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I give it less than a year before the ad is at the top.

A lot of users also run cheap cracked fire sticks and other low reputation hardware that's proxying their residential traffic for nefarious reasons which makes all the big providers put up their guard.

A little while ago when I had a free weekend. I decided I would pre-compute some musings of an LLM trapped in a computer, I had a raspberry pi 1 (or maybe b) lieing around that I had a framebuffer screen for. I think it was a non-standard TFT_ILI9325 from Aliexpress.

The idea is it would display some helplessness comment on the screen like "Help I'm trapped in a computer" etc etc.

Eventually I got the thing booted with it's original OS image and it was running a custom kernel and had the hardware still attached and worked, but it was very outdated so I decided backup and update it, more of a technical challenge than something practical.

I gave it a few tries but eventually the screen would stop working, not helped by the thing being quite slow. Updating in place was probably harder than a brand new OS. Eventually I determined that I'd need to build a custom kernel image using a newer version, something I've never done before and for me it was quite difficult and a little before AI had agents and such to help you along.

I managed to build a custom kernel but the driver for it had been patched out and moved to an optional thing that I had to enable, I was able to build the custom kernel but for some reason the screen wouldn't display anything like it did on the original OS.

I spent a further few weekends on it working really hard to get this thing to work. Eventually I calmly picked up the screen and intentionally pushed down hard with my thumb breaking the screen irreparably.

It was destructive yes but the joy I feel even now being free of this frustration is immense.

I said I would order a newer screen but have yet to do so.

There already is some intelligence fed back to the police somewhere in the 3d printed guns supply chain.

You see it a lot on crime investigation shows. Pretty sure I've seen it on 24 hours in police custody and at least one other show or documentary.

edit: police acting on a source, a lead or some other un-named entity.

I've noticed using antigravity and vscode, Gemini 3 pro often comes back with model too busy or something like that and basically 500s.

Seems like capacity because it works a lot better late at night.

I don't see the same with the claude models in antigravity.

How does this compare to LENS? https://lenshq.io/

Always used the free and paid version and never heard of headlamp. Having a look its basically the same but for free.

All the cross tenant inconsistency really needs to be ironed out, I'm not sure if it's just my org but half the features of calls are randomly disabled or enabled based on who originated it.

My favorite was when I entered VR during our standup on our otherwise quite locked down and very corporate environment.

While I think this is true now, SEO will adapt. I hope AI companies are keeping their scraped pre AI data sources in their databases as a sort of low-background steel source to use when this happens, although I suppose they are the ones selling shovels.

Practically, verified boot is hard to not have a "this phone has been tampered with" message on boot, the backups generated often have encrypted user data that is usually wiped on boot-loader unlock, you'd also need to unlock the phone or have the user give the pin over and most of the apps that implement root checking SDKs would prevent them from working.

I'm not saying its impossible but it is hard to do at present in a way where if I came and picked up my phone again, I'd not know something happened to it.

Just to add to this, the "clean" exported car's VINs were bought off snapchat for ~4k per car. (for high end cars.)

Yes and no. In a video I watched on YouTube the people fencing the car had scratched off VINs in the bonnet, door and windscreen, painted and re-etched the exported car's VIN and gone out of their way to find a reasonable fake V5 certificate (UK equivalent of a DMV cert I think) with similar specification as the stolen car (or found the docs first).

The car was sold on, eventually went to Copart with a blown engine and then the YouTuber found out through his videos that the car he owned was stolen and the original had been exported because the interior color was not the same as the decoded VIN. Only when he took the engine out of the car and compared the engine number with the one in BMW's database and the reported VIN in the infotainment was he confident that the car was stolen, same for Copart (who wouldn't entertain the car was stolen).

I think if it wasn't a famous YouTuber who bought the car, it's highly possible that the stolen car would go nu-noticed throughout its lifetime as stolen, even if taken to a main dealer. If I recall correctly the car reports he used (maybe car-vertical) also didn't pick up any discrepancy.

