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konraditurbeon Reverse engineering a Russian ML driven drone detector

Worked on this last night. Feel free to poke around the models.

konraditurbeon Reverse engineering the Meta RayBan Stories to avoid using Meta AI spyware

This is the result of many months of research. The goal was to make a client for the RayBan meta gen 1 glasses, which can record good video, that proved impossible so I moved to the earlier gen from 2021 which I still had stashed around.

I do like using these glasses but I do not want to use the Meta app at all which is probably siphoning all my dog videos to an AI training center in kenya.

There's a lot of controversy around these glasses, partly due to weirdos who shouldn't have them and partly due to it being a Meta product. RE work accelerated after seeing the Wired report on facial recognition, which I was able to reproduce as well.

The app doesn't talk to the internet, there's no AI assistant crap in it. It's just to download your videos and photos, get the stabilization sidecar file, and to configure some settings like tone volume and recording time.

It's time to kick Meta out of your face.

konraditurbeon Open-source interactive map for the Aug 12 total solar eclipse

I'm going up to Castellón to catch it with the drone

konraditurbeon Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

Both Insta360 and DJI cameras save IMU / magnetometer data to their video files.

konraditurbeon Pebble is officially back on iOS and Android

Been using it for a month with my pebble time. No health features yet but everything else more or less works. The underlying library that actually handles the comms with the pebble is open source so it's easy to add new features and fix bugs yourself.

konraditurbeon LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain

Sucks to have to spin up the VPN anytime there's a match. Wonder how much money are Spanish companies losing out on online sales over this crap.

Have this: https://hayahora.futbol/ on my bookmarks every time some site doesn't respond.

konraditurbeon ESP32 Bus Pirate 0.5 – A hardware hacking tool that speaks every protocol

bought a t embed cc1101 and stickc2 plus boards to try out your project, arrives in a couple days!

konraditurbeon Show HN: I built a DIY plane spotting system at home

Usually football trasmissions have identifiable elements in the screen, such as the score, the match title, etc... and those are fixed elements that do not appear in ads. For example: https://i.imgur.com/blebca8.png

Or the title bar below. You could do some basic OCR on a Pi, when the team names are readable, keep the volume up, when they are not, disable it.

konraditurbeon Ask HN: Are tech layoffs happening abroad?

Layoffs are bureaucratic in Spain, needs to be approved by unions and sometimes government too (EREs) (1)

Considering how lowly paid SWEs are in this country, I'd imagine the company would be better off keeping them on payroll.

1: https://www.wolterskluwer.com/es-es/expert-insights/que-es-u...

konraditurbeon US Army will buy enhanced variant of the Skydio X2 drone

Skydio 2 drones were prone to failures and it made cops be afraid to fly them. https://dronexl.co/2023/03/31/blue-suas-problems-pimping-for...

konraditurbeon Insta360's Ace Pro combines Leica engineering with computational photography

I'll stick with GoPro even though Insta360 has provided me with their cameras. GoPro's official APIs are just too good to switch.

konraditurbeon Barcelona Supercomputing Center

I want to visit this so bad.

konraditurbeon Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Scaled down a few instances to save a few bucks while traffic will be down due to protests, calculated wrong.

konraditurbeon DJI drone flight log viewer

The SRT logs from DJI are a god send. I wrote some software that helps me deal with importing videos and photos from multiple action cameras and drones, and it uses DJI's SRT files to sort out the location of a video. https://github.com/KonradIT/mmt

konraditurbeon Ask HN: Why were you laid off ?

I was laid off in December last year. Looking back, it was clear why, I was the youngest member of the team, had the least experience and was struggling to pick up the new tasks assigned to me with the limited knowledge I had about the product and its underlying tech. I don't think my performance was judged too harshly or it was a major contributor, rather my superior had to make a layoff happen in the team, and I was the one with the least time in the company and least proven experience.

konraditurbeon A man says he accidentally unlocked and drove someone else’s Tesla using the app

So the other driver also had the same glitch happen to them?

>Randev said the other Tesla driver told him he was able to get his number because he had printed out a document, which was in his car and it had his phone number on it.

Or perhaps peeked thru the window?

Maybe the other guy's car was left unlocked and the app just unlocked his car, which was left unlocked after the main guy drove off with the other guy's car?

konraditurbeon Ask HN: Laid off folks, are you getting hired?

Laid off in December. Applies to ~10 companies, and about 10 other companies reached out. 9 rejections, 2 in advanced stages, and 9 haven't heard back from them.

I got my first fulltime job ever in 2019, got laid off in 2021, and had no issue getting interviews and finally landing another job. In 2021 the process was surprisingly easy, fast and without much input from my end. I never really did leetcode exercises, so it was quite a shock to find so many companies do them.

konraditurbeon The New Madrid Seismic Zone

I live in Madrid, Spain, a zone not prone to any earthquakes and the title startled me quite a bit.

konraditurbeon [dead]

can it write markdown correctly?

konraditurbeon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2023)

  Location: Barcelona, Spain
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Web server stack: GoLang, Python3 (DRF), PostgresQL. Misc: all sorts of cameras that interest me, linux, bash, docker
  Résumé/CV: https://konraditurbe.dev/resume
  GitHub: https://github.com/konradit
  Email: hi@konraditurbe.dev

Software Engineer with 4 years of full time experience. Looking for opportunities in small/mid-size companies in backend roles. Or working with cameras/drones.

konraditurbeon GoPro Announces New ‘Open GoPro’ API for 3rd Party Apps/Devices

This is a welcomed addition to the firmware by GoPro.

For years I've hacked on their WiFi and BLE APIs and wrote several libraries and tools around the commands. My python wrapper around their App APIs got some votes here on HN too. Its been very cool to see how makers and hackers have used my info to run their projects and create new GoPro experiences. Now it's turn I take a rest.

konraditurbeon Gatwick drones: Two arrested over flight disruption

Either a hacked off the shelf drone or a custom built one

konraditurbeon What Do Happy Teens Do?

I'm very happy developing mobile solutions....

konraditurbeon Remote Code Execution on a Facebook server

Also the title. Clear and concise without being click-bait (such as Facebook RCE for fun and profit, all your Facebook belong to us, etc...)

konraditurbeon Reddit Security Incident

If you're using PayPal, they support proprietary one time key and SMS, a guy came up with a method to use any 2FA app with paypal: https://medium.com/@dubistkomisch/set-up-2fa-two-factor-auth...

Just tried it myself, it works.

konraditurbeon VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews

Please do share screenshots.

Huawei and Xiaomi are both culprits of background app killing, and unlike Google they don't provide a way for apps to whitelist themselves.

konraditurbeon VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews

Android 8 has doze but it's not a problem for VLC:

Android 8 Doze: apps can be blacklisted so that they don't get killed, API: https://stackoverflow.com/a/42651399/3422837

Huawei adds a very aggressive background app killer, this means that apps like VLC and WhatsApp don't work in background. I have a low end Huawei device for testing purposes (hint hint), there is a setting to whitelist apps from huawei's appkiller but they get killed anyway.

konraditurbeon Youtube-dl: Command-line program to download videos

Me too. I have also set it to burn thumbnail:

alias mp3='youtube-dl -x --audio-format "mp3" --audio-quality 0 --embed-thumbnail $*'

konraditurbeon Ask HN: What is your favorite way of taking notes?

Simplenote. I have the app on my phone and this vim plugin: https://github.com/mrtazz/simplenote.vim

konraditurbeon America’s Teens Are Choosing YouTube Over Facebook

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2657968?hl=es

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