Would you explain why "American or BigTech" is worse than some sketchy bro sitting in tax haven?
Would be good if we can compare technologies rather than feelings. I hate what US tech has turned into, but presence of E2EE on whatsapp makes it incredibly way better than telegram to that matter. Even though undoubtedly Meta farms metadata on WA.
Quite interesting, particularly with statistics shared in comments.
Personally I hate CarPlay because of it's limitations - oh you can't respond to messages, oh you can't watch videos and sorts. Much easier to have a tablet there free of these "safety" limitations.
Proliferation of AI "content" and people regurgitating the AI slop makes it extremely likely to be AI slop. You know, if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it's probably a duck.
If you look at HN comments in pre-"AI" era, you will see posts were way shorter and way more concise. While I am certainly could be in wrong, it does look like AI output.
Your observations can largely be applied to pretty much forum out there. Every single one was hijacked with either ignorant/stupid people without intelligence and/or bots pushing particular topic. Oh and the SEO managers, how could i forgot those.
And now when the knowledge is a golden mine for all sorts of openai/claude/other IA, the situation will likely exacerbate further.
I really miss a place where intelligent people can talk and exchange ideas with mutual respect. It seems like all these places are largely gone by now.
> I'm curious: what is the sensible choice for technical people with a reasonable amount of money?
I am probably the extreme minority, but I prefer cars with as little "tech" as possible. I don't need "drive assist" and sorts.
All my cars are 10+ old benzes, Nissans, Toyotas. All under good maintenance routine so giving me very little headache.
I had all sorts of stupid issues with modern cars while renting. One toyota scared the crap out of me while it imagined some pedestrian and yelled with all signs while I was going 100+ km/h on highway. Horrible crap
> Buying a used Pixel is economical, environmental, and likely doesn't support Google
Interesting. What do you think are reasons for google to run Pixel then?
Not being sarcastic here, but what links you shared (thank you) say imply there are almost no benefits for Google to run Pixels and as we all know, Google is not a company doing charities.
> GreyNoise tells you whether an IP is internet-background scanning noise.
My somewhat poorly expressed point was that to make a decision whether IP is or isn't a "internet-background scanning noise" (btw how would you define that?) you need to have access to substantial volume of data. And also how the decision is made remains unclear. If some sysadmin on legitimate node does network scan to investiage something and you catch it - will it become positive "internet-background scanning noise"?
Thank you for your work and insights. I am a very satisfied paid user for many years. Keep up the good work!
Appreciate the balanced view as well.
Reputation scoring is useless metrics IMHO exactly for reasons you stated - risk appetite and risk model are generally different for everyone. We actually do have IP scoring build on datapoints we have + what ipinfo API gives us. This is tuned to specific projects and practically useless for anyone else.
One of practical point for OP is perhaps to consider an PoV that providing this sort of service will require a lot of intelligence collected from many sources, which OP may not have at this point. Even 1400 servers probably cover limited scope.
Would be good if we can compare technologies rather than feelings. I hate what US tech has turned into, but presence of E2EE on whatsapp makes it incredibly way better than telegram to that matter. Even though undoubtedly Meta farms metadata on WA.