it’s quiet because there’s internet shutdown (19 days today) and iranians allowed to go on twitter only gaslight and emit the most disgusting propaganda you’ve likely seen in a while
if you want to avoid that, you have to either catch iraqi gsm signal from across the border, or use smuggled starlink and hope that neither EW specialist or drone notices you
i don’t think that a washed out royal surrounded by iranian version of cubans from miami would be very consequential, however if you compare scale of political persecution between pahlavi and islamic republic eras, this makes savak look downright humanitarian, and i don’t think he would be able to make situation worse either
also, islamic republic heavily exaggerated pahlavi’s brutality in their propaganda, for example in constitution there’s mention of “60000 martyrs” but even their own revised estimates for 1979 casualties are over 20x lower
this is just PUF? what new thing he thinks he’s doing
how long is that list? somebody turn it into a deck of cards
watch them shut down call center as soon as they figure this out
oh look, simple sabotage as a service
it’s closer to 2.8M now, which is 770k dollars
e: it’s 2.94M ($810k) now and they have increased target from 3M to 5M ($1.38M)
is it because of pushback, or is it because money is running out
if everything else fails add matrix account to your profile (to have another communication option) and reach out to admin of your instance
brexit would look wild in that timeline
NEOM is the building the foundations for a new future - unconstrained by legacy city infrastructure, powered by renewable energy and prioritizing the conservation of nature. We are committed to developing the region to the highest standards of sustainability and livability.
lol, this is saudi, they found a way to make half of their water supply to riyadh nonrenewable
the talk about water content in soil was bad but the topic itself was interesting
things that fella got wrong: TDM moisture meter works by measuring what effectively is electrical length of waveguide formed by 2 electrodes and soil around it. more water = higher dielectric constant = longer delay for reflection, this only measures as deep as probe goes snd the rest is fitted from model
neutron detector works just like geiger tube except gas has large cross-section for reaction with neutrons, that gives charged products that begin a spark which is counted. in train, steel doesn’t interfere but diesel fuel will. the trick is that cosmic neutrons are counted separately from reflected neutrons, because cosmic neutrons are hot and reflected neutrons are thermal and how much of reflected ones is there depends on water content in the soil. helium does not run out. the more helium you have the faster counts go and you can move faster while measuring with decent precision. the lead shield in train is for getting rid of radiation from granite aggregate under rails, because it contains tiny amounts of uranium and gammas from decay chain would add to noise - lead does not interfere
fella didn’t even introduce himself other than with link to github which might be not his strictly speaking
so far (in the order i’m watching) the worst offender https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-quick-stop-at-the-hostileshop
at least this one https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-chaos-communication-chemistry-dna-security-systems-based-on-molecular-randomness#t=1112 and the next slide
a chunk of software was vibecoded unless i misunderstand something about it https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-hacking-washing-machines#t=2629
lowkey disappointed to see so much slop in other talks (illustrations on slides mostly)
energy goes in, energy goes out. you can’t explain that
is that the superexponential growth that lw tried to warn us about?
Would be much easier if there was any kind of organised opposition within iran, but this is not the case and irgc know what they’re doing