Small changes can have a huge impact.. far beyond your context window ;-)

I've been to many places in Italy that have scary much CCTV.

A bunch of CCTV is one thing. If the police have to come and knock on each business owner's door to ask "hey, you got some footage from 2 days ago, someone was shot in the area", that's fine with me.

But what's not fine is that capability in a fully automated, fully remotely accessible way, because that openly invites abuse of all kinds.

Or put another way, actively tracking your every movement. Analyzing your behaviors to predict possible criminality.

What’s already happening is bad enough. What it enables to happen next is a nightmare.

Let's think about the first two letters of CCTV and what that entails.

Point is, CC as for closed circuit, is no longer the key here - the circuit is very much open and in the hands of providers, governments and tech providers.

Wait till you hear about the UK.

Relative precision is enough if you just want to get rid of pills

The Fingerprint with Pin 2FA is a huge game changer.

I gave up on Gemini 3.1 Pro in VSCode after 2 hours. They fully refunded me.

996 Pelican, lol

RISC-V eats the low-end microcontrollers range alive at the moment with a lot of interesting features (integrated PHYs, etc.) coming from the vendors.

> I bet companies will release WiFi 8 products even when it's still a draft, just as they did with WiFI 7.

They must. Otherwise it cannot be tested within the labs.

And producing chips before a standard is finalized is usually no problem at all: there are gates within the standardization process where the will be no more changes that are relevant for the silicon.

These 802.11n-draft APs were a singular fuckup regarding this.

Wifi-8 will be great. Finally we get seamless controlled handovers between accesspoints that can be controlled from infrastucture side.

With MAP 2.4GHz can serve as long range network that can be filled with High-Rate 5GHz / 6GHz cells. And all of them can be utilized in parallel.

802.11be (Wifi-7) still lacks this.

You can already make a MAP network, and any modern client will automatically hop between APs pretty fast, based on which one has the strongest signal. There's a common misconception that devices will cling to one AP while better ones are available, which hasn't been true in many years now from my experience.

Infrastructure side handovers are great for load balancing though, for enterprise networks with very high client density.

> based on which one has the strongest signal.

That's not what you want to have in an enterprise environment.

A roaming decision must be based on the signal level readings from both sides from the infrastructure side.

Everything else is gambling.

In fact, I don’t even want it at my house.

I have a lot of low bandwidth devices that love to connect to a router further away and congest it. Makes the devices I actually care around run much slower.

The only solution is restarting my network one-by-one so they have a better chance of getting the right device.

In my experience Apple clients have been incredibly clingy to 6ghz bands, while much better 5ghz was available.

We need a remote-petting-arm so we can pet the cat'berts over long distance lines.

Also a microphone for receiving feedback.

Or just walk over to the local cat rescue?

Not every problem needs a technical, internet connected solution Some problems are easily solved with "just going out of the door and spending some time" (which, I know, is not a very HN answer, but well)

Hey Cat as a Service (we meow not concatenate) is a fine idea

I have already patented SaaS. Sheep as a Service.

Touch Grass as a Service?

We need a remote-grass-touching-arm so we can touch grass over long distance lines.

But how can this "remote-grass-touching-arm" push the "smell" and "tactile" back to the user? Is there an open spec for this? It should certainly be P2P and E2E encrypted. Also "smells" should ensure not to use patented or proprietary names.

Maybe some CSmS, Cascading Smell Sheets? Or TFP, Tactile Feedback Protocol, the one that uses JWT and JSON over HTTP2 and websockets?

and a remote foot for the feet people