For the criminals its good business, you find a 30k plus car, pay for a clean VIN from cypress or somewhere and then do the damage to the car to re-new it as a different car, even if it costs 10k to do, its a lucrative 20k "profit" and thats on the high end, seems like cars can be stolen overnight, especially ones the criminals specialize in.

edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI4S2LT_ntE

On your pricing page it is not clear what integrations Plaid has or if my banks are supported.

This was not my lived experience. I wanted to use the most common banks and most would not let me use it.

Chip contacted me at one point via their live assistant randomly without my doing and told me to stop using the app because they would soon be enforcing that rooted devices would no longer work. I continued to use the app rooted and nothing came of it.

Barclaycard, Nationwide and others don't let you use the app or require some circumvention of their detection to allow access.

Sure there are plenty of other apps, but those apps and banks have a worse product I found.

Having been trapped on a 2 day flight to Madeira via Madrid, Porto and Porto Santo, eventually your powerbanks and headphones run out of charge.

EU621 comp was denied because the aircraft could not land due to wind.

I did spend about 12 hours in a fancy all inclusive on ryanair's dime (a bus arrived at the airport un-announced to the airport staff or us customers) while some slept in airbnbs and on the floor.

Really cool. I like the flashing red.

This is because the metadata in OSM doesn't include the tags that Deflock looks for:

You can see the requirements here https://deflock.me/report/id but the two you're looking for are.

manufacturer operator

I think they should add Siemens Sicore cameras to their known camera database, but they do show up on Deflock despite not being mentioned explicitly on the website. Here is an example in one of my contributions via OSM. https://deflock.me/map#map=18/53.786783/-1.551438

Sometimes my 'You are here' top part reads,

  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS19905 UltraDDoS Protect       Global

  Host                             ASN     Network                 Region
  123-456-789-101.static.kc.net.uk AS12390 Kingston Communications Europe

Maybe they're hallucinations

I see a new industry trend! VIBES coding

Sorry what is IA?

Here are some images of what this looks like in the ID editor (the front-end) for Open Street Map and Mapillary.

I don't own a tesla or use this project so the results will be different for this project.

https://imgur.com/Vjyktcz https://imgur.com/85kYHZL

It is done for cartographers in OpenStreetMap to map where they have been (or where others have been).

I use it to add metadata to my local area, things like business names, postboxes, benches, etc.

Mapillary is not a private cloud for your own personal Google Street Map. It's a public Google Street Map with appropriate licencing (open) for mappers to add data to OSM, using Google Street Map would be in violation of its licence.

I agree. Public sector IT becomes a huge sprawl of technologies and cottage industry applications which makes administering these often rarely touched interfaces difficult to do properly when department budgets are tight and resources are busy fire fighting the processes that failed the night before.

It is also difficult to hire because wages are generally low compared to similar roles in private industry, yet they need skilled staff to manage these complex environments. A lot of services don't get the attention they need, not just patching and upgrades but development, requirements capture and usability all kept to a minimum cost to keep the sinking ship afloat.

All these constraints also lean to a culture of poor security, JFDI, rip and replace, insufficent hardware etc... just so the business can operate on whatever computer on wheels in the shipping depot or relatively expensive to replace electronic gate system with intergration to their custom fleet management software.

Government outsourcing to another related body has its cost advantages but the many domain administrator users, the huge flat VmWare estate and the hardware well beyond warranty doesn't dissapear.

Designed to serve immediate needs but without long-term maintenance or holistic design in mind. Outsourcing amplifies the issue.

I Have just received a follow up email,

Dear Mr aiiotnoodle [changed to my username],

We are currently dealing with an ongoing cyber security incident. The security of our systems and customer data is very important to us, and we have taken immediate action to protect our systems.

We identified some suspicious activity on Sunday 1 September and took action to limit access. We are conducting a thorough investigation into the incident, alongside the National Crime Agency and the National Cyber Security Centre.

