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My phone? My phone doesn't even have a camera, let alone passkey support!

That's funny, this afternoon I asked Claude to think very hard about your comment, and it said you trust LLMs too much.

Probably not! I don't know what the deal is.

The only other client I've seen that in is Claws. (Which is part of why I still use it, despite the various warts.)

I recently posted a link that got 2 boosts and 6 faves, but it was requested by about 300 fedi servers so they could generate a preview.

Which is fine! Because even though my photo gallery runs on a 15 year old laptop in the basement, I wrote the gallery software in a fast language (Rust) and so a trickle of requests maxing at 4 per second is not actually a problem.

People complaining about fedi hammering their servers are probably using PHP or Python.

The article explains this quite well.

Despite the limitations, that is dope as heck.

Not if the site requires attestation and hardware-based.

Hah, that's a good point.

But in this case I don't think this guy is doing it for the data. It's all about giving the impression of having performed surveillance.

It works in the EU.

Fantastic, I love it. (I mean the activist's work, not the cops trying to scare him into stopping.) These kinds of projects are needed to give government officials some empathetic understanding of what they're doing to the people.

Keep up the good work!

I mean, the entire point of this project was to make a statement about mass surveillance and make the government feel uncomfortable about it.

You don't actually have to worry about "HN'ers setting up surveillance networks".

Hopefully this helps lead to US sanctions having less global power.

Hard to say, as I've never had a smartphone so I don't really know what the difference would be. But I will say that I see a lot of people walking down the street with a phone to their nose, so... I'm probably seeing a lot of stuff they don't. :-)

The closest comparable thing is that I've gotten kind of hooked on listening to podcasts while doing chores. It's highly addictive and now I feel uncomfortable doing without. But when I do eschew the podcasts, I end up doing a lot of processing of my own thoughts that's probably pretty valuable. Kind of like shower thoughts, I guess.

Interesting. I feel like this should be straightforward to replicate in a lab, though.

I have a "feature phone" (dumb phone). In my experience, people just kind of look boggled for a minute and then give up. They probably would have just sighed and released the car to you, or asked for cash.

(I just use cash most places. Works great.)

Uh, yes? Taxes are, in fact, about money. And tax evasion is about not paying your fair share.

I'd like to see this framed as a ban on surreptitious recording, not specific to glasses. But it's a little hard to figure out exactly what the parameters should be.

I've seen some pretty compelling pieces about EnChroma essentially being a scam.

The treadle-style powertrain kind of blew my mind.

Some data centers use evaporative cooling instead of a closed loop.

Someone I know (in a fairly rural area) would grab some roadkill and hang it in the tree. -.-

I remember Red Delicious being kinda gross in the early 90s. Bitter and cardboardy.

However, it seems there are multiple things with that name. I've had one that looked different and tasted... less bad.

OK, got a response back, although it was possibly slightly AI flavored? But they said no, a good quality 18650 shouldn't harm the light. It just might not power the top modes.

My household ended up with a couple of ancient binocular dissecting scopes that a university was throwing out. The magnification isn't amazing, but they're fantastic for just grabbing random shit and looking at it, or yes -- things like soldering.

Ours aren't properly set up for photography, but I did manage to finagle this great shot of a bug curled up inside a hole in the side of a lentil: https://gallery.brainonfire.net/v2/image/18906

The objective lenses are just 1.7x and 3.4x so you can see some cells but not really any details in them. But free is a really good price for that.

Yeah, I really like that Fenix lights just take a Li-ion 21700 or 18650 (and they have a little caddy to adapt the latter for the former).

However, the manual is very specific about only using their specific batteries and not just arbitrary batteries of matching size and chemistry (generic 18650s). I'm currently trying to get some information out of the manufacturer about whether there is risk of damage or they're just trying to avoid people using shitty batteries and blaming them for a bad experience.

(The manufacturer is fenixlight.com, but the seller is fenixlighting.com. It's kind of confusing.)

Possibly dumb question: What makes this a "Corolla" as opposed to a new car that happens to have the same brand name?

I would be very concerned if an RNG simply produced a natural 2.

It didn't seem like the usual AI style, but the flow and language was very strange indeed.

You're probably allowing the site to run JS. If you don't, you get a bunch of these stupid redactions.