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Yes, but happily enough for me they're not my "employer", only my client.

Yes I understand it's not "my" machine, but it's the dedicated machine my system runs on.

That someone would let an agent run on it at any time, read what's there, and possibly modify the code or stop a process, without even informing me, is what I find problematic, to say the least.

I currently work for a big French company, for which I have developed an "alternate" (emergency and temporary) accounting system because their actual system is broken, and another team is trying to fix it (has been trying to fix it for nine months now).

Said alternate system is a bunch of Python scripts, an sqlite database, and a file containing various API keys to read and write to other company systems; it runs on a dedicated virtual machine.

I share all the code I produce to the other team. But yesterday I found out that the IT department gave the other team full access to my production machine, without my knowledge or consent (which was bad enough), and that the other team gave access to Claude, which has bean roaming free for a while now, on that production machine.

I've thrown a big fit over this; I don't know if I'm over reacting but I think it's insane.

> I refused to believe that there was no option to change the time (...) I decided to fetch the firmware and dig into it

That must be one of the most iconic HN sentences ever.

Yes. Or you can do the same thing with a regular monitor that has no wifi capabilities at all. Some are quite large, good quality and good price.

This is an excellent project! Congrats and thanks for sharing! (LLM writing notwithstanding)

I wonder if it would be a good base to create a kids phone / yogurt-cup telephone: no screen, no keyboard, just a box and figurines, and to call someone up you put the figurine on the box. It could be boxes-only (only people with a box can call or be called) or it could be more general: kids only have boxes and figurines, but the machine is able to call actual phones.

I think even as an adult I would enjoy that.

Yeah I think that's what happened. Still a bit unfortunate though for presenting such a nice project.

> If a stretch of road continues to have frequent crashes even though a sign is present, it is worth examining why that sign alone is not solving the issue.

"I will not accept that it's a highly dangerous road" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qir4EEpawE

> and to have highly desirable mates

The younger generation doesn't seem to date much, and this appears to be true in most countries.

The Carosses à cinq sols was not just an idea but a startup proper; Pascal invested most of what he owned for a sixth of the business, which turned out to be a great investment.

The main idea behind it was a kind of time share. At the time, only the (very) rich could afford to own and maintain carosses and stables with 6 to 10 horses in crowded cities like Paris; it was a truly revolutionary idea that a company would own the cars and the horses, and the general public would pay only for the time traveled.

Then the other genius idea, of course, was fixed routes and predictable schedule, as explained in the post. People actually objected at first that it would be stupid (and ruinous) to have empty carriages going from one place to another instead of chasing customers like a modern cab. But that was the whole point.

Yes, that is so true. Sleep should mean sleep with both eyes closed! not nightwatch.

But Windows isn't the only one to blame. Macbooks do the same (they're less bad because they boot so fast, turning them off completely isn't that painful).

I have the same symptoms on my work PC (HP Probook) but can't apply the fix due to not having admin rights on the machine! ;-(

Resolve to porn.

> filling the need for labor in jobs that are too physically stressful or too dull for humans to want to do

That's a disturbing sentence. Most jobs are "dull". Peolpe work not to fill their otherwise empty existence, but in order to earn money. Dullness could be solved by making the tasks less dull, or empowering employees (even if the term has been abused).

The sentence is also dishonest. Businesses want robots to save costs and increase profits, not to make their employees happier.

Yes! And the server isn't really a server, it's still "in process" so it stays lightweight and simple. This is absolutely fantastic.

Wasn't the positioning of Tesla "electric" cars??? Now they make rockets, that will probably never be street legal anywhere? And the public likes it? From a man who did the Nazi salute and destroyed USAid (killing thousands of children in the process)? What's wrong with people.

Yes! This is a heartwarming story. But the opposite is true. If you happen to piss off a crow, your life will become very difficult. You might as well move towns.

There's a third dude missing in that list to complete the new axis of evil: Netanyahu, without which Trump, as stupid as he may be, would probably never have attacked Iran.

This is just speculation with zero facts. Anyone can come up with those explanations; the interesting part would be to either prove or disprove them.

Thanks! Will do!

Nice. But apparently the only option offered is paying via CC. In France my bank charges egregious fees for paying in anything other than Euros, while Paypal does the conversion for free. Will you offer Paypal at some point?

I'm not a native speaker and I know I should not do that, but this time I thought it was pretty funny. Not everyone agrees apparently.

In this case it's not like the devices were turned off, they were put on "defrost" which means heating up to 50°C (122°F). Why would you need the ability to remotely set all your fridges to defrost??

I think that's exactly what happened. A kid found out (via an LLM or otherwise) that fridges' temperature were remotely controlled, probably with lax security (or no security at all) and decided to play with it.

It's not immediately obvious to me why fridges in supermarkets need remote control; a supermarket is a place where there are always people, it's not a base on Mars. And even if a remote is needed, it should probably not go further than the manager's office.

> Bare with me.

It depends; can you send pics first?

Yeah well in the US employees can be fired at will. However in the post it seems the author didn't tell his reports they risked/were about to getting fired. I don't understand that kind of loyalty to your employer, esp. when, as is the case here, the employer has zero obligations towards their staff.

Given the level of compensation of US CEOs, it's obvious they should be first in line to be replaced by machines.

It also happens with marketing emails, or (worse) waiting lists: "great news, we're live!" -- Who the heck are you again?

Yes, very probably, thanks!

> But it is really hard to ignore your own biases. Of course you know that certain commands require sudo and obviously when you wrote -foo you meant --foo and everyone knows that you have to reboot afterwards.

I sometimes write readmes for myself, so that I can remember the exact steps to generate a data report, etc.

It's surprising how much they become incomprehensible after just a couple of weeks; when everything's in our head it's all clear, fluid and self-explanatory; but once we have forgotten the context, nothing makes sense anymore.