Exclusive: Russia is providing Iran with targeting information to attack American forces in the Middle East, the first indication that another major U.S. adversary is participating — even indirectly — in the war.
It is also true that just because the U.S. has long been aware of the threat, this doesn’t mean we’ve actually become *good* at defending against Iranian drones in the current fight that these idiots started on purpose
either they’re actually so wildly incompetent they genuinely never thought about defense against Iranian Shaheds or (more likely) Hegseth et al are lying about why they’re screwing this particular operation up so bad.
Neither option is good
Also Home Assistant for home products, some integrations directly hit the device's internal APIs vs using the cloud. For example old Hue lamps.
Also Louis Rossman is very active in this scene bounties.fulu.org/bounties/
I believe that bounty system led to unlocking Nest thermostats: github.com/codykociemba...
There's plenty of community efforts on GitHub and elsewhere to build open source privacy respecting clients for many gadgets and services. I used to lead one for GoPro cameras. Gadgetbridge seems to be the umbrella app for lots of watches, I use it to control my headphones.
There's Gadgetbridge for watches/earphones/IoT gadgets: gadgetbridge.org
For robot vacuums there's valetudo: valetudo.cloud (this was the sole reason I purchased a roborock device, and accidentally ordered a newer variant which is hard to root...)
Many times the LLM could not figure out how to solve a specific issue, which I was able to solve by looking at the logs and the code, due to the LLM deciding to try different approaches instead of fixing the issue in the current code, which just needed 1-2 line fix. Other approaches were also flawed
now I grasp the panic. While the fanfare about LLMs is how it'll displace programmers and how writing code by hand will disappear, for me the revelation is how effective this is when you actually know the stuff at hand.
I've long resisted all-out prompting, until recently my extent of LLM usage was Cursor Tab which suggests snippets when auto completing. Basically saw it as a tool to generate quick snippets when I'm stuck. First time I've not written many lines of code in a project...
Next up is wiring an ESP32 C3 to the Roborock's USB port, have that host a simple AP with DHCP+DNS servers, so both the stick and robot connect to this isolated AP and then the robot can't upload anything to the cloud. Unfortunately past damage is done, have to setup the rooms with the cloud.
Used Cursor with Claude Opus 4.6 for planning stage, UI work and ironing out the local connection, the MQTT broker part was mostly done by guiding Claude on what to look at from a previous Python project
Repo here: github.com/konradit/rob...
Works with M5Stack StickS3 although can be ported to other boards. It also works with the Roborock cloud MQTT broker, in this mode it'll show more granular data.
Unfortunately requires setup, room mapping and other settings via the vendor app.
My robot vacuum requires internet connectivity and IoT infra in China for me to use it at all. Yesterday vibe coded a simple remote control based on ESP32 to interface with the robot without the need of the cloud or the phone app. All done via the built in local API.
🔴 Russian "Shahed" drone strike apartment building in Kryvyi Rih.
A Russian drone slammed into a nine-story residential building overnight, sparking a massive fire and damaging homes, four schools, and local businesses, Suspilne reports.
Hahahah drone expert with the wild hornets footage playing
whats up dog
💥SCOOP: Putin tasked Sergei Kiriyenko to run a Moldova-style election meddling operation in Hungary for Orbán, sending three GRU-linked political technologists with diplomatic or service passports to operate from the Russian Embassy in Budapest. More in my newsletter: vsquare.org/goulash-krem...
Same as point defenses in Kyiv city I assume. AMRAAM fired by NASAMS to counter low flying threats vs Patriot battery which is an extensive deployment. Compare a missile fired by NASAMS vs one by Patriot battery, probably don't want a bigger debris field landing in a city...
A screenshot of the Bluesky app demonstrating how you can now tap the "Translate" button to translate a post without leaving the app.
v1.118 rolls out today!
New in this update: You can now translate posts without leaving the app.
Simply tap "translate" on mobile and your phone's built-in translation takes it from there.
Нуль днів доки кетамінова педоублюдія нічого не пиздила.
0 days since US didn't steal from Ukraine
This meme deserves a translation. So here it is.
#UkrainianView
"Can everyone see my helicopter kill?"
European interceptor systems such as IRIS-T, Aside and NASAMS aren't as effective as Patriot. Those stocks are also going to be diverted somewhere else, or kept from Ukraine.
They're drinking Vodka straight from the bottle at the Kremlin. Oil price increasing and Ukrainian patriot batteries sitting idle without interceptors, fighters without A2A missiles, and "peace" negotiations host countries with problems of their own.
the “aesthetics of refusal” part here is very haunting but i would add a third bit of nostalgia: the moment before we realized that we would spend the rest of our lives dealing with the consequences of the digital equivalent of lead/asbestos/radium being stuffed everywhere
Russia is one of the biggest winners early in the largest U.S. military confrontation in decades, as Iranian missiles deplete stocks of Patriot interceptors that Ukraine needs.
❗️Spain is deploying its most advanced frigate, Cristóbal Colón, to the Eastern Mediterranean to protect Cyprus, joining the French carrier Charles de Gaulle and Greek navy ships, the defense ministry announced. #NATO
Finally, the world has realized how strong the Ukrainian army is in the conditions of modern warfare: www.ft.com/content/d077...
There is much the whole world can learn from our military.
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"The Russian negotiating position is based on a bluff and a lie. The bluff is that the Russians will overwhelm Ukraine and take what they want anyway. The lie is that they will be satisfied with less than what they continually demand... (1/2) wapo.st/3MHUlAh
