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atum47on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs

And phone companies are enabling telecoms by manufacturing devices that don't take physical sim cards anymore. I recently migrate from pixel 8 to 10, it only supports eSim. In order to migrate my sim to an eSim I had to provide voice, image, documents and info of the phone I was installing the eSim on. One of the worse companies in Brazil, Vivo, now have everything about me. I bet they keep it in a big excel file accessible via a secret but public link

atum47on Ntsc-rs – open-source video emulation of analog TV and VHS artifacts

That's nice. I've always been a fan of this effect. I myself was working on something (way simpler) in the past. I was just getting a pixel splitting into three separate values (r,g,b) and plotting them side by side to emulate LED behavior. I end up creating an image that you can use on your website to give the impression of lines - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/oldTerminal (that was the best I was able to do without using canvas, for the web).

Some day I might try it again using modern css

atum47on 32GB of DDR5 now costs $375 – AI shortage continues to squeeze PC building

I was in the US two weeks ago, looked everywhere for 1 module 32 gb ddr4 sodimm, couldn't find it anywhere. But apparently it was pretty expensive as well (from the price tag on the empty shelf in best buy)

atum47on Does Anybody Actually Like React?

I never liked React, but after working with it for several years, I got use to it. Specially JSX. Pretty neat to mix html and js in the same code. That actually inspired me to write tinyJS - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/tinyjs

Later I've a managed state, cause let's agree, it's pretty convenient to have UI updated after a change in the state.

atum47on The Joy of Folding Bikes

That's very interesting, thanks.

atum47on The Joy of Folding Bikes

The first time I went to the US I saw a foldable electric bike, in target, I think. Being someone who likes to explore the city (burning calories) I thought to myself: I can cover a way bigger area by bike than by foot. I can carry this with me to my travels and goodbye Uber. Thankfully I called United before buying it to ask If would be able to bring it home with me. The answer was no, of course. No eletric vehicles of any kind on a plane. What a shame.

atum47on Sauna effect on heart rate

Should I assume a steam room has the same effect? I prefer it over sauna

atum47on Codex Hacked a Samsung TV

My Philips smart tv started to give hints of programmed obsolescence this week, after 4 or 5 years. Besides the fact that I cannot install any real apps other than the ones built in this model (YouTube, Netflix and Prime). How I wish I could hack it and install another os. Honestly I don't think I have the time anymore to investigate this kind of thing. I decided to leave this comment here in hopes of someone pointing me in the right direction, if there's one. For now I'm thinking about getting a TV box and ditching the smart features all together.

atum47on Generative art over the years

One of my hobbies back in college was to write fun js fiddles [1]. It was super fun to have the time and curiosity to investigate something. I've been missing it more and more each passing day. I was super curious about generative art, procedural generation... I guess it is a negative term now, with AIs being able to create such complex stuff as video, audio and God knows what else. I was once working on a memes app where users could submit images. I was knee deep in how to identify duplicate images to keep my meme database "clean", so I was investigating cosine similarities... Few months went by and AI can do that better. Thats how ai feel now: AI can do it better, so why bother?

1 - https://jsfiddle.net/u/victorqribeiro

atum47on Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead

I gave up on Netflix years ago, never looked back. Went back to my old reliable external HD which I can plug directly to my TV.

atum47on Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

https://anonmp4.help/v/SCBI4QBrglJIZix

See if you can count how many times the video "where do video games come from" appears in my front page.

atum47on Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters

I'm not popular enough to write a post about everything that is wrong with YouTube, from recommending the same few videos over and over again in different "categories" to ALL the results of a search being cringe shorts no one wants to see.

atum47on Antirender: remove the glossy shine on architectural renderings

I spent years doing that post processing on Photoshop, trying to increase realism on my archviz scenes, clients never went for it. They use to prefer the fake, perfect 3D look. Nice project, well done.

atum47on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

Don't know what happened. I stumbled onto a funny coincidence - me talking to a LLM about its similarities with MC - decided to share on a post about using MC to generate text. Got some nasty comments and a lot of down votes. Even though my comment sparked a pretty interesting discussion.

Hate to be that guy, but I remember this place being nicer.

atum47on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

Yes. Yes I was. Thank you for the wake up call. I was under the impression that he was talking only to me.

atum47on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

When you say nobody you mean you, right? You can't possible be answering for every single person in the world.

I was having a discussion about similarities between Markov Chains and LLMs and short after I found this topic on HN, when I wrote "I can share if you like" was as a proof about the coincidence.

atum47on I fed 24 years of my blog posts to a Markov model

I usually have this technical hypothetical discussions with ChatGpt, I can share if you like, me asking him this: aren't LLMs just huge Markov Chains?! And now I see your project... Funny

atum47on Show HN: Unflip – a puzzle game about XOR patterns of squares

Android gestures need to be prevented in order for the game to work on mobile (drag finger from right to left go back). Nice game thought.

atum47on By the Power of Grayscale

At some point I would like to add more features as you described in your article; feature detection, image stitching...

Here's the source code if anyone's interested https://github.com/victorqribeiro/customFilter

atum47on By the Power of Grayscale

I was working on a image editor on the browser, https://victorribeiro.com/customFilter

Right now the neat future it have is the ability of running custom filters of varied window size of images, and use custom formulas to blend several images

I don't have a tutorial at hand on how to use it, but I have a YouTube video where I show some of its features

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3pnEx5_eGm9rVr1_u1Hm_LK6...

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> Now any body can write JavaScript code in Rust

Yeah, but do they want to?

atum47on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update

Galaxy S2 was the best phone I ever had. I think it was pure Android, if not, you had some minor apps from Samsung that you could've delete. I think I left the Samsung train right about S5 (which was supposed water proof, but it wasn't). It was just down fall from there. Samsung account, locked phone full with shitty apps that you couldn't remove (without rooting)... I don't think I'll ever have anything from Samsung in the near future

atum47on Tron: Ares Set to Lose $132M+

I was visiting my old university town when I noticed they have a movie theater now. I went in cause I wanted to support it and the only session at the time was tron. I left as soon as my pop corn bucket was empty. What a mess!

atum47on Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site

Is the memory card actually more expensive than the controller?

atum47on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

I'm just echoing the sentiment from the community

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_c...

atum47on GOG has had to hire private investigators to track down IP rights holders

Most voted comment on the last YouTube ad, which I liked by the way: where's the Linux support?

I support gog, I've been buying games from them for a long time. By yeah, where's the Linux support?

atum47on A New Algorithm Makes It Faster to Find the Shortest Paths

Thank you. The op was so full of ads i couldn't even read it.

atum47on Ask HN: Can you help me securing my droplet?

...no help came from the Elves that day

atum47on Show HN: ASCII Drawing Board

It could work on mobile if you work a little bit on it. Right now touch is dragging the screen

atum47on Pixel 10 Phones

What is the best way for a Brazilian to trade in a pixel 8 pro for the newer model?