driverdan

16,939 karma · joined August 30, 2009

Tech leadership, startups. Former blackhat / ID thief.

Former: Director of Engineering at CoreStory; Director of Engineering at Ownlocal (YC W10); Founder, Spokefly; Freelancer

Next: Unknown. Contact me with leadership or consulting opportunities. No career coaches or non-exclusive recruiters please.

  Email: dan at driverdan dot com
  Site: http://driverdan.com

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driverdanon I refuse to accept a censored Internet. Join Me at FOSDEM 27

Read the post. It's about government censorship, not content moderation.

driverdanon Root shell on Samsung TV

It's not. They can use your IP to see your approximate location is on a lake or your buddy did search and it associated to you via shared IP.

driverdanon Root shell on Samsung TV

Don't connect it to the internet.

driverdanon Dessa: Conversation Model trained only on speech

I came here to say the same thing. I don't want a computer constantly inserting stop words, pauses, laughing unnecessarily and interrupting me. This seems technically impressive but is not something I'd want to interact with.

driverdanon LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale

Have you talked with a mental health professional? There's a lot of negativity in your comment that suggests larger issues than your concerns about LLMs.

driverdanon Run full iOS 16.5 firmware on Android Devices

Sounds like a huge win to me. Neither of those should be required. Replace Apple's walled garden with open login and open stores.

driverdanon Quad9 to exit France

Updating my reply, the CTO said they'll likely do GeoIP blocking even though it's not effective.

driverdanon Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France

You keep using it. They're not going to block your IP but response times may drop since they won't have any servers in France.

driverdanon PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP

The language is not why there are CVEs. They assign CVEs to most patches. Watch this talk by one of the maintainers to understand it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q

driverdanon PingCap TiDB Leaks

Sounds about right. The more you use the deeper the discount they'll give you.

driverdanon PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP

Why is that depressing? PHP is just as capable as everything else out there. It may not be our first choice but its use is not depressing.

driverdanon Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month

The feed is dead but everything else is very much alive. Pages, events, and marketplace are still used by most people.

driverdanon Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

They empower grumpy assholes to play police and impose their will on you.

driverdanon Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

That's a false dichotomy. Everyone has to comply with laws regardless of what neighborhood they live in. The only difference is that the HOA has more stupid rules than the city. I'd rather have fewer rules.

driverdanon Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse

> houses patchily painted lavender

What's wrong with lavender? Why does everything have to be a boring tan or grey? You sound like the exact reason I would never buy a house with an HOA.

driverdanon Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins

We should be certain that the crypto algos we use are secure. It would be a great use of their resources to try to break crypto.

driverdanon Tesla Roadster

Slate is still vaporware.

driverdanon eBay Restricts Listings of Radio Equipment, but Exempts Ham-Band-Only Gear

That's already how it works today. A lot of Chinese radios can either be switched by a key press combo or flashed with alternative firmware.

driverdanon AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

Do you have a link? Why would a site burn 17 0-days like that?

driverdanon AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware

That's a problem for adtech to figure out. Consumers shouldn't suffer.

driverdanon 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Hopefully you're not too lazy to read this update: https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/

driverdanon Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

I've been using FF across Linux, MacOS, and Windows for years. I can't remember the last time I had an issue playing YT videos in it.

driverdanon OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room

Bonesaw has far better things to do than micromanage a single software engineer like that.

driverdanon I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

So it ended up not having a noticeable impact on the bots?

driverdanon Firefox Enterprise

You can already turn everything off under Settings -> AI Control. Personally I keep Translations on so I can translate locally instead of calling external services.

driverdanon Firefox Enterprise

> The company I work for is trying to phase out Firefox

Why?

driverdanon Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe

who the hell needs connected AC and floor heating?

driverdanon 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

It's based on Cloudflare data which tracks know crawlers. You can see the discussion in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619

driverdanon A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her

Unless you explicitly consent this is illegal in many places.

driverdanon 3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit

Because it was wrong. It was regular crawler traffic that had nothing to do with disinformation.