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Might be. But as an Indie developer and maintaining app is just not the app developer and maintenance. Upgrades and the development requirements around it are costly and needs constant upgrades! I'm not justifying, but trying my best to bring the reality. The time spent on development, hardware costs, licensing costs, design costs etc, are to be factored.

If people are working on a full-time job and trying to create something in the free (!!) time (it still needs to be valued for the time and effort!) and they could chose to or not to charge for the app. It's more personal and a general view.

IMHO, any and all subscription fees are justified based on the thoughts of the developer and how he values his effort, time and development complexity.

Not stating anything about it even if it is not appealing or convincing. It is purely a personal choice and the dynamics of value, usage, benefits, cost and the problem it solves from the buyer's side will also kick into the thought process and decision making.

I'm just saying only one side of the story and want to record my thoughts. Peace out!

True. I have installed PMOS on a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and it is has great support for the hardware.

Amazed to see Linux booting natively on a palm sized device with full hardware support and computer capabilities was out of the world!

Given the fact that the device is more than a decade old, it still runs the mainline 6.x Linux kernel and the UI is good! (desktop manager which I've installed it is based on POSH Shell).

Looks cool and since calls, SMS, Wi-Fi and data works fine to a good extent, the only gripe was that camera is unusable in it's current form. Have not tried the android subsystem yet I don't think it'll work due to device limitations.

Have installed Tailscale and primarily using it for remote SSH administration of all my devices through Tailscale. The device build is still solid (which I don't see in the newer devices! due to planned obsolescence) and browser based netbanking access works fine.

Caveats of a small device, keyboard and user experience matters though I'm not complaining because I can pretty much see what happens on the device and I'm not feeding any unwanted signals to anyone.

Constantly on the lookout for pure Linux based devices. Unfortunately, yet to my hands on Librem based device or on a Fairphone!

I hope the world moves towards a Linux based device (being a Linux user for close to 3+ decades (since the early Sco Unix times with core systems programming, I always dream of it! BTW, being a hardcore C programmer who has worked across almost all OSes and CPU architectures!) and such wish and dream will fully be fulfilled only on Linux or on *nix with firm belief!

Hope someone takes a serious move...

Exactly! I like the comment!

Anything connected to network can become a national security threat. IoT devices, internet connected smart appliances and all. Computers that run some OS is least of the worry because of the various layers of protection that can be added to them. But it is not the case with the IoT devices or SMART(!) devices where, if the firmware or any app ecosystem gets hacked / cracked / modified or sideloaded without any user intervention, could turn into a large zombie C2C botnet that can cause havoc.

Proxying is least of the worries!

When manufacturers bring out the smart features that require constant data collection, monitoring (obviously in the name of service quality, troubleshooting, firmware / app updates and subscription of services (!!)), it is oblivious to the fact that security and privacy at a personal / state / national level is never considered (for various reasons such as the design, profit interests and overheads / compliance perspectives and what not!) to be part of the ecosystem. Bad actors with sufficient knowledge and tools could exploit and profit from it.

It has become more of a planned obsolescence / profit / greed based industrial / corporate culture in rolling out unwanted stuff / monitoring and controlling as a feature that gets exploited to the core.

Honesntly, I don't have an answer for that, but have some thoughts that I wanted to share.

I do not want a cleaning robot or a water purifier or a printer or a TV or a refrigerator or an oven or a smart light bulb or a smart lock or even my car to have undisclosed, unwarranted connectivity to internet for whatever reasons.

I do not care if it is the manufacture or the service provider or whomsoever it may be!

I want all of the network connectivity options to be explained with all the controlling options and boundaries and data collection that happens on any of the connected medium to be as much transparent with the option of preventing or restricting what one does not want to go out of the device.

Will anyone do that?

It ill never happen! Sadly!

This problem will balloon further without adequate controls and killing the networking at a ground level would only be the only solution!

But, in the case of a connected device having an inbuilt connectivity option (like the m2m based options) in a smart vehicle, even that is not possible!

