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tacLog··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
This is a really cool concept. The scene from the video where it is identifying bricks from a pile seems like a crazy awesome computer vision application. Does anyone have any references to how they managed that brick identifying algorithm?
tacLog··on My Resignation from the Intercept
Wow, that was quiet a burn there at the end:

"We have no doubt that Glenn will go on to launch a new media venture where he will face no collaboration with editors — such is the era of Substack and Patreon. In that context, it makes good business sense for Glenn to position himself as the last true guardian of investigative journalism and to smear his longtime colleagues and friends as partisan hacks."

Honestly, coming from not known who ether party was in this before this hackernews post. The intercept comes off as in the wrong to me. However, I could be being manipulated.

I am interested. Do you think these emails will come out as faked? I think even if they are real it doesn't change who should be president. But shouldn't we always be watching our elected leaders closely? What is the line between not publishing something because it is wrong and not publishing something because it might be true, but it goes too far against your beliefs.

tacLog··on Mall real estate company collected 5M images of shoppers
What kind of question is this? Are you intending to imply that some people are less deserving of privacy purely based on if they shop at malls?
tacLog··on I reverse engineered McDonalds’ internal API
Legitimate question, how and why is clickbait culture toxic?

I am not creating it or defending it. I am just a little confused what you mean by that exactly.

tacLog··on My Eight-Year Quest to Digitize 45 Videotapes
> For someone who resisted hard using a professional service to digitize the videos out of privacy concerns, I'm extremely surprised they ended up create world-readable gcs buckets for files!

I was wondering about this for a similar project recently and the best I came up with is that is if someone has a bad browser extension or their system is compromised in general. Couldn't that leak the bucket name to a untrusted 3rd party?

What I am trying to say is your good from random people on the internet, but the minute someone compromises one of the systems that has legitimate access they could extract the info they needed to access anything that user accessed.

To be clear, I think the risk of this is low and still use security through obscurity myself.

tacLog··on They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]
> mailinabox

How bad is life without that filter?

tacLog··on I'm a Coffin Confessor
Yeah, if he can I would use that over "Coffin Confessor". There is a clear difference in what he is doing verse in the books.

To anyone that doesn't get the reference, the book "Speaker for the Dead" is the next book after Ender's Game and in my opinion is the best book in the series.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender%27s_Game_(novel_series)

tacLog··on Coping with Cats
The website was unclear on this. How does it connect to the sewer system?
tacLog··on I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency
Might be a bit strange as you are saying this is a example of bad planning but my employer was discussing this today. We had a hard time finding options, what did you end up deploying or did you develop your own in house?
tacLog··on Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since May 28
Not saying I can verify this is real or even from recent events. But I think this is the video he is referring to: https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/guqzyg/the_...
tacLog··on Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
No worries, sent to that address. Some public questions though.

We are looking at launching a product on the nvidia jetson and you mentioned that running a third party OS is an uphill battle? Can you go into the pros and cons of BalenaOS vs the default for many of these single board computers?

One of the big issues we have had is that on BalenaOS you are forced to use NetworkManger which caused us weeks of work to code around it's many short comings.

tacLog··on Launch HN: Deviceplane (YC W20) – Update and Manage Devices Running Linux
Hey I was trying to reach out to sales@deviceplane.com and keep getting: 550 5.1.1 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Is there a better way to reach out?
tacLog··on A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
Thanks, Have you done any testing on the effect of something like leaving persistent logging on vs off. I know that writes to the state partition which is not read only.

Is there a way to push device logs to another service to keep track of them long term?

How did you come up with the pricing model of essentials vs micro-services?

tacLog··on A Raspberry Pi-powered live train station sign
Hey I just had a quick question.

I have been looking at building a project on Balena OS and raspberry pi 0 W. I want to deploy it in a hard to get to place and don't want to have to replace the SD card for a good amount of time.

I was wondering if Balena OS with Balena cloud managing it puts more or less strain the the sd card write cycles than Raspbian.

Chris's application seems to write little or nothing to the sd card so in your experience how would it last? A couple years?

tacLog··on Europe's record heat wave moves toward Greenland
I don't know, but I really feel like we should be talking about this. Migrant cries and famines tend to cause war. It seems like a curl joke to raise a child in this world of plenty only to destroy it before their adulthood.
tacLog··on Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers
I haven't tried to track phones with bluetooth, it seems like it wouldn't be possible because phones aren't always announcing themsleves. A by product of battery limitations I would guess. The more common use is tracking powered tags for the purpose of asset tracking in say hospitals or similar.

I didn't know the onboard adapter supported monitor mode, that is ligitmately useful knownledge for me. Thanks, it should be simple to build your own sniffer to just plan around with. Carefull if you are in the EU though, not that it is removely possible to catch a silent sniffer.

tacLog··on Retail stores use Bluetooth beacons to track customers
I do wifi tracking for a living and no there is no off the shelve solution for consumers that I have ever seen. You can accomplish this with a raspberry pi, a wifi adapter that supports monitor mode, and tcpdump set to the right filters. However, I don't see why anyone ever would.

As others have mentioned many of the top wifi brands, Cisco, Aruba, and Meraki (now owned by Cisco) provide this kind of information to clients at their enterprise level.

The reason this doesn't exist for consumers for security at least is that in the use case you described it is hard to tell what MAC address belongs to each device. Even in a neighborhood, you will detect hundreds of macs a day due to mac spoofing that modern phones do.

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