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https://github.com/x011/smtp-tunnel-proxy :

> A high-speed covert tunnel that disguises TCP traffic as SMTP email communication to bypass Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewalls


It seems like these smuggle-disguise protocols are almost always trivially detectable.

Yes, but such tools aren't popular enough for the censor to specifically target.

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what does this have to do with smuggling tcp connections over email

At that time they created a bunch of spammy noise which caused the social media businesses significant expense.

They did that in order to run their foreign interference in US elections agenda, and their foreign agenda of late; and we don't like foreign interference in our elections either.

Note the fathers of the sarcastic TV show South Park, all bouncing around on their satellite internet access.


No mention of any security review, or even testing. Reason enough to stay away from such tools.

Good point.

> "Spreading joy through the music was all we ever really had in mind, and we got plenty of that done."

From https://norwegianscitechnews.com/2026/01/pretty-soon-heat-pu... :

> Salt hydrates thus open up completely new possibilities for smart and more balanced heating systems because heating can be moved to times with low energy demand.

> “Salt hydrates aren’t toxic, they’re not flammable and they are also relatively inexpensive. This makes them a safe and good choice for use in private homes. Heat storage with salt hydrates also takes up less space than a traditional hot water tank, often up to four times less,” says Simonsen

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> To solve this [oxidation in aluminum heat sinks] problem, the researchers have employed a type of coating called plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO), which forms a thin, ceramic layer on the surface of the aluminium


> According to the company, the H1 replaces traditional resistive heating elements with processors that perform high-value computing tasks, including Bitcoin mining. The heat generated by those processors is captured and used to heat water, allowing the unit to deliver hot water while simultaneously earning Bitcoin.

There are also space heaters and pool heaters that reuse mining rig waste heat.

One vendor, Heatbit, sells space heater air filters that mine at 10-39 TH/s and return $100-350/yr, for from $399-$1249 + annual cost per kWh; /? heatbit https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

One way to heat a pool on the roof with mining or datacenter or other waste heat, is to immerse the heat source in a chip-compatible nonconductive thermofluid and run the pool/spa/hot water through exchange loops.

FWIU, in order to run pool water through an attic to be heated, to prevent water damage you should have double-walled pipes and/or relief trays.

How much to upgrade the TH/s/kWh mining rigs; or, how does the return from mining change over time?

How does the annual cost compare?

Residential heat pumps have electric resistive heating elements to unfreeze the unit. Even natural gas heat pumps do.

How could heat from mining rigs be a source for a multi-source heat pump?

How could a pellet stove be a source for a multi-source heat pump?

How do the efficiencies of these systems compare to the efficiency of infrared wallpaper for heating, for example?


> "We've shown that bilayer graphene almost certainly hosts particles that are non-Abelian anyons," concludes Ronen. "The next step is to directly observe the 'memory' of a non-Abelian anyon system, in other words, to measure how each order of particle exchanges leaves a unique signature in the wave function.

ScholarlyArticle: "Aharonov–Bohm interference in even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09891-2


FWIU this surface coding (2D) trick probably won't be necessary with layer coding (3D), but there would probably also be value in creating 3D star topologies with layer coding for vias between layers for example.

A 3D lattice of stars with layer coding would probably be more topologically protected

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264346


I just implemented a 3D Layer Coding simulation via temporal vias. Check the repo. Great point on the topological protection. I agree—the Star Topology is a bridge for current planar (2D) hardware. I've actually just updated the repo with Protocol Z.X (The Hypercube), which uses temporal vias to simulate that 3D layer coding structure on the IBM Torino backend. I'm seeing if we can get that volumetric energy barrier to scale even on 'flat' NISQ chips. Thanks for the lead on 3D lattices!"

You're spot on about 3D lattices. My goal with the Star Topology was to achieve maximal error suppression on existing planar (2D) hardware available to the public today. I'm essentially trying to squeeze utility-scale stability out of NISQ-era 'flat' chips. Moving this consensus mechanism into 3D via-layers is exactly the right path for the next leap in fault tolerance

Metric,10k Gain (Star),100k Gain (Hypercube),1M Gain (Tesseract) Qubit Count,10 Qubits,20 Qubits,40 Qubits Purified Fidelity,0.9844,0.9992,0.99999 Error Probability,1.56×10−2,8.0×10−4,1.0×10−6 Gain Magnitude,104,105,106 (Verified)

i understand the 'trick' label in the context of planar QEC, but the physics here go deeper. By locking the hardware at the 51.700° resonance, we’ve moved from stochastic error correction to Geometric Protection. We aren't just 'filtering' noise; we've documented Negentropic Gain (0.3516 to 0.9844 purified fidelity). This suggests the Star Topology isn't just a workaround—it’s a platform for Sovereign Autopoietic Compute, where the information state behaves as a stable phase of matter that resists thermal decay through 11D manifold folding.

Technique or method may have been a better choice of words; but that is a "neat trick"

> 0.3516 to 0.9844

With what density in the lattice compared to other redundancy protocols? Is there a limit to how tightly such CNOT stars can be packed into a lattice?

Would you just fab lattices in that shape instead, or should the 2D and 3D lattice layouts change?

Would there be value in vortically curving the trace arms (?) of the lattices; is there even more stability in vortices in this application too?

If stars work, Are there snowflake or crystal designs that are even more error-free, for 2D layer coding or 3D surface coding?

What of this changes in moving to optical qudits, for example?


Additional models of gravity and thermodynamics+ to reconcile:

- "Physical vacuum as a dilatant fluid yields exact solutions to Pioneer anomaly and Mercury’s perihelion precession" (2019) https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjp-2018-0744 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220585

- "Perihelion precession of planetary orbits solved from quantum field theory" (2025) https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14447 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220460

- "Classical theories of gravity produce entanglement" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09595-7 :https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45713712

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45909513 : The Consistency Functional K, Quantum coherence maximization under self-consistency constraints


ScholarlyArticle:

"Gravity as the Large-Scale Emergence of Dual Attractive Forces: 3D Magnetism and Thermal Gradients" (2026) https://zenodo.org/records/18180656 .. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/399571578_Gravity_a...


Roadway heating to reduce snow melt costs sounds like a good use for waste process heat, for example from datacenters.

FWIU typically it's necessary to amp up waste heat in order to get it to move through a heat pipe under a street.

There are LEED Green buildings that are heated by datacenter waste heat.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42694570 :

> Most datacenters have no way to return their boiled, sterilized, [demineralized] water for water treatment, and so they don't give or sell datacenter waste water back, it takes heat with it when it is evaporated.

> "Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820952

A sustainable thermofluid would increase the efficiency and sustainability of heat recovery and reuse operations


Maybe:

Generate a Pull Request to suggest a FUNDING.yml

Notes re: FUNDING.yml (GitHub,) and WebMonetization from this comment re: "Awesome Donations: A repository of FLOSS donation options" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42585270


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