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Can someone explain the other iot devices using the same broker? I tried cross referencing the feature list, information about the user base, kickstarter origin and flutter app with some search results and I’m pretty sure that I found the company and product in question. But they don’t (publicly) produce iot devices? Sooo I’m wondering if different companies are streaming their data into a shared sink and why they would do that?

They were scanning BLE so any device using that protocol in range would be picked up. Similar to seeing your neighbor's Wi-Fi router from your couch.

That has nothing to do with the MQTT broker.

> The first thing Claude did was scan for BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) devices nearby. It found mine among 35 devices in range, connected, and mapped the interface -- two data channels. One for sending commands, one for streaming data.

Read the article before you unholster your weapon next time.


yes but https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask... reads like they connected to MQTT and received data from IOT devices on there, not using BLE

Not mine. Was already posted on here, but the last time it got traction was a couple of years back.


I was amazed to see that David Foster Wallace was born in Ithaca.


I think the randomness is addicting. While writing a prompt often doesn't result in the perfect outcome, it very well could. Pressing the "prompt lever" (again and again), waiting for the result to show up looks a lot like gambling.

See "Variable Ratio Schedule" https://www.simplypsychology.org/schedules-of-reinforcement....


Alright let’s put that article into eleven labs to hear it as an ai audiobook on 2x speed while doing chores. Gotta optimize bro


I know nothing about photography, but i really enjoyed your work. Especially the line scan cable car and „ 1390 Market Street“. Thanks for sharing.


But that’s half the fun (and knowledge about these systems got me my current job)


Building websites which only work on the "www" subdomain should also be a crime.


I don’t think so, but it’s getting harder to flash custom ROMs (locked bootloaders) and there are even legislations in planning which would make it illegal (at least in the eu).

It’s already cumbersome to run your banking app (and other „required“ apps) on a custom ROM with all the attestation going on. I assume these distributions will bleed users and see a reduction in new ones due to higher entry barriers.


Does not render properly on iOS mobile (iOS 26 beta) https://files.nilsherzig.com/IMG_9236.PNG


Also not on Firefox: https://imgur.com/a/fkaQeIp


Same result on Firefox mobile



Oh!!! Thx. This makes way more sense


I should really add some enumeration protection to these image sharing urls haha


https://files.nilsherzig.com/screenshots/IMG_9239.png

The difference between posting an image url without and with a random string in the url.

Blue line is successful requests (people viewing the image I posted), green are unsuccessful requests (people trying to find other files).

Second blue bump is the screenshot with a randomized „hard“ to guess url. First bump the default iOS screenshot name in the url.


A mobile screen is not wide enough anyway!


It's not mobile, it is IE6 era all over again, when sites are designed and work only in one (dominant) browser :(


Works fine on my phone, since it was vertical.


Loving the interactive visualizations. Reminded me of https://kelseyc18.github.io/kademlia_vis

Can someone recommend a collection of similar pages?



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