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IOT_Apprentice

781 karma · joined March 9, 2016

Interested in Interface Design, UED/UX, Industrial IOT, security, cloud, analytics, programming, AI
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IOT_Apprentice··on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
The government was ignoring Starlink until it was being used by western clandestine agencies & Israel to foment violence and burning down property. People were being paid for each act of violence they committed, by those spy agencies.

The Iranian government then used Chinese tech to block Starlink, shutdown the external internet and the violence stopped.

IOT_Apprentice··on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
Palestinians certainly aren’t in the occupied territories. Nor are Christians. Israel is an apartheid state which legalizes taking farms, homes and whatever else by “settlers “ using violence to steal and murder.
IOT_Apprentice··on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
Sure, just ignore the sanctions applied against the people of Iran by western colonialist countries for decades upon decades. You think that hasn’t had an impact on society there? When my wife and I were planning our wedding here in the US 26 years ago, I spoke with someone in the state department then about allowing her family members to attend our wedding in the USA. They were very clear that, they would not allow that as the goal was to impose US restrictions on the citizens of Iran rather than just the government.

Imagine economic sanctions for much more than 30 years, western spy agencies actively engaged in espionage and injury against your country. What would your economy be like?

Is it any wonder nations are engaged in BRICS to escape American global hegemony?

IOT_Apprentice··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Wow. I remember Ubid, and I bought several things from it. It would become problematic when folks would bid up things far beyond the starting price.
IOT_Apprentice··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
If I am able to find what I’m looking for and purchase it via AI why must I be subjected to advertising & promotion of items in have zero interest in? Amazon has made finding what I want painful. I suspect eBay is just as painful (I see to work there).
IOT_Apprentice··on Design Thinking Books (2024)
I’d retort that software developers aren’t domain experts either. At the end of the day you either luck out if domain experts and actual users are involved in eliminating toil (in the sense that Google defines that) and optimizing the user experience, while reducing friction in applications and providing insights into data.
IOT_Apprentice··on Design Thinking Books (2024)
Yet I suspect that mechanical engineers are not writing software for companies in the large. There are software developers doing so.

I suspect that they should be consulted by data science folks as domain experts.

That said won’t AI replace both? ;)

IOT_Apprentice··on From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown
I’m sure you have proof of this. Prevents them how? Iranians have been traveling in and out of their country for decades.
IOT_Apprentice··on Scott Adams has died
He was also a holocaust denier bro. Ponder that for a while.
IOT_Apprentice··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
It appears to be lack of competence given they lied about the initial features of Apple Intelligence.

First, they touted features that no one actually built and then fired their AI figurehead “leader” who had no coherent execution plan—also, there appears to have been territorial squabbling going on, about who would build what.

How on earth did Apple Senior Management allow this to unravel? Too much focus on Services, yet ignoring their absolute failures with Siri and the bullshit that was Apple Intelligence, when AI spending is in the trillions?

IOT_Apprentice··on Asahi Linux with Sway on the MacBook Air M2 (2024)
It sounds like you have not tried a M series laptop in the last 3 years. Shrug.
IOT_Apprentice··on CBP is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with suspicious travel patterns
It should be illegal for the government to do so, further make it illegal for businesses to do so AND for city, county, state, federal governments to utilize third party databases.
IOT_Apprentice··on The Linux Boot Process: From Power Button to Kernel
I wonder if anyone will actually write their own article/blog providing a much better explanation of the subject matter. Or at least provide links to those articles that are alternatives to this.
IOT_Apprentice··on Apple says US passport digital IDs are coming to Wallet 'soon'
Will DHS and ICE consider them valid proof of citizenship? I’d really like that confirmed.
IOT_Apprentice··on Show HN: Deta Surf – An open source and local-first AI notebook
Is this an open source equivalent to google’s NotebookLM? I can tell. How does it stack up features wise?
IOT_Apprentice··on [dead]
Sure if only the IDF would stop bombing them more during the cease fire.
IOT_Apprentice··on AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1
Apparently IMDb, an Amazon service is impacted. LOL, no multi region failover.
IOT_Apprentice··on NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy
Neither are Stalin, Netanyahu, Pol Pot, Hitler, Charles Manson et al.

Way to derail the conversation. Focus on the positive people and their legacy of time, sharing, positive energy and contributions to society

IOT_Apprentice··on SSH3: Faster and rich secure shell using HTTP/3
Well, you could peruse the code. Then see what it does and explain it.
IOT_Apprentice··on FreeDroidWarn
The irony is those are the same words Android users say about Apple & iOS.
IOT_Apprentice··on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center
Do you want one in your city? Taking water and power from your power infrastructure? I don’t, and thankfully our city government rejected an Amazon proposal to do that.
IOT_Apprentice··on Meta is spending $10B in rural Louisiana to build its largest data center
Feed it to notebookLM and have it make a nice text file.
IOT_Apprentice··on A visual introduction to big O notation
Perhaps you could take the content and reformat it in a way that is better? I’d be interested in seeing your results. Thanks.
IOT_Apprentice··on I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform
Have every engineer to install their product at a customer site, this should be able be done remotely and use the product to load key data and update. Have your engineers take support calls.
IOT_Apprentice··on Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator
They did that on the last episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds (rotary phones).
IOT_Apprentice··on Show HN: Fallinorg - Offline Mac app that organizes files by meaning
This becomes interesting once you support epub, cbz, cbr.
IOT_Apprentice··on Apple lacks strategic vision
Cook isn’t a visionary, he is an ops & logistics guy. He has a major problem with failing at AI and lying last year about “Apple Intelligence”.

He needs some fresh blood in software as well.

He should just buy something like Claude and lock them in with stock and very high salaries.

He should also stop scrimping on integrated memory on the M series. Overpriced memory is a huge issue. And do something about the GPU as well.

Perhaps an AI N series with 128gig of ram, & dramatically more powerful GPU with higher core/thread count.

IOT_Apprentice··on Build Your Own Minisforum N5 Inspired Mini NAS
Thanks for posting this. I have several family members & friends at work who can use this AOOSTAR unit. I’d love to install TrueNAS SCALE on it, Jellyfin, tailscale, docker and perhaps some VMs via Promox. I’ve been looking for a product just like this and the price is reasonable.
IOT_Apprentice··on If you're remote, ramble
Oof. From a manager’s perspective why don’t you focus on getting this information being in place for your team so that they are productive? You could feed that content into a platform the is searchable, categorized and part of onboarding. Utilize utilities that will automate collecting information, rather than discouraging learning.

Focus on eliminating tribal knowledge, implementing a learning culture.

IOT_Apprentice··on Intel CEO says it's "too late" for them to catch up with AI
Yikes. How the mighty have fallen.
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