Iroh is probably one of the best shots we have at making IoT finally secure with the built-in endpoint-to-endpoint encryption. The only thing that is missing is an embedded QUIC stack, the setup described in this article sees a little bit too hacky (4 MiB of PSRAM, really?).
I'm really sad to see them waste the opportunity and instead build an nth managed cloud on top of AWS, chasing buzzword after buzzword.
Had they made deals with cloud providers to offer managed TimescaleDB so they can focus on their core value proposition they could have won the timeseries business, but ClickHouse made them irrelevant and Neon already has won the "Postgres for agents" business thanks to a better architecture than this.
The current situation is getting worse day after day because everybody want to ScRaPe 4lL Th3 W38!!
Verifying Ed25519 signature is almost free on modern CPUs, I just wonder why they go with an obscure RFC for HTTP signatures instead of using plain JSON Web Tokens in an header.
JWTs are universal. Parsing this custom format will certainly lead to a few interesting bugs.
> Even better, AR/VR headsets with electrodes can not only record your brain activity, but they can also stimulate it with the screens and know exactly how you react to this or that image, this or that sound. What is your reaction to this politician? How you feel when you see this advertisement for this new car? What kind of man/woman you prefer (which can then be used to make tailored ads) and so on... In neurosciences, this practice is known as probing: analysing how your brain reacts to controlled stimuli.