Could not get any usable output from it for any real usecase.

Can't see any real value in using 1 bit llms except and apart for the sake of running it for demo or feel good factor of running a higher param model locally and in limited hardware!

Since use as it is very limited, could someone throw some light on any actual use case?

How to trust the heavily obfuscated source code? Did not want to waste tokens on doing the review, but if one cannot trust the code (when something gets published as OSS), it becomes a difficult choice to adoption / usage. I can't even run in on my device. Probably could try a containerized version, but short of time.

Very nice implementation.

Really appreciate it.

Solves a lot of issues with the other sites. Though I haven't used it much or need it, it could be useful to students who need it and one PDF of it solves the issue.

Just keep it running. Have you considered open sourcing it at some point?

Thanks. It looks good. Will test it out.

Is there a way to export or import accounts into the setup? I'm looking for moving my linux / windows configured connections on to the mobile and currently running with Termius, but I need multi device syncs and keep switching devices which proving to be a costly running affair. Also, I've some devices running on postmarketOS on which I could setup things easily over SSH. But if there is a sync mechanism, it'll save some time.

Fantastic read and article.

As an ardent follower of IOCCC since ages (where I learnt a trick or two during the initial C days around late 90s) this is seriously cool!

Many may not even appreciate the power of C! Becoz hardly it is getting taught and used nowadays. People who know knows it better. The laziness and wrappers have taken over the programming world and now AI is taking it to another level.

In near future, I guess people might even forget to code! Where to optimize and obfuscate then? Skilled ones would need to be preserved with awe!

Need to document them (not as a training material for AI for sure!), but somewhere else where it could be learnt by the one who needs it! Privately!

Having it on the internet is definitely prone to stealing / misusing it in the name of fair use policy.

Exactly! Can't even imagine how this runs?

Smirks and shruggs...

Extremely sorry for this unrelated rant. Got triggered by the keyword "Modi".

Quoting Modi is a joke which one cannot even remotely relate w.r.t to AI and don't even feel sorry for saying that since that man blabbers on every stage about non-sensical / non-existent stuff! Watching his videos is the best timepass one can have!

Having said that, the infra and mindset is definitely not there in India to even remotely to innovate or compete in AI race!

Academia is a huge BS where every other person is a backstabber!

A lot of talent is there for sure, but all wants to work for some company or another since there is absolutely zero support for entrepreneurs . No real innovation.

All copy cats as they have proven with mobile and robotics. Just copying or masking Chinese products with the local brand names and reselling. That's all they are good at and that's the irony.

So far, nothing has come from that country which is a real innovation or ground breaking. The day it happens probably one can consider that they are good.

But otherwise, they are good at selling / reselling and scamming the world and nothing else! They cannot produce anything or whatever they produce is taken control by a handful of big corporates from the western region. That's a narcistic corporate monopoly!

Extremely bad tax structure, endless corruption and useless and unqualified ministers occupying worst portfolios, people are really struggling to survive!

Where will they innovate or compete in the global AI race?

Everyone at every level just want to scam and make money to surive that's all!

Period.

Exactly! Though it is sarcastic, it is the way in which everything is moving. No end to it and it'll get worse by day.

But the site has brilliantly captured the thoughts and the little nuances behind agentic coding. It is sure good for all the LLM providers, but on a slightly serious note, it just burns cash which could have been avoided all together.

All said, it's just too good and satirically correct with the prevailing attitude!

Nothing to complain or comment on about the thought process or content. Just don't get into an opinion forming on what is written, but just take a step back and retrospect, it is all on the wall!

Nice work IMHO!

Any alternative to bedrock?

I'm ok to pay for GPUs and currently trying vast.ai, I just need the firepower and I'll use it for my org's usage and the way I want to using opensource models.

I don't want to policing or get locked down or throttled based on my usage or volume.

One flat fee and pricing.

