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New comment by nirav72 in "Our position on open-weights models"

nirav72 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:23:44 +0000

Anthropic starting to sound like Microsoft from the 1990s.

New comment by nirav72 in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

nirav72 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:12:31 +0000

Ballistic intercepts are still very difficult and not always certain to work. Interception is only possible within a specific trajectory window with limited number of shots.

The missile defense we commonly hear about these days is used against lower speed , shorter range and altitude missiles:

New comment by nirav72 in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

nirav72 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:44:31 +0000

India has had the ability to reach LEO and beyond for a while now. So bringing down a nuke anywhere on the planet wouldn't be that difficult for them. That goes for any country that has LEO launch capabilities. Of course miniaturization of the nuclear payload is another matter.

New comment by nirav72 in "ANSI escape injection in MCP servers: Hidden from humans, visible to AI"

nirav72 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:48:17 +0000

ANSI bombs from the MS-DOS days are back for the modern age.

Edit: For those too young to remember - https://stason.org/TULARC/security/computer-virus-l/23-What-...

New comment by nirav72 in "The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use"

nirav72 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:37:35 +0000

It takes some effort, but you can get the recommendation algo to clean up your feed. My youtube account of 15 years was flooded with political content. Mainly just opinion stuff and lot of AI slop. So I just unsubbed all channels and started clicking the don't recommend this channel or I don't like this content. It took couple of months, but my recommended videos are back to what I liked watching. Mainly dev and hobby stuff. For channels that I do like that are non-political, I just keep bookmarked links that go directly to their channel page.

New comment by nirav72 in "Sam Neill has died"

nirav72 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:45:55 +0000

Kinda reminds of the inter-dimensional angry aliens from The Expanse that made ships disappear when transiting through the ring gates.

New comment by nirav72 in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

nirav72 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:29:05 +0000

Thanks. Based on your suggestion - I found this on the plugins page. in case someone else is interested:

https://github.com/hudsonfoo/kerbal-openmct

New comment by nirav72 in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

nirav72 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:59:34 +0000

Looking at current hd prices, I keep kicking myself for giving away several 3tb and couple of 4tb drives I had in my unraid server few years ago when I started upgrading my array to 8 and 12tb drives. At the time, a drive slot in my server was more valuable to me than a mere 3tb drive. i could have kept them for emergencies if any one of my array drives fail.

New comment by nirav72 in "Japan's Hayabusa2 probe to conduct flyby of Torifune asteroid"

nirav72 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 02:47:57 +0000

I wonder if someone has hooked this up to Kerbal Space Program.

New comment by nirav72 in "Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk"

nirav72 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:03:10 +0000

That was a fun DLC. The zip lines were my favorite on the night maps.

New comment by nirav72 in "Steam Controller Auto-Charge – pilot to magnetic charging puck using CV"

nirav72 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:50:51 +0000

That is odd. I did as well around the same time and mine shows September of this year.

New comment by nirav72 in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

nirav72 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:20:47 +0000

If its public , how do you prevent others from accessing it?

New comment by nirav72 in "Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS"

nirav72 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:23:57 +0000

How many cameras do you have on your frigate instance? i’ve been running frigate for couple years and seemed to have hit a limit of 6 cameras. 3 of them are wireless and 3 are connected to Ethernet. Mainly adding any more seems to adversely impact detection. I suspect it was maybe because the coral TPU board was hitting its limits. So I recently switched to intel arc a380 for inference. I’m going to add more cameras soon to see it helps.

New comment by nirav72 in "Global population movements from 1990 to 2023"

nirav72 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:01:02 +0000

Isn't migration to MENA - specifically migration to North Africa mainly from Sub-Saharan part of Africa?

New comment by nirav72 in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

nirav72 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:17:08 +0000

>I have to wonder if Elon has spent too much social capital for this kind of cult of meme stock strategy to work again.

If social capital was an indicator , then Tesla stock would've cratered 2 years ago. Despite demand for tesla vehicles dropping. I don't think social capital matters these days.

New comment by nirav72 in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

nirav72 — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:51:02 +0000

Bambuddy and tailscale was my solution to losing access to mobile app once I went lan-only. Has video stream ,monitoring and control. Plus home assistant integration via MQTT. Only thing I’m missing is the ‘AI’ spaghetti monitoring. But those are rare for me.

New comment by nirav72 in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

nirav72 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:57:58 +0000

I'm running my P2S in LAN mode. But I also blocked it on my router from connecting outward. Sure I can no longer use the mobile app. But BamBuddy solved that for me. It has a web UI that is mobile browser friendly.

New comment by nirav72 in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"

nirav72 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:18:28 +0000

Not just stateless, but also lack agency. An LLM or agent isn’t just going to wake up and suddenly decide it wants to perform a certain action or task without prior instructions.

New comment by nirav72 in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

nirav72 — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:04:03 +0000

Last fall I bought a 4tb Samsung 990 pro drive for $260. Now it retails between $800-900.

New comment by nirav72 in "UAE to leave OPEC"

nirav72 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:14:46 +0000

Even if PLAN ships aren’t as capable or matching the U.S, it doesn’t really matter. They just have to be there. The U.S is not going to risk an escalation with China.