Literally only reason to use Firefox is that it still blocks ads properly.

If Mozzilla brings AI or removes ad blocks then they are every way just worse Chrome and there is zero reason to use them over Chrome.

I guess I should already start porting my Firefox extensions over to Chrome since this ship is sinking stupid fast.

Firefox may say they will not block anything and still end up adopting something like Manifest v3.

Android blocking side loading is more or less in the same ballpark.

And the result will be the same i.e. no reason to use Firefox.

I don't know why bring up Android when it is already Google product.

If vibe coding is the future as the author suggests we are in for a lot more and a lot longer outages

How are you using Youtube if you feel like it is "barely working"?

I personally use Youtube almost exclusively for my entertainment. I am using Chromium on Raspberry Pi 5. I am running some flavor of uBlock, SponsorBlock, and some Shorts remover extension. It just works.

When you are applying from a job you are more desirable and you aren't desperate so you can take your pick. If your current job is bad then you can't really lose much.

Otherwise you need to be the person at the company who cuts through the bullshit and saves it from when the VibeCodeTechDebt is popping the industry.

Maybe I am just naive, but I don't see why taking a photo of a screen, projection, or print out would be hard. Wouldn't it just need even lighting and tripod?

Adding something like a LIDAR and somehow baking that data into the meta data could be fun

Then people will connect their fake image and LIDAR feed to where the CMOS is connected. Like always with half-baked digital attestation chains, laypersons will argue "Oh, but who's gonna do that?" and the reality is that even private modders and hackers are perfectly willing and capable of doing this and will jump on it right away, and if it's just for the fun to distribute a certified picture of an alien giving everyone the finger. Of course, tamper-proof designs would be possible, but they are extremely expensive.

On a side note, the best way to attack this particular camera is probably by attacking the software.

I didn’t say adding extra sensors is some kind of magic bullet. I said adding LIDAR would be fun.

Don't limit your thinking to taking photos - video also works fine. It's how The Mandalorian is produced. Instead of green screens, the actors are in front of floor-to-ceiling LED screens with live rendered CGI.

In old movies, going back to the 1930s and 40s, back-projection is usually seen when characters are driving in a car, and you can usually spot it. These days, not so much.

Okay. What prevents you from printing out a AI generated picture and taking a photo of that with the camera?

Nothing. But I know it's you and not the New York Times publishing that photo. Now you get it?

So why would I buy this if you still wouldn’t trust my photos? And why would NYT when you already trust them? Who is the target audience?

I didn't say that I didn't trust yours. It's that I trust the NYTimes more.

46 chromosomes

You sure you are running the correct number yourself?

It would be cool if this was open source because looking at the pictured this is all off the shelf hardware. I am guessing only bespoke thing here is the stl for the case

All the stuff is off the shelf. Makes it way easier to develop. There is no reason to actually use RPi, compute module or not, as a base camera board (talking from experience) other than it is super easy to start with.

I disagree. If CM5 had the ability to sleep at tiny fractions of a watt, there are really practical and usable cameras you can pull off today, even when it's not the most efficient. For all the downsides, it would more than make up in the ease-of-development department.

I believe if RPi6 adds sleep, you'd see a flurry of portable gadgets built on the platform.

Speed of development is fine for a prototype, but for an actual product it is just sloppy and wasteful. Problem isn’t even battery hungriness, but boot time. Users don’t want to wait 20-60 seconds for their camera to load an entire Linux kernel and drivers and then all the software you have gobbled together on top when you could be up and running almost instantly if you used microcontroller instead of cpu

You're agreeing with them, not disagreeing! :)

The person who you replied to said they only reason to choose them is easiness, and you've replied saying you disagree because for all the downsides the easiness makes up for it.

Heh, few years ago I built myself a RPi Zero based camera.

I wonder how have they made the boot up fast enough to not be annoying.

I used non-real time eInk display to cut down on the battery life so I could just keep it on in my pocket while out taking pictures since it took good minute to get ready from cold boot.

It could be fun extra layer. Like of course you should always use VPN, but maybe a magic packet so your VPN server even opens a port could be fun.