This rocks; the idea of flipperzero phoning home is the(my) primary concern given its use case
What use case?
I got mine to make a backup copy of the remote controls that I'm worried about losing, which happen to be sub-GHz and infrared.
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jmole commented on Content Independence Day: no AI crawl without compensation blog.cloudflare.com/conte... · Posted by u/kotk
> Imagine an AI engine like a block of swiss cheese. New, original content that fills one of the holes in the AI engine’s block of cheese is more valuable than repetitive, low-value content that unfortunately dominates much of the web today.
Great statement in theory - but in practice, the whole people-as-a-service industry for AI data generation is IMO more damaging to the knowledge ecosystem than open data. e.g. companies like pareto.ai
"Proprietary data for pennies on the dollar" is the late-stage capitalism equivalent of the postdoctoral research trap.
jmole commented on Apple announces App Store changes in the EU 9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/ap... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Ratings and reviews cost money to maintain. Anti-spam, compute, distribution, security concerns, etc. Apple should do whatever they can to ensure that developers who aren't paying don't degrade the service for everyone else.
That would be a great argument if you could actually install apps from outside the Apple App Store.
jmole commented on Apple announces App Store changes in the EU 9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/ap... · Posted by u/saubeidl
Here are the new tiers: https://developer.apple.com/help/app-store-connect/reference...
The document says manual updates are included but not automatic updates (which is just a setting in the App Store that I personally disable).
Whether there will be update notifications is unclear. Is that what you meant by "app notification delivery", or something else?
As an App Store developer myself, I would love to have Tier 1 in the United States, mainly due to no user ratings and reviews. I hate them, and I hate trying to solicit them. As far as I'm concerned, ditching ratings & reviews would be a bonus!
"No user ratings and reviews" - that just means you rank last in app store search, right?
Apple will do whatever they can to ensure that developers that don't pay will suffer the costs.
jmole commented on Endometriosis is an interesting disease owlposting.com/p/endometr... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
The short of it was that they decided salbutamol was overprescribed and shouldn’t be given to anyone who isn’t taking a corticosteroid inhaler at the same time. The advice has changed from “if you feel like you need your blue inhaler take it” to “your asthma should be managed by your corticosteroid dose, and if it’s not you should adjust”. Obviously not suitable for everyone but for people like my dad it got him from using his reliever once a week to not having an active prescription for it anymore.
That was a worldwide change after they figured out long acting beta agonists were basically killing people because they don’t treat the underlying inflammation like inhaled corticosteroids do.
jmole commented on Ask HN: How are parents who program teaching their kids today? · Posted by u/laze00
I have 3 kids, all around the same age (K/1). They all got laptops about 18 months ago for christmas. I installed mint linux on all of them, and installed a few free/libre games for them to play, and I self-host the game server at home.
One game they play is luanti (formerly minetest). I gave them instructions on how to clone the git repository for the game, run the build script, and then start the game. They've probably forgotten the build instructions, but they know to play, they have to type `cd code/minetest` and then `bin/luanti`. Occasionally they have to run `git pull` to update the code on their computers. I handle all the game server administration.
I initially blocked all internet access with a kill switch, but this quickly became an issue because you need to be able to run `apt update` and a few other commands to keep the system up to date. So now I run a proxy server called e2guardian that lets them access sites that I choose.
Later, I introduced them to scratch, and I downloaded the entirely of griffpatch's youtube library with yt-dlp and organized it into folders on each of their computers. I've done the same thing with other tutorial style videos. They don't have access to youtube, and I don't really think it makes sense to give them access at this age.
They run scratch locally, as opposed to using scratch.mit.edu. I enabled the scratch website for a couple of days as a treat for them, and as expected, they spent most of the time exploring and playing others' games, but very little time building their own. I sort of expected this to happen, so we closed off access a few days later, and they took some of the ideas they saw online and started playing with them locally.
So my experience is:
a) linux makes a great platform for kids, since it's very easy to tweak things to stop behaviors that you don't want to reinforce. e.g. `sudo chmod 400 /usr/local/games` turns off all the games, `sudo killall kidname` will close the desktop session if your kid isn't listening when it's time for bed, you can set up time-based login policies with pam_time, you can install your own root certificates for SSL MITM, etc.
b) games reinforce that "computers are fun", and games like luanti are free, open-source, and hackable.
c) interest in games naturally spills over into interest in making your own games.
If you want to try luanti/minetest, I recently cleaned up/released a mod that I built for the kids last year called turtlebots. It's a visual programming tool that lets you program little turtle-shaped robots that can navigate in a minecraft-style world and build things as they move around. Source is here: https://github.com/jmole/turtlebots
jmole commented on Spain-Portugal blackouts: what happened theconversation.com/spain... · Posted by u/VagabundoP
> To facilitate this synchronisation, stable base-load power is required, which is normally provided by nuclear and other large gas and hydroelectric facilities. These sources act as a natural buffer against disturbances, helping to keep the frequency stable in the face of sudden changes in generation or demand.
In theory, it seems like you could instrument a photovoltaic array to carry some "inertia" with the right control system.
If you need to feed power, you run some power point tracking algorithm, and if you need to consume power, you just overbias the cells and heat them up.
I wonder whether English text having fewer characters provides an advantage somehow.
not really, since tokenization combines multiple characters
Reality is often disappointing.
The Gemini name is most likely one of the blandest names picked out of a selection of similarly tasteless possible choices.
It reminds me of "Germany". Google Germany. Can't shake that impression out of my head.
IDK, I think Gemini is great. Way better than bard.
It seems like you could do lots of useful things without having a name attached to any particular sample. There must be some kind of differential privacy approach here that would work well.