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Killing tasks,disabling background execution, and limiting clock speed are the easiest ways to extend the "battery cycle"

Slow charging your phone, keeping your phone out of extreme heat, and not gaming on Max cpu speed/brightness are the best ways to "extend battery life"

Even airgapped, this kind of first gen device could later evelove to use USB emulation to appear as a system level device and communicate through its host... if it doesn't already have payloads that add that capability.

What you mean is a portable NAS with wifi hosting, a unuversal web interface / PWA.

The reason this is not a wireless SSD (which is a good thing) is that you are using a network and software stack amd not a low level protocol to access the drive.

Fascinating - telemetry measurements are linear over time if you correct for the server editions.

Default deny all firewall would be my advice for any competent user of a smartphone or pc; but laziness and malfunctioning or inoperable software functions dissuade most users from using the most obvious of solutions to the majority of malware, ads, and privacy.

Now this... was a really good move.

OP is also marginally underestimating the impact this move would have on Google's competitiveness - they are making huge gains prototyping at light speed; this will halt their AI hardware acceleration plans pushing them back into slower software development on ever aging hardware.

It also shows why Nvidia is not afraid of competitors coming out with new desgings that obsolete their hardware: what good are superior designs with no fabs to produce them?

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

It's only gambling if you occasionally win,the real skill is to maintain the compulsion of pouring money into an endless red hole....

I mean, it's like saying "we don't trust people that live in this area"... but if you walk/drive 75 miles to the west we will give you millions of dollars to kill people 75 miles east of you.

What have you prototyped recently? Anything you have released to market? I'm in the same general area by am teetering on actually launching products wouldn't mind connecting with a like minded e gineer

"Green" AI is a misnomer. Inference by its nature is not efficient.

Speed, Accuracy, Efficiency - Pick two.

I laughed. Make sure your puts are locked in and then post about the millions you made in the ai bust

This is by design. AI that has consistent, reliable, accurate output is boring

Tech bros thank you for your ai training data.

Any app with "modify system settings" permission can turn location services and Bluetooth radio on.

Any app which asks google play services for location will automatically turn on location and Bluetooth.

And reminder that Amazon devices connected to the internet WILL respond to whispertalk requests from airgapped devices(tablets, fire sticks with no internet, echos, doorbell cams, etc)

Fascinating design I haven't tried, I have made inductor based designs but a pure capacitor design combined with a high speed mos might make for a fun micro psu design.

Skip giving Twitter your attention:

Rabois alleges that Airwallex's significant operational presence in mainland China and Hong Kong, combined with Chinese ownership stakes and legal obligations under Chinese law, creates vulnerabilities for US clients. According to his thread, approximately 40% of Airwallex's 1,700 employees are based in mainland China and Hong Kong, including core engineering teams with access to production systems.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/boazsobrado/2025/12/01/airwalle...

Anyone remember when Nvidia obsoleted $800 video cards with 'twice as powerful, twice as efficient'on a yearly basis?

Remember when Microsoft made operating systems that fit on a single CD or better yet, 13 floppy disks? Remember when windows update didn't turn itself on, when new windows firewall rules weren't magically created, when outlook didn't tell people you were online?

Remember when Oracle made and supported database software that was actually better than it's competitors? It ran on your own hardware and did not cost a small country's GDP per license?

AI bagholders are getting a lesson retail gamers and small business sysadmins have been suffering for decades with tech bros toying with supply, using convoluted licensing, prioritizing manufacturing to artificially inflate hardware prices. Retail trader bros have a bit more weight behind their punch so this will be an interesting hardware cycle.

My original VB6 apps (mostly) still run on win11

Disable your script execution and cookie storage for the OP site and then attempt to view it. The page and content load fine; the host injecting coercing messages for enabling tracking cookies and scripts are the reason AI has been integrated into everything.

You either comply of face unnecessary roadblocks. OP has complied by sharing the link. My right to choose tracking cookies and script execution is parallel to my right to not utilize or be forced to utilize AI. This issue has to be addressed universally as is not simple "no ai" on the web; it's freedom to use the web or compliance with violation of that freedom

Good start, then join the big boys and try for No cloud based AI ever.

