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RockRobotRockon WaveDigger: Dig into wireless signals to discover their physical locations

They can always add some obfuscation/hardware attestation bullshit to make it harder to scrape.

RockRobotRockon Telstra outage: The night a network decided the year was 2006

Shout out to the Jeff Geerling video about this

RockRobotRockon Keys Not Included: recovering the signing keys for US driver's license barcodes

I had a fake ID, and it being scannable was a huge selling point. Convenience stores all scan, and don't seem to care if you look underage. I was only turned down two or three times, usually at bars and restaurants.

RockRobotRockon Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X

I said that I ran a company that could benefit from having access to that list, and could benefit NCMEC by reporting when we stumbled upon content which shows up in the list. (It's content scanning software for the adult film industry)

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

Google "Ukraine war Starlink". Neolibs who hate Musk's companies unconditionally are going to go quiet real fucking fast, I bet.

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

Is that because everyone you know lives in a high-wealth country/area?

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

okay for real, i think you have elon derangement syndrome.

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

Precise motives? I don’t know, I don’t think I have any. I don’t use starlink myself or have a Tesla or invest in any of his companies. Feels silly to disclaim that, but there you go.

Having used starlink before on a plane and on land, it’s fast and seems far superior to previous generations of satellite internet. I’m earnestly asking if creating problems for astronomers is outweighed by giving more people access to the internet. Not just giving them “access”, but giving them very fast and low latency access.

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

I’m a human that just so happens to disagree with you. I don’t like Elon either, but what I dislike more is that it’s impossible to talk about any of his companies without people like you assuming my motives.

RockRobotRockon Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies

maybe Internet for people on earth matters more than astronomy

RockRobotRockon Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X

I just got access to the NCMEC's hashlists for my startup. It was fairly easy.

RockRobotRockon IceCream – Never use print() to debug again

>Do you ever use print() or log() to debug your code?

I haven't written my own code in months at this point...kind of depressing to think about

RockRobotRockon Ask HN: Are you still using a Vision Pro?

I'm not sleeping on it, I know how good it is. It costs $3500.

RockRobotRockon Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry

>There's no magical human verification technology coming to save us.

Except for the one Sam Altman is building.

RockRobotRockon Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

I think it was pretty clear I was talking about the United States.

RockRobotRockon Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars

Four 9/11s worth of people die every year from drunk driving. If we can't even get that under control, I don't see why being able to modify your own car is a big deal.

RockRobotRockon Lenovo’s new ThinkPads score 10/10 for repairability

>A hard to describe sense of "cheesiness"

This is the "Reddit" factor. I picked up on it being LLM written with this sentence:

"This is the treacherous, final-boss stage where repairability usually dies,"

RockRobotRockon Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'

This is sad. It appears to me to be psychosis. It's really telling in their reddit comment where they use words like raising an AI and anthropomorphizing his openclaw that he's got an unhealthy attachment. Not trying to play armchair psychologist here, but if you've ever been around someone going through a mental episode there's nothing funny about this.

RockRobotRockon Never buy a .online domain

That's like a business being dissolved because it got a bad rating from BBB. Absolutely insane.

RockRobotRockon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

suspiciously defensive??? you got me. Or maybe I just didn't understand their comment.

RockRobotRockon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

Oh, that's silly. I don't own a Tesla. I just wanna talk about LIDAR without people ragebaiting about Elon.

RockRobotRockon The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

(Disclaimer: American perspective)

Why don't we have PKI built in to our birth certificates and drivers licenses? Why hasn't a group of engineers and experts formed a consortium to try and solve this problem in the least draconian and most privacy friendly way possible?

RockRobotRockon The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection

Here is an example of the problem with inference-based verification:

https://streamable.com/3tgc14

RockRobotRockon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

I don't know what that means

RockRobotRockon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

Can hatred of Musk not derail this entire thread please? I have a camera-only ADAS that I think works quite well, but having both would be better.

RockRobotRockon Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics

>Waymo benefits from Google's unparalleled geospatial data.

That's true, and they have a huge headstart, but I wonder if all these cubesat companies can bring the price down on data enough that others will be able to compete.