Week 51
China Hydrogen Bulletin: "1037 km-China’s longest pure hydrogen pipeline will start construction soon"
App Developer: "A couple of months ago, Google changed its API policy and revoked [our Android app] iA Writer’s access to Google Drive on Android. By freezing up Android’s main storage option, our app was frozen in carbonite... we [already] had to rewrite privacy statements, update documents, and pass a series of security checks, all while facing a barrage of new, ever-shifting requirements... [Google kept altering the deal]... In order to get our users full access to their Google Drive on their devices, we now needed to pass a yearly CASA (Cloud Application Security Assessment) audit. This requires hiring a third-party vendor like KPMG.
An indie company handing over a month’s worth of revenue to a 'Big Four' firm like KPMG for a pretty much meaningless scan. And, of course, this would be a recurring annual expense. More cash for Google’s partners, while small developers like us foot the bill.. [It soon] became clear this wasn’t just our battle—developers everywhere were facing similar bureaucratic entanglements, all designed to benefit Google’s partners while squeezing the life out of smaller companies"
Know-how creates growth, not enterpreneurship. If there is know-how you can build a business around that. It's easy at that point. A monkey could do it.
Yunus is the microcredit guy, has all the right globalist connections, and is a "Nobel laureate". Giving micro loans to house wifes to fix their broken tea pots does not induce betterment on a large scale. What does in the modern world is government help.
Firstpost: "[O]usted [Bangladesh] prime minister Sheikh Hasina launched another blistering attack on the the interim leader Muhammad Yunus.. Hasina said, 'This undemocratic group led by the fascist Yunus has no responsibility towards the people. They are obstructing all public welfare-oriented work by seizing power.'.. Hasina said: 'About 50 million people in Bangladesh were under the social security system. They were given various allowances. It has been alleged that most of the allowances have been stopped. The family cards of 4.3 million families under the TCB have been cancelled'"
Middle East Eye: "Israeli soldiers denied entry into Australia following war crimes visa questions.. Troops face scrutiny in Australian visa applications over their potential involvement in genocidal acts"
New Atlas: "New retrofit lets micro-turbines burn both hydrogen and natural gas.. As a way to keep small natural gas power plants operating in anticipation of a hydrogen economy, the Deutsche Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (German Aerospace Center, or DLR) and Power Service Consulting (PSC) have tested a way for micro-turbines to burn hydrogen, gas, or both"
"@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Everybody knows Ubisoft's NFT games and NFT initiative crashed and burned and they had to stop talking about AI, but one other thing I'm noticing is every game with generative AI elements is absolutely slated by consumers.. on the Catly trailer from The Game Awards across different channels.
It's exciting to see a new generation just outright reject this stuff..
I still think the most incredible moment of the Ubisoft NFT saga was when they rolled out the exec in charge of it to the media and he basically said that their customers are dumb dumbs who don't understand it. And then the whole thing trundled off a cliff as nobody wanted it.
You can see similar vibes emerging from big tech companies too with AI, e.g. Microsoft had people vibing on 'our customers are luddites and morons' with Recall at first.
If you want a similar one, go read the comments on Recall and Copilot+ PC videos on YouTube. It's eye watering. You can see the future.
Apparently nobody at Microsoft is willing to tell Microsoft's CEO that people don't actually want the product - so the customers will"
There is already a T-shirt design
FuelCellWorks: "SAG's hydrogen tank system passes rigorous Bonfire test, demonstrating its resilience in extreme fire conditions, boosting its prospects for road traffic approval"
Newswit: "[MAN hTGX] was recently crowned winner of the Truck Innovation Award 2025. The direct-injection engine with 6 cylinders has 16.8 L displacement and produces 383 kW power output. It will be equipped with the hydrogen power cell unit of the Stuttgart-based automotive supplier, consisting of piston, piston rings, piston pin and cylinder liner. Further components from MAHLE will also be used in the valve train. MAN plans to build around 200 units of its truck, classified as a zero-emission vehicle (ZEV)... The use of hydrogen in the combustion engine is an important lever for decarbonization"
Gasworld: "CryoVac, based near Oslo, has received an Approval in Principle (AiP) from the classification society DNV for its vacuum insulation technology. The system addresses some of the biggest challenges of storing and transporting liquid hydrogen...
CryoVac's solution uses a new type of vacuum insulation panel, called CryoPan, to create an efficient, lightweight system. The design incorporates hexagonal panels welded into continuous surfaces, offering strong insulation and reducing the evaporation of hydrogen, known as boil-off"
"Iran lost massive influence after Assad". They actually had too much influence, now it is back to normal levels. Usually Constantinople and the Levant (East Medi) are linked not the Levant and waaay the f--k over there in the east, Persia. Iran still has massive influence in its orbit. After Saddam they have more power in Iraq. That's plenty of gain for a state, and historically justified.
