exited founder/angel prev: fb, amzn, reddit skills: reverse engineering, keygens, bo staff, startups, steak, and tacos. signal: merket.01

Austin/SF
Joined February 2025
Replying to @TechCrunch
@TechCrunch please add the link. Do the right thing. You don't even say how you sourced this. Because I reverse engineered it.
Replying to @TechCrunch
you know what's unoriginal? stealing scoops with no attribution.
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SpaceX Blocked A U.S. And NATO Satellite to Assist a Russian Intercept After Crippling Ukraine's Air Defenses The Math Proves the Reality that Musk doesn't want you to see. On Oct 13-14, SpaceX restricted Starshield/Starlink during a 39-missile Russian attack, cutting Ukrainian drone intercepts by 23% and stranding U.S. personnel in Kyiv. Forty-eight hours later (Oct 15), SpaceX blocked U.S.-licensed NRO, Space Force, and NATO radar satellite ICEYE-X36 in orbit so Russia's COSMOS 2612 weapon could intercept it (99.89%-99.98% posterior) Our Model Demonstrates that the Russian intercept of the US/NATO ICEYE X-36 satellite (contemporaneous with the throttling of Starlink) would not have been possible, and almost certainly not been attempted, without SpaceX resources. At a material opportunity cost, Russia sprinted its COSMOS satellite to intercept ICEYE X36. Based on a previous attempt in June during which X36 maneuvered to evade COSMOS, Russia knew that this would be successful only if X36 could not maneuver. On October 15, SpaceX fixed X36 in place by issuing a collision alert for a sub-kilometer approach with its Starlink 35856 when SpaceX's own data shows that the actual distance was 4.8-5.0x as great. SpaceX issued no warning to COSMOS despite the fact that its sprint was far more threatening than the stable X36 orbit. SpaceX did not maneuver its Starlink 35856 satellite to clear the supposed collision risk. How, absent coordination with SpaceX, could Russia have known that SpaceX would take actions that (a) misrepresented the danger posed by X36, and (b) resulted in the fixing of X36 thereby enabling COSMOS's successful intercept? Thus, SpaceX was directly involved in simultaneously compromising Ukraine’s defensive and offensive capabilities. The conjunction of these two events makes innocent explanations untenable. The Pentagon Capture & Iran Round Two Trap: Pentagon CTO Emil Michael who cashed out $7M–$35M from Musk’s inner-circle SpaceX vehicles (M8/Gigafund 0.1 and M6/Valor M33 II) and KQ Partners / xAI (selling xAIfor $5M–$25M three days before taking over CDAO/OSCand 21 days before SpaceX bought xAI, while keeping M8, M6, M9, M10 & Nomadic open) and Pete Hegseth purged rival Anthropic in two hours, surrendered combat command over US drones used to attack Iran to Starlink’s "Terms of Service," and on October 2 named Musk Co-Director of Project Meridian to design the Pentagon's "Future of Warfighting" just as America enters Iran Round Twowith depleted Patriot/THAAD magazines and Russia feeding U.S. warship/aircraft locations to Tehran. SpaceX’s actions in Ukraine raise serious questions about its alignment with US security interests and its reliability as a cornerstone of US defense. These questions are particularly troubling given the effectively irreplaceable position SpaceX has been granted by the Hegseth/Emil Michael Pentagon. $SPCX $TSLA Our full quantitative analysis below w/ @streetwiseprof
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Guess who is getting ready to give away an NVIDIA DGX Spark? Better get on that mailing list if you want to hear first...
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Can you really wait for a human editor when minutes matter?
A security warning can be hours old before it hits your feed. On October 20th, RuntimeWire published the PHP critical-RCE warning at 2:08 PM CT. BleepingComputer's coverage ran at 3:56 PM. Techmeme's PHP roundup linked 34 sources — and not the earlier report. Editors have favorites. Timestamps don't.
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Replying to @yacineMTB
This is why I have always used my real name everywhere. Even on Reddit. Privacy has always been an illusion on the internet! Using your real name means you create less artifacts that can be exploited later on.
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In 2009 I incubated my first startup in the same office as the first company cutting deals to put their chips in TVs to listen/collect data. Their work area They are still around. Raised $40M. This tech is almost 20 years old...
i own a relatively new (2025) samsung tv. i kept getting weirdly targeted ads. i tried reversing the firmware but it was aes encrypted and no keys unless tear it apart and do uart/jtag magic. zero days it is. root shell on new samsung TVs! discovered PRIVACY HORROR. write up?
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I’m going camping. This is nuts.
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Astrolab's FLIP rover will test whether LLMs can make useful decisions on the Moon when help from Earth is delayed. FLIP will carry HPE's Spaceborne Computer-4 on NASA's Griffin-1 mission, planned for late 2026. If successful, onboard LLMs could let rovers act autonomously and close the Moon's last-mile gap. runtimewire.com/article/astr…
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BREAKING: DHS bars DeepSeek products and any DeepSeek-powered tools from federal civilian IT systems. Order #2026-01, dated July 24th, was filed Oct 19th for Federal Register publication Oct 20th. The 60-day exception window elapsed; DHS cites China-hosted servers and alleged iOS flaws. runtimewire.com/article/dhs-…
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RuntimeWire flagged DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash-1017 refresh about 3 hours before @deepseek_ai announced it. Our report published at 12:08 a.m. CT on October 17th; DeepSeek posted the official release at 3:35:54 a.m. CT. We flagged a dated model label and a possible API refresh before the company confirmed the update. runtimewire.com/article/deep…
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What if Sam ends up buying xAI for Grok's video/image/agentic models, which are clearly better, and let's Elon focus on space/cars/X?
this was a "never deleting this app" moment
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If Musk is so fuking smart why didn’t he factor this in?
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BREAKING: OpenAI adds parallel agents to GPT-6 Pro in ChatGPT, letting Pro users follow and inspect delegated tasks in the Chat tab. OpenAI's October 16th X post says the agents run in parallel for Pro users. The post also claims faster responses and better plugin and tool use, but offered no latency figures or examples. runtimewire.com/article/open…
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We just hit 25,000 subscribers on YouTube! Thank you to all our subs, it truly means a lot.
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$100 says Ukraine reverse engineers Starlink and finds a way to mimic speeds between 89-98 to stay under the speed block.
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The same people that fell for Claude's marketing, bought Mac minis for OpenClaw, fell for Grok Bot (anyone could have put LLMs in a chatroom), and are already typing ‘this changes everything’ about a product that hasn’t been announced yet. Are now telling you Reverse Engineer Anything is the next hype. Don't fall for it. You don't need it. You can reverse / crack anything with a frontier model and a misspelled prompt.
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