simonjgreen

Basing your major infrastructure choices on Ubiquiti feels a kickstarter purchase every time. Huge claims, borderline religious following community, an intentional and almost proud absence of technical support, and a coin toss if the product line will still exist in 24 months.

And when they work as advertised they are fantastic.

Our automated CVE testing harness is now powered by Claude after we got the approval. (For interest, we’re using VVAH https://github.com/visa/visa-vulnerability-agentic-harness )

I was definitely taught this in those terms and at that age.

Perhaps the unexpected response comes from its recall ability. It’s not the personality of a child, just the material a child is exposed to.

We applied for the cybersecurity approval via the form and got approval back in less than an hour. Have you… tried?

Oh good point, I’ve added a section to the README. Thanks!

(Assuming you are referring the observatory. Trmnl is off the shelf)

Again, this is covered, to an extent. Speaking only for England & Wales, the courts have pretty broad costs powers. Especially if one party is bringing litigation unreasonably. There’s no ceiling to it either, it just has to be defensible.

It’s also on the court system to leverage procedure correctly to add safeguards against the kind of behaviour you describe.

I understand anecdotally the US system is more open to abuse of this nature, but I don’t know the details. This article though was specific to UK.

This is a thing, and in the context of the article too. In UK, if an employment tribunal finds you’ve wasted the tribunals time they can and do order costs paid for both the tribunal and other party. Odd they don’t mention it.

I’ve been hacking on an outdoor sound monitor for 24x7 logging of birds and bats around my house the last couple of weeks with a live indoor monitor: https://github.com/simonjgreen/OpenObservatory

And today I knocked out an improved trmnl plugin for Japanese flash cards at my wife’s request as she liked the native one from trmnl but it lacked furigana https://github.com/simonjgreen/trmnl-japanese-vocab

Note: I let AI do the vast bulk of the work on both counts, and I ideated, architected, and bug fixed. I do love AI coding hobby projects though, when you have an idea for a thing and know exactly how to put it together but don’t have the time to raw dog the whole thing.

I mean at this point just ditch the Unifi? You have a much more capable gateway in play now that needs to have equal to greater throughput than the one you are bridging for.

TIL!

So they have it covered then in their final sentence?

“You ingested the vast majority of available human knowledge to build your product, and intend to change the entire world with it, and in fact are doing so incredibly rapidly at a rate that dodges scrutiny. Could we know more?” Would be the expanded version I guess

the metaverse went from being about owning your identity and digital possessions to mostly being about buying jpegs. once collectibles and nft speculation became the headline, it was hard to explain why any of the underlying technology mattered. after that, most people just associated the whole thing with speculation rather than the original vision.

which is a shame, I still feel like VR is full of untapped potential

It is confusing. But I enjoyed the read, it’s refreshing to read a string of rants from a human rather than something perfectly polished by Opus.

They didn’t call it a mnemonic. They are suggesting recalling a movie scene to remember AAA. And imo, it’s a great one that I’ll be reusing to help others remember! I have to remind folks of the difference frequently at work.

This comment got me curious, as it felt attainable/more commonplace to me. I did some searching, and according to gov.uk stats 7-10% of homes in UK are custom/self-build homes. That is actually surprisingly high!

From the About page, it’s the authors home

This is really pleasing to use, lovely work :)

Also, wanted to note I appreciate your stance on AI:

> I manually designed the site, defined its architecture, structure etc.

> I have however used AI to implement significant portions, whilst keeping the most interesting bits to work on myself.

> I have mixed feelings about AI. I wouldn't have had the time to build this site without it, and use it heavily in my day job to improve velocity. But, there are also points where I deliberately avoid using it, either to keep the joy of focusing on a problem, or to make sure I'm not accidentally AI 'doom scrolling' my way through life. Everything is a balance.

They could be in a situation where that’s not available such as a child’s phone with parental controls or a managed work device that has it locked out.

Perpetual and irrevocable? Derivative works?

I recall an event some years ago around Supermicro that was along these lines. Chips added during manufacturing by nation state that interfered with the operation of the BMC and TPM. Wasn't it the catalyst that pushed hardware supply chain concerns in to mainstream media?

Actually a pretty good walk through of common issues! Most impressed with the intentional reproductions for the photos.

Overview of the printer used: https://youtu.be/T6sxVtViX-k

I don’t begrudge paying for support, I want to. But it needs to be good.

And I want to ship logs, but they don’t provide a mechanism for all their logs to be shipped.

Don’t assume ;)

That’s just patently not true for Ubiquiti. You enter the Enterprise space with them and you are paying monthly. Their very expensive Identity Enterprise monthly per user subscription and their per site support charges to be able to get help with their latest rushed release. Paying extra for Apple wallet support. And you don’t even get complete APIs in return, or proper SCIM integrations. Can’t even pull access logs via API. Infuriating company that just do not function at scale.

“Enterprise”

First hand experience many times over: there is little more regrettable than placing Ubiquitis latest test-it-in-prod release in to an Enterprise setting.

Evidence does tend to point that direction, yes. What they did to the VMware ecosystem is reprehensible

Asked recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275508

This IPO marks and inflection point where a fund that tracks whole market value shifts in definition, because of the forced rush value nature of the rule changes.

If the fast entry rule changes hadn’t happened I would agree with you entirely.

This author has clearly never operated internal infrastructure at scale. The measures proposed in this are home lab grade at best, and require ludicrous levels of precision and overhead for something that changes thousands to tens of thousands of times per day.

And for very specific nit picks, and I can’t believe I’m entertaining this idea enough to ask, but tell me how the new device on the network bootstraps without DNS? And the guest device. And the printer without Ansible support. And the NDI receiver that needs to resolve its host. And how do you resolve split brain resolution for roaming devices? Are you going to publicly address all internal resources now so my laptop keeps working outside the office?

DNS was not created as a random solution looking for a problem…

I have had a TrackIR 5 since pretty much release which I used religiously for flight siming. I also have a tobii eye tracker. I have pretty much stopped using the trackir entirely now in favour of the eye tracker + opentrack. It is incredible, works flawlessly. You have a very small amount less horizontal turn tracking, but honestly your head has to be comically side on for you to notice the difference. Perfectly smooth and predictable. Lately been using it in Nuclear Option and it’s changed the game. TrackIR also works great, and is also flawless, but the key difference is the eye tracker requires zero hardware on your head to work. Even works through glasses.