mrweasel

> I use Unifi Access + ESPHome + Zwave deadbolt to get the level of control I'm comfortable with.

That makes me uncomfortable, electronics controlling physical access sounds like a nightmare to me. I'm glad we have the options though, so different people can customize to the level that makes them feel safe.

> My interest in smart home stuff is near zero; am I alone?

No, we were renovating the electrics and my boss got all excited and asked about all sorts of automation. We did none of it. The closet thing I have to smart home things is PoE in more network drops than I really need.

Frankly I don't want to deal with it, I have zero desire to debug my home. It even pisses me off that my car charger needs to be online, because I don't understand why it needs networking. If it's to prevent people from misusing it, just add the option of a padlock.

I have zero trust in IoT devices, both from a security perspective and from a functionality point of view.

The funny part is that the manufactures shitty QA made this a much bigger thing that it could have been. Had the machine done a scan once every week, which is more than enough for their purpose, diffed the result locally and pushed the few kB of data to the internet, then no one would have noticed anything.

Yes, it's malicious and completely unnecessary, but incompetence has potentially made it a PR problem.

Different program, but weird that you'd need that many visas in a market where so many US developers are unemployed.

For these four demos I don't know, but part of the challenge was certainly working within the constraints of the machines of the day. The Furture Crew demo I believe comes in at 2.5MB and ran on a 1993 PC, so probably 8MB of ram at the most. Running it in the browser is probably at least 20 times the memory.

It's really cool to be able to rewatch these demo, but the spirit in which they were created is somewhat lost.

Doesn't Stackoverflow exist because people can in fact not read the documentation or source code, at least not to the point where it helps them understand their problem.

If the LLMs could get the same results by just reading documentation and source code, then the content on programming forums would be worth nothing, yet AI companies scrape them constantly... why?

I was handed the paper: A rational design process, how and why to fake it [0]. It's still one of my favorit papers. Basically it tells you to, when writing documentation, go back and put in later findings in the place it would been, if the world had been completely rational. Just leave out all the weaving and late discovery, very few people cares. Retrofit documentation to pretend that everything and everyone was completely rational and had all the knowledge at the correct times. It can cut down documents by a lot.

0) https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~perry/education/SE-Intro/fakei...

Where will the LLMs get information about new tools, programming language or problems in general?

> It’s technically functional but doesn’t feel right.

That might be the most accurate description of Thunderbird that I've come across. It's hard to pinpoint exactly what's wrong with Thunderbird, despite me using it every day. Somehow it feels like the emails aren't the important bit of the UI, but I also couldn't tell you what I'm looking at instead.

What stands out to me is https://www.helgilibrary.com/companies/jetbrains/total-cash-...

I have no idea what that contains, but it appears to be a rather large dip, compared to previous years. Overall it's not really that interesting without context and commentary from JetBrains.

> so it appears as if the Earth tips over on its side. And this phenomenon may have had a greater impact on our planet’s environment than scientists thought.

I'm no climate scientists, but I'd think "tipping over the earth on its side" would mess up the weather more than just a bit. The title and the intro suggests that the planet will flip "90 degrees", the rest of the article does nothing to explain this intro.

The internet is devolving before our eyes. Use a nicely, stable API with an SLO for a small fee or scrape via a Candy Crush clone running on some grandmas iPad in Nebraska... hard choice.

Well no, but even with the gas prices jumping the way they are, that is a much more predictable cost than AI spend. Drive 250km, in 2015 Volvo truck is X liters of fuel at X cost. Solve a predefined problem using AI... you have no idea what that will cost you, if you did you'd most likely already have the answer.

Didn't both Google and Bing discontinue their search APIs, or was that something different?

> These permissions are clearly all-or-nothing

Clearly not, as it took me weeks to figure out. I don't think macOS informs the application that it's being restricted, so Firefox can't really tell me that somethings up. Now I get that macOS can really do that either, otherwise users would be spammed with "This application tried accessing the network", but there should be some feedback mechanism that informs the user that something is probably wrong. Maybe there is and I've haven't found it.

I'd argue that you generally wouldn't expect that to include IPs you manually enter into the URL bar. In every other case what that does is prevent applications from going out and doing stuff in the background, so that's going to be the assumption for browsers as well. Now that's not how the safety feature is designed, but that's how I as a user experience it working.

Also it doesn't really work does it, because Firefox can still do a DNS lookup, from a DNS server, which is just an IP.

That makes sense. I'd agree that IT isn't prioriteres, unless it's in some project form, the daily operations isn't valued. We see this in how contracts are written, software is basically purchased on a contract and expected to be run that same contract for years. There's very little incentive for operators to provide anything but the bare minimum, because the price is more or less fixed regardless of effort.

