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barnas2 commented on RCE via ND6 Router Advertisements in FreeBSD freebsd.org/security/advi... · Posted by u/weeha

clan · 14 hours ago

This actually makes me happy! I must be getting old!

It truly is a bad one but I really appreciate Kevin Day for finding/reporting this and for all the volunteer work fixing this.

All I had to do was "freebsd-update fetch install && reboot" on my systems and I could continue my day. Fleet management can be that easy for both pets and cattle. I do however feel for those who have deployed embedded systems. We can only hope the firmware vendors are on top of their game.

My HN addiction is now vindicated as I would probably not have noticed this RCE until after christmas.

This makes me very grateful and gives me a warm fuzzy feeling inside!

barnas2 · 11 hours ago

> We can only hope the firmware vendors are on top of their game.

You should go into comedy, this would kill at an open mic!

barnas2 commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

atq2119 · 5 days ago

> But for safety reasons, since the software controls when the toaster pops, you decide to check at boot time that the software hasn’t been modified.

As arguments go, this is a pretty weak one considering how obvious the solution is: Make the manufacturer not be liable for what happens when you operate the device with unauthorized software.

barnas2 · 3 days ago

Manufacturers still may not go for it, due to the potential bad publicity. To go back to the toaster example, if some fancy open source software alternative has a critical issue and causes fires, the news will not report it with nuance. "SmartCo Toaster Fires on the Rise!" will be the headline, not "Niche Modding Community Sets Toasters On Fire, And The Manufacturer Had Nothing To Do With It".

barnas2 commented on Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away mathstodon.xyz/@dpiponi/1... · Posted by u/ColinWright

monerozcash · 4 days ago

While we're on the subject of maps-related bugs, I was recently borrowing a new Tesla Model Y and took it on a RORO ferry. After the crossing, the car’s GPS was convinced I was still at the port where I had departed from. I restarted it a couple of times, but nothing. I drove off using Waze on my phone instead of the car's navigation. The map on the car kept moving relative to the direction I was driving, so the navigation was showing me driving into the sea and eventually started complaining that it would be impossible to find a charger.

Approximately 5 hours later, just as I was about to arrive, the car finally managed to figure out my correct location.

Exciting trip, not a huge fan of Teslas, but their charger planning is really nice. It was very unpleasant to suddenly lose it.

I just genuinely wonder how such a bug can actually occur, surely you'd update the GPS fix more often than every couple of hours. Hard to imagine the car just suddenly couldn't get a GPS fix for hours either. But if it did somehow totally lose the ability to use GPS, the car must have a pretty good dead reckoning system given how well it was responding to my changes in direction.

On a vaguely related note, driving 3000 kilometers through Europe in an electric car was surprisingly nice. Certainly didn't affect the length of the trip nearly as much as I'd have expected, but it was certainly super annoying to try and figure out the optimal rate of travel on the Autobahn. Charging at Tesla's supercharges was vastly more expensive than I expected, the "fuel" costs weren't much lower than what you could easily reach with a diesel car.

barnas2 · 3 days ago

>On a vaguely related note, driving 3000 kilometers through Europe in an electric car was surprisingly nice.

I did 2 cross country road trips here in the US (~5000mi/8000km total) and had a similar experience. The nav's automatic charger routing did a great job, and we had 0 issues with charging.

barnas2 commented on Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free riviantrackr.com/news/riv... · Posted by u/doctoboggan

wongarsu · 6 days ago

In the next step, somebody will notice that many people drive to the same destination (like a large shopping mall or an airport) and try to offer to take them in the same self-driving car for a discount. Over time those vehicles might grow to seat as may as 30-100 people and stop at multiple destinations

barnas2 · 6 days ago

Incredible startup idea. While we wait for the self driving tech, maybe we could pay specially trained people to drive these vehicles?

barnas2 commented on Show HN: Automated license plate reader coverage in the USA alpranalysis.com... · Posted by u/sodality2

cons0le · 8 days ago

NYC should have been the model to follow. Instead of flock cameras, cities should have bounty systems: record a video of a speed violation with a plate, and get 10% of the ticket revenue. Enforcement would explode.