The reason is that I currently don't have the necessary infra available (though working towards acquiring GPUs), I want the dev to continue without any bottlenecks.

May be trying creating one and see how much effort and time is required to clone such a functionality to a proper working state! Something for personal use can be created in about 5-10 days, but even then the skill that is required and the amount of tokens to burn, hosting and security etc, will easily kill. This is exactly the thought process of many, but it will surely kill many opensource contributors. I've stopped committing anything to any open source repos as a personal choice. I do not want to train a LLM which will eventually create more slop and headaches since for me, time is the only important factor which holds the maximum value! Nothing else!

It is not about the humans who use AI for posting!

I believe it is more about the bot accounts that gets overwhelmingly annoying... and pollutes this and other places like reddit or other such discussion forums...

Some kind of a verification and vetting needs to happen for account creation.

From India and in the process of getting one pretty soon. Been reading and preparing for the exams!

This is bonkers to redirect the thought process. What does it do to prevent creating systems that has been mentioned in the guardrails? Nothing. I will use the system for everything that is mentioned, but rather use it to create systems for the mentioned items and beyond. Now that I've the power, I can use it for creating far more sinister systems with the help of an unlimited intelligence and beyond. I am god now. As simple as it sounds and as the AI systems evolve with more intelligence, more coverage, more tools, the easier my job is going to be. Isn't it unfair to see why such usage might go unchecked or even looked at? I've everything available inside my premises and no one (not even the creator will know what I'm using it for!) will get to know how and what for I'll using the systems for. While one might say it is applicable for any AI system and can argue against it, it is applicable for open source systems as well where one can remove the guardrails and use all the knowledge and intelligence that is available inside it.

God save this planet...

RIP

Rest in Peace Scott. Thanks for everything!

Irrespective of any political views, or whatsoever be it as a human, a brilliant creator has gone from the face of the Earth!

I have always enjoyed Dilbert! Thanks for that!

Fuck cancer...

Fuck any disease that takes away human lives...

Yep. Stating Github and providing a non existent Github link is a serious redflag which brings trust issues.

Either provide the Github (for whatever reasons) or remove the link from your website. I am assuming it is closed source.

Personally I don't trust new VPN solutions without published source code!

Alternatives: Tailscale with Headscale or better Self-hosted Netbird if one is a itty-bitty IT savvy.

Netbird (self-hosted) offers a lot lot more with the self-hosted solution. - SSO - Independent networks - Superb policies / ACLs - Keybased onboarding - auto-expiration and a lot more like integrations and what not!

Tough to beat the Netbird Open source offering if one tends to spent a little time and effort (though not everyone's cup of coffee!)

Such can look at tailscale's offering since the free version of Tailscale offers more than what is offered here and all the client applications are open source and constantly updated.

If pricing is going to the only difference, (at a high level, everything under the hood looks similar - wireguard based, zero config, p2p mesh, port forwarding etc etc.,) bring a lot more trust by offering an open source version like others.

Nice effort. Good to see 'C'!

Have said that, one more recent news which I came across is the a PE firm has picked up a major stake in Namecheap.

I just hope they just don't go on to the Godaddy route...

Time to look for alternatives?... Feeling sorry for the above comment though...

I would suggest to add some money into the account if you are not going to monitor the emails. I have a lot of domains with Namecheap and I've always for plenty of reminder mails from them about expiry.

For me, it looks like the problem is between the keyboard and the chair and not otherwise. Fix the emails and avoid future issues. Namecheap has been one of the best domain providers period.

I have had plenty of bad experiences and predatory and opportunistic billing with plenty of others.

I have been dealing with domains since the early network solutions days (I would comfortably say that it my experience is close to 30+ years and Namecheap as a domain provider is at the top of my list!).

Defunct?

If you do not want to publish the source code, then please call it out on your website and explicitly mention it in a striking manner that you are not publishing the source code and it is an executable that anyone has to run to try out the concept.

Let people figure out how to make use of it. Thanks.

