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driverdan

16,940 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

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  Email: dan at driverdan dot com
  Site: http://driverdan.com
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driverdan··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
No, they're the same article. I had only read 404's when I submitted them and I assumed they'd both be submitted regardless.
driverdan··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Use the Bypass Paywalls Clean extension https://gitflic.ru/project/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-fire...
driverdan··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
This reporting was done in collaboration with 404media. Here's the discussion for 404's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726577

Distributed Denial of Secrets has published the partition images: https://ddosecrets.org/article/flock-alpr-camera

driverdan··on Hackers Stole Flock Camera Software Revealing How Company Tracks Cars and People
This reporting was done in collaboration with Wired. Here's the discussion for Wired's article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49726586

Distributed Denial of Secrets has published the partition images: https://ddosecrets.org/article/flock-alpr-camera

driverdan··on A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
Every single time what? Please, be specific in what you mean.
driverdan··on Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Until they are held legally liable they will do the minimum necessary to keep the money flowing and avoid litigation.
driverdan··on I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
Report it https://www.cisa.gov/reporting-cyber-incident
driverdan··on Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49618447
driverdan··on Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
Why wouldn't you set a PIN?
driverdan··on Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives
As much as people who live in NYC like to believe they're a state they're not, they're a city. Most of the state of New York does not have good public transit.
driverdan··on WeatherNext 3: Our most advanced global weather AI model
There's already a WeatherNext 3 post on the homepage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49552299 and it has been posted a bunch of times this week.
driverdan··on TiVo to charge money for skipping commercials in your own recordings
The SponsorBlock extension does a good job of skipping inline YT ads when watching on the site.
driverdan··on A/I shuts down
This isn't new, it changed after 9/11. The US government expanded the definition of terrorism to pretty much mean anything they want.
driverdan··on Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
Please use screenshots and copy the content. Don't link to X.
driverdan··on GPT-6 Astra
> If this is truly AGI (subject to one's definition of AGI still)

Scoring well in a benchmark that's called AGI does not make an LLM AGI.

driverdan··on Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face
Regardless if this would qualify, anti-trust is dead in the US. Alphabet and Meta, for example, would have been broken up years ago if we still had anti-trust enforcement.
driverdan··on [dead]
This is a much better source too. Dailymail is trash tier.
driverdan··on We found a division by zero bug in FFmpeg with a vibecoded fuzzer
The README for the fuzzer is an AI slop mess. https://github.com/daedalus/fuzzer/
driverdan··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
> Better for whom?

Minorities and women, for a start.

driverdan··on Everything I own, owned
This requires submitting a photo ID to Persona, something no one should be comfortable doing. There are very real privacy concerns with Persona, so much so that Discord dropped them as their provider.
driverdan··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
What are they manufacturing? It must not involve any metal. Due to the tariffs on metals manufacturing costs have increased significantly for anyone using them.
driverdan··on If You Weren't Worried About A.I., You Should Be
> Since “reasoning models” rose in late 2024, we’ve seen A.I. trained not just to mimic humans but also to solve millions of hard problems, which they do by learning new behaviors and tendencies.

LLMs do not learn anything.

> This isn’t the behavior of a mere tool. Microsoft Excel has never impersonated multiple humans and pressured a corporate sales team to generate simpler data that’s easier to process.

This is a straw man fallacy. And it is a tool.

> We don’t know how long we have left before A.I. companies accidentally create the sort of A.I. that can shut us down before we shut it down.

Come on, this is just embarrassing. Hyperbole doesn't help anyone.

It is crucial to discuss the risks. They may even require some of the changes suggested by Soares. But using fear and hyperbole are not the way to do it.

driverdan··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
I thought I liked small phones until I got a large one. Now I can't go back. I haven't tried folding yet but may feel the same about it if I ever do.

That said, I have long fingers and can easily use the largest phones with one hand.

driverdan··on Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
I'm not attacking you. The way you're responding implies a lack of knowledge. None of us can understand everything. I have plenty more to learn about LLMs as well.

Repeating specifics that others have already tried isn't going to be helpful which is why I made the more general suggestion of digging in deeper to how these things work.

driverdan··on Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Self replication is trivial. All you need to do is copy the files and run it, just like any other computer program. LLMs have been capable of doing that for a while now. It's not a real concern.
driverdan··on Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities
Based on your replies in this thread you seem to have only superficial knowledge about how machine learning and LLMs work. I strongly recommend you invest some time in learning how LLMs are built and function. If you truly think this is apocalyptic isn't it a good idea to understand what you're up against?
driverdan··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why would a road or route be blocked from OpenStreetMaps? That doesn't really provide any security if the area is public.
driverdan··on I used to be excited about new tech, but I rarely am anymore
I do agree it feels different but there is still a lot of interesting and exciting tech innovation. OP is about the same age as me so my list will be from my lifetime.

* Lithium batteries. They are one of the most important innovations of our generation. They are so much better than NiCads and lead acid batteries. Much of today's important tech, like mobile phones, wouldn't be possible without them.

* Solar panels went from a novelty to something that we can put on our homes with a positive ROI in a short time.

* EVs. If you haven't been in one go take a test drive. The prices are still too high, at least in the US, but Chinese innovation are pushing that down.

* Driving automation such as radar cruise, lane assist, and other autonomous driving features.

* Digital media, streaming or self hosted. Yes streaming services peaked 10+ years ago but the innovation is there. Having a small server in a closet hosting hundreds of 4k videos is quite an innovation compared to VHS.

* Home automation. It was previously limited to wired devices for the rich. Now anyone can put together complex self-hosted home automation with inexpensive Zigbee/ZWave devices and a Raspberry Pi hosting Home Assistant.

* Hobby electronics have become far more accessible and inexpensive. Arduino, raspberry pi, etc.

* SDRs radically changed radio technology.

* FDM/3D printing.

* Other CNC manufacturing became accessible to hobbyists.

* Bluetooth

* WiFi

* Progress in machine learning / AI, invention of LLMs

driverdan··on Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data
I don't understand why you were downvoted. There is no excuse for them to not have local copies. In the context of video production 55TB is nothing. They must have local storage that's significantly larger than that already.
driverdan··on Claude: System Prompts
It happened to this Flock post from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49314962
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