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dheerajvs commented on Marines now have an official drone-fighting handbook   marinecorpstimes.com/news... · Posted by u/Gaishan
verdverm · 25 days ago
Tethered to avoid jamming

Here's an post with a few pictures of the tangled mess left behind

https://bou.org.uk/blog-moreland-fibreoptic-drones/

dheerajvs · 25 days ago
Won't the fibres leading up to the operator and revealing their location not a threat?
dheerajvs commented on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]   twitter.com/soham_btw/sta... · Posted by u/sohzm
giantg2 · 2 months ago
I won't use it, but I do see it as somewhat symmetric. If the interviewers are using AI or expecting you to use AI for these tasks once you're on the job, then it doesn't seem completely immoral.
dheerajvs · 2 months ago
That's assuming all interviewers are using AI. And if it's not immoral, why do it surreptitiously?
dheerajvs commented on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]   twitter.com/soham_btw/sta... · Posted by u/sohzm
koffiezet · 2 months ago
When interviewers use LLM gargbage to filter out participants, expect candidates to do the same.
dheerajvs · 2 months ago
I don't use LLMs to filter out participants and I expect candidates not to use LLMs to cheat.
dheerajvs commented on My open source project was relicensed by a YC company [license updated]   twitter.com/soham_btw/sta... · Posted by u/sohzm
npsomaratna · 2 months ago
Not the developer, but here is his repo:

https://github.com/sohzm/cheating-daddy

dheerajvs · 2 months ago
As an interviewer, I'm seeing a huge increase in proportion of candidates cheating surreptitiously during video interviews. And it's becoming difficult to suspect any wrong-doing unless you're very watchful by looking for academic responses to questions.

Why would anyone encourage building such a tool, I can't fathom.

dheerajvs commented on The Matrix (1999) Filming Locations – Shot-for-Shot – Sydney, Australia [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=UVf7r... · Posted by u/keepamovin
loloquwowndueo · 2 months ago
Sorry, they are as canon as the phantom menace even if you don’t like them (neither do I for that matter but hey, if these creators wanted to wreck their legacy who are we to stop them).
dheerajvs · 2 months ago
GP's comment is probably a reference to this classic XKCD: https://xkcd.com/566/ (the last panel)
dheerajvs commented on Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway   techcrunch.com/2025/06/12... · Posted by u/achristmascarl
ctxc · 3 months ago
That's must be annoying to say the least. In India drivers require an OTP to start a ride.

The OTP is the same for a user across rides, so I have mine memorised which is nifty. No fiddling with the phone during boarding.

On security: exploiting this would require the driver to stay in my vicinity the next time I book a ride, and also get the ride assigned to them. In a high population density area, it's rare - I've never had the same driver twice.

dheerajvs · 3 months ago
Uber in India gives me a different OTP for each ride. A different ride-hailing app I use occasionally uses a PIN tied to a user.

OTPs are a simple solution to fraudulent rides that it's surprising it's not implemented universally, given all the complaints in this thread.

dheerajvs commented on Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/josephcsible
asadotzler · 4 months ago
Browser DRM like WideVine and PlayReady do the enforcing
dheerajvs · 4 months ago
I've disabled DRM on my Firefox browser.

Sheesh, we've come to a state where browsers can no longer be referred to as "user agents".

dheerajvs commented on The tools I love are made by awful people   ankursethi.com/blog/the-t... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
lolinder · 4 months ago
I think it's more rational to fuss about buying a Tesla than about buying a Windows license for a few reasons:

* It's a heck of a lot of money to send to any company, so it makes more sense to pause and consider what you're funding. I can't put that much effort into every <$100 purchase without going crazy.

* Tesla is far more about Musk than Microsoft is about... whoever runs Microsoft these days. There's a very specific person tied to it.

* Driving a Tesla is seen by the world as a statement of some kind in a way that running Windows simply isn't. It's worth considering if that's a statement you want to be making.

dheerajvs · 4 months ago
I feel similarities to the trolley problem[0].

[0]: https://neal.fun/absurd-trolley-problems/

u/dheerajvs

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