BlogHide Reblurtsvimukthi in # blurtnews • 16 hours ago • 2 min readWindows is Adware, Are You Willing To Switch To Linux?Windows effectively switched to a freemium model over the decades and I believe Linux getting better as an operating system had a significant impact on this switch. Windows 10 and 11 can be…vimukthi in # blurtnews • 3 days ago • 5 min readEvaluating Baron's Bounty Promo After 41% Short Term ProfitBattles have been moved to tech modernization along with the start of the Promo Card sale to coincide with the BTC Halving event. I participated in the previous Halving event that took place 4 years…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 3 days ago • 1 min readIf Buying is not Owning; Does Piracy Cease to be Theft?In 2000s games started a DRM trend of online activation that cease to work when servers are down making customers unable to use the games they legally purchased. This is an obstacle to art…vimukthi in # blurtgaming • 5 days ago • 6 min readUser Onboarding, Reward Changes and a Rental Market for Skins | Splinter Stats Season 44 ReportThe way @splinterlands game work and offer Rewards is considerably different compared to the early parts of the year. These changes have been a very good change IMHO and I enjoy playing the game…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 6 days ago • 1 min readHéctor Germán Oesterheld: The Argentinian Comic Legend Who Died for His ArtThese pages were drawn while Marvel + DC made silly adventures with simple art to kids! There is a lot of interest in Argentinian right now due to Javier Milei. I did not expect to…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 8 days ago • 4 min readI Was Invited To A Multi Blockchain Gaming Guild | Marketing, HIVE and SplintertalkI recently got an invite to join a @splinterlands Guild. I spend most of my time in Diamond League and I am Dolphin sized investor in the game. It makes sense that Guilds would be sending invites to…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 8 days ago • 2 min readDo You Take Part In The SPS Delegation Market?I have been a part of @splinterlands from the very beginning and I was there to try out many of the features right when they were released. One of the features that I have not interacted with so far…vimukthi in # blurtnews • 9 days ago • 1 min readLost Technology of Disney Recreated in 2024This is a superior alternative to regular greenscreen and allow actors to wear any color and even hold transparent objects like a glass of water at hand. Modern chroma keying cannot pull off this…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 11 days ago • 5 min readI Don't Buy LEO Because I Don't Have To + Yearning for More Collaborations!I consider @splinterlands to be the original killer DAPP on HIVE. The game managed to have over half a million Daily Active Users and become the #1 DAPP in the world by the number of users. HIVE…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 17 days ago • 4 min readAnalyzing The New @splinterlands Reward Shop + Burning 412 Cards for GlintI have an overall very good impression on the changes to the Reward system and I think these changes will be beneficial for the future. There is no more need to focus on Daily Quest/Focus to earn…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 17 days ago • 1 min readFacebook Performed Man In the Middle Attacks to Spy on Non UsersFacebook bought Onavo for $120 million (which offered VPN services) for this cybercrime and faced negligible consequences. Even those who never made an FB account became victims. Aaron…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 18 days ago • 6 min readI'm Back in Champion III After a Long Time - Report on @splinterlands Ranked Rewards Season 43I used to make it to Champion I (which is the highest League) many years ago before Collection Power and other changes to Ranked Battles were introduced. These changes were good for the long term…vimukthi in # blurtnews • 18 days ago • 1 min readXZ Utils Faced What is Probably The Biggest Exploit in FOSSDebian and Fedora based Distros (almost all of Linux is affected. Carefully planned over many years. Discovered by Andres Freund when benchmarking SSH connections. The maintainer…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 20 days ago • 4 min readGrow Your Web 3 Audience With Ecency Delegation + PromotionMore successful DAPPs is better for the entire HIVE ecosystem. Even when multiple DAPPs are doing the same thing (such as being a general front end for the social media aspect), they can do this…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 20 days ago • 1 min readBlue Seven Phenomenon and People's Idea of Randomness7, 37, 73, 77 are favored for randomness while multiples of 10 is penalized. Instead of coming up with a random number or colour, people tend to think about their answers and try to…vimukthi in # r2cornell • 22 days ago • 5 min readAnalyzing Fundamentals Behind Arbitrage Trade With 86.66% ROI in @splinterlandsWhen there are arbitrage trades with double digit profit percentages in a cryptocurrency project, I take it as a sign of a lack of inflows into the ecosystem. There are those who have already…vimukthi in # education • last month • 6 min readDeprecation of C, Future of Fortnite and Learning to Program as a BeginnerThere are trillions of dollars worth economic activity directly depends on programming. Software is increasingly becoming a part of daily lives. If you think we are depending on technology too much…vimukthi in # blurtnews • last month • 1 min readElon Musk Open Sourced Grok-1It is a massive 318.24 GB download that has far less censorship than other Big Tech AI models. Nobody else has access to real time X data unless they pay for API access. A Mixture of Experts is used…vimukthi in # r2cornell • last month • 2 min readShould Tucker Carlson Have More Interviews Like The One With Putin?The interview gained over 19 million views on YouTube alone and it covered many details about the history of Russia, Ukraine, NATO and Nazis. I was personally aware or most of the details before the…vimukthi in # r2cornell • last month • 1 min readA Child Could Run A Private Local LLMThe process is less complicated than using Zoom: Install or similar app Select a model and download The real bottleneck is hardware. I could only use upto 13B models. Results were worse…