Although there has been very little impact on our customers so far, the situation is evolving and our investigations have identified that certain customer data has been accessed. This includes some customer names and contact details, including email addresses and home addresses where provided.

Some Oyster card refund data may have also been accessed. This could include bank account numbers and sort codes for a limited number of customers (around 5,000).

If you are affected, we will contact you directly as soon as possible as a precautionary measure, and will offer you support and guidance.

We are doing all we can to protect our services and secure our systems and data. Our proactive measures mean that:

Live Tube arrival information is not available on some of our digital channels, including TfL Go and the TfL website. In-station and journey planning information is still available

Applications for new Oyster photocards, including Zip cards, have been temporarily suspended. If you want to replace a lost photocard, please call us on 0343 222 1234, 08:00-20:00 every day, and select option 1 (charges may apply)

If you have been unable to apply, please continue making your journeys as usual and keep a record of any fares paid. We may be able to arrange a refund once the incident has been resolved and you receive your new photocard

If you travel using a contactless payment card, you won’t be able to access your online journey history

Currently we are unable to issue refunds for incomplete pay as you go journeys made using contactless, so always remember to touch in and out. Oyster customers can self-serve online.

Many of our staff have limited access to systems and as a result there will be some delays responding to any online enquiries.

We’re also undertaking an all-staff IT identity check. Although we don’t expect any significant impact to customer journeys as we carry out this process, temporary and limited disruption is possible to some services. Please check before you travel.

We will continue to keep you updated. We are sorry for the inconvenience this incident may cause and thank you for your patience.

Yours sincerely

Customer Information Team

Transport for London

Edit: formatting

Stuff like this is great.

Fast moving consumer goods is a vastly underrated represented technology sector, they do so much cool stuff that just goes completely unnoticed.

I started my first job in a warehouse and it really gave me a good look at the proprietary technology powering day to day life. It should be more open but few work on stuff like this.

The postgres developer had disabled a bunch of optimization in order to create a low noise floor on his test machine that increased the delay too.

Normally it would be much quicker but potentially could have been picked up downstream by other developers when the code became more mainstream.

He did an interview for Risky Business #743.

Did airhelp talk to aviation ADR do you know? We've Just essentially lost based on what we provided but still think we're owed compensation really. Just absolutely exhausted doing all the admin. Originally went with resolver but they did nothing. I think aviation ADR is our last course of action unless we actually sued them, do you know if you did that?

A lot of this sounds like they were under-resourced and the business increasingly adopted new technology with no ongoing support for their IT infrastructure.

These legacy systems will in many cases need to be migrated to new versions, substantially modified, or even rebuilt from the ground up, either because they are unsupported and therefore cannot be repurchased or restored, or because they simply will not operate on modern servers or with modern security controls.

There is a clear lesson in ensuring the attack vector is reduced as much as possible by keeping infrastructure and applications current, with increased levels of lifecycle investment in technology infrastructure and security.

Our reliance on legacy infrastructure is the primary contributor to the length of time that the Library will require to recover from the attack.

A lot of lines like the following, also indicate to me IT was increasingly were involved in fighting fires and maintining operational systems ("keeping the lights on") rather than deploying new infrastructure and automation, updating software etc.

Some of our older applications rely substantially on manual extract (...) which in a modern data management and reporting infrastructure would be encapsulated in secure, automated end-to end workflows.

Modern business is IT, I know that I am preaching to the chior but this sounds a lot like their IT was seen as a cost.

If you are referring to NCR self checkout cameras. This is generally NCR SmartAssist and NCR ScanItAll which is for shrink and employee theft rather than mass identification. I only know of ASDA near me that has this implementation.

We each have a choice.

You really don't though. You can either pay more, or go to another supermarket with a similar scheme. Doesn't really seem cricket, am I really loyal for buying bread or cheese because I needed them and this supermarket is in my neighborhood?