Vikunja is a decent project management layer for this I've found.

I'm not paying to read beyond the click bait but if this article but if this is about using hashed identifiers, this is like.... Something that has been used by every major and minor ads platform and advertiser for years. It is nothing new.

What matters is the signals that are joined against the hashes and if what privacy controls they have in place for preventing reidenitfication.

But for those unaware, hashed identifiers are why every publisher has moved to 1p data and logins. Cookies are dead and unreliable so 1p identifiers are the only real way for an advertiser to target a given user with any reliability.

If anyone has access to the full post and wants to share what is novel about this situation, please do. From the bit I could read I would be more surprised if they were not doing this as it is a critical component of every major publisher platform's audience and measurement stack.

Their margin is Bezos' opportunity. I don't know how he could have been more direct.

You seem surprised that a nation who invaded Ukraine unprovoked and has regularly gone out of their way to target civilians and has been found guilty of violating the Geneva Convention would carry out exactly the kind of hybrid warfare they have a reputation for. Curious.

Not surprised they would hack systems, surprised they would spend their efforts on shit like this that doesn't have any real impact

whoever works at the hacking department of the FSB needs to hack something, anything, because they want to keep a job.

It seems like a target of opportunity because the security is so incredibly bad.

> Not surprised they would hack systems, surprised they would spend their efforts on shit like this that doesn't have any real impact

Okay, let me explain why this is wrong. This will be an imperfect example, but hopefully it gets the point across.

When you shut down the refrigerators and freezers of something like 700 stores, people notice. They go to get food that day, and there is nothing fresh. Nothing. Go to the next store, still no fresh or frozen food.

Was there a natural disaster? No. Was there an attack? Yes, but the attacker is unknown. But who was in charge? Who was supposed to prevent this? They remember.

It's getting colder outside in the North, fall is here. This is traditionally a time where a lot of people were, for thousands and thousands of years, stocking up food and doing final harvests to survive the long winter.

If suddenly hundreds of stores don't have fresh food across the country, that is a large impact. Not even just what happened, but what could happen. If it happened to these hundreds of stores, what about thousands? What about other types of stores? What about other types of attacks? And your brain starts thinking about the other possible type of things that might be able to be fucked with remotely. The fear sets in. People that are afraid make less rational decisions. Maybe they also decide the current people in political power aren't fit for task, because they can't keep them safe. Maybe this didn't happen under the other guys.

Meanwhile, millions of dollars of food was just wasted. Not only that, but it also has to be disposed of. Because it's such a large amount of food, it will take additional trips from the trash disposal service. They may even bring people in on overtime across the country. The people at the stores themselves will probably work extra hours, quickly trying to rotate the bad food out and hopefully (now if not soon) get the new food in. In addition, the food logistics network has to get additional shipments of food it wasn't expecting to transport to hundreds of stores. That's a lot of extra time on the road, a lot of extra wear on equipment. It also stresses the food supply and production itself.

So I don't know what "doesn't have any real impact" looks like to you, but to summarize, this is going to do millions of dollars of economic and political damage, and contributes to social upheaval. It probably cost next to nothing to actually attack.

(This is also right out of Russia's hybrid war playbook against Europe. Russia just sank a Bulgarian tanker btw: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmn06w5x9g25o )

> millions of dollars of economic damage sure, it doesn't contribute to social upheaval. It's a one time pain in the ass, this seems pretty hysterical tbh

They are constantly running tons of attacks like this. This one you heard about because it hit grocery store systems, but the attacks big and small all over Europe right now are staggering. Physical and digital. Arson attacks on warehouses, drone attacks, gun dead drops in the German woods, etc etc etc.

Eventually people don't feel safe anymore. That's the goal.

You're looking at moving a single chess pawn like it's the entire game. No, it's just one move.

> It's a one time pain in the ass, this seems pretty hysterical tbh

You're not thinking about the second and third order effects enough, either.

How much labor is going to go into trying to patch these systems or redesign the physical or digital infra for them? For each store? How many other systems like this are online and just didn't get hit? Those will need to be patched and upgrades too, maybe taken offline. So if they normally monitor these remotely, now they have to add another system in place for vpn, increasing cost and time and complexity. Now EVERY vendor of similar systems is going to be looking at how to not end up on the news like this.

Now expand beyond fridgerators. Think about freezers, too. Water systems. Power distribution. Internet access. Payment systems. Government websites, etc. All of this stuff is under attack right now.

Also a squarely middle class income in a vhcol area like the Bay Area. But a super luxurious lifestyle.

I have been wanting a Bluetooth ring myself so I can just tap my finger and have it trigger my airpods which would initiate live voice or dictation on my phone or computer.

I have not considered input for editing functions but that makes a lot of sense. Maybe a swipe gesture or something with a little capacitive pad on the ring.

Counterpoint: I have had my own Muse like harness with Hermes and Matrix for over a year and all I want to do with it is seamlessly long-in and purchase stuff without worrying about secure credential injection or payment confirmation.

Credentials and payments for agents and local proxy browsing is a non-trivial problem.

And I promise you my Hermes agent is not sitting here trying to get me to buy things.

Don't forget my favorite:

"Project" for remote connections are local to the device they are created on. So if you create a project on your laptop for a remote server with a session in it, and want to access that same connection on your phone with the same project folder structure and session grouping, you need to manually recreate the project on that new device and add the session.

And you cannot mix local and remote sessions in a single project. So if you need to do anything locally for a remote project, get in the habit of naming projects things like "Project Foo [Local]" and "Project Foo [Dev]".

It's funny that you say you want a more user-friendly lower maintenance version of something than Muse but then say something better than openclaw or Hermes.

What exactly is high maintenance about Hermes? I agree the setup could be a little more user-friendly, but I have it running on my VPS with Matrix and the actual maintenance has been very minimal.

Spending a lot of time on harness engineering to try to compensate for deficiencies with Deepseek v4 flash because I'm too cheap to use better models on the other hand...

I'm not the person you asked but I just made a backup of my Raspberry Pi running Hermes and Matrix, but when I tested said backup it refreshed my Matrix encryption key so now I can't access my non backup micro SD install from my phone because I can't decrypt the Matrix messages.

In hindsight I should have simply rotated SD cards instead of treating one as the authoritative ones.

I agree Hermes usually works without maintenance more or less but I don't really trust these agents much and haven't found a great use for it.

They also pair that with increased prices unless you use the app. It is particularly insidious.