. both of them have two brain hemispheres. each of those hemispheres has two lobes. inside of each lobe are two regions. within each region there are two areas. each area contains a multitude of cells. within each multitude
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 10/09/2026
people are rapidly going to have problems when their LLM operated Optimus starts hallucinating on the highway
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
breaking: US Navy found to be illegally exporting restricted munition GPUs to foreign adversary
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
Yes, but to be clear, the text is not real Google output ☝️🤓
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
postmarketOS has only raised 102k EUR ever
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postmarketOS - Open Collective
A real Linux distribution for phones
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/paul...
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
What's 1,500,000,000,000 minus 49,000,000? 1,499,951,000,000
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
This is a low effort post
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paul hauntsel 👻 🎃 @paulhansel.com · 09/09/2026
Caring about AGW != finding trillions of dollars to remove CO2.
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