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monaion WebMCP is available for early preview

These developments completely miss the point of LLMs. They were created to understand text written for humans, not to interact with specialized APIs. For specialized APIs, LLMs aren't needed.

monaion Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted

> Next level of dystopia: cellular modems becoming so cheap that every TV, fridge and washing machine comes with one that connects it to the Internet whether you like it or not.

That's already a reality with cars in Europe.

monaion Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux

You can transmit arbitrary data in certain steps of the passport reading process. The possibility of disruption depends on whether the reading system has bugs exploitable by the incoming data.

I've seen crashes in PKCS#11 drivers when reading cards with malformed data. So, the possibility, in theory, is always there.

monaion Trading with Claude, and writing your own MCP server

these questions kill the vibe.

monaion Getting forked by Microsoft

Reading story after story about big corporations abusing single/small group opensource developers, I think we need a license that, otherwise permissive, explicitly denies the use of the code for companies that took VC money or are worth a billion or more.

monaion From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]

Absolutely not. Time Machine is just a SAMBA share with a nice UI on the client side. If the backup directory gets encrypted, all the versions of your files will also be encrypted.

monaion Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

The generated images look too flat and too sharp, giving an aged look. No one takes screenshots programmatically anymore. Consider revitalizing the output by adding RGB pixelation and a moire pattern filter to look like it was taken from a real monitor with a phone camera.

monaion Build Your Own Mobile Proxy for Web Scraping

One of the Osmocom projects[0] does precisely that.

[0] https://osmocom.org/projects/osmo-remsim/wiki

monaion Mitmproxy 7.0

Good news indeed! I tried to contribute 1–2 years ago and quickly realized that such a feature would require a substantial rewrite after a quick code inspection.

monaion Mitmproxy 7.0

mitmproxy is a great tool, but it lacks upstream certificate lookup and attributes transfer to a generated host certificate. For example, Charles does that. Some applications perform attribute inspection to detect MITM proxies, namely Spotify. Are you planning to implement this feature? Or maybe you already did it in version 7?