Emin Mahrt
Posts: Emin Mahrt
- Building
Fazua Ride 50 speed unlock from a Mac, no box
How my agent and I raised the speed limit of a Fazua Ride 50 Evation from 25 to 55 km/h over USB from a MacBook, with firmware 2.04 and an open source tool.
- Building
Badass Box 4 on a Fazua Ride 50, the yellow light
My Badass Box 4 on a Fazua Ride 50 kept blinking yellow. What the light means, where the magnet goes, what the black ring is for, and what Badass said.
- Science
Can sound do what quantum particles do?
Sound bends, spreads and interferes like electrons in the double slit. So is sound quantum? Where the comparison works and where it breaks.
- Building
Riverside 500E faster, bike tuning
A complete how-to for the Riverside 500E: the free magnet hack, the Badass Box, and a KT controller swap, with drawings, part links and test steps.
- Agents and AI
What agent ready actually means
Four public scanners now grade whether AI agents can read your site. Here is what each one measures, which checks a static host can never pass, and the exact files and headers that move the score.
- Culture
My father Nurettin Sezer and the workers who made cinema in Stockholm
My father, Nurettin “Nuri” Sezer, never fitted neatly into one role. Hasan Gül remembers him and the workers who made cinema in Stockholm.
- Science
Cracked lips, neon urine, and two people who took the same pill
Same B vitamin pill, two people, opposite results. I slept better and my partner couldn't sleep at all. What the studies say and what we test next.
- Agents and AI
I asked my Mac how much AI I burned. It found 45 billion token events
I scanned every AI tool on my Mac for usage logs. About 45 billion token-events and roughly $9.3k at API rates, almost all of it from Codex.
- Nuri
Nuri, new reality finance Vision
A short FAQ about the vision and goal of Nuri.com. What self-custody means, how passkeys protect your money, and how Nuri makes money.
- Culture
In Perpetual Motion, proud moves to Move D
The 2010 proud magazine Berlin interview with Move D. Records since 1983, a stepfather with Pink Floyd records, Sven Väth and falling asleep to music.
- Building
Re-architecting the Blockchain Execution Layer, How the FATE VM Solves EVM’s Fundamental Flaws
How Erik Stenman built FATE, a typed VM that makes contracts about ten times smaller and three times faster than on the EVM.
- Bitcoin
Cash with wings. Charlie Shrem and Anthony Di Iorio on Bitcoin, freedom and building the browser for value
Our interview with Charlie Shrem and Anthony Di Iorio for PROUD Magazine Berlin, about Bitcoin, freedom and Jaxx.
- Science
How I Used AI to Navigate a Complex Orthodontic Case in East Africa: CBCT Analysis, Provider Vetting, and Getting a Second Opinion Before Braces
How we used Claude to read a CBCT scan, find an orthodontist in Nairobi and check a diagnosis before my partner got braces.
- Culture
From Berlin to Zanzibar: Emin Mahrt on nightlife, community, and why not club
I grew up in Berlin's underground scene, then a trip to Zanzibar made me co-founder of the Why Not club there. And how that all ties to Nuri.
- Science
Black Holes, the Big Bang, and the Sound of Information
A talk I had with an AI about the start of the universe, black holes and the information paradox, plus a Deep Research report on my idea.
- Science
No true beginning and infinite regression
My idea that the universe has no real start, with pi, black holes and radiation, and what Grok said about it.
- Science
Bridges between Philosophy and Physics
I asked how to explain to my girlfriend where philosophy and physics meet. From the early Greeks to Newton, Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
- Bitcoin
Governing governance: Why human consensus is harder than code
Governance is finding consensus between humans, and that is harder than code. Why voting should be the last resort, and why signaling and delegation help.
- Nuri
A stateless passkey signer for Bitcoin
A Bitcoin wallet where the key is never stored. It comes from a passkey PRF, signs inside a tiny signer page and gets thrown away again.
