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brisky··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024)
Decentralized Global Social Feed (https://github.com/did-1) Think of it like a decentralized Twitter where the data is entirely in the user's hands and where everyone is free to post content and subscribe to new posts. It could be also be compared to decentralized global RSS feed.
brisky··on Meta Movie Gen
Was this trained on personal facebook video data?
brisky··on The secret of Minecraft (2014)
It's just the feeling, but I think Microsoft is itching to kill the Java edition
brisky··on An electric new era for Atlas
It reminded me of Pathfinder from Apex Legends https://apexlegends.fandom.com/wiki/Pathfinder
brisky··on AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License
Here you go: https://suno.com/song/16da57d3-b68f-41fd-ad07-4da2b56bdb36
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I think you underestimate how Apple will make this 'cool' and cool people will start wearing it in public. In retrospect many thought that Airpods look dumb as well.
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
Then I can walk away
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I think the 'do not film' request should be respected by consumer devices. It is ok for security cameras to ignore such a requirement.
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I usually can figure out when I am being filmed by a smartphone and ask people not to do this.
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I do. If I try to film something in public I am very aware that people notice this and that I should not be pointing my phone camera at their children, etc. It is not that easy to get away with filming others unnoticed with a smartphone.
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I think the roadmap could be as follows:

1. A standard appears to communicate that you don't want to be filmed (let's say QR code) 2. Some consumer-friendly company follows to implement it 3. EU publishes a directive in Europe for devices to respect this requirement (with some exceptions for security surveillance, etc) 4. Eventually even some of USA companies follow on with this practise

brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
This is naive. Let's say you go to a restaurant and the waiter has the headset on. Or you go to a theater and the doorman has one. I would like to have a way to communicate directly that I don't appreciate being filmed without asking.
brisky··on Ask HN: How to prevent Apple Vision Pro users from filming you?
I don't see why new privacy standard can not appear now even though a problem has gotten bad already. There is no need to have this defeatist attitude.
brisky··on Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
https://github.com/did-1 https://writer.did-1.com/

DID is novel decentralized social media infrastructure that empowers users to own and distribute their content. Think of it like a decentralized Twitter where the data is entirely in the user's hands and where everyone is free to post content and subscribe to new posts. It could be also be compared to decentralized global RSS feed.

brisky··on Show HN: Did – Decentralized Public Information Network
Thanks for the tip. However I don't think the name is that important here. This is an open source decentralized system and the name can be changed.
brisky··on Show HN: Did – Decentralized Public Information Network
I was not aware of AT protocol. So even if there are any similarities I invented this independently.
brisky··on Show HN: Did – Decentralized Public Information Network
Thanks for informing! I guess the name can be changed, but I had to start somewhere :)
brisky··on What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?
I would say information is a form of compression. You observe reality, then compress what you see as information and pass it to another observer. Understanding is the ability to compress and decompress information. Decompressed information can become action or emotion.
brisky··on Universal Summarizer
Amazing job! I tried to summarize Lithuanian article. It did a pretty good job, but for some reason alphabet letters such as ąčęėįšž that are unique to Lithuanian were missing from the output.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://www.delfi.lt/news/d...

brisky··on Elon Says He’ll Make His Own Phone If Apple and Google Deplatform Twitter
Triumphant pride precipitates a dizzying fall
brisky··on A little exercise each day improves muscles more than one big weekly workout
I have a daily routine: 3x5 second horizontal handstands, 10 pull-ups and balance on one leg with eyes closed. It takes less than 5 mins, easy to make a habit of and really makes you feel and look better. Sometimes I throw in some stretches too.
brisky··on Twitter Is Down
Maybe the status indicator color change has to be approved by PR department..
brisky··on Ask HN: Are there any startups that work on improving or reinventing democracy?
Thanks, this is helpful
brisky··on Ask HN: Are there any startups that work on improving or reinventing democracy?
Maybe not solved, but improved. We have technology to give people a better way to express their democratic voice. Without innovation the democratic process becomes stale and broken. That is what we see today.
brisky··on Are We Really Engineers? (2021)
It depends what kind of programming you do if it can be called engineering or not. Most of software development is not engineering. The core difference in my mind is that engineering implies transferring abstracted design to physical reality (you have to understand physical limitations and constraints to do that). Programming most of the time is producing abstraction mechanisms that are quite detached from physical objects. A good comparison would be 3D modeling and sculpting. When sculpting you have to understand the properties of the stone and tools, but in 3D world almost anything is possible. If you can imagine - you can do it. https://tautvilas.medium.com/engineering-free-programming-is...
brisky··on 10 years of whatever this has been
I think these use-cases are a pipe dream. Platforms tend to build walled gardens instead of opening up. There is no reason to believe that NFTs will solve what could be solved by open data protocols long ago. A platform will only implement features if they are profitable. That is why CSGO lootboxes work as a closed system. If CSGO lootbox was an nft and it was recognized by let's say Overwatch game that would mean a some sort of business partnership between two games would have to be established. There is no other reason why Overwatch would implement and maintain features that would promote competitor games. RSS was also a nice idea, but it was not well aligned with individual private company interests and that is why it failed to be globally adopted.
brisky··on GitHub Copilot
I think being a nanny is the most future-proof job
brisky··on Show HN: My personal website is a shell
This is a library that can help you to implement similar experience on your own website:https://github.com/tautvilas/termpage
brisky··on Suez canal blocked by a massive ship
I think this could possibly be the black swan event.
brisky··on When thebiglebow.ski is blocked by Facebook
I also had my website "reported" as suspicious in facebook. There is no official way to get more information or unblock your website. I see this as a darker pattern where facebook algorithms are tuned to block 3rd party external information content. In this way facebook is promoting sharing information only created within facebook platform.
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