#Frontline #UA #RU 12/01 - 12/17
Russia today is a market economy, some of their intellectual go overboard in their defense of the market economy but the excess can partly be explained via the zeal of a new convert. Russians had little of the market during modern times, now communism is gone and they have a new toy, some obsessed over it. This is just offsetting a previous absence IMO... Even in gov, when the siloviki took control via Putin it was notable they chose someone (obviously) with a security background but also had an economics degree.
You can use the market approach to the extent it is useful. But no one should doubt either in Russia, or China they'll knock the living shit out of you if you are a businessman and yapping away the way many of those muckers do in America. The Anglo culture is a complete different realm. They are in big trouble bcz of that culture now, pretty much screwed in the near term, thanks to that past.
China Daily: As China positions itself as a global leader in the production and utilization of green hydrogen, industry experts project a transformative leap in the nation's hydrogen sector, driven by declining costs, policy support and technological innovation...
Green hydrogen, produced using renewable energy, will dominate China's hydrogen supply in the coming decades, accounting for 90 percent by 2060.. of total production, said Liu Shiyu, vice-president of the China Electric Power Planning and Engineering Institute.
China, already the world's largest producer and consumer of hydrogen, accounted for over one-third of global output in 2023, with production reaching 35 million metric tons and expected to nearly triple to 100 million tons by mid-century, said Liu.
There is one crazy mathematical geneology line, it starts with Euler, the bestest and greatest of all time unquestionably the GOAT, and it goes,
Leonhard Euler -> Lagrange -> Fourier -> Gustav Dirichlet -> Rudolf Lipschitz -> Ferdinand Lindemann -> David Hilbert -> Richard Courant
This is the teacher-student chain.. I studied stuff by almost each of these guys. Legendary.
Hackaday: "It’s one of the great tragedies of our technological era. Smartphones that feature an incredible amount of computational power compared to computers the past, are largely locked down by carriers or manufacturers, dooming them to performing trivial tasks far below their true capabilities.
But there is hope. In part one of this build, a OnePlus 6T is stripped of its Android operating system in favor of postmarketOS, a Linux distribution based on Alpine designed for a number of Android phones and tablets as well as some Linux-only handhelds. The guide also demonstrates how to remove the battery and use a modified USB-C cable to essentially trick the battery management system into powering up the phone anyway"
Great, MM now uploaded his movie on healthcare industry Sicko to Youtube.
Michael Moore: "It’s been three days since Luigi Mangione’s manifesto was discovered in his backpack explaining why he assassinated the CEO of United HealthCare. In Mangione’s manifesto, he said that he was not the 'most qualified person to lay out the full argument' against our for-profit healthcare industry. Apparently, to Mangione, one of those qualified people - is me..
[T]he press is calling me to ask, 'Why are people angry, Mike? Do you condemn murder, Mike?'. Yes, I condemn murder, and that’s why I condemn America’s broken, vile, rapacious, bloodthirsty, unethical, immoral health care industry and I condemn every one of the CEOs who are in charge of it and I condemn every politician who takes their money and keeps this system going instead of tearing it up, ripping it apart, and throwing it all away. We need to replace this system with something sane, something caring and loving — something that keeps people alive"
Burrough, The Big Rich: "Hunt loathed Kennedy, who had vowed to 'review' the depletion allowance"
The richest oilmen of Texas during the 60s were Hugh Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson, H.L. Hunt. They are mentioned in a book about the era The Big Rich. In a very likely alternate JFK killing scenario, these men were involved in plotting and even paying off an assasin to remove Kennedy, along with LBJ.
The Guardian: "[2024/05] Joshua Dean, a Boeing whistleblower who warned of manufacturing defects in the planemaker's 737 Max, has died after a short illness"
BBC: "[2024/03] Boeing whistleblower John Barnett found dead in US"
Some leftovers.. then back to R&R
"@ProPublica@newsie.social
#UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Key Treatment for Kids With #Autism.. Leaked internal documents show that the #insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of #therapy. Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
The Rise of Corporate Landlords: Are We Heading Toward a Rent Monopoly? Corporate landlords [..are] fundamentally changing the rental experience for tenants. As these companies grow their share of the market, we’re starting to see the rise of a rent monopoly—and it’s tenants who are paying the price...
Skyrocketing Rents.. With fewer independent landlords in the market, competition is shrinking. As corporate landlords dominate more of the rental sector, they gain the power to set rents at higher prices.
The Needling: "Speaking on the condition of anonymity, today the brave minimum-wage worker at McDonald’s who led police to the man suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson said they can’t wait to spend their entire $60,000 bounty on a single night at the hospital"