We could of had a system where we used the technology we already had in our hands to democratize speed enforcement, instead of corporatizing it

barnas2 · 7 days ago

NYC already tried Snitching as a Service during COVID, and it went terribly. I grew up with a neighbor who would constantly record people and call the cops over every little perceived infraction. Everyone in the neighborhood hated her, including the cops. I do not want to live in a society that encourages those people.

barnas2 commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

hereonout2 · 9 days ago

I often try running ideas past chat gpt. It's futile, almost everything is a great idea and possible. I'd love it to tell me I'm a moron from time to time.

barnas2 · 9 days ago

I've gotten pretty good results from saying it's someone else's idea and that I'm skeptical. e.g. "A coworker wrote this code, can you evaluate it?"

barnas2 commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

ogogmad · 14 days ago

Every shortage is followed by a glut. Wait and see for RAM prices to go way down. This will happen because RAM makers are racing to produce units to reap profits from the higher price. That overproduction will cause prices to crash.

barnas2 · 14 days ago

They aren't overproducing consumer modules, they're actively cutting production of those. They're producing datacenter/AI specific form factors that won't be compatible with consumer hardware.

barnas2 commented on Jaguar Land Rover hack cost UK economy an estimated $2.5B reuters.com/sustainabilit... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

thisislife2 · 2 months ago

Isn't this common? I have had rodents eat wires in my car 3 times in the last 5 year. (It's not a Jag or LR). My friends have complained about this happening with their vehicles too. Or has there been any new development of some kind of "rodent-resistant" wiring?

barnas2 · 2 months ago

Honda makes an anti-rodent tape that's designed for wrapping wiring. It's loaded with capsaicin so any critter that bites down will quickly decide to stop. It's possible other manufacturers are exploring similar ideas.

barnas2 commented on Instant Checkout and the Agentic Commerce Protocol openai.com/index/buy-it-i... · Posted by u/meetpateltech

fourseventy · 3 months ago

Meh. Meta recently got rid of their instant checkout product for Instagram and Facebook where customers could buy products directly from a companies FB or IG page. Nobody was using it. I would imagine it will be the same situation here.

barnas2 · 3 months ago

I bet this is going to make them a TON of money. A ton of people are using chatgpt to essentially replace google, and treating it like a trusted source. The average user is going to jump at the ability to ask their "trusted" source a question and get a direct link to the thing they need to buy.

barnas2 commented on I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx

alias_neo · 3 months ago

> the raspberry pi is still an amazingly cost effective choice

It's really not though. I've been a Pi user and fan since it was first announced, and I have dozens of them, so I'm not hating on RPi here; we did the maths some time back here on HN when something else Pi related came up.

If you go for a Pi5 with say 8GB RAM, by the time you factor in an SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD), you're actually already in mini-PC price territory and you can get something much more capable and feature complete for about the same price, or for a few £ more, something significantly more capable, better CPU, iGPU, you'll get an RTC, proper networking, faster storage, more RAM, better cooling, etc, etc, and you won't be using much more electricity either.

I went this route myself and have figuratively and literally shelved a bunch of Pis by replacing them with a MiniPC.

My conclusion, for my own use, after a decade of RPi use, is that a cheap mini PC is the better option these days for hosting/services/server duty and Pis are better for making/tinkering/GPIO related stuff, even size isn't a winner for the Pi any more with the size of some of the mini-PCs on the market.

barnas2 · 3 months ago

> SSD + HAT + PSU + Case + Cooler (+ maybe a uSD)

The only 100% required thing on there is some sort of power supply, and an SD card, and I suspect a lot of people have a spare USB-C cable and brick lying around. A cooler is only recommended if you're going to be putting it under sustained CPU load, and they're like $10 on Amazon.