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The other one that drives me nuts is “sensitive electronics” in generator discussions.

Setup automatic forwards. If I was to do this, I’d forward all the emails from my kids activities to its email.

I would guess the FSD numbers get help from drivers taking over during difficult situations and use weighted towards highway miles?

It's the nature of high fashion brands. a $2000 item may cost $200 to create. The high margin is based on exclusitivity. They would rather destroy it than sell it at $300.

What sort of tools did it use? I suppose the path mine took may have been a dead end. The Tuya app (I was also using decompiled APK) downloads the BLE definitions on-demand and weren't embedded in the app. It wanted me to capture traffic on a device with the app. I punted but plan to resume with an emulator setup or real device connected with adb.

Agents are excellent for reverse engineering. I was also recently working on a BLE reverse engineering exercise and followed a similar path. I ran into lots of headaches with BLE on my Mac and tabled it.

Author or others who know, did you perform this on Linux? I imagine it lacks the tooling challenges I had with BLE on MacOS.

There’s a checkbox in the app that implies that. I haven’t had a reason or way to test it yet.

I can confirm altitude restrictions can be turned off.

Are there any mortgage products for software developers that let them get a jumbo mortgage right out of school with 100 percent LTV?

https://www.pnc.com/insights/personal-finance/borrow/physici...

Quite a few things use STARTTLS. I imagine the same technique could be applied to those other protocols, giving users some options as they fight hostile networks.

Clever

I'm surprised there's no mention yet of carrier activation fees. Isn't that half the point for carrier's? They can bilk you for another $36 for the privilege of issuing a new eSim for your new phone.

Same! Still have it as a side machine.

My favorite and most painful issue was a bug in USB charging. Sometimes it would fail to charge from my monitor (USB-C) yet it would believe it’s connected. The battery would eventually run to zero and the machine would shutoff without warning. No low battery warning would be shown because it believed it was charging however it was not. Resolved with my M3.

Also fun with that generation is that you can’t plug in a dead laptop and start using it right away. Takes about ten minutes of charging before you can power it on.

Also fun, it would not establish power delivery with my monitor in this state. I’d have to plug it in with a regular charger to bootstrap it. Also resolved with my M3.

Now that it’s aged, the super capacitor for the clock no longer holds charge and the time is usually wrong on cold boot. I wish that was serviceable.

I'll make up another one to pile on. Perhaps the police would have had a visible, deterrent presence if they weren't lazily relying on cameras, and that would have prevented the assault in the first place.

Anyhow, if you read the flock database, they're overwhelmingly not using them for the purposes of public safety or random crime.

Of course! It should be included in the math when comparing in-housing Postgres vs using a managed service.

It's even worse when you start finding you're staffing specialized skills. You have the Postgres person, and they're not quite busy enough, but nobody else wants to do what they do. But then you have an issue while they're on vacation, and that's a problem. Now I have a critical service but with a bus factor problem. So now I staff two people who are now not very busy at all. One is a bit ambitious and is tired of being bored. So he's decided we need to implement something new in our Postgres to solve a problem we don't really have. Uh oh, it doesn't work so well, the two spend the next six months trying to work out the kinks with mixed success.

I'm finding that the newer GPT models are much more willing to leverage tools/skills than Claude, reducing interventions requesting approval. Just an observation.

There are firmware updates that improve picture quality, address compatibility issues that are discovered after release, and even increase the lifetime of the TV.

It's wild dealing with Oracle. They are an adversary to their customers. They'll repeatedly try and setup meetings where they begin off-topic asking questions about how many cores/sockets you're deployed on (Answer: Fewer than we're paying for). When we declined their Java subscription (after thorough preparation on our part), they repeatedly threatened us with audits and ominous threats of download monitoring.

If anyone has to deal with this, I highly recommend Palisade Compliance for consulting. Ex-Oracle people who do not sell licenses, only consult on compliance and represent you during an audit.

You'll need to spend an additional $1500 over 10 years for Rivian Connect+ to use music streaming services on their infotainment system. No additional cellular costs for using CarPlay or Android Auto.

In my organization we've worked hard for several years to insulate ourselves from Oracle.

We've implemented aggressive desktop monitoring and blocked downloads from Oracle to avoid the Java subscription. Where it's needed, an OpenJDK distribution is used.

Where we must still use Oracle database, in some small, bespoke legacy use cases (heavy PL/SQL), we've moved to RDS with license included to avoid the direct relationship with Oracle. I get it, a big RAC customer will have a harder time, but they'll also likely have alternatives (e.g. SAP implementation to HANA).

I know of at least one vendor (Hyland) who's dropping Oracle support and providing a migration path to MS SQL. Shame not a FOSS database, but still a trend away from Oracle.

I took an ASIC design class in college, unfortunately with a heavy course load that didn't allow me to focus on it. For our final project we were given a numbered dictionary and asked to design a chip that would accept the characters on a 7 bit interface (ASCII), one character per clock cycle and output the dictionary number on an output interface but I can't remember how wide. We were graded on the size of the resulting ASIC and how many clock cycles it took from the last character in to the number on the output.

I started designing my modules, a ROM, a register with a ROM pointer, etc, etc, writing the Verilog and working out the clock sync between modules. Then I got 'lazy' and wrote a trie tree like implementation in Java, and have it spit out the whole tree in Verilog. It worked and just one clock cycle after the last letter my number would output. Fastest in the class! Also the most number of gates in the class. Surprised I got a 90 grade given I didn't use any of the advanced ASIC design the class taught. The TA didn't know what the hell they were looking at.

Would be nice to use the logos in the legend. I use these LLMs everyday and didn't know what half these logos on the graph were.

This was already in Ubuntu server for the RPi.

Works great.

Smartphones, infotainment systems, and large LCDs in the cabin are killing drivers' night vision.

I’m thinking a SFTP or file sharing gateway. Think MoveIT, GoAnywhere, ShareFile, etc.

IMO, these aren’t safe to use anymore.

I really wish wall switches and dimmers were included in the first drop. I've long been in the market for affordable Matter over Thread switches with a matte white finish from a reliable vendor.

They need to cover all the categories too (single, multi-pole, dimmer, and maybe fan speed) so I know I won't end up with a hodge podge of brands and looks.

I'll keep holding out.

I use YoLink products for #1. LoRA radio based with 1/4 mile range and low power consumption. I have one on my shed door. Frequently on sale at Amazon.

You're looking for a Thread border gateway. Lots of stuff already has it. Someone mentioned AppleTV and HomePod mini. Newer Google Nest speakers/displays have it as well.

But you can do it with just Home Assistant and a Thread radio: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/thread#turning-ho...

Personally, I pair my wifi and Thread matter devices to my Apple Home, as each Apple TV behaves as a redundant, ethernet connected gateway. I then do a secondary pairing to Home Assistant and Google Home. Local control and it works very well.

I’ve been looking for any reason to relearn Verilog and this might give me my first idea.

Such a cool idea. Thank you.

Similar struggle here. I don't have custom DNS, but do use MagicDNS.

It’s even scarier when you realize that if the host doesn’t frequently rotate the wifi password, or use a hotel login, any guest could plant a hidden camera or other device with a persistent connection.