dikkechill
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 2 years ago
I found the open source Valetudo (https://github.com/Hypfer/Valetudo) project quite interesting, as it sits between the vendor firmware and (cloud) connectivity. The project is made possible due to Dennis Giese's research.
It currently supports Dreame, Xiaomi, Roborock and some others. But not Ecovacs. And not sure it prevents this type of Bluetooth vulnerabilities.
Comment · 2 years ago
How did you do your research and which one did you eventually buy?
Comment · 2 years ago
That's a much requested feature. With imho two main challenges:
1. Much traffic data is private / requires licensing, however some countries have reasonable public data. For example the TraffXML (https://gitlab.com/traffxml) project has some.
2. The project is free to use, but also volunteer driven. It requires setting up a privacy preserving "live data" infrastructure.
If you think this is a nice challenge and you can help, feel free to reach out!
https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/issues/1160 would be a good starting point.
Comment · 2 years ago
Cool projects! I actually had a look at you gtfs-server, to use Rust for processing GTFS files. Processing GTFS (basically large zipped text files) is quite resource intensive indeed, especially if you want to do it for the whole planet. What would you do differently now?
Comment · 2 years ago
Thanks for bringing this up to hackernews! The challenge for OrganicMaps is to make it privacy preserving and offline usable, which means on device routing and getting as much information on the device as possible.
The referred document concerns the existing static part, it's a rather cumbersome to build it yourself at the moment. There is some routing logic in the app - I think from the Maps.me time - but currently disabled. The idea is to redesign this - in the mentioned ticket - and divide it in static (e.g. stops, routes) and 'live' data (e.g. schedule changes). It requires an efficient infrastructure. It's all volunteer driven. If you want to help, feel free to contribute!
Comment · 2 years ago
Have a look at https://travic.app
It visualizes GTFS data for many countries, also outside of Europe. Next to trains, it shows buses, metro's, trams, etc.
For interesting technical details (e.g. on interpolation, updates, scaling, etc) you can find the paper at http://ad-publications.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/theses/Mas...
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree with you on the issue with trust. The Atlantic compares the US developments from the last 10 years with what happened to the tower of Babel:
"Look, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and confuse their language there, so that they will not understand one another’s speech."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-...
Comment · 5 years ago
Obligatory shrubbery Monty Python:
https://youtu.be/watch?v=2UbtcmjfKa8
Comment · 6 years ago
Perhaps a better source in English, the EU policy advisory report from the European Academies Science Advisory Council from 2015 on Ecosystem services, agriculture and neonicotinoids.
https://easac.eu/fileadmin/Reports/Easac_15_ES_web_complete_...
Most neonicotinoids are now banned for outdoor use in the EU: https://ec.europa.eu/food/plant/pesticides/approval_active_s...
Comment · 6 years ago
One of the driving forces behind the neonicotinoids theory is a toxicologist called Henk Tennekes, who used to work as a consultant for Solvay, Roche, Monsanto en Sandoz (now known as Syngenta). Basically he claims that the toxicity was underestimated as it grows with time, the damage to the nerve system in insects is irreversible.
The pesticides also go into the surface water, where they found a link between higher surface-water concentrations of imidacloprid - a specific neonicotinoid - and a decline of birds that feed on insects.
Article in Dutch: https://www.ftm.nl/artikelen/toxicoloog-tennekes-had-al-die-...
On the toxicity of exposure time: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03004...
On the decline of insectivorous birds: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13531
Comment · 7 years ago
The problem is not so much whether it's the government's job to regulate it, but that it is primarily treated as a criminal issue, and thus is 'solved' through police enforcement.
In other countries people see it more as a health issue, this leads to completely different approaches and policies.
What would happen if we treated e.g. education primarily as a criminal issue?
Comment · 8 years ago
Nice to mention the link to Objectivism and Ayn Rand. I can highly recommend Adam Curtis's 'All Watched over Machines of Loving Grace' docu [1], which goes into that relationship and has a great scene of pong!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Watched_Over_by_Machines_o...
Comment · 8 years ago
What I find interesting is that it supports access to an external wallet on your phone. This reduces the attack surface.
Another browser that has a wallet built in is Brave [1]. But afaik this does not support access to wallets on other devices.
If you look at the Budapest Memorandum, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine also voluntarily gave up their nuclear arsenals by becoming a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in exchange for security guarantees.