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I finally got rid of one of my fitness watches that had dreadful battery life and I couldn't figure out why. After a few months of this, I finally realized the same thing, you can't turn off the bluetooth on it. The app on your phone and the watch are constantly searching for each other to always sync and the alternative is to unpair the watch, use it, re-pair, sync and go which became a total headache, but did in fact give me better battery life.

The weird thing is I complained to the company's CSR people online and they had no idea why the battery was so bad and just told me to try and factory hard reset the phone as there must be something I changed in the settings.

I switched over to Polar and now the watch I have lasts 5 days on a single charge - quit the change from about a day or less.
This might be a fun exercise.

Let's assume we have the following data: the user's email address, some sort of smartphone identifying value, their ip address, and their brushing habits. That's not very much; who would want that?

Well, we know this is a person who will drop $400 on a toothbrush. They like shiny things, they have at least a middle-class disposable income, and they don't mind the headaches of internet-connected devices. Let's sell this information to big-box electronics retailers and other smart appliance manufacturers. Maybe this person would like to buy a $500 toaster too, or espresso machine, or soda machine, or bread machine, or microwave.

They care a little bit about oral hygiene. Have they seen a dentist lately? If they have $400 for a toothbrush, then they probably have better than average dental insurance. Let's also sell their information to the larger dental offices in their area (as determined by IP).

Do they need mouthwash? Let's pop up an ad for a subscription mouthwash service. How about floss? Would they perhaps also appreciate a razor made out of aerospace titanium?

Oh, but wait ... their IP address just changed, and they are brushing their teeth 3 hours later than typical. They're traveling! They're traveling and they took their expensive toothbrush with them. This opens up an entirely new set of possibilities. Travel insurance? A credit card with travel incentives? New luggage? How about offers for travel upgrades? There are hundreds of companies paying for the opportunity to contact pre-qualified customers that travel with disposable income.

Oh, wait ... they just bought a set of lightbulbs that we also make...
Saying "it's not too late to do something" is more likely to effect change than saying "it's too late, climate change already happened, we're all fucked, good bye." I think you agree with GP here.
Likely the reason it doesn't need to accomplish much more to be a good place to live
The Lightning Network is a layer on top of Bitcoin, which allows users to aggregate a huge number of transactions into a payment channel that’s tracked off-ledger. The only transactions that need to be settled on the base layer (broadcast to the public Bitcoin blockchain) are channel open and close events.

There are already APIs protected by an L402 paywall that charges tiny fractions of a cent for access to protected resources.

http://l402.tech
Look man, I'm a regular HN reader and even I don't buy into this. Are ads really the problem they are made out to be here? I'm asking because I don't mind and haven't mind about seeing an ad in years. In fact, I think they are perfectly good compromise when it comes to monetizing a website. Even HN has ads for gods sake. I even was okay with those old porn ads in The Pirate Bay or in 4chan, etc. Sure, if it's too much of that it can get annoying but whatever.
On the other hand, the vast majority of people don't even know what RSS is and haven't even noticed a change in Twitter in the last few years. I'm sure most of them, believe it or not, aren't even aware of the transition to Elon Musk.

I'm not saying that you're necessarily wrong, but perhaps you and the tech industry in general are vastly overestimating a extremely niche opinion and a "nothingburger". For example, cookies. Now we have extremely annoying cookie banners everywhere, when they didn't matter at all. Why? Because if I'm using an icognito browser, what are they going to track? Do you think I REALLY care? What are they going to do with that? Track me and offer me catered ads? I don't think "they" can, but even if they do, big fucking deal.

I'm a lot more worried about Know Your Customer policies on everything, or social media platforms (or even hosting platforms) deplatforming you if they don't like your opinion, or the FBI planting child porn on your site if they want to take it down. Do you think I'll worry about an AD out of all things?
The two doctors I regularly saw - my primary care doctor and the one I used when she wasn't available - both left One Medical right after Amazon purchased them. Since then, it's impossible to get an MD appointment, but a flood of new physician assistants will happily see you.

I'm at an age where if I'm going to the doctor, I want a doctor. That's harder to come by.
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This feels like it's strictly a brochure for management types.

Maybe I'm missing some larger context as to why this is on the front page.
> Are US banks just a lot more strict about source of income than Canadian banks?

