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I’m building datenba.ch, a hyper-local “digital village” for a few small communities in rural Germany (Neckartal/Odenwald-ish).

Instead of another social network, it’s a bundle of small, practical community tools under one umbrella, combining of the shelf-software with purpose-built projects of our own.

Our current areas of focus are

- help! a neighbor-to-neighbor help board (rides, errands, PC help, garden/handwork)

- hubs! for shared spaces / tool-sharing / events / social hubs

Right now I’m building the integration surface (claims, roles, provisioning), polishing onboarding, and trying to design help!/hubs! so they’re useful even with low activity.

If anyone’s done (hyper-)local community platforms: I’d love to hear what actually drove adoption and what did not work out for you.

AI created this, and it shows - but yes I agree somewhat for a rough prototype or experiment this might be enough

Should I throw my money at scammers or invest in a huge bubble read to burst?

While yes, these devices are cool and I use them in a couple of projects (mostly centered around home automation), I think there is no good way to count people that way (other than placing them above ingress and egress points).

I think the original use case is not to know whether a dining hall is occupied at all but about how occupied it is (and if he should go to lunch now or wait another 20 minutes).

But how does it know whether it should print the pretext?

Those articles by both Jake and his wive are so well written and I would love to read them fully but I can't.

It's gut wrenching that I am just a CT scan away to being in the same (somewhat comparable) situation.

I shouldn't compare fates and still my mind wanders around the topic every time.

The facts they both present in a scientific manner (like remission rates) scare me to my bone. I cannot fathom what he and his loved ones are going through and that makes it even clearer what I have burdened on my wife, children and family.

I know this comment is ultimately me shouting "please let us both live" with many words and maybe this is me being a self serving asshole, maybe it is that. I don't know anymore.

I would love to offer the promise that everything is going to be alright but I cannot. I am just scared as hell and somehow I needed to get this out.

I am with you - while this might seem excessive there are enough people that have the cash and the threat model to go with it.

From what I could find the 2009 Protection version (then called high security) was more around 400k-450k€. A standard model 7 runs from ~115k up to ~145k€.

Interesting read on the BMW 7 series Protection vehicle. Here's a tidbit from the field: I've heard, through the grapevine, about a team responsible for the safety of a certain high-profile individual (no names mentioned, of course ). About a year ago, they made a strategic shift away from BMWs as protection vehicles. Why? Because in emergency escape scenarios, it's crucial to be able to move the car even with the doors not fully closed / deliberately open. But with the BMW, if the doors aren't fully closed, the car won't budge. It's a fascinating look at how design features in luxury vehicles can intersect with real-world security needs in unexpected ways.

Disclaimer: I don't have primary knowledge of this, and it's second-hand information from someone I trust personally. As with all such information, grain of salt recommended.

A solution for a major retailer for sportswear where I designed a compact Certificate Authority module for our product that can be used to easily generate TLS Certificate for internal services.

The main benefits for the customer is physical security, the device is built to be savely stored in a safe or at a bank vault when not in use.

It is built in a way which give total control over the keys to the customer so that our support teams managing the services never have to touch a private key and is easy enough to be used by a non-technical employee of our customers.

For the same audience I'm working on replacing the traditional multi-hub-and-spoke VPN we've built over the last few years (around 500 Hubs in Germany + Spokes) with a true End to end encrypted Mesh system with around 2000 wireguard nodes.

Lastly this is something I hope to do in the near future, building out the first cloud strategy, team, infrastucture and procedures for said sports retailer.

Oh I built a Powershell Wrapper around some parts of the Dynect API and a mostly complete wrapper around the tailscale API which is not widely used but made an impacton a handful of people.

At the start of the pandemic I ran a couple of Jitsi Meet instances for people to connect with their close-ones which was used by a low five figur number of people.

I started a project where we 3d printed a few thousand earsavers for wearing A FFP2 mask for for our local school. I think we at least got two school fully supplied and about a thousand pieces where donated to the hospital that saved my life.

If the user opted in to use the Find-My network, yes.

Most of users want a way to find / lock / remotely wipe their 1000$ phone in case it gets lost or stolen.

I am not sure if this is sarcasm or not but in case it is Not:

No it's not a solution, Netflix already heavily uses IPv6 and most sane v6 endpoints will not be NATed. Maybe they could use v6 Subnets as an Identifier but this would be wonky at best.

This would be a support ticket pandemonium since there are more than enough providers with dynamic IP adressing on v4 and v6.

But to be honest I think they might not need all that, more likely is they use some sort of device ID the modern Smart TVs already have Baked in or build some hash of their own with some device specific identifier (size, resolution, manufactuter, User Agent).

The article and information out there seems to imply they're primarily targeting TVs and devices that are used with TVs (SetTopBoxes, AppleTV, Firetv, Roku et al). So it makes no sense to use a device type unspecific Identifier like the IP in any way

I really find it hard to pinpoint the exact reason. In the moment the "surprise" is what feels overwhelming. I know it's paradox because on the other hand, that's what the interaction my parents and their friends had were - little surprises.

It feels a bit like wanting a surprise gift for Christmas (contrary to something you wished to get) but then being upset because you did not get what you wished for...

I would love, to hear your theories maybe this willhelp explore that feeling a bit more

That‘s me but evermore so I‘m stuck between a rock and a hard place.

As one sibling comment - I too have noticed this: I can remember friends of my parents showing by having a good time completely spontaneously. I liked it very much.

On the other hand I’m one of those people who get irrationally upset by random visits especially when it’s from family.

I guess that’s one reason why it’s so hard for me to be happy.