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baaron commented on When hardware goes end-of-life, companies need to open-source the software marcia.no/words/eol... · Posted by u/Marciplan

gregsadetsky · a month ago

One great example/case for this would be Aura Frames (recommended to me by a few folks here when I posted an Ask HN) [0]

If the company disappears... what happens to the devices and the cloud storage?

I've been really enjoying the product (it's really well done, the mobile app works perfectly well) but it's a scary thought.

I also found this Reddit thread [1] with some language from the company supposedly saying they would do their best to launch alternative tooling if they disappeared, but I can't find this language anywhere else online.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45341781

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homeautomation/comments/1b8vei3/wha...

baaron · a month ago

I have had an itch to disect an Aura frame and do something akin to the Tonie Box jailbreak. But I am too afraid of being responsible for bricking our frame and I can't justify spending the money on one just for R&D.

baaron commented on A confession from a mainstream food delivery app engineer reddit.com/r/confession/s... · Posted by u/taurath

sublinear · a month ago

> I’m a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets"...

This is what made it feel fake to me. Even the most naive startups don't discuss these kinds of details with the dev team (or sometimes even the senior management) because it's not relevant to getting the work done. This alleged business is likely much larger and naturally siloed. Intent is not a success criteria, and things are always subject to change so why bake it into the code? Sounds like a terrible idea.

What would make way more sense is asking the dev team to expose configuration and stats. Dashboards are not suspicious because they are genuinely useful to the entire business, not just some evil inner group trying to squeeze a few percent.

baaron · a month ago

I have had PMs and POs spend hours with the dev team spilling all the tea because they think it will help the devs better craft their vision. This particular aspect is very plausible to me.

baaron commented on Google confirms Android attacks; no fix for most Samsung users forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/mohi-kalantari

baaron · 2 months ago

My tinfoil hat might be on too tight again... but the timing of this exploit coinciding with Google's full court press on Android user rights is just a little suspect. Especially after the ongoing public education campaign about the evils of "sideloading" an Android application.

baaron commented on Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons molecularist.com/2025/11/... · Posted by u/felineflock

baaron · 3 months ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984143

baaron commented on Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector downdetectorsdowndetector... · Posted by u/gusowen

spyridonas · 3 months ago

As a European solo developer, I’ve switched entirely to European alternatives for all my infrastructure since the beginning of the year.

Cloudflare > Bunny.net

AWS > Hetzner

Business email > Infomaniak

Not a single client site has experienced downtime, and it feels great to finally decouple from U.S. services.

baaron · 3 months ago

As an American solo developer, I am close to doing the same. These mega-corps are out of control.

baaron commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

ReedorReed · 3 months ago

There is an election in Denmark today, I wonder if this will affect that. The governments website is not accessible at the moment because it uses Cloudflare.

baaron · 3 months ago

My tinfoil hat has me wondering if it's just coincidence.

baaron commented on RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization riscv.org/blog/risc-v-jtc... · Posted by u/jrepinc

topspin · 3 months ago

Then, there's NASA, and their rad hard HPSC RISC-V. It's a product now, with a Microchip part number (PIC64-HPSC1000-RH) and a second source (SiFive, apparently.) I suppose it's conceivable the a Berkeley CA developed ISA that has been officially adopted as new rad hard avionics CPU platform by the US government's primary aerospace arm could get voted off the island in some timeline, but it's looking fairly improbable at this point.

But yeah, the ISO standard doesn't hurt.

baaron · 3 months ago

For anyone else who thought this was simply a rad chip, it's radiation hardened

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/pic64-hpsc1000

baaron commented on The Police Are Scanning the Faces of Every Single Person at Download noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blo... · Posted by u/robin_reala

baaron · 11 years ago

If one wanted to attend the festival without being subjected to facial recognition software, I might recommend masks from http://www.urmesurveillance.com/ or something similar. A number of sites selling "anti-facial-recognition" masks have opened in the last few years.

baaron commented on Mark Cuban on ReplyAll abovethelaw.com/2015/05/a... · Posted by u/arigold123

baaron · 11 years ago

I'd be curious to hear from a lawyer if a system like this would cause a Rosario violation (in New York, for instance).

baaron commented on No Facebook Messenger for Me joshuawise.com/contact/no... · Posted by u/libovness

mrorbitman · 11 years ago

Just wanted to let you know that not all is lost. To avoid keeping a FB window open all day at work, you can use messenger.com, which is facebook's solution for this. Or http://www.goofyapp.com/, which is that webview packaged as a mac app. There's tons of other software solutions as well.

Facebook messenger is an amazing platform. You can communicate with all of your friends (even if you don't have their phone number), on all of your devices, mobile and stationary. It also provides context to conversation - a full profile is only a tap away. Sharing photos and files is a breeze, and emojis and stickers add a dimension of fun that is not as effective on other platforms.

Facebook is keeping up with the times, changing, adapting, and not wasting resources on outdated technologies.

I get excited about change and technical improvements, even if it means I have to break old habits. Just something to think about.

baaron · 11 years ago

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't address the author's concern of keeping all IM sessions confined to a single desktop window. It's simply a method of using Facebook's Messenger platform without having facebook.com loaded in a browser. So it placates users with privacy concerns regarding opening Facebook on a corporate network, but it does nothing for the advocate of a single chat client.