American financial regulators are much more comfortable letting banks fail than their Canadian or European counterparts. (In part this is because of the sheer diversity of banks we have.) Being fined out of existence is a real possibility for an American bank. That shapes behavior.
And that lack of access is exactly why there's such a minimal ecosystem for open source tooling for mainframes.
I wrote "we can choose how many terrible consequences we'll have". Do you think that I would choose "as many as possible"?
This is Apple's first gen which, as usual, is 8th gen for the general market. Magic Leap and HoloLens have been in production for years. Looking at reviews of this product it seems they've upgraded the optics and horsepower and tied it in to their app ecosystem. But I don't see how they've solved any of the baseline usability issues. The controller-free gesture tracking is how a lot of earlier products worked it's really just not comfortable at all. Physical controllers are far more responsive and ergonomic.
> They could even pay for multiple jets take off from wherever she is, so people can't tell which one she's on.

That would cause even more bad press about how wasteful and bad for the environment her travel is though, and managing her image is what this lawsuit is largely about.
Have lots of on-prem hardware. Zero mainframes. Looks like just a computing device that has high uptime? Can see the value in that, but I prefer building reliability on many less-reliable machines. The incremental cost of failure is lower and unused load factor is higher.
oh hi. Yes I moved to Libera a while back and am still there regularly.
I was thinking the same thing. Why wouldn't this project convert to epub which is easier to pack and much easier to read?
TSMC's second Japan plant advances Tokyo ambitions on chip supply
Data broker selling de-anonymized info to face FTC lawsuit after all
> TOO many bots log entire channels out to public html sites. This is prevalent in everything like discord etc but the degree to it in IRC is just ridiculous god knows what any of those 1500 bots in a channel are doing.

These sorts of bots are quite rare on Discord, you usually have to make an account to be able to see anything. There have been attempts at standardizing this (like https://www.answeroverflow.com/) but they haven't taken off. Public logs are much more common on IRC than on Discord.

> Freenode etc I'm sure iddn't suffer that drama much if any.

It seems all of the drama hit all at once, due to Andrew Lee's cocaine fueled episode in 2021 which caused hundreds of open source projects to leave the network within the span of a few weeks - https://gist.github.com/joepie91/df80d8d36cd9d1bde46ba018af4...
Discord is just fancy IRC
I'm reminded of this that I read a few days ago:

Home assistant picked up my neighbours Bluetooth toothbrush and now I can see when they brush their teeth.

https://old.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/1306pcw/home...
Doesn’t come off as shallow or a dismissal of the work. Maybe tangential, but OP is just voicing their disapproval of the common tendency to dismiss new ideas, often motivated by fear or stubbornness rather than a real and unsolvable problem with the idea. The comment is critical, and at worst it implies the article fell into an unfortunate pattern.

> You could literally make it about any claim of any side effect of any technology!

Agreed.

Edit: after RTFA, I definitely get how both OP’s and my comment could be seen as unnecessary.
I think the possible outcomes of climate change (especially if we continue on our current trend) are unthinkably catastrophic, at worst including the potential deaths of a significant percentage of humanity. But there's still an enormous gap between that and "total extinction of large mammals". I don't think that's anywhere near a realistic consequence of climate change.
Nice. Then I will not hesitate to break the UI in my upcoming terminal program releases. (... they are quite well designed in my head.)
I was skeptical at first, but did some superficial scouting.. it's trivial for a malicious website to do nasty things to any internal resource which doesn't have a strict CORS policy.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/177486/can-webs...

As the adage goes, the "S" in IOT stands for "Security".
How can this possibly work?

I don't know much about how adtech works, but if I were Google I'd provide ad blocking detection to all of my clients. And it should be pretty simple to detect if parts of the network that are essential to my ads are being blocked.
> We considered trying OneMedical, which opened an office close to where we live. But when I looked into it, it seemed like you have to buy a subscription up-front, with no other way to try it out. We might have made the switch by now if they had made it easier to try.

In many (most?) states, they are actually legally required to offer services to you without a subscription, but you won't be able to use the app. In other words, you have to call them like a normal doctor's office and book an appointment, and when you do, they will have to provide you the same medical care and services that they would for any other patient.

This is not specific to One Medical; it's due to laws that prohibit additional fees for medical services. In a similar vein: in many states you can use the Costco pharmacy even without a Costco membership, although you can't buy anything else while you're there.

That said, you're not really missing out. One Medical's entire shtick is that they have a slick UX and "appointments start on time" (in theory). In practice, their medical care is... let's say variable, at best. You're paying for a slick UI and convenience slapped on top of a care delivery system that's no better than what you might get elsewhere.
I don't think this is an issue for the users of this website because as far as I can tell their idea of porn is tiling window managers.

But I also don't know why you think the Vision Pro can't play videos or go to websites. It can do that stuff.

(Actually, I'm informed by a VR porn enthusiast that it doesn't support some stereo video formats. I guess you have to stick to 2D.)
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>I think the idea of a general purpose OS without a company involved in deciding whether you are allowed to run programs or not is a thing of the past.

