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kodton Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?

Yeah I agree no need for a janky setup like that these days. If you want control of your media, but don't want the dated HTPC setup, get something like a Ugoos am6b+ run Plex/Kodi/Jellyfin/Emby on a PC anywhere on your network and that can play all of your media using a remote and nice interface.

kodton Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read

undercooked

kodton Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

The difference is you can't just copy and paste the private key into a phishing website. The login process validates your private key and logs you in.

Also since the service does not store your private key, it is more resistant to data-breaches as that is one less potential breach source.

kodton Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain

I looked up the June 2026 breach and there is no mention of passwords being stolen. Only some PII (Phone, name, email, address) through a third party.

kodton Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

Use Brave browser as it avoids browser fingerprinting.

kodton Steam Machine launches today

You can fight scalpers by hardware limiting the device to the account that was used to purchase for some set time (2 years or so)

kodton Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

Popular gaming forums NeoGaf and Resetera only allow signups from paid email accounts. All free and temporary email providers are banned to discourage trolls / forum raids / alt accounts.

kodton Apple is about to make Hide My Email useless

I know I have created accounts on Reddit with disposable email services before.

kodton Fable ban was never about a jailbreak?

Yes, this is just an even shorter rehash of what has been said several times now.

kodton A short history of Cerro Torre, the most controversial mountain (2012)

I think the question here is: what is the specific criminal charge or law that was broken to be arrested?

kodton Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg

Infinity - 21 is still infinity

kodton Smudging the game disc to make speedrunning 'SpongeBob' faster

Seems to me that hardware modification would be a banned technique.

kodton The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'

I wonder if making the game free to play before shut down would allow them to skirt the law?

kodton It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

>(also if you're wondering, I don't think the boundary is along racial lines)

read the entire comment waiting for this

kodton It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness

depends if you do a copy paste or cut and paste

kodton Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

even better if it is a pirate radio station

kodton Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

So like a teacher?

kodton Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

What if you are performing your own song which was heavily influenced by other artists?

Also I believe performing covers is legal

kodton Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement

If you steal a book and read it, should you have to pay every time you use the knowledge gained or recall parts of it from memory?

kodton US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/us-senato...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/08/polymarket-...

kodton Backing up Spotify

For their mail service they did

kodton The 'Toy Story' You Remember

I didn't meant to say no-one saw it theatrically but I probably did undersell it there.

The DVD was such a huge seller and coincided with the format really catching on. The Matrix was the "must have" DVD to show off the format and for many was likely one of the first DVDs they ever purchased.

It was also the go-to movie to show off DivX rips.

The popularity of The Matrix is closely linked with a surge in DVD popularity. IIRC DVD player prices became more affordable right around 2000 which opened it up to more people.

kodton The 'Toy Story' You Remember

The Matrix is an interesting one because it really caught on with the DVD release. So that was most peoples first exposure to it, not the theatrical release. Even if incorrect, if that was the first way you saw it, it is likely how you consider it "should" look.

kodton Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence

I don't see any comparison at all between intentionally starting a fire and your car exhaust unintentionally starting a fire.

kodton Palisades Fire suspect's ChatGPT history to be used as evidence

Isn't lighting any fire in the woods during dry conditions inherently malicious?

kodton AV2 video codec delivers 30% lower bitrate than AV1, final spec due in late 2025

I think there are a few examples where the bitrate is higher than a native rip however.

kodton Any level of alcohol consumption increases risk of dementia

yes, but in very low amounts. Usually less than what a non-alcoholic beer would have.

kodton The great medieval water myth (2013)

Perhaps, but you often see the myth written as a quick sentence or two before some beer related article. Academics may not be writing that, but lazy writers will repeat it often.

kodton The great medieval water myth (2013)

The myth often states that water was unsafe to drink, so they drank beer. Suggesting water was never drank. Showing that water was regularly consumed does debunk the myth even if the truth is perhaps in the middle.

kodton Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies

I left X because of how bad it got but BlueSky is also quite often useless in terms of good discussion. Recently any substack article posted is just filled with comments about how using substack supports Nazi ideology, no other discussion to be had. When it comes to anything related to AI the comments are all about stealing from artists. It is as if people just wait for the right buzzword to appear and post their canned response. Interesting posts that don't cause any controversy just don't have much engagement.