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theearlingon GoPro warned it may not survive

I grabbed the mission 1 pro, the menu is different from their hero line up and actually smooth and usable. Not to mention the GoPro Labs QR settings that make setting up a crazy recording profile or trigger easy.

I used my friends Ace Pro 2 and the menu was great but kinda clunky compared to GoPro.

No allegiance to any brand, but the Mission series software is fast and the footage, especially slowmo, is breathtaking

theearlingon Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

oh 100% agree here, I was just confused at the OP comments evangelism of installing and keeping his phone on his for those quick fix google searches

theearlingon Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

Webapps exist for a reason, they don't get all the special permissions apps get when fully installed.

at the very least use a VPN / more secure phone like a pixel with graphene

You keep doing you though

theearlingon Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

I guess the technical side is for the bots to find holes in my argument. Anyone with a brain in tech that knows of the US and it's invasion into privacy knows that the US having an iOS "Hacking Toolkit" is nightmare fuel.

I already assumed it did, just glad Wired put it down on paper for the rest of us.

Writing an article that "it's escaped the hands of the US government and into the hands of foreign hands" doesn't change my opinion of the abuse of power.

Citation: Edward Snowden - Present Day (Flock, etc)

theearlingon Possible US Government iPhone-Hacking Toolkit in foreign spy and criminal hands

lol at all the downvotes, proves my point

theearlingon Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid

Palentier and A16Z connections...

theearlingon Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?

through the hundreds of hours of interviews of abductee's and the governments response since 2017, they are very real in some capacity.

This is hacker news, so big brains going to disagree within their little bubbles, but a great resource for archived media on the topic is the channel "Eyes on Cinema" on YouTube from various news cast and specials since the 40's

theearlingon Ask HN: Do you believe aliens are visiting Earth?

Russia Cancer? what's that?

theearlingon High-power microwave defeats drone swarm

I'm wondering if this would work for cars in car chases, maybe too much shielding...

theearlingon Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now' [video]

Looks like this one does just that, android VM ontop linux:

https://furilabs.com/shop/flx1/

theearlingon I trapped an LLM into a Raspberry Pi and it spiraled into an existential crisis

So a website version of this?

https://hackaday.com/2025/05/24/ai-art-installation-swaps-di...

theearlingon Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?

lol, just having fun man, I hope it's not just some rock

theearlingon Is the Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas Alien Technology?

Let's hope so, the U.S. and the world as a whole could either use a savior or factory reset

theearlingon Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?

Over the past 3 years, I've been building "FreeCRT", a 24/7 Twitch streaming setup dedicated to casual Smash matches. Since I don't have a coding background, I used Node-RED to create custom flows that help manage the stream by connecting a MSI Gaming Laptop, Intel NUC, and Raspberry Pi 4. OCR and Node-RED extract text from the switch, while performing arena error logic, which connects to the Raspberry Pi to run macros to reset the open arena if it's closed. I just recently whipped up a Twitch Chatbot called FreeGPT that hosts the arena anytime. I've built it up slowly but it's been such a fun long term project.