Should I throw my money at scammers or invest in a huge bubble read to burst?
Readit Newsfoxtrottbravo commented on Ask HN: Should I start building AI apps or Web3 apps? · Posted by u/manoj_SprintsQ
You can also get pretty check 24ghz radar that does reliable sensing till like 3m. Much much more accurate than the IR based stuff
While yes, these devices are cool and I use them in a couple of projects (mostly centered around home automation), I think there is no good way to count people that way (other than placing them above ingress and egress points).
I think the original use case is not to know whether a dining hall is occupied at all but about how occupied it is (and if he should go to lunch now or wait another 20 minutes).
foxtrottbravo commented on Using Goatse to Stop App Theft joshcsimmons.com/post/H4s... · Posted by u/joshcsimmons
> This blog is now STATELESS. The entire post is contained in the URL that you are visiting now. All my "blog" is now is a hard-coded main page that contains links to posts I claim authorship of. Of course the entire post is contained in each of these links.
https://joshcsimmons.com/post/H4sIAAAAAAAA%2F3xV227cRgx911cQ...
But how does it know whether it should print the pretext?
Those articles by both Jake and his wive are so well written and I would love to read them fully but I can't.
It's gut wrenching that I am just a CT scan away to being in the same (somewhat comparable) situation.
I shouldn't compare fates and still my mind wanders around the topic every time.
The facts they both present in a scientific manner (like remission rates) scare me to my bone. I cannot fathom what he and his loved ones are going through and that makes it even clearer what I have burdened on my wife, children and family.
I know this comment is ultimately me shouting "please let us both live" with many words and maybe this is me being a self serving asshole, maybe it is that. I don't know anymore.
I would love to offer the promise that everything is going to be alright but I cannot. I am just scared as hell and somehow I needed to get this out.
Excess is relative. When you have $$billions, $150K extra to have your custom protection vehicle at the venue is no big deal. And, are they even rentable in all locales, and do you trust those suppliers?
I am with you - while this might seem excessive there are enough people that have the cash and the threat model to go with it.
From what I could find the 2009 Protection version (then called high security) was more around 400k-450k€. A standard model 7 runs from ~115k up to ~145k€.
Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the doors not fully closed / deliberately open. But with the BMW, if the doors aren't fully closed, the car won't budge. It's a fascinating look at how design features in luxury vehicles can intersect with real-world security needs in unexpected ways.
Disclaimer: I don't have primary knowledge of this, and it's second-hand information from someone I trust personally. As with all such information, grain of salt recommended.
foxtrottbravo commented on Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built? · Posted by u/rafiki6
A solution for a major retailer for sportswear where I designed a compact Certificate Authority module for our product that can be used to easily generate TLS Certificate for internal services.
The main benefits for the customer is physical security, the device is built to be savely stored in a safe or at a bank vault when not in use.
It is built in a way which give total control over the keys to the customer so that our support teams managing the services never have to touch a private key and is easy enough to be used by a non-technical employee of our customers.
For the same audience I'm working on replacing the traditional multi-hub-and-spoke VPN we've built over the last few years (around 500 Hubs in Germany + Spokes) with a true End to end encrypted Mesh system with around 2000 wireguard nodes.
Lastly this is something I hope to do in the near future, building out the first cloud strategy, team, infrastucture and procedures for said sports retailer.
Oh I built a Powershell Wrapper around some parts of the Dynect API and a mostly complete wrapper around the tailscale API which is not widely used but made an impacton a handful of people.
At the start of the pandemic I ran a couple of Jitsi Meet instances for people to connect with their close-ones which was used by a low five figur number of people.
I started a project where we 3d printed a few thousand earsavers for wearing A FFP2 mask for for our local school. I think we at least got two school fully supplied and about a thousand pieces where donated to the hospital that saved my life.
foxtrottbravo commented on How the Apple AirTag became a stalker’s gift theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/Freak_NL
Does that mean all Apple devices phone home about everything found nearby all the time?
If the user opted in to use the Find-My network, yes.
Most of users want a way to find / lock / remotely wipe their 1000$ phone in case it gets lost or stolen.
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