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brk commented on Some users have noticed settings that let Meta analyze and retain phone photos zdnet.com/article/meta-mi... · Posted by u/mdhb

brk · a day ago

I've removed all Meta apps other than Whatsapp (and I don't love that). I haven't had the Facebook app on my phone in well over a decade. Had Instagram for a while, I was casually active on it, but Meta just keeps convincing me not to be trusted.

Facebook mobile is a suboptimal experience, which is fine, it just reminds me to use it less.

brk commented on The MiniPC Revolution jadarma.github.io/blog/po... · Posted by u/ingve

mcny · 5 days ago

My minisforum mini PC died within two years seemingly our of the blue. Support won't return my emails.

brk · 5 days ago

Mine has been going for about 4 years now, no issues.

brk commented on Show HN: Clearcam – Add AI object detection to your IP CCTV cameras github.com/roryclear/clea... · Posted by u/roryclear

waschl · 6 days ago

Anyone can recommend a good quality camera without spyware and ideally open sw stack. I am willing to do it myself with little soldering etc. that’s one rabbit hole didn’t enter yet

brk · 6 days ago

Nothing good has an open software stack. There are some brands (eg: Axis, Bosch, Hanwha), that support 3rd party apps that can run on the camera and perform various tasks, including AI applications.

Any product that would fall under the good quality segment is primarily targeted at the commercial market, and nobody there is looking for open software.

brk commented on The Coming Robot Home Invasion andykessler.com/andy_kess... · Posted by u/walterbell

simultsop · 12 days ago

It took less than 20 yrs for roomba's, things have to start somewhere.

brk · 12 days ago

I agree they have to start somewhere, and they are definitely starting. But we are also nowhere near the prevalence of these robots that the linked article implies.

brk commented on The Coming Robot Home Invasion andykessler.com/andy_kess... · Posted by u/walterbell

brk · 12 days ago

This is not going to happen any time soon. The acquisition cost and ongoing maintenance issues alone limit the practical market of home robots to a tiny segment of the market.

As neat as the idea sounds, the practicalities and edge cases keep this in the science fiction category right now and for the foreseeable future.

brk commented on Tesla remotely deactivates rapper's vehicle for singing about the Cybertruck? threads.com/@brittainfors... · Posted by u/Analemma_

ryukafalz · 19 days ago

If someone else can remotely disable a device that you own, you don't really own it. This kind of thing is why we need full control of our devices as device owners.

brk · 19 days ago

I’m not disagreeing with this, but early (like very early 1900’s) Ford vehicles had a little brass plaque with the serial number and some wording that if you misused the vehicle Ford could force you to forfeit it back to them. This concept is as old as the horseless carriage itself.

brk commented on Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-d... · Posted by u/lq9AJ8yrfs

cakealert · 23 days ago

Why are so many car manufacturers incapable of using cryptography properly?

brk · 22 days ago

It's not like the systems they used for physical keys were ever very robust either.

brk commented on Flipper Zero dark web firmware bypasses rolling code security rtl-sdr.com/flipperzero-d... · Posted by u/lq9AJ8yrfs

palata · 23 days ago

> A consequence of this is that the original keyfob gets out of sync, and will no longer function.

I always wonder about this: what is the consequence of that? Can the user reset it, or does it have to be done by a retailer or something?

brk · 23 days ago

Depends on the implementation. Most times you just have to click it a few times in a row. The receiver then realizes it missed a few button presses and it re-syncs. I’m not sure what that window is though, at some point it might get so out of sync that the receiver ignores it and assumes it is a wrong fob.

brk commented on GPT-5 openai.com/gpt-5/... · Posted by u/rd

highfrequency · 23 days ago

It is frequently suggested that once one of the AI companies reaches an AGI threshold, they will take off ahead of the rest. It's interesting to note that at least so far, the trend has been the opposite: as time goes on and the models get better, the performance of the different company's gets clustered closer together. Right now GPT-5, Claude Opus, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro all seem quite good across the board (ie they can all basically solve moderately challenging math and coding problems).

As a user, it feels like the race has never been as close as it is now. Perhaps dumb to extrapolate, but it makes me lean more skeptical about the hard take-off / winner-take-all mental model that has been pushed.

Would be curious to hear the take of a researcher at one of these firms - do you expect the AI offerings across competitors to become more competitive and clustered over the next few years, or less so?

brk · 23 days ago

AGI is so far away from happening that it is barely worth discussing at this stage.

brk commented on Atlassian terminates 150 staff cyberdaily.au/digital-tra... · Posted by u/speckx

andrewstuart2 · a month ago

It's a pretty impersonal way to announce layoffs but I think they all tend to be impersonal. I do think the 6 months of pay says a lot more than the fact that they used a video.

brk · a month ago

At this point a firing or layoff might as well just be a text message: "You're fired. K, thx, bye". Any words beyond that are just fluff anyway. To the person getting let go, it really doesn't matter if the decision caused the CEO to get ulcers, or if it was the easiest decision ever. Executive teams only take responsibility in words.