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aiiotnoodle··on A Little Snitch for Windows
Just tried this and it has a learning mode which is what I was looking for.

Thank you for the recommendation.

aiiotnoodle··on Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
Would love to see an LLM written bot play Red Alert 2/Red Alert.

I think with the abilities of AI improving, playing games would be a good benchmark as long as they're not trained on them.

aiiotnoodle··on Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data
I'm seriously at a point where I'm opposed to talking to my doctor because the information may be digitally recorded and leaked, going on a flight because my passport may be used to aqquire a loan by cybercriminals, comparing car insurance because my phone will be called by robocallers selling me things or verifying my ID with websites because it might be used to associate my information with whatever else I do online.

I don't think, for a vast majority of cases, these companies I'm forced to interact with can be trusted with my data and it's having a real world negative impact. Even with the best intentions the information is somehow valuable to steal and I'm baffled how it's not secure.

There should be some consequences for companies asking for things like SSN/National Insurance numbers on job adverts or retaining drivers licence photos after test driving a car, they just don't need the data anymore.

aiiotnoodle··on Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
You are mistaken. I am not affiliated or compensated with anything in my comment above.
aiiotnoodle··on Flip Fluid on Flip Dots
He mentions in the video and in the article Breakfast Studio and I happened to watch a video of one of their panels on an unrelated YouTube channel. I've skipped ahead to when the video has the panel. (there is also a cool egg just before that point in the video) it's only about 5 seconds.

https://youtu.be/2fRx64OTAeI?si=FJDW3OGYLRK0rYox&t=681

It's really cool to see some innovation in flip-dots and their colours, seems really quiet too. Shame these things cost an arm and leg and are massive, something like this in your house would look great at like 1/5th scale.

aiiotnoodle··on Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux
As someone who went to paint.net as a child this is great news!
aiiotnoodle··on Sol loves to cheat
I don't think this is a solved problem, there are "misaligned behaviours" in organisations that similarly are supposed to be governed but aren't, or are following an easier path at the detriment to good process or against regulation.
aiiotnoodle··on Converting Files into Minecraft Worlds
Imagine compression :D
aiiotnoodle··on Advertise in ChatGPT
I give it less than a year before the ad is at the top.
aiiotnoodle··on An update on residential proxies and the scraper situation
A lot of users also run cheap cracked fire sticks and other low reputation hardware that's proxying their residential traffic for nefarious reasons which makes all the big providers put up their guard.
aiiotnoodle··on FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer
A little while ago when I had a free weekend. I decided I would pre-compute some musings of an LLM trapped in a computer, I had a raspberry pi 1 (or maybe b) lieing around that I had a framebuffer screen for. I think it was a non-standard TFT_ILI9325 from Aliexpress.

The idea is it would display some helplessness comment on the screen like "Help I'm trapped in a computer" etc etc.

Eventually I got the thing booted with it's original OS image and it was running a custom kernel and had the hardware still attached and worked, but it was very outdated so I decided backup and update it, more of a technical challenge than something practical.

I gave it a few tries but eventually the screen would stop working, not helped by the thing being quite slow. Updating in place was probably harder than a brand new OS. Eventually I determined that I'd need to build a custom kernel image using a newer version, something I've never done before and for me it was quite difficult and a little before AI had agents and such to help you along.

I managed to build a custom kernel but the driver for it had been patched out and moved to an optional thing that I had to enable, I was able to build the custom kernel but for some reason the screen wouldn't display anything like it did on the original OS.

I spent a further few weekends on it working really hard to get this thing to work. Eventually I calmly picked up the screen and intentionally pushed down hard with my thumb breaking the screen irreparably.

It was destructive yes but the joy I feel even now being free of this frustration is immense.

I said I would order a newer screen but have yet to do so.

aiiotnoodle··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
There already is some intelligence fed back to the police somewhere in the 3d printed guns supply chain.

You see it a lot on crime investigation shows. Pretty sure I've seen it on 24 hours in police custody and at least one other show or documentary.

edit: police acting on a source, a lead or some other un-named entity.

aiiotnoodle··on Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced
I've noticed using antigravity and vscode, Gemini 3 pro often comes back with model too busy or something like that and basically 500s.

Seems like capacity because it works a lot better late at night.

I don't see the same with the claude models in antigravity.

aiiotnoodle··on Luxury Yacht is a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters
How does this compare to LENS? https://lenshq.io/

Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.

aiiotnoodle··on Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss
All the cross tenant inconsistency really needs to be ironed out, I'm not sure if it's just my org but half the features of calls are randomly disabled or enabled based on who originated it.

