Hacker News: realitysballs

New comment by realitysballs in "Europeans' health data sold to US firm run by ex-Israeli spies"

realitysballs — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:01:14 +0000

I already assumed that. But maybe I’m the minority. Unless someone explicitly says they are privacy focused, I assume the worst and anonymize

New comment by realitysballs in "AWS to bare metal two years later: Answering your questions about leaving AWS"

realitysballs — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:33:36 +0000

For my org. I don’t have budget for a dedicated in-house opsec team, so if I on-prem it triggers additional salary burden for security . How would I overcome this?

New comment by realitysballs in "Show HN: Butter – A Behavior Cache for LLMs"

realitysballs — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:33:07 +0000

Funny, we are working to implement this same logic in our in-house financial categorization agent. When we have a repeat prompt it goes to a json that stores answers and only goes to AI for edge cases.

It’s a good idea

New comment by realitysballs in "HP SitePrint"

realitysballs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:41:59 +0000

We find it pencils out on jobs with large OH /pan deck slabs or SOGs over 12000SF

New comment by realitysballs in "HP SitePrint"

realitysballs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:39:40 +0000

You have adjusts due to its detectors and it has a prism on it and is being continuously tracked by a total station.

It can correct course due to deviations in floor surface or obstructions pretty well.

New comment by realitysballs in "HP SitePrint"

realitysballs — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:38:06 +0000

Weirdly it turns out to be cheaper/faster than paying a human being to do the same thing in use cases where you have large concrete slabs with complex walls/casework layout

New comment by realitysballs in "Migrating from AWS to Hetzner"

realitysballs — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 13:09:07 +0000

Ya but then you need to pay for a team to maintain network and continually secure and monitor the server and update/patch. The salaries of those professionals , really only make sense for a certain sized organization.

I still think small-midsized orgs may be better off in cloud for security / operations cost optimization.

New comment by realitysballs in "Founder sentenced to seven years in prison for fraudulent sale to JPMorgan"

realitysballs — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 03:05:23 +0000

Agreed, hot take, but she defrauded a large corporate bank , big whoop if you ask me.

New comment by realitysballs in "Investigating a Forged PDF"

realitysballs — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 04:57:28 +0000

Not I

New comment by realitysballs in "How AI Is Changing Bookkeeping"

realitysballs — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:59:29 +0000

Solid AI use case. As someone that is trying to tack on AI/automation to legacy accounting software, this might be the better way to do it.

New comment by realitysballs in "Show HN: PlutoPrint – Generate PDFs and PNGs from HTML with Python"

realitysballs — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:07:31 +0000

Excellent response

New comment by realitysballs in "Testing Bitchat at the music festival"

realitysballs — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:52:07 +0000

Good link.

My interpretation here is that the location of a missing device can be passed around via Bluetooth mesh but that the last send must be sent via cellular or WiFi back to iCloud. So it’s P2P to relay getting location info back to final device with internet connection back to iCloud but the finder still need to connect to iCloud to view updated location.

“Find My works offline by sending out short range Bluetooth signals from the missing device that can be detected by other Apple devices in use nearby. Those nearby devices then relay the detected location of the missing device to iCloud so users can locate it in the Find My app—all while protecting the privacy and security of all the users involved.”

New comment by realitysballs in "Ask HN: How to Deal with a Bad Manager?"

realitysballs — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 03:39:35 +0000

New comment by realitysballs in "Arcol simplifies building design with browser-based modeling"

realitysballs — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 19:25:18 +0000

Huge fan of anyone daring enough to take on Autodesk , also product is top notch design.

New comment by realitysballs in "Run GitHub Actions locally"

realitysballs — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:51:25 +0000

Match dev env to prod env?

New comment by realitysballs in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

realitysballs — Thu, 15 May 2025 13:52:54 +0000

10 minute standup , woof

New comment by realitysballs in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

realitysballs — Sun, 11 May 2025 00:27:20 +0000

RDP into computer that has meeting running and then screenshot from the external computer running RDP .

New comment by realitysballs in "A love letter to the CSV format"

realitysballs — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 11:20:22 +0000

They do specifically mention this:

“No one owns CSV. It has no real specification (yes, I know about the controversial ex-post RFC 4180), just a set of rules everyone kinda agrees to respect implicitly. It is, and will forever remain, an open and free collective idea.”

New comment by realitysballs in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

realitysballs — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:32:51 +0000

Think about difference between Brave and Chrome. Both Chromium browsers but Brave is much less intrusive and exploitative of user data. More Brave and less Chrome would allow average user greater privacy and less reliance on large corporations perhaps

New comment by realitysballs in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

realitysballs — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:57:41 +0000

Is this vuln. fixable via firmware or is the vulnerability inherent in the chip architecture?