For weeks I used Safari to access some homelab stuff that only have IPs because Firefox wouldn't work. I must have been through all possible settings in Firefox, nothing worked. Turns out macOS decided that Firefox didn't need access to the local network. I guess I was asked at some point and said "No" because Firefox shouldn't roam around on my network unsupervised, not in my wildest imagination would I have guessed that this "No" extend to things I type into the URL bar.

Apple continues to lock down things I need, there isn't a good package manager (NO! Brew sucks.) and terminal stuff just breaks across upgrades.

I think you get to pick even or uneven yourself if you're don't identify as male or female and you can have a new CPR if you change gender.

There is some interesting details that may require you to change your name, if you want the last digit changed. That means if you're name is Kurt, you can't have a CPR number ending in an even number, because Kurt is only an approved name for men. If your name is Kim, Storm, Charlie, Orla, Lykke or some other unisex name it's not a problem.

I worked on systems that has this, it would be funny if it wasn't putting people at risk. You can see the address, and then as you say there is a field that indicated that this is a protected address, so don't leak it,... unlike the others with you're then completely fine to leak?

For the individual county it's probably not a ton of data, but multiply it up, it's a lot for all the counties in e.g. Philadelphia.

Normally there is data, meetings, events and so that you wouldn't report on in a newspaper, because it's really only relevant to maybe a few thousand people, but for those thousands it might be really important.

My city publishes a lot of stuff on their website, it's hard to find, relevant to maybe a thousand people, maybe less. The school board meetings, public utility companies, companies in general all publish massive amounts of information that's never surfaced, but is relevant to those living in the vicinity. Being able to collect all of this, sort it, assess it's relevans and produce hyper local news could be a massive boost for local grassroots movements and participation in local affairs and elections.

You're conflating two different things here. What Denmarks excels at it implementing public IT solutions that makes processes smoother, like patient records, medical perscriptions, digital signature, a nation-wide digital identity, things like that. Digital sovereignty isn't part of this, and Denmark isn't particularly good at it, nor is it really valued that highly. Same for cyber security, I'd say that it's down to dumb luck that it's not worse. There is a city, Randers, they can't send email to the domain anders.dk (Anders being a pretty normal Danish name). Why? Because the butterfingered public employees in Randers could stop sending personal information about citizen to anders.dk, which has a catch-all email. They simply forgot the "r". The problem is the lax attitude to emailing sensitive information, probably via a Microsoft run Exchange server, but rather than fixing that, they just blocked the anders.dk domain.

It's honestly worse. DDMMYYY (the last Y is from a lookup table to know if it's 18YY, 19YY or 20YY). If a person is born before October 2007 you can even do a checksum using the last digits to verify that the number is "correct" (not necessarily in use). And yes, last digit is an even number for women, and uneven for men.

I have been advocating for Denmark to do the same for 15+ years. The fact that your social security number can be used for anything on it's own is a disaster. Mostly it can't anymore, because you have to do electronic signing with MitID, but it's still considered secret. If you own a home in Denmark, address information is already public, but a little hard to lookup.

The problem with this leak mostly going to be those with hidden addresses or secret phone numbers. Last time something similar happened was when it was shown that you could pretty much just guess a persons social CPR number if you had their birthday. Normally you could narrow it down to 6 or 8 possible numbers then use the phone companies websites, pretend to create a new account, enter the CPR number and check if you guessed correctly. Because the demo was done with politicians, then phone companies no longer ask for CPR upfront.

Weirdly enough, when these smaller two seaters show up, they are almost always overprice and getting a four seater, and just not using backseats, are a better deal. E.g. the Microlino is €20K, so why not just get the Citroen ë-C3, it's the same price, with better range?

I assume used. Sadly I'm not really in a market where that type of equipment is widely available second hand.

Depending on the amount of data you have, might it not be less expensive than build the tape drive?

An LTO drive is easily $10.000. You can restore a lot of S3 data for that amount of money. Sadly getting cheaper tape options is not really possible anymore.

I just looked at their website. Even without the lifetime plan, their pricing makes much more sense to me. You basically pay for the management account and the storage, which is really the thing that cost money.

It never made sense to me that you need to pay for storage per email account, if you use a custom domain. It I use 10GB why should it matter than I have it split over two email accounts?

Looks really interesting, thank you.

As a legitimate, honest and profitable company, no. As a boom riding maniac, who will lie and cheat to ensure that investor continue to artificially pump up OpenAIs value, yes.

Without Altman I think that OpenAI would have folded by now, absorbed into a company like Microsoft (or Oracle). At this point however, who'd be insane enough to want to run a company that's to valuable to be sold, but to cash strapped to survived?

Agreed, I'm a Kagi subscriber and a mac and iPhone user, I don't use Orion and have no desire to. Browser and search engines should be separate entities, but for some reason search engines really want their own browser, and in the case of Brave, a browser company really wants a search engine.