Android is the most used OS on the planet, so no. Not even close.
I've tried to get into IRC but the public servers have so many dead channels. On the one channel I did find active someone called me a racial slur because I use Windows.

I wish there were more people using these alternative, somewhat decentralized services that weren't just tech people. Whenever I see some cool new fediverse technology or alternative protocl (e.g gemini), 99% of the conversation is just people talking about the technology itself. I originally joined facebook because I had friends on there, not so we could talk about the tech behind facebook
you could believe you're inhaling purified air but, lo! you are breathing impure air, muahahaha!
In thought you were joking but I looked it up and this is 100% true. I applaud their commitment to anatomical correctness.
I tend to go the opposite way and have the default behaviour not actually make any changes and require passing `--commit` to actually do something.

I feel it’s safer for scripts that have irreversible (or difficult to reverse) actions.
If It's Smart, It's Vulnerable.
I used an LLM connected to a messaging service to defeat romance scammers. I was able to get these romance scammers to speak to my program for hours without knowing they were talking to a machine. Essentially, it's a DDOS for scammers. The scammers can only talk to a few dozen victims at a time, while the "people" in my programs can be spun up by the millions. It will essentially eliminate messaging scams from whatever messaging platform it's on.

I believe a large company like Meta, or any of the other companies with messaging platforms, would find this valuable. Especially because they will be fined by the UK for fraud that takes place on their messaging services.
"BUILDX_EXPERIMENTAL=1 docker buildx build <args> --invoke /bin/sh"

There's actually a whole debugging client available.
Lego will always be cool to me. Without wanting to sound like a cliché, the only limit was your imagination when I was a child, before home computing. Forever grateful for those years.
I suppose you could just loop through all the IPs for some common ranges like 10.0.0.0/16 and 192.168.0.0/16 looking for a given port, if you knew the toothbrushes exposed it and there was something exploitable there, that makes sense.
free speech for the win

even if you hate these guys, they should be allowed to talk to each other and share that conversation (that you'll probably hate)
Honestly, I believe it's very intentional. The idea is this device will be personal, like a phone or watch. Not a device you'll park in dock at home. If you have a family, they'll all need their own headset.
Classic irc!

Idling is very much a key aspect of the irc culture.
The website displays a map from OpenStreetMap and requires attribution. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright It's extra work but on the other hand you're using their tile servers and search servers.

In the CSS I see

/* Hide default leaflet attribution, it's not a great place for it */
.leaflet-control-attribution {
display: none;
}
Even if everything is done in a secure enclave you have to trust that it's actually secure.
It's not a continuum either. There are tipping points: think of the ice sheets all melting, the sea levels rising to the point where the coasts of continents are swamped. Moreover, continually adding energy to the system makes it more chaotic, engendering abrupt and unpredictable shifts. We can't necessarily "choose" the consequences in some kind of orderly manner, as if from a menu.
>"write once, run anywhere"??

You know that the code compiled using future version of java won' work in older versions..rt? I would like to know if any other programming language does that kind of thing.

> t should be as fast and easy to use and

How did you conclude that it's not fast? They are creating native binaries just like Go or any other AOT languages with GCs. Graal native images are as fast or faster than Go. Also it contains a REPL, that's why bigger size. So for CLI tooling as a developer using pkl, you won't see any difference if it's written in java + kotlin or golang.
Yes, I have (non-public) variations of the https://rootmy.tv/ exploit that can fully compromise an LG smart TV from the browser session of any other LAN-adjacent device.
> this behavior goes overboard and everything crashes

Maybe... but you need to keep in mind most of these people are not really building a bubble. Unlike the subprime mortgage crisis, where things were built on inflated valuations, many borrowers in this "scheme" do have more than enough funds to cover the entire mortgage. It's just that their capital is relatively illiquid. This is also why the high interest rates have not significantly affected this.

The effects on housing cost is because of natural market merging where chinese properties are "overvalued" domestically. This is actually not new, and happened with Japan at some point as well.

That being said, the main risk for this is actually geopolitical... Should capital controls tighten (or, like, if war were to occur etc.) then there is a much bigger risk, but many are banking on the fact that, at least given the signs today, that is still unlikely.
The point is that Dutch has a lot of features that is shared with both low German and Scandinavian languages but that has disappeared from modern standard German, not that it has always been more similar to low German than to other German dialects.

E.g. like low German and most of the other West and North Germanic languages, Dutch did not go through the High German Consonant Shift, but modern standard German "imported" that.

That makes modern German a lot harder to read for Scandinavians in ways that Dutch simply isn't.

I often find it easier to read Dutch despite never having learnt it than I find reading German despite having had three years of German lessons in school.

And if you start digging into the shared vocabulary between Dutch and the Scandinavian languages, you'll find a whole lot of those words are words that have retained far more similarity to the low German dialects than the Scandinavian languages have to standard German.

