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by hypfer 9mo ago
Been there, done that, built walls. If you allow me to go on a meandering tangent/exploration: ___ I mean if you think about it, this outcome is more or less inevitable, given the environment we've created. The foundational buildi
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by hypfer 9mo ago
cUrl as a project has a lot of conceptual attack surface for someone looking to find _anything_. It is large, very popular (hence impact) and written in C. It supports many many many protocols with all of their real-world implementation qui
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by hypfer 9mo ago
I mean this _is_ HN after all. That is the core mindset that is being pushed here. Y Combinator is a startup accelerator. It is just called "hacker" news because it's a nice sounding name. Not because it would actually be new
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by hypfer 9mo ago
Honestly it needed an LLM to tell me that it is satire, because I tuned out at the 20% mark. The author seems to be so deep in the radioactive weeds that even if it is satire and they're distancing themself from it, they're still
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by hypfer 9mo ago
I understand that you have given up and trust me, I can see why one would do that. That is fine. You can do that. What is not fine however is discrediting the people that haven't given up as paranoid militant lunatics. You can be nihil
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by hypfer 9mo ago
I am genuinely confused by this comment, given the intensity of disregard/ignorance/bad-faith. I mean we had these before in other very similar topics regarding e.g. Snowden leaks but really a lot of things. So.. uh.. The wording
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by hypfer 9mo ago
This is not about if people should be allowed to harm themselves though. Legally, yes. Yes, everyone can do that. The question though is if that is a good thing. Do we just want to look away when large orgs benefit from people not realizing
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by hypfer 9mo ago
I mean eventually, some adversarial entity will use this complete lack of defenses to hurt even the most privileged people in some way, so. Unless of course they too turn to apathy and stop caring about being adversarial, but given the mass
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by hypfer 9mo ago
Uh, yes? What does that refute?
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by hypfer 9mo ago
No, of course not. Well.. apart from their API. That is a useful thing. But you're missing the point. It is doing all this stuff with user consent, yes. It's just that the user fundamentally cannot provide informed consent as they
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by hypfer 9mo ago
People do realize that if they're doing this, they're not feeding "just" code into some probably logging cloud API but literally anything (including, as mentioned here, bank statements), right? Right? RIGHT?????? Are you
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by hypfer 10mo ago
Oh but it is different. It for example doesn't leak how many unique devices there are on your network. This might be very useful in a world that is moving towards authoritarian tech dystopia at mind-boggling speeds. Yes, yes, we have p
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by hypfer 10mo ago
Oh. Okay, yeah. Makes sense Yeah, sorry about that. I agree it indeed worked out for you and that is great. The point that I'm getting at is that it is necessary for the system to occasionally produce a winner, because otherwise, peopl
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by hypfer 10mo ago
If you throw my nickname into a search engine, you will see that that is the case for me as well. Doesn't change anything about what I said though. If anything, the fact that it worked for me, yet I found it necessary to add the full c
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by hypfer 10mo ago
I suppose we're going to just gloss over the fact that the primary party benefitting from people publishing their work like this is someone else. Someone else being usually some corp that is happy to pay with exposure instead of money.
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by hypfer 11mo ago
The good thing is that at least for a somewhat technical crowd, there is absolutely no need to buy into any of this, as there have been proper solutions available since at least 2018. Just buy Hue, maybe Aqara sensors, use zigbee2mqtt with
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by hypfer 1y ago
Thanks btw. The prior question of mine looks like I knew it all along, but in reality it only came to me because I was challenged here. There was a large gaping hole in the docs that has now been closed: https://valetudo.cloud&#x
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by hypfer 1y ago
Question: I see that you have a lot of energy to fight for what is right and that's great! Have you considered directing that at the vendors? Any vendor. Roborock, Dreame, Ecovacs, whoever. These are those responsible for why you are s
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by hypfer 1y ago
I see that you're back to your old self, Stefan, after for a moment it almost looked like you've dropped it and moved on. Will you ever move on? You do know that what you want is for me to stop being me and that is something I sim
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by hypfer 1y ago
Now that I had more time to order my thoughts, I have updated the comment there with a more in-depth explanation. If you're still curious, feel free to have a look.
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by hypfer 1y ago
Sure, but the action is still incorrect and that's why the reaction was removal. Deserving sounds like a punishment, but it's just action => reaction. Attendance privilege was misused so it was revoked for a while. I get where
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by hypfer 1y ago
ngl that's a good answer. You've nailed it. It is clearly deliberate but also could be the result of a markov chain and it sits right in the middle. I like that. Good art, thanks.
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by hypfer 1y ago
> but perhaps you can recruit someone else in the community who doesn't get so annoyed at people not respecting others' time No, I can't. The world, in this aspect, is wrong. It is flawed. Rotten, even. I (and actually we)
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by hypfer 1y ago
> I can't not wonder if it would be less time & energy consuming if they did it more politely? This is an interesting question that comes up from time to time and it's actually not as it seems. While it is work and taxing a
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by hypfer 1y ago
Business in this case means a clear transactional mindset. And you do get paid, just not in cash. You push your brand, your credibility as a security researcher and all that. You earn social credits and reputation. And that is why you tried
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by hypfer 1y ago
Oh, yes, absolutely. I am not in any way challenging that. That is the correct Take-away. Genuinely. As said, the culture is different. I do not intend to convince you that my project would be better than what the vendor can offer. In fact,
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by hypfer 1y ago
> and there's indeed quite a lot of hardware specs detailed on the talk itself Not in what you posted though, nor in the link you posted. > well, with your current behavior and tone as a community "admin", you're c
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by hypfer 1y ago
> you ban most people. I do not ban most people as so much that I ban people that did not read and act according to the rules of the space. Which does turn out to be "most people" when you look at an unfiltered set of all human
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by hypfer 1y ago
That is the case with every FOSS software where you did not buy a support contract. Would it help you to be able to contact me when I then say "actually, I do not care"? And then what?
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by hypfer 1y ago
I think "discuss" is actually an interesting and probably accidentally specific (and correct) choice of word here. If you look up the definition, you find > to talk about a subject with someone and tell each other your ideas or

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