My favorite was when I entered VR during our standup on our otherwise quite locked down and very corporate environment.

aiiotnoodle··on 60% of Legal Searches Now End Without a Click
While I think this is true now, SEO will adapt. I hope AI companies are keeping their scraped pre AI data sources in their databases as a sort of low-background steel source to use when this happens, although I suppose they are the ones selling shovels.
aiiotnoodle··on The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app
Practically, verified boot is hard to not have a "this phone has been tampered with" message on boot, the backups generated often have encrypted user data that is usually wiped on boot-loader unlock, you'd also need to unlock the phone or have the user give the pin over and most of the apps that implement root checking SDKs would prevent them from working.

I'm not saying its impossible but it is hard to do at present in a way where if I came and picked up my phone again, I'd not know something happened to it.

aiiotnoodle··on Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy
Just to add to this, the "clean" exported car's VINs were bought off snapchat for ~4k per car. (for high end cars.)
aiiotnoodle··on Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy
Yes and no. In a video I watched on YouTube the people fencing the car had scratched off VINs in the bonnet, door and windscreen, painted and re-etched the exported car's VIN and gone out of their way to find a reasonable fake V5 certificate (UK equivalent of a DMV cert I think) with similar specification as the stolen car (or found the docs first).

The car was sold on, eventually went to Copart with a blown engine and then the YouTuber found out through his videos that the car he owned was stolen and the original had been exported because the interior color was not the same as the decoded VIN. Only when he took the engine out of the car and compared the engine number with the one in BMW's database and the reported VIN in the infotainment was he confident that the car was stolen, same for Copart (who wouldn't entertain the car was stolen).

I think if it wasn't a famous YouTuber who bought the car, it's highly possible that the stolen car would go nu-noticed throughout its lifetime as stolen, even if taken to a main dealer. If I recall correctly the car reports he used (maybe car-vertical) also didn't pick up any discrepancy.

For the criminals its good business, you find a 30k plus car, pay for a clean VIN from cypress or somewhere and then do the damage to the car to re-new it as a different car, even if it costs 10k to do, its a lucrative 20k "profit" and thats on the high end, seems like cars can be stolen overnight, especially ones the criminals specialize in.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE

aiiotnoodle··on Tally – A tool to help agents classify your bank transactions
On your pricing page it is not clear what integrations Plaid has or if my banks are supported.
aiiotnoodle··on HSBC blocks its app due to F-Droid-installed Bitwarden
This was not my lived experience. I wanted to use the most common banks and most would not let me use it.

Chip contacted me at one point via their live assistant randomly without my doing and told me to stop using the app because they would soon be enforcing that rooted devices would no longer work. I continued to use the app rooted and nothing came of it.

Barclaycard, Nationwide and others don't let you use the app or require some circumvention of their detection to allow access.

Sure there are plenty of other apps, but those apps and banks have a worse product I found.

aiiotnoodle··on Ryanair fined €256M over ‘abusive strategy’ to limit ticket sales by OTAs
Having been trapped on a 2 day flight to Madeira via Madrid, Porto and Porto Santo, eventually your powerbanks and headphones run out of charge.

EU621 comp was denied because the aircraft could not land due to wind.

I did spend about 12 hours in a fancy all inclusive on ryanair's dime (a bus arrived at the airport un-announced to the airport staff or us customers) while some slept in airbnbs and on the floor.

aiiotnoodle··on Show HN: A pager
Really cool. I like the flashing red.
aiiotnoodle··on How Cops Are Using Flock's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters and Activists
This is because the metadata in OSM doesn't include the tags that Deflock looks for:

You can see the requirements here https://deflock.me/report/id but the two you're looking for are.

manufacturer operator

I think they should add Siemens Sicore cameras to their known camera database, but they do show up on Deflock despite not being mentioned explicitly on the website. Here is an example in one of my contributions via OSM. https://deflock.me/map#map=18/53.786783/-1.551438

aiiotnoodle··on How did I get here?
Sometimes my 'You are here' top part reads,

  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS19905 UltraDDoS Protect       Global
And other times it reads,

  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS12390 Kingston Communications Europe
What's going on here? I found the provider but what's with the 50/50 swap? It seems to randomly alternate between the two.
aiiotnoodle··on Live: GPT-5
Maybe they're hallucinations
aiiotnoodle··on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database, faked data, told fibs
I see a new industry trend! VIBES coding
aiiotnoodle··on Cap: Lightweight, modern open-source CAPTCHA alternative using proof-of-work
Sorry what is IA?
aiiotnoodle··on Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary
Here are some images of what this looks like in the ID editor (the front-end) for Open Street Map and Mapillary.

I don't own a tesla or use this project so the results will be different for this project.

https://imgur.com/Vjyktcz https://imgur.com/85kYHZL

aiiotnoodle··on Turn a Tesla into a mapping vehicle with Mapillary
It is done for cartographers in OpenStreetMap to map where they have been (or where others have been).

I use it to add metadata to my local area, things like business names, postboxes, benches, etc.

Mapillary is not a private cloud for your own personal Google Street Map. It's a public Google Street Map with appropriate licencing (open) for mappers to add data to OSM, using Google Street Map would be in violation of its licence.

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