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The question was about Adafruit products on Sparkfun. This answer is about Teensies on Adafruit.

Jeff Bezos has more money than the Federal Trade Commission. That's how we pick the winner in any conflict.

I'd send a free text message to a family member, offering them money in exchange for them not sending me trash from Amazon.

I can almost guarantee that everyone mentioned in that blog post is a habitual Amazon user. They're all renewing Prime each year at full price and making a ton of regular purchases. The family has even turned on the FOMO by making Prime a family social network with social pressure to stay. I see it as a self-own, personally.

I think they let you (not YOU necessarily, but the proverbial you.) get away with stuff because they know your habits and you probably make more money for them than you realize.

I can almost guarantee that everyone mentioned in that blog post is a habitual Amazon user. They're all renewing Prime each year at full price and making a ton of regular purchases. The family has even turned on the FOMO by making Prime a family social network with social pressure to stay. I see it as a self-own, personally.

Edit: I'm taking part of this to the root of the thread

That's the laziest take. I know what LLMs are. That doesn't mean that you can't have a safety apparatus around it.

Some people drink alcohol and don't ask the alcohol not to be alcoholic. There are obviously layers of safety.

Any imitation of humanity should be the line, IMO.

You know how Meta is involved in lawsuits regarding getting children addicted to its platforms while simultaneously asserting that "safety is important"...

It's all about the long game. Do as much harm as you can and set yourself up for control and influence during the periods where the technology is ahead of the regulation.

Our children are screwed now because they have parents that have put them onto social media without their consent from literally the day they were born. They are brought up into social media before they have a chance to decide to take a healthier path.

Apply that to AI, Now they can start talking to chat bots before they really understand that they bots aren't here for them. They aren't human, and they have intentions of their very own, created by their corporate owners and the ex CIA people on the "safety" teams.

You seem to be getting down-voted, but you are right. There's NO USE CASE for an AI not continuously reminding you that they are not human except for the creators wishing for you to be deceived (scammers, for example) or wishing for you to have a "human relationship" with the AI. I'm sure "engagement" is still a KPI.

The lack of regulation is disturbing on a global scale.

I had to open the dev tools and pause the code in the debugger before I could tolerate reading the whole article.

Yes. This looks bad for Flock security.

Good thing nobody tried to pop a shell on the camera OS and move laterally through the network. That would be bad.

I'm sure it's all very secure though.

It almost certainly isn't. Some TV engineers are discovering the list right now and biting their tongues.

I completely agree.

But as a person in charge of keeping a brand new (volunteer) FM station running smoothly, this is horrifying. I feel every technical problem physically in my body.

It's not them, it's me.

As an aside: Winnie the Pooh is public domain, so he can do drugs if he wants. But he shouldn't wear a red shirt while he does.

Looks like they disabled the mouse effect thing everyone is talking about, for the articles. So if you want to see it, go to the homepage of the site.

Given the size of the product, you could probably 3d print a housing in that form factor that mechanically presses the button. Probably couldn't whisper to it anymore.

> then yes, that's vibe-carving.

This whole thread is a stretch, IMO. But, I like this phrase.

As a fabricator (large wood CNC, laser cutting and engraving, 3D Printing, UV Printing, Welding). I put engineering into a whole different job scope. I can make whatever you tell me really well, not vibe-carving.

I don't necessarily write the specs or "engineer" anything. I'm just saying, don't blame the medium, 3D printing. The fact is a fabricator is not necessarily an engineer, regardless of the medium.

I don't think anyone is struggling with grasping the difference in stakes. The stakes are different, the size and shape are different, there are a lot of things different.

You don't make analogies out of things that are the same, that's one of the hallmarks of an analogy.

> Automatic mistrust of the government is a pretty juvenile take.

This statement seems naive at best and manipulative at worst.

Could this just be a VS Code extension? I feel like it's not that hard.

Weird to have a page like that if a human can't use it. Needs some pagination, f-droid!

It's like we're supposed to save the page and grep it or something. Doesn't work in my Firefox.

Someone at archive needs to prepare a torrent file right away

I saw a video of this guy (the github project author) using the Lilygo T-deck as a VNC console. It's a fun looking solution, but it requires wifi.

https://github.com/moononournation/T-Deck/blob/main/ArduinoV...

The software was based on Processing. It was never a secret, just open source working as intended. It doesn't look the same any more.

A non-profit is still a business. Success is necessary for existence.

Think about the number of companies that have been created to make, or heavily specialize in Arduino clones and accessories without having to pay Arduino a cent because the designs were intentionally open-sourced. It doesn't sound like a naked cash grab to me.

The page is making a WebSocket connection to the server and getting the peer info through the WebSocket connection. I think the magic happens on the server.

This is a sample of the client-side code I found handling that: https://infohash.lol/_next/static/chunks/pages/p/%5Bpage%5D-...

My wife uses her Pixel 4a to this day. I moved on from mine after some problems, but a factory wipe of the 4a actually fixed all of the problems with mine too.

And you know what else is cool? If the screen gets cracked or something doesn't work, you can take it to an independent repair shop and they can fix it.

What's the 0-click RCE thing?

I've been playing with the Beepy. So much potential, but the community around it never sprung up, and the developer has moved on.

For me it was a cool little terminal that mostly didn't work outside my usual hotspot. Managing WiFi on a Pi from the terminal is no fun.

Those devices use the older style BB keyboard, the one with the trackball. The Beepy from SQFMI is another Raspberry Pi platform with the trackpad keyboard.

It's not a solution if it passes with "Client-side scanning". Basically a AI bot watching your screen all day. You're gonna need a whole secure deviant device.

Usually we can use feature flags. Browser makers also have beta versions or their browsers available for devs.

Is it still rapidly growing? Threads initially attracted people who are now leaving.