Disclaimer: I do have several local ollama and lm studio hosted LLMs which I have because I've always wanted to download the internet.

I've always believed that people who smoked weed moderately seemed to be 'quicker' witted in older age(65-75). The positive effects can be negated by being fat/unhealthy/sedentary.

LSD, extacy types are more subjective. If you abuse them they fry your brain but in moderation they also seem to open new 'pathways' of thought.

Meth, crack, coke, no. They just cook your brain.

Legit article, I understand 2/3 of the financials I read stating medium crude supply has been at critical levels for a decade, suppliers are letting their reserves run dry, prices are going to go bananas soon.

My armchair click to robinhood bet conclusion is Calls on petroleum, Puts on cruise liners.

Neat, I remove all POST strings as a habit; I probably mistakenly assume most intermediate skill users would also. Using a webpage to do so would be helpful for more complicated links where the url POST data includes the content ID in one of the strings

I would imagine what you have would be far more useful to HN folks if you add some type of attribution system - meaning parse the URL, identity the tracking strings, and then tell the user what each string one does.

Then let the use check a radio box to re-appeand the desired tracking string to the url(. Maybe add the option to edit the string?

The problem is that instead of using widely documented and implemented web languages that are built into the browser and can run natively without a translator, unskilled web devs opt to use random web modules provided by adware vendors to simplify the implementation of complex animations, fonts, and UI/UX and "vibe" coding functions. This modules are not often built for memory management and garbage collection (the opposite actually)

But I mean, you're part of the problem by heavily utilizing the same LLMs responsible for suggesting the use of ridiculously heavy modules ran at every page load and bloated front ends instead of fostering skilled programmers who write things from scratch, improve them over time, optimize them because they actually care about resource management, etc...

Reading this just makes me think of yesterday's post - vibe code in turbo mode, Gemini Antigravty wipes the entire storage drive partition because it missed a quotation in function code it wrote and ran without checking.

Edit: for those who don't frequent HN or reddit every day: https://old.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6...

Remove the antennas. Do not give in to the mirage of convenience.

Use a stand alone generic GPS. Vehicle GPS devices are anti privacy for so many reasons.

Listen to stored music from an SD card if terrestrial radio (NO SATELLITE). Did you know almost ALL late model cars can play a <128gb FAT32 USB drive with non- vbr mp3s? 64gb filled with 168kb mp3 audio would take roughly 3 years at 4 hours a day to listen to.

TURN YOUR PHONE OFF. Your phone does more than track you - the Bluetooth and wifi beacon scanners are always running. When you come across another person, most phones track the intersection of your beacon with theirs making a new data point that compromises both individuals privacy. Now consider sitting at a stoplight; you and and the 10 phones around you have now correlated the time and position you were sitting there. The person jogging by with no phone(but a set of Bluetooth headphones) is also tracked by their Bluetooth signature. Terrifying.

Disable autonomous driving hardware by unplugging the cables from the interior cameras. If your car needs to see and feel you in order to do it's job, it's co-dependent; break up with it.

Ignore your car's complaints and error messages. Did you know Orange dash error lights are non critical?

Yes - remove the telematics radio and GPS antennas. They are usually in the overhead console area around/behind the lighting and mirror controls.

In BMWs, the gps antenna is behind the upper lights, the telematics and V2V antenna is in the sharkfin(unplug it from underneath the headliner)

Modern android resolved this by denying access to dmapp data outside of the class sandbox.

Older versions of android are completely vulnerable as they allow user level storage access between apps with user confirmation.

A fundamental concept of basic software design that is mirrored in most widely adopted software: design software to adapt to the user, do not require the user modify their behavior to use the software.

Any argument that the user must "learn" to use what is arguably the world's largest and fastest software implementation is fallacious.

Any sufficiently mature human replacement software should be capable of accepting all varieties of human input.

Doesn't fit the narrative. Article also doesn't mention Skype, Whatsapp, Teams, go-to meeting, or literally dozens of other video messaging and chat platforms which, if that data has been retained somewhere out of sight for decades, are an actual goldmine for fresh LLM training data.

Agent = agentic LLM

LLM = co-pilot, Gemini, Claude, Mistral chat

No one who uses an LLM would trust an agentic LLM