I'm wondering how practical it would be to drill and tap terminals to add posts to batteries like this: https://batteryhookup.com/products/2x-sunwoda-lf314-314ah-lfp-prismatic-cells-grade-a-qualified-rohs-certified-ultra-long-life-10-000-cycles

The description says that you can only drill 5mm at most. Anybody do something like this before? I do have a shitty Harbor Freight drill press and couple hand tap wrenches.

 

I just finished reading Parable of The Sower, and while it's probably one of the greatest books I've ever read, most of the book is focused on survival in a world where every random homeless person and drug user wants to kill the protagonist (you can tell it was written shortly after the crack epidemic and when there was a lot of panic about crime). It was strange that most of the book was just about survival. The protagonist knew they must build something new, but they never quite got to that point in the book.

There doesn't seem to be much aspirational speculative fiction where people start building something better after a collapse of society and speculates how that may be done or how the new society may function.

The only fiction I can think of off the top of my head that covers a little bit about rebuilding society is the movie The Postman that I watched when I was a kid (I don't remember if it was good or not). Perhaps Parable of the Talents actually does start covering the building of a better society? (But I read an excerpt, and it looks like it's going to be, very presciently, about a murderous christian nationalist movement that wants to "make America great again"). I know there's stuff like Star Trek, but that's mostly set long after the rebuild; it doesn't cover in-depth how they got to that point (AFAIK).

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Just watched it. Dunno even know why I even had radarr set up to get it. At first I thought it was some cringey fantasy. Then I realised it was in some kind of alternative reality that was so close to reality that it gave the uncanny valley effect. Then it just went off the rails, lol. Very unusually and entertaining movie, IMO.

 

I just stumbled across chasing-your-tail-ng and wigle.net. I previously didn't know anything like this existed.

Looks like you could run Chasing Your Tail, and log all the WIFI SSIDs that devices (e.g. peoples' cell phones) around you are looking for, then search for the SSIDs on wigle.net, and possibly find the work/school/home locations of the people around you.

Looks like Chasing Your Tail also logs bluetooth, so could be used to find BT beacons that may be in your car, etc. And also SDR for other types of radios. Pretty interesting.

I'm not really familiar with security/OSINT type stuff, but it is interesting. Anybody know of any other projects related to this? What the best ways to mitigate this? I suppose naming your home SSID to a very common SSID would help.

 

I found this project which is just a couple of small python scripts glueing various tools together: https://github.com/vndee/local-talking-llm

It's pretty basic, but couldn't find anything more polished. I did a little "vibe coding" to use a faster Chatterbox fork, stream the output back so I don't have to wait for the entire LLM to finish before it starts "talking," start recording on voice detection instead of the enter key, and allow interruption of the agent. But, like most vibe-coded stuff, it's buggy. Was curious if there was something better that already exists before I commit to actually fixing the problems and pushing a fork.