Turso: https://docs.turso.tech/libsql#encryption-at-rest

Also, DuckDB devs said it was planned: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb/discussions/4512

9/28. WTF’ing through 90% of the questions.

The whole point of SO was to let experts answer specific questions and build a trusted knowledge-base. Having AI answer questions removes the need for humans to even try answering anything.

These are all great ideas for enterprise (especially training on their internal knowledgebase). Not sure it’s worth their while to have a consumer-facing side any more.

Totally understandable.

If scanning to help send traffic to your website, that’s cool. If scanning to generate summaries that won’t send any traffic your way. No bueno.

Ultimately, it should be whatever most benefits users.

If nginx, here’s an open-source blocker/honeypot: https://github.com/raminf/RoboNope-nginx

If you have it set up to be proxied or hosted by Cloudflare, they have their own solution: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/

Absolute horseshit. Bulbs don’t have microphones. If they did, any junior security hacker could sniff out the traffic and post about it for cred.

The article quickly pivots to TP-Link and other devices exposing certificates. That has nothing to do with surveillance and everything to do with incompetent programming. Then it swings over to Matter and makes a bunch of incorrect assertion I don’t even care to correct. Also, all the links are to articles on the same site, every single one of which is easily refutable crap.

Yes, there are privacy tradeoffs with connected devices, but this article is nothing but hot clickbait garbage.

They’ve already got it mapped out.

My car needed some repair work. Insurance set me up for a rental with Hertz who told me not to pay for bridge tolls with my own car’s transponder. When I take the car back, they tell me I’ll be invoiced later for the tolls. Had 4 toll crossings which ordinarily would come to less than $30 (even less if I had used the transponder).

A month later, the Hertz charges show up: $77 (including ‘processing fee’). Called and complained. They said they’d look into it. Never heard back.

Not using them again.

On-device AI is the way to go. No privacy leak. Doesn’t have server and networking costs.

This specific use case (looking things up in Start menu and settings) is a good one, since finding out which setting to tweak is a major PITA.

Apple just announced at WWDC embedding Foundation Models on phones. Except they will allow apps to access them and give them custom prompts. This doesn’t go quite as far.

Similar to other apps, CoverDrop only provides limited protection on smartphones that are fully compromised by malware, e.g., Pegasus, which can record the screen content and user actions.

I know it’s fun to bash on Gates, but it’s also bullshit. Dave Cutler worked on at least two major operating systems. He’s way up there in the Hall of Fame.

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Alarming, yet like an episode of a sitcom.

“Be a shame if something bad happened to you, Kyle.”

They could replace the whole article with https://xkcd.com/2347/

They were doing this a decade ago, to help track app marketing campaigns.

IIRC, it turned out you could get pretty close to uniquely identifying a device with permutations on only 7 attributes. The problem is if you install a plugin to return false data, it could break non-malicious websites, like running games or data visualizations.

Drone meeting spear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90TrnpsJiTE

Years ago, folks hacked a Jeep Wrangler remotely, with a WIRED reporter in the car: https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/

That freaked the shit out of vehicle manufacturers. It led to encrypted CANBus messages: https://dev.to/living_syn/can-bus-message-security-3h43

Problem was, your mom and pop repair shop would need a special $$$ ‘authorized’ dongle from the manufacturer to be able to diagnose problems beyond what plain OBD-II let you see. This effectively locked out third-party repair shops. People screamed and IIRC, a lot of car manufacturers backed down and just hardened remote access.

What Deere did was even more harsh. They tried to block off not only self repair, but third-party firmware that made the tractors work better, especially older ones that were out of warranty: https://schiller-tuning.com/vehicle-listings/agriculture/john-deere

They’re trying to game copyright laws and click-through terms-of-service agreements to lock out third party repair.

This is a test case. If they lose, it’ll be a BIG win for Right to Repair laws, covering phones, laptops, consoles, etc.

I have friends working on ways for content providers to charge AI training models. But I have a feeling that’s not enough.

The future will have to be where creators have an incentive to consistently create, and consumers pay for what they like, or services to keep them informed and entertained without them having to do much.

In between will sit middlemen and aggregators to enable a smooth flow. Who that will be and what they do in this next phase is the big question.

Under the current method, Google’s search and ads groups are competing against each other. Don’t see that going well for anyone.

I’ve had good luck with Jekyll, saving the source on github, and setting it up so pushing to main auto-deploys to a Cloudflare site. Using Markdown and for larger media, uploading to S3.

Much easier to set up and maintain than github pages. Since it’s static output, pretty snappy. Also includes RSS feeds and permanent URLs.

Have also set up several Wordpress sites. Slower, but if you want wysiwyg editing, user comments, or there are several contributors, would work better.

Have also heard good things about ghost, but haven’t actually deployed one yet.