See also my other comment on this, with some comparisons.

Note that this does also not necessarily go both ways - I'm totally willing to accept that you might find high German more similar than low German from your perspective because of different subsets of shared vocabulary or structure, for example.
Perhaps Jake is saying that it is more important to make the world better right now than to have 100 year business plan. It sounds like Jake is willing to lead the charge for now and risk death later if it means that the concept succeeds under any flag.

Or maybe I'm just putting words in their mouth.

What if the founders of MySpace are totally ok with its place in history and happy that social media under any name carries on their vision? Maybe they don't consider that a failure.
We humans are the dumbest species ever to live on this poor planet of ours…
I really hate that all these services break DNSSEC. I guess it can't be helped.
My understanding is that this only works if you're using their centralized PLC DID, which I think only works if you sign up through their website? Maybe I'm mistaken about that or they removed that restriction, I don't see any mentions of that in the docs today. Users using the `web:` DID need to use the .well-known resolution system predicated on owning a domain name and their identity is tied to that domain name.

In general, I guess I'm just pessimistic of the ability for any DID system to exist that isn't either centralized or majorly user-unfriendly. I think that reasoning on a "local scope" like ActivityPub does and worrying less about global identity is just a better long-term solution for users and works better with how people are practically using social media today (think about the proliferation of a million discord servers each with effectively their own user identity....)
I think a large portion of enshittification comes from sites being advertising revenue driven. This leads to them needing more users with higher engagement, so they grow beyond their scope first and then shittify everything when they need to start making money (see reddit). A large reason sites have to be ad driven is that requiring users to sign up and pay for a site is a huge blocker for most people. So I feel like having a standard easy way for users to send money to a site they use for the utility they receive would go some ways to reduce enshittification, not increase it. But maybe I'm just an optimist.
The main repo is GPLv3: https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

They already have many other commercials products and I guess also the default filter rules are very good because of their experience in the domain.

But I think you can use it completely without the AdGuard servers and use other filter list sources.
Canada is Australia, an relatively affluent bureaucracy that sells rocks and houses. We have too many people to be Norway, where less people, a few high tier sectors and plundering the land for other markets can sustain developed QoL. But we could do ok on that model if we keep population down and build up a few strategic sectors. Except or interests are more subsumed by US foreign policy so we can't sell all the rocks we want. See the foreign NGO meddling that repeately killed Canada fossil expansion plans. Meanwhile US gets first dibs on global English talent, and Canadian English talent. And ultimately Canadian giants get cut down to size - Nortel, Bombardier due to sheninangans. But being US neighbour/sphere is better starting condition than most, but it's still hard map to play on.
Slippery slope to where, exactly? I genuinely don't see it
Huberman is the joe rogan of people who think reading a dozen inconclusive studies solves life's mysteries.
A lot of home, small business, or neglected enterprise routers and firewalls are broken into permanently. Many of these will not auto-update their firmware or the attackers got in before the patch was available.

Then the initial actor sells access to them to other actors. I believe the Ubiquity Edge router, a small/medium/AV industry favorite, was paired with other exploits by a state actor to perform attacks on high value orgs.
Generally speaking I don't think a product this expensive can iterate quickly, because even if you want to spend $3500 once, that doesn't mean anyone wants to pay the upgrade costs and face the depreciation on selling the old one.
Leaves definitely grow on trees. We just need to figure out how to harvest this energy.
Is this meant to be an ironic statement?

Sounds like saying "I've drank every day for 15 years but I'm not an alcoholic."
There's such big potential to tax boomer wealth as they die that are are allowing to slip away. It has big potential to reduce the debt.
In the Bay Area, appointments are booked for a week. If you want to buy without an appointment, you can return within 14 days as you said. But if you need prescription lenses, those take a while to arrive, and may not be returnable in any event (IDK).
It's not exactly that.

https://www.optery.com/optery-promo-codes/

There are categories of people eligible for the discount codes (i.e. everyone) and they use them to figure out who is using their service and why.

The split between men and women is likely to try and estimate how much concern there is for general health privacy vs women concerned about government going on witch hunts for abortion.
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Your ancestors lived during the great depression, both world wars, the middle ages, et cetera. Surely many of them must have been pessimistic about the future, yet they all had kids...
These services sure are the new sell it to everyone infinite margin after you built it once thing on YouTube sponsorships after everyone who was ever going to buy one has a VPN now.

What actually creates this cost, though? I was hoping it'd be free or at cost for the infrastructure and maintenance.
It could be, it also could just be that desperate people are drawn to a drug that's illegal but less 'illegal' in the court of public opinion than other drugs.

It's probably both.
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