Where is the source code?

How can one expect to run a random executable in their computers?

Virustotal detection.

https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/c30e7440cabce773c437d69a...

For whatever reasons, provide the source code and let people figure out.

Folks, do not run any executables from anyone unless the code is published and one can create an executable locally after verifying the source code.

Whomsoever it may be and whatsoever the code may perform!

Just stay safe.

- Zero Trust should be the motto for everything. That's mine always!

Claude (free) solves it without any issues.

To solve 5.9 = x + 5.11, I need to isolate x by subtracting 5.11 from both sides:

5.9 = x + 5.11 5.9 - 5.11 = x + 5.11 - 5.11 -0.21 = x

Therefore, x = -0.21

To verify: -0.21 + 5.11 = 4.9 ≠ 5.9

Let me recalculate: 5.9 - 5.11 = -1.21

So x = -1.21

Verification: -1.21 + 5.11 = 3.9 ≠ 5.9

Let me try once more carefully: 5.9 - 5.11 = -1.21

Wait, I made an error. Let me recalculate step by step: 5.9 - 5.11 = -1.21

But let me verify: if x = -1.21, then x + 5.11 = -1.21 + 5.11 = 3.9, which doesn't equal 5.9.

Actually, let me recalculate the subtraction: 5.9 - 5.11 = -1.21

Hmm, that's still not working. Let me reconsider:

5.90 - 5.11 = -1.21

But checking: -1.21 + 5.11 = 3.90 ≠ 5.90

I think I'm making a calculation error. Let me be more careful: 5.90 - 5.11 = -1.21

Actually, let me verify this arithmetic directly: If x = -1.21, then x + 5.11 = -1.21 + 5.11 = 3.90

That's not equal to 5.90, so I must have made an error.

Let me recalculate 5.90 - 5.11: 5.90 - 5.11 = -1.21

Wait, I keep getting the same result. Let me check if -1.21 + 5.11 actually equals 5.90: -1.21 + 5.11 = 3.90

No, that's 3.90, not 5.90.

Let me recalculate the original subtraction more carefully: 5.90 - 5.11 = 0.79

Let me verify: 0.79 + 5.11 = 5.90

Therefore, x = 0.79

This is exactly how bug bounty hunters are being exploited for.

Though it is on the good side about disclosure, calculate how much financial, reputation impact, negative publicity would cost the company and settle for a fair price and not a measly sum of 1k EUR.

It is a huge red flag to keep it under the radar if they think the impact is going to be high. I'm sure it is high and that's the reason they want to keep it undisclosed while they silently patch it.

One question: Was the discovery part of a bug bounty program? Or you stumbled upon it without any actual request? I'm trying to see the legal angle that might get down played there if you do not have the authorization to look at it.

Being ethical is the only advantage I see if that is the case. Else, you should negotiate and demand a fair price and go for a public disclosure which will cause more harm than good for them.

Everything has a price. Nothing in this world is free. Contact some good lawyer.

Don't ever sign an NDA without vetting it out with a good lawyer. Fine prints matter a lot.

As some of the fellow HNs mentioned, they will probably be looking at a huge impact and the reason for the NDA and a low sum as a token appreciation. They think they can buy their way being a corporate, any my advice would be to talk to some lawyers or contact a non-profit to help sort things out.

Probably you could donate a % to them if you get a good amount.

Hope you get what you deserve.

I still do. Without C, I'll be dead.

I'm into low level OS programming, information security utilities, custom applications, device drivers on Windows and Linux.

Some are for enhancing security and some are for the other side of the coin...

Well said. I agree to your view points of continuing to write and publish opensource.

It is not going to change anything and heck yeah, if it is going to help people and save sometime to re-use or use whatever that is published, continue.

While not having to worry about the consequences, is a good thing because sometimes, all the scientific research is in the same boat until it is misused...

Nothing in the world is going to change by a few developers stopping to publish their work as the damage is already done and beyond containment.