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dtagames

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Software veteran, gamer, synth player.

https://tvexplorer.live https://watsonengine.io https://davidbethune.com

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dtagames··on A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies
Where did you hear that? Ceuta is entirely surrounded by Morocco and all of the people who moved into Spanish territory in Africa for 30 minutes did so by coming from Morocco. The confusion surrounding the geography there is... confusing!
dtagames··on A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies
Crossing a breakwater and going home 30 minutes later does not make them legal EU immigrants. It was an overblown news story that only have been believed by someone who has never been to the region, like so much news today!
dtagames··on LLMs reward expertise
This is absolutely a case where you can't get any output that better than the input, and the input is you.
dtagames··on A migrant surge tests Spain's open policies
Geographically, they're not. Ceuta occupies a tiny corner of Africa. None of these people reached peninsular Spain and they are not migrants fleeing into Europe to live there.
dtagames··on Hiring game developers Triumph Arcade
HN isn't a job board per guidelines, but I know the game dev community would appreciate hearing about this through the ASGC community site:

https://asgc.gg

dtagames··on How IPTV delivery works, end to end
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dtagames··on Supabook – AI Native Business OS
I hate these kind of services and the businesses that use them.

Can we please have software that helps take good care of customers, not shovelware that treats customers like numbers to be passed off to an AI?

dtagames··on Show HN: Could you please check out my social media website/mobile app?
The idea of a scrolling window inside another scrolling window makes life difficult on mobile.
dtagames··on Iran Has Figured Out How to Overwhelm U.S. Air Defenses
https://archive.ph/4yj7n
dtagames··on Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise
What this really makes clear is that you should neither trust people you work with nor share personal information with them.
dtagames··on A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months
Came here to say this! You beat me to it.
dtagames··on X-OS – Building an Operating System for the AI Era
In fairness, MacOS, iOS, Linux, and Android were all derived from BSD.
dtagames··on ECB launches survey on the new euro banknotes
The actual page announcing the contestants is terrible and missing the info I'm complaining about. The survey is arguably worse. It just ask people to choose among random bills. But that's not how the contest will work. They'll choose one artist's entire submission, not the most popular individual bills from the survey.
dtagames··on ECB launches survey on the new euro banknotes
And the site! Is it 1996? Impossible to navigate. Tiny photos. Zero information about contest parameters or where the "birds and buildings" (all the same) came from.
dtagames··on Four types of thinker have been identified. Which one are you?
There are only two types of thinkers: people who think people can be divided into types, and people who don't.
dtagames··on Trump announces 2028 presidential bid
I watched the event live, and nothing about it was humorous, least of all the suggestion that the United States would even consider for a moment undoing one of our strongest Constitutional protections, term limits on the presidency.
dtagames··on Why Would Meta Download So Much Porn?
The author seems surprised that the downloaded content is only "loosely connected," like a blog post about selling a house and a porn flick about a realtor. But that just proves that no humans were involved in scoping the content at all.

AI training data was vacuumed up without any consideration for the source or even the content itself. The fundamental way LLM models are built invites you to do just that. To get to the biggest "L" (for "large") you must suck up as much content as possible.

They brought it on themselves, by design, and are only now finding out what they actually ingested.

dtagames··on Ask HN: Why call it "inference" instead of just "model hosting"?
Like so many things in computing, we like to make up words and also reuse old ones for completely different things.

I'd say "hosting" means making something available to you in the cloud. Model makers don't offer that.

They sell "inference," which is a compute task with real hardware costs for them. The task runs against their model, which is not hosted for you.

dtagames··on White House report says Trump can usher in a "new golden age" of science
The famous writer Umberto Eco grew up under Mussolini.

In an essay called Ur (Eternal) Fascism[0], he described how totalitarian systems are anti-scientific and instead promote religion, "the old ways," and gambling.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ur-Fascism

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thanks so much for the compliment!

When your window is wide enough (on desktop), you should be able to drag the split point between the TV display and the channel list.

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thank you so much for that!

It does only allow filtering by one language at a time, but you can build your hotbar of the stations you like that you find across any filters.

The scan works on the displayed results. If you change the filter, it starts with the new list -- but all the results are saved regardless.

Hope that makes it a bit bitter!

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thanks bro!
dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
The pleasure is mine, and thank you for saying so!
dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thank you, kindly!
dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
I'm so honored that you feel that way, and thank you for saying so!
dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thanks for the feedback and I'm sorry that happened. Because the data comes from a public GitHub list of channels, the app has no way to know what will be geoblocked for you (or not) or actually online at the moment (or not) until you try to tune it -- very much like an old analog TV.

But... TV Explorer does keep track of what's tunable (with status lights down the left column) and also lets you scan in the background to find the ones that are live for you right now.

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-18

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
You can cast from a Chrome browser to an Android TV or Chromecast device:

https://tvexplorer.live/help/ways-to-watch

and...

https://tvexplorer.live/help/25-things-07

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thank you! That's so great to hear! I wrote a little bit about that here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969373

dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
Thank you very much. I'm delighted that you like it!
dtagames··on Better and Cheaper Than IPTV
It is a static site that doesn't require a server and can be hosted anywhere.
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