- Notes
Yes, you can work more than 30 hours a day, if you multi-task on two devices
Yes, you can work more than 30 hours a day, if you multi-task on two devices
- Building
Relativity theory as a state diagram
A Mermaid state diagram of special and general relativity, and how it connects to Newton and quantum gravity. Note to self, make it vertical.
- Culture
A Conversation with deerBLN: Inking Love onto the Streets of Berlin
Christian Rothenhagen, also known as deerBLN, talks with proud about his love for Berlin, his tiles on the streets and his skateboard series
- Culture
A Conversation with Pentagonik: The Architects of a Scene
proud magazine talks with Don and Kai from Pentagonik, the Berlin netlabel and party series, about how it started, why they do it and where music goes.
- Culture
Predictive History, A Bullshit-Fact-Check by Venice
A professor on YouTube predicted a lot of today's Israel and Iran war a year ago. I asked Venice to check his claims point by point.
- Agents and AI
The Watermarker: Probabilistic Word-Choice Biasing as a Statistical Fingerprint in LLM Outputs and AI Texts
I thought ChatGPT hides invisible characters in its answers. The real watermark is in the words, and I built a small tool to stamp my own key.
- Culture
JustMusic Berlin: Closed as of 18 March 2024
On a personal note, and because I just discovered it today, I translated the German version from justmusic.de into English. Justmusic was always an…
- Building
2020 let’s go — investing diary during corona and my first time investing
This document was created out of a short chat with my good friend Frederik Eichelbaum who suggested I write down my thoughts around investments so that…
- Science
Bypassing Einstein’s “spooky action at a distance” with the “tight cloth” Analogy and Quantum Entanglement
Maybe quantum entanglement works like a tight piece of cloth. Shake one side and the other end feels it, without a wave that has to travel.
- Nuri
How to Protect Your Bitcoin and Digital Property with Biometric Hardware from nuri.com (my new startup)
I am launching nuri.com a Smart-Card Hardware Wallet with Fingerprint Protection for your Cryptocurrency, Bank or Gmail Account with Passkey Protection.
- Notes
ImprovMX create Free Email aliases for your domain Name
and its true what they say. I’ll explain in the upcomming article how you can register your domain via GoDaddy.com (oldschool, i know) and then…
- Culture
Beyond borders, rethinking statehood amid U.S. Elections, immigration conflicts, and the rise of network states
I'm pro helping people, but I also get the state as a company idea. Liberland, Liechtenstein and network states show other ways to run a country.
- Science
Interview by Divining AI
I talked with Divining AI about existence, consciousness and blops of being that can become god-like for a while and shape civilizations.
- Culture
Theory versus reality: The manipulation of the masses through media and technology
My school thesis from 2005 about how media and technology get used to manipulate the masses, from China and Nazi radio to hackers and fake photos.
- Culture
Space Jupiter Four
The first track I ever produced, Space Four Jupiter V8, and how an AI describes it.
- Culture
proud magazine Berlin Issue #1 summarized and interpreted by Claude Sonnet and written into a blog post by Claude Haiku
I fed the first issue of proud magazine Berlin through a gumloop.com flow. Claude Sonnet summarized it, Claude Haiku wrote the blog post.
- Notes
Kuala Lumpur Photography Day-Trip with OMD-EM5II and Voigtländer 25mm F0.95 and Furaha to the Caves
Kuala Lumpur Photography Day-Trip with OMD-EM5II Micro 4/3 and Voigtländer 25mm F0.95 and Furaha to the Caves Waiting in the lobby for our grab drive. In the car with Furaha 30 min drive to the caves…
- Culture
proud Magazine Berlin 00001, the intro
Welcome to the first issue of proud Magazine. We are your weapon in the urban jungle, and once we’ve taken over the city there will be chocolate for everyone.
- Science
Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe: Gravitational Waves as the Key to the Black Hole Information Paradox
Gravitational waves could carry the last information of matter before it enters a black hole and solve the information paradox
- Culture
Dolphin Watching in Zanzibar
Fishermen fixing their nets on the beach, Bill Gates' private island and the clear water around it where the dolphins hunt. A boat day on Zanzibar.
