Techno Optimist | Orbital Solar
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Maybe they are right. Well, they are.
But you can't have your cake and eat it too without expanding the pie.
Earth fatigue will rise up like the Himalayas. Corporates are bureaucratic blabbering idiots.
Builders will be forced to move off-world. Which is a good outcome for literally everyone involved.
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NSA got a billion selfies of you beating it unless that camera is taped over
BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home.
Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time.
They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted.
Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location.
Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.
Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in.
Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know.
If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.
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BREAKING: Claude Code found 14,219 photos of my face on my Android that I never took. Phone was secretly taking them almost every time I picked it up. Even when I was just lying in bed. Even at home.
Not screenshots. Real frames from the front camera. On the train. In the car. At home. When I just grabbed it to check the time.
They were just sitting in a system cache. Timestamps and GPS on them. Nothing in Gallery. Nothing in Recently Deleted.
Plugged the phone into my laptop, made a full backup, told Claude Code to look for any front-camera files that weren’t in my photos. It pulled /data/system/users/0/faceunlock/cache and another folder inside Google Play Services. Over 14 thousand files. Normal ones and infrared from Face Unlock. Every single one had time and location.
Started scrolling. Almost everything from the last 15 months. Then I saw a file created 2 seconds ago. I was still looking at the folder. Phone kept taking photos while I was reading this.
Google and the phone makers say Face Unlock turns everything into a mathematical model and deletes the image right away. On this phone the raw frames were just sitting there. Some of the processes writing to that folder were from system diagnostics. Couple of old apps that still had camera permission could also get in.
Turned off diagnostics, revoked camera access from everything that doesn’t need it, cleared the cache. But how many of these frames already went somewhere else, I don’t know.
If you want to check yours, plug it in, make a full backup or use ADB, and ask Claude to look for front-camera files outside your Gallery. Path above is where mine were.
Claude Code found 145,763 photos I permanently deleted from my iPhone.
Three years of deleted photos and videos still sitting in a hidden cache. Any app with file access can read them.
I plugged my iPhone into my MacBook to run a backup. Claude Code was doing the security audit from my last post and flagged a directory I wasn't even looking for.
PhotoData/Thumbnails. Over 146,000 files. Photos, videos, screenshots. Every single one was something I deleted.
Photos from 2023, 2024 and 2025. The ones I deleted the second after taking them. The ones I cleared from Recently Deleted. The ones I deleted three separate times because I wanted to be sure they were gone. All still there.
Passport photo I took for a visa application in 2023.
Screenshots of my bank app with full account numbers visible.
Private photos I sent someone and immediately deleted after a breakup.
Screenshot of my crypto seed phrase I took temporarily in 2022.
Photo of my ID and credit card I took to remember the numbers and deleted 5 seconds later.
Screenshots of my ex's private Instagram stories I saved and permanently deleted in 2023.
Some were full resolution. All organized by date going back to 2021.
When you delete a photo on iPhone, iOS removes it from your camera roll and Recently Deleted. It keeps a compressed copy in a Spotlight search index cache so your phone can find things when you search. Apple never clears it. Not after 30 days. Not after a year. Never.
They told you it was permanently deleted. It wasn't.
I checked which apps on my phone had Files and Folders access. 23 apps. Weather apps. QR code scanners. PDF readers. A flashlight app I downloaded in 2022. Any one of them could have been reading every photo I ever deleted this entire time.
Went from 23 apps to 3 in about two minutes.
Full step by step below. Takes 2 minutes. Save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone with an iPhone.
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Just finished up, here is the real Houston Geofence that is ~26% smaller than advertised.
Waymo is next, and they're no better.
It’s a decently large area.
Think it’s time to dig into every service area and find out what’s real
cc @koby_pierce
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One time a nigga asked me “why are manhole covers round” in an interview and I said because circles are the only shape that can’t fall into themselves at any orientation and I’m pretty sure he didn’t hire me because he was mad I knew the answer and he didn’t
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The day SpaceX catches Starship will be the most important day in the history of space exploration.
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One of the biggest U.S. suppliers of cobalt isn't a mine. It's Redwood, turning end-of-life batteries into a domestic supply of a critical mineral.
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Good morning fellow astronauts. 🚀
Track Starlink on NetP (my site).
The overview page will tell you how much bandwidth is orbiting overhead as well as what launches are coming up.
There are multiple launches per month.
Group 15-15 just went online (launched Oct 23)
Group 15-16 launched yesterday (coming online soon)
Next launch in about 37 hours.
netp-app.com/starlink/overvi…
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LAUNCH was supposed to save the trenches
no block 0 bundling, no rugs, fair launches, no more extraction
the solution to everything wrong with memecoins
and now the chart looks like everything they promised to fix
at this point it’s obvious why Pumpfun keeps winning, and probably always will
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Introducing Gemini 4 Carbon, it's a big jump over Argon which we released just 2 weeks ago.
Gemini 4 Carbon is SOTA on cyber, long horizon tasks, ranks #1 on Artificial Analysis V5, significantly improves on usability in domains like coding, and is more aligned.
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Gemini 4 Carbon is our next frontier model.
It’s state-of-the-art across cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.
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Ford's Q3 earnings just came out: The company's EV unit (called Model e) lost $1.1 billion in Q3, with an EBIT margin of -86.5%. EV revenue was $1.2 billion, -33% YoY.
Ford: "Volume and revenue down, driven by discontinuation of F-150 Lightning and right-sizing of Mustang Mach-E production to customer demand."
Overall company earnings:
• EPS: $0.49 adj vs. $0.40 exp
• Automotive rev: $46.1B vs. $46.2B exp
• EBIT: $2.66 billion
Ford expects to unveil its next-generation EV - which will be a smaller EV pickup truck - in early 2027. They're aiming for a $30k starting price and a launch late next year.
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Okay, now things get crazy: they have another unreleased Gemini model that's even better than Carbon.
And Carbon has already reached number 1 in the AA Intelligence Index today.
It looks like Google has taken a significant step towards RSI!
