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ronnier··on alpr.watch
Yeah I don’t bike for that reason. There’s no way I’ll ride a bike around cars and I can’t believe others put their life in the hands of people texting and driving.
ronnier··on alpr.watch
I do everything I can to avoid public transportation. It's not worth the risk or the annoyances with aggressive and dangerous people. If I lived in Asia (which I did before), I'd love to use public transportation because the people are not aggressive, won't attack or kill me. That's not the case in the USA
ronnier··on US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again
Try using American social media and offerings in China, and lately, Russia.
ronnier··on iOS 26.2 fixes 20 security vulnerabilities, 2 actively exploited
Exactly. I don’t even notice it.
ronnier··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
>There's maybe like a few hundred people in the industry

My guess is that it's smaller than that. Only a few people in the world are capable of pushing into the unknown and breaking new ground and discoveries

ronnier··on John Carmack on mutable variables
Immutability was gaining huge traction with Java... then large parts of the industry switched to golang and we hardly make anything immutable.
ronnier··on Tinnitus Neuromodulator
If you are on iOS seems you need to unmute your phone.
ronnier··on Apple Debuts iPhone 17
Not the Op but I’m in the same boat. I get the latest and whoever has the oldest phone among my wife and two kids will get my 16 pro.
ronnier··on There Goes the American Muscle Car
I have two teslas and the build quality is amazing. I never do anything to them other than change the tires. Haven’t even touched the breaks. It’s the ultimate daily driver and I’ll never buy another type of car.
ronnier··on Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City
> already fully automated in SF

I don't thin it's fair to say they are fully automated. There's a large remote operations team for remote assistance to help them get out of tricky situations. The cars can be nudged to perform certain actions.

ronnier··on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
I use Docker (in Unraid).
ronnier··on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
Yeah if an attacker was able to insert javascript then it's possible.
ronnier··on Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect
I love this product have used it for a long time now but more recently started getting worried about security. I hope the maintainers are doing their due diligence around securing their docker hub account (many of us run VW in docker) and are careful about libraries the project depends on. Some questionable coding practices were made that I'm not sure I agree with (calling a 3rd party sites in some scenarios). As more of us switch to self hosting VW it will become a juicer target for bad actors. Really hoping we don't wake up one day to find out that our database was uploaded by a BA
ronnier··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
With all respect please type out SL. I and many others don’t know what that means. For us it’s just two random letters thrown into a sentence
ronnier··on Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta Apps (and Yandex)
I'm pretty worried about the security of Brave and stopped using it. I'd like to be wrong. But years old patches missing in Chromium not ported over until recently makes me nervous (referring to a recently addressed long time websocket bug in Brave). What else is missing? It just seems to risky to use for me.
ronnier··on One of the Most Popular Games on the Planet
My son makes games in Roblox. He just turned 14 and I highly encourage it. As a result he learned how to use an IDE and how to write LUA. Fantastic way to learn to code. He even downloaded blender and watched youtube tutorials on how to create 3d models.
ronnier··on Xiaomi Car with Driver Assistance Crashes, Three Reported Dead
The study can't be trusted. Just look at the article: "The study is based on QuoteWizard by LendingTree insurance inquiries from Jan. 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024".
ronnier··on Xiaomi Car with Driver Assistance Crashes, Three Reported Dead
> The study is based on QuoteWizard by LendingTree insurance inquiries from Jan. 1, 2024, through Dec. 31, 2024. They analyzed the 30 brands with the most inquiries in this period.

QuoteWizard. Based on inquiries. I don't trust this.

ronnier··on MLB says Yankees' new "torpedo bats" are legal and likely coming
Note that Aaron Judge hit 3 of those home runs (including a grand slam) and he did not use a torpedo bat.
ronnier··on Private Equity Is Coming for America's $12T in Retirement Savings
I agree with you. People type out the complete opposite of what they mean, leaving it up to the readers to make sense out of it. This is extremely prevalent on Reddit and has started to bleed into hn a lot more lately (along with politics but its obvious the mods are stamping that out).
ronnier··on California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
WireGuard with a domain that only has private ip addresses. Caddy to handle domain certs. I use a split tunnel so my phone is always connected to my local network at home. Everything is http even with private ip addresses

I use frigate and home assistant. I have unraid for storage. I use a small x86 box with openwrt for my router.

I use vault warden (open source version of Bitwarden) for passwords. It’s amazing. And you can use the native Bitwarden client

ronnier··on California Attorney General issues consumer alert for 23andMe customers
> The California-based company has publicly reported that it is in financial distress and stated in securities filings that there is substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern

This is one reason I use signal over other texting apps -- I don't want my private messages sitting in a database waiting to be sold during a fire sale when the company goes under. Also why I try to locally host my apps such as security cameras, password manager, home automation, storage, wiki, among others

ronnier··on iPhones were being stolen off porches right after delivery, and now we know how
> The group created software to scrape FedEx tracking numbers and bribed AT&T store employees to get order details and delivery addresses, according to a criminal complaint filed in New Jersey. The group then sent thieves to pick off the packages and bring them back to destinations like the Brooklyn shop

> employee also received bonuses of $2,000-2,500 for recruiting other AT&T employees into the scheme.

ronnier··on The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome
It’s a big world. Does breaking up google give the Asian giants an advantage? Wonder if China breaks up their large tech companies?
ronnier··on State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness
Cyber truck does
ronnier··on The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
https://datingzest.com/tinder-statistics/

This claims tinder is 78% male. Not sure of the others.

ronnier··on The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
possible reasons I can think of 1) these are based on self reporting and it’s very possible men report at lower rates. 2) it’s possible that the scams happen outside of the areas where I have insights (social media)
ronnier··on The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
I work on this problem at one of the world’s largest social media companies. I deal with it 7 days a week for several years now. This is my life and it’s extremely sad as to how people are being exploited in these scams.
ronnier··on The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
I work on this very issue at one of the world’s largest social media companies. It’s completely male dominated.
ronnier··on The Loneliness Epidemic Is a Security Crisis
> Romance scams cost victims hundreds of millions of dollars a year. As people grow increasingly isolated

“People” is accurate but this is largely a male dominated issue. Men are targeted at higher rates and fall for these scams at much higher rates.

Men need to be taught that random unknown women will largely not message them at random for sex. It’s almost always a scam. These scammers are playing on the psychology of men’s deep desperation to meet women, and as it has become harder for men to meet women over the last decade, men are falling victim to these scams in large numbers.

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