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z3ugma

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Oasis Ambient – Wi-Fi LED Light Teardown

ifixit.com
3 points·by z3ugma·20 दिन पहले·0 comments

A Comma and a Question Mark, Redux: Quick Terminal Helpers Using Pi

z3ugma.github.io
40 points·by z3ugma·2 माह पहले·11 comments

The Last Day of Nest Thermostat 2nd Gen Support

sett.homes
1 points·by z3ugma·9 माह पहले·3 comments

Should I replace the Nest 2nd gen thermostat screen with e-ink?

sett.homes
1 points·by z3ugma·9 माह पहले·1 comments

Reverse-Engineering the LCD Display Interface of the Nest 2nd Gen Thermostat

sett.homes
3 points·by z3ugma·10 माह पहले·1 comments

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z3ugma
·6 दिन पहले·discuss
Just downloaded CoMaps. Why does it start with a zoomed out view of the entire world, especially given that I gave it location services and it shows my current location (in North America). The very first UX experience this app gives is "I am primarily for people interested in maps and geography"

Contrast this with Apple Maps - when you open it, there are 4 big tap controls for actions like "Home" "Work", a search bar, and a map that covers a 1-mile radius around you .

I'd encourage your UX flow to go something more like: request location services > if granted, immediately start downloading their local tileset in the background > zoom to a 20-mile radius around the user
z3ugma
·8 दिन पहले·discuss
so who becomes the heir apparent to Judy now?
z3ugma
·8 दिन पहले·discuss
This is like a punch in the gut. Holy buckets. How do you prevent this? Bootstrap?
z3ugma
·8 दिन पहले·discuss
What always gets me about these red team attacks is the same thing that gets me about internal phishing test emails.

My company sent an internal phishing test last week. Several people immediately reported it to a cybersecurity engineer, posted about it in Slack, saying they were surprised that such a sophisticated phishing attack was happening.

I too was surprised - Google is usually much better about catching these kinds of things in the GMail filter before they get through. Oh well, sometimes one slips though. Reported it and moved on

Come to learn that the only reason it made it through is because we let it through _on purpose_.

By analogy to these red team attacks: _theoretically_ someone could rent a car, pose as an employee, and set up a Raspberry Pi in the network.

But who would go to all that trouble?

Theoretically, someone could craft a perfect phishing attack, but who would go to all that trouble? Spray-and-pray, low precision, high surface area, attacks are the ones I end up reading about.

The only reason this attack vector was open is because the red team stood to gain a massive benefit from succeeding in the attack. What real-world actor would go to the trouble and stand to benefit as much?
z3ugma
·19 दिन पहले·discuss
Armin and Ben did a nice deepdive on Mercurial vs Git and why hg should have won in a recent episode of their "nerds-chatting" style podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM1sIVIZYRg&t=3813s
z3ugma
·26 दिन पहले·discuss
Maybe we ought to be making little hardware passthroughs that plug into the headphone/mic jack and control them with idk the Caps Lock signal from USB HID to start recording.

It's very cyberpunk eventually...the human operator of the console needs to be able to see and hear the screen and sound, there will always be an interface that can be adapted to a machine, however low-fidelity
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
Right?? His takes are so good but his brusque, smarter-than-you finger wagging is offputting
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
Follow up / errata post written by the author today: https://mijndertstuij.nl/posts/what-i-got-wrong-about-fast-t...
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
It's the 3d printing of software:

https://nichecraft.substack.com/p/3d-printed-software
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
Well There’s Your Problem, a podcast with slides , covered this recently : https://youtu.be/NJAgvXH5H20?si=OLMJVhOPT40yzHDN
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
Hidden in here is the coolest part, that the author made flex PCBs at home
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
Has anyone switched over to Fossil SCM, so they get issue tracking as part of the repo
z3ugma
·पिछला माह·discuss
I had pi wrote its own and it uses Tavily under the good
z3ugma
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Are you willing to share the script? Using the pi /share command it will publish it to a Gist on GitHub
z3ugma
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Been a huge fan of LibrePCB and especially the improvements in the past 3-4 releases. I have found it generally to be more performant than KiCAD and for building my own footprint and library tooling alongside, LibrePCB's library design paradigm works a lot better to me than does KiCAD's.

I wish it were easier to extend the way the KiCAD plugin system is, but I also have a lot of respect for the developer's approach. High-performance, choose features carefully, everything can be done local or with Git with no cloud dependencies.
z3ugma
·2 माह पहले·discuss
I don't really understand what this is for... there is a lot of ML-researcher talk on the GH page about the model architecture, but how should I use it?

Is it a replacement for Kimi 2.7, Claude Haiku, Gemini Flash 3.1 lite, a conversational LLM for the situations where it's mostly tool-calling like coding and conversational AI?
z3ugma
·3 माह पहले·discuss
It doesn't come with any RAM? You have to add $140 for 8GB or "bring your own"...so the list price does not represent a working computer?
z3ugma
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Love it! Do you have a BAA with Claude though? Otherwise, your demo is likely exposing PHI to 3rd parties and exposing you to risk related to HIPAA
z3ugma
·3 माह पहले·discuss
not re-implement SQLite, I mean "use SQLite as your persistence layer in your program"

e.g. worry about what makes your app unique. Data storage is not what makes your app unique. Outsource thinking about that to SQLite
z3ugma
·3 माह पहले·discuss
but it's so trivial to implement SQLite, in almost any app or language...there are sufficient ORMs to do the joins if you don't like working with SQL directly...the B-trees are built in and you don't need to reason about binary search, and your app doesn't have 300% test coverage with fuzzing like SQLite does

you should be squashing bugs related to your business logic, not core data storage. Local data storage on your one horizontally-scaling box is a solved problem using SQLite. Not to mention atomic backups?