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I agree when it comes to most “smart” home devices. However, I wired an ESP32 to my heat pump for remote control and automation, which has been absolutely fantastic. Also, I use a ton of ZigBee and zwave, since those are not “smart” by themselves and are local-only.


It’s the cloud bullshit that always breaks and spies on users that I hate.

pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let state investigators identify the location of mobile devices.



They aren’t using cell tower data, if that’s what you mean. I’m guessing that unless you degoogle, your first suggestion won’t do too much.

Isn't the NSA portion in that Wikipedia article just explaining why people moved to using ec25519? It says:

> In 2013, interest began to increase considerably when it was discovered that the NSA had potentially implemented a backdoor into the P-256 curve based Dual_EC_DRBG algorithm.[12] While not directly related,[13] suspicious aspects of the NIST's P curve constants[14] led to concerns[15] that the NSA had chosen values that gave them an advantage in breaking the encryption.[16][17]
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>>"I no longer trust the constants. I believe the NSA has manipulated them through their relationships with industry."
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>— Bruce Schneier, The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet (2013)
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>Since 2013, Curve25519 has become the de facto alternative to P-256, being used in a wide variety of applications.[18] Starting in 2014, OpenSSH[19] defaults to Curve25519-based ECDH and GnuPG adds support for Ed25519 keys for signing and encryption.[20] The use of the curve was eventually standardized for both key exchange and signature in 2020.[21][22]

That seems to say that people left P-256 for Curve25519.

Gotta do it one by one. It's taken years, but now most of my stuff is off of Gmail. It's to the point where if my Google account got closed, I wouldn't miss much. I wouldn't even lose my emails that I care about since I've done multiple Takeouts.

I just make up phone numbers.

I occasionally need to use Google Maps but I've helped map my area on OSM which improved my experience. Most businesses in my town are now mapped.

These data centers are NOT being used for research. Universities and research companies generally have their own computer clusters for that.

These are being designed and built for LLMs and LLMs only.

Plus, the US has already lost. We've cut off our allies, destroyed our trade partnerships, made the economy unsustainable, and also caused the very brain drain you mention here. We're cooked for decades at the least.

That's a bubble, quite literally. Collapsing into other companies. Do you think when people say bubble they mean that all companies related to LLMs will go under forever?

Their comment literally mentions Google and Facebook as the survivors, so I'm not sure what good it does to include them in your argument.

Frigate is great for self-hosted!

That's likely exactly what it means.

In college, on the first day of orientation, someone in my class bragged that they wrote 50,000 lines of code for a game that was similar to tic tac toe, emphasizing that he "wrote a lot of code". A TA told him that it wasn't a sign that his program was decent and that it really didn't seem like it should take 50k lines of code to make something as simple as his game.

He dropped out after the first week of intro to programming.

I do like that Kagi has a fediverse search option.

It *needs to crash*. If it doesn't crash soon, things will only get worse and worse for consumers. We're already over the edge of the cliff (imo), it's just a matter of how far we have to fall now. If it crashes hard enough, we won't have to live with "asking AI for permission to use the computing platform". By the way, an LLM isn't really capable of that at the moment, and the sooner it crashes, the less likely anything like that will happen.