We have (had?) some ticks in our backyard and I came across these which I thought was a clever attack angle: tick tubes.
Permethrin-soaked cotton balls in a tube, mice find them and build nests out of the freely available cotton, ticks that the mice have gathered while walking around die when they come back to the nest.
(For the unaware, OP above is the article author.)
As a long time user of Bitbake and Yocto, and watcher of Yoe Linux... I kind of have to respectfully disagree with the approach.
One look at the Python or Node packaging ecosystem, and you can see how difficult trying to integrate those in a 'sane' way in embedded, with repeatability and security in mind, nevertheless wrangling something like C/C++ dependencies and native packages in a qemu-cross (or binfmt emulation) environment.
I feel like Bitbake and the wider Yocto ecosystem has essentially 'solved' cross compiling. Sure there are the incredibly complex codebases like Chromium that require lots and lots of study and patience, or esoteric compilers, etc. but for most applications I feel that especially AI tooling can write up a good basic recipe for integration with Yocto.
The unfortunate thing about AI tooling is Kernighan's law (where debugging is twice as hard as writing it the first time.) Especially in Embedded Linux, where 99.99% of the product code is written by others, trying to figure out where the AI didn't quite get it right or missed something can break things unexpectedly and impossibly for the unaware developer to fix, even breaking at runtime. So the build environment has to be simple and predictable. I think Yocto/Bitbake already strikes a good balance here, with other nice things like offline builds, repeatable builds, sstate caching across machines, PRbuild servers... things useful for big teams, so consider those as well.
Although, if someone does a 'uv'-like rewrite of Bitbake into Rust with the same feature set but faster, I am all for it...
Maybe, having Yoe or some other centralized distro make specific opinionated choices and then provide an open sstate feed, working inside Bitbake, could get a lot of the speed and customizability gains back without a big rewrite effort.
You still need to know the hard parts: precisely what you want to build, all domain/business knowledge questions solved, but this tool automates the rest of the coding and documentation and testing.
It's going to be a wild future for software development...
> The Far Side is the only place in the Earth Moon system where you can hide military hardware and basically disappear. No optical tracking, no radar, no interception.
What prevents someone from sending a Lunar-orbiting imaging satellite to image everything on the Far Side? The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has already been imaging the Far Side for over a decade.
I agree with your general points about it being a difficult location to get to, but if it's possible to put regular satellites in Lunar orbit, surely its possible to park some warheads too just in case...
Hi, curious, did you know about OpenRouter before building this?
> OpenRouter provides a unified API that gives you access to hundreds of AI models through a single endpoint, while automatically handling fallbacks and selecting the most cost-effective options. Get started with just a few lines of code using your preferred SDK or framework.
It isn't OpenAI API compatible as far as I know, but they have been providing this service for a while...
That would be a fun project. Capture some WiFi geolocation data and rebroadcast it later with an ESP32 that switches its BSSID/SSID/frequency/transmit power to match an existing fingerprint.
And then see if you can be magically transported somewhere else.
could easily be done by malicious JS, an ad script, or the website itself, and then as the RP gets the output of 6.4) email and email_verified claims.
I'm guessing that this proposal requires new custom browser (user-agent) code just to handle this protocol?
Like a secure <input Email> element that makes sure there is some user input required to select a saved one, and that the value only goes to the actual server the user wants, that cannot be replaced by malicious JS.
Permethrin-soaked cotton balls in a tube, mice find them and build nests out of the freely available cotton, ticks that the mice have gathered while walking around die when they come back to the nest.