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Re:FCC: Ban on Foreign-Made Robots Includes Robot Vacuums on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @09:09PM (#49105037)
> However, the US ban only covers new advanced robot models, not existing products that have already received FCC equipment authorization for sale in the US. The "action does not impact a consumer’s continued use of devices they previously acquired," the FCC says. "Nor does it prevent retailers from continuing to sell, import, or market relevant models approved previously.”

Exactly what I was wondering about.

This "company" (Zenovay) is a complete fraud, they've made everything up.

The About page claims that the launched platform in 2023[0] but the domain zenovay.com didn't even exist until 2025-07-28[1].

None of the blog authors (all the profile pictures are AI-generated (flagged by SynthID)) exist and the blog posts are AI-generated. Not even "Engineering Lead Martin Hale".

None of the pages list a real company. Not even the Impressum[2], it just lists the company's address as "Zenovay, Switzerland" with no more info. Same fake placeholder on Terms, Privacy, Cookies, and DPA.

And this post also claims cookieless tracking is the default, with no cookies or similar but the actual script does the opposite. It uses everything it says it doesn't, lol.

It's off by default and sets a 30-day tracking cookie, writes to localStorage, IndexedDB and sends a client-generated UUID as the visitor ID, directly contradicting the claim that "the tracker itself sends no identifier because it does not have one."... It also stores "returning visitor" history.[3]

It even has cross-domain tracking, session replays, heatmaps, error tracking and adblock evasion with "randomize tracking endpoint"

The actual creator is Jasin Banovi (who knows if that's even his real name)[4]. He claims to have launched it with a friend, Rainer Rankwiler[5], but that person is also fake, you can tell from the GAN-generated profile picture.

[0]: https://zenovay.com/en/about/

[1]: https://zenovay.com.whoswho/

[2]: https://zenovay.com/en/legal/impressum/

[3]: https://api.zenovay.com/z.js

[4]: https://www.producthunt.com/@jasko_ctrl

[5]: https://www.producthunt.com/@ranky

Re:Half a Second – a book about the XZ backdoor on Sunday July 19, 2026 @08:57AM (#48967822)
You can have an AI help write it while still having done research yourself, they're not mutually exclusive. I'm not claiming whether he actually did that or not.

Like, for me personally, I'm terrible at writing, so I'll gladly have some AI throw together a draft, which I then verify and edit.

Re:Show HN: 18 Words on Thursday July 09, 2026 @03:55PM (#48851568)
What is your point with this comment?

Do you think this cute little word game is white nationalist? Do white nationalists have claim on all "(number) words" names?