And after a quick glance I'm not seeing any correlation between "Hades - The End for the Dammed" and this worm; would also love a source for this claim.

> The AI Horde is a service that generates text using crowdsourced GPUs run by independent volunteer workers.

But that's at HF frequencies and above, not this VLF stuff which is somewhat of a different beast. Risks there are probably similar to AC mains power distribution, I would guess: touch it and get a nasty shock, don't touch it and you're fine.

I'd love to know more about how candle-flicker LEDs are assembled, because that source of [apparent] randomness is very interesting to me. I'm not sure if it's an LFSR or true HRNG, and I'm sure there are lots of different designs out there for the simulcrum of natural candle light.

You can get a better sense of their operation if you wire up the LED to an audio circuit where they'll make a pleasingly happy beep boop sound.

(Edit: There was an article somewhere that explored the entropy and concluded that their component operated on a LFSR, as they binned all the brightness outputs into integer values and waves hands did fancy math to conclude that the brightness it was likely modulated by a LFSR. I'll see if I can find it.)

(Edit 2: https://cpldcpu.com/2013/12/08/hacking-a-candleflicker-led/ here's that article for those interested. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25530895 was the original submission to HN.)

De-doming these things (as discussed in another comment) is quite a chore; I de-domed 30 LEDs (candle-flicker, of course) in order to diffuse the light and fit under the keys of a small 3x10 keyboard I was building. But the effect is neat when the backlight is on as it almost looks like a shadow is randomly typing away as the entire array flickers.

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Except that each of the parent's chat windows has zero context that the other window's request even exists, so from each window's point of view it's as if one person walks in to a store to buy a fake ID, and then somewhere else in a different universe on a different timeline a different person walks into a different store to hand that same fake ID over to a different cashier for the restricted purchase.

The LLMs are doing the best they can with absolutely zero context. Which has got to be a hard problem, IMO.

Gist of random (human-written) power-related commands to peek at random power info: https://gist.github.com/nhecker/8e850773ff229724ce361967cc22...

For your last point, you're probably looking for something like `ioreg -raw0 -c AppleSmartBattery | plutil -extract 0.PowerTelemetryData.SystemPowerIn raw -` (The source for that last command is from the above gist: https://gist.github.com/nhecker/8e850773ff229724ce361967cc22... ) Or maybe `pmset -g ac | head -n3` is helpful, too. HTH.

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(edit1: formatting)

(edit2: there's also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677607 which seems pretty cool but is quite complex, and might be overkill)

(edit3: different method for printing adapter wattage)

As an experiment, I've found that you can reliably detect the presence of crummy horn control by trying to pulse the horn for the shortest amount of time possible. The shorter my push on the horn button gets, the more likely it is that the timing will feel wrong somehow, or the horn doesn't even sound at all.

I've definitely tried friendly beeps at friends or neighbors and it came out sounding like an angry honk.

I wonder about the battery SoC being reported with macpow; there are several different ways to calculate that metric and it's not clear which is being used. I may dig into that if I get the chance. Neat tool!

Now I'm wondering how residential rooftop solar is accounted for... presumably there are houses in these grids which export solar electricity or offset grid power with solar production. The utility supplies data to this site, and the utility would only know about the energy produced by residential solar if each KWh of exported or offset energy were reported somehow. I'd imagine that's a pretty tough problem, particularly in the offset scenario.