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sixothree··on My weird new hobby: Wandering around Tokyo on Google Maps
I watch a lot of videos of people just exploring Tokyo and other cities on foot. Good stuff.
sixothree··on The "Windows XP Box" (2003)
I still have my box for Falcon F4. It's another tome that explains far too much.
sixothree··on Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges
I had a samsung fridge. Every year it would spoil all of the food inside of it. The temperature reading on the outside would say 35 (1.5 c) but the food inside would be warm and spoiled.

It only happened when it was particularly cold outside. I eventually figured out that there is an external temperature sensor that causes the fridge to stop cooling below a certain external temperature. And that space in the kitchen was particularly cold in the back. But I could never read it below 55, so I think the sensor was faulty.

But the reading on the front is what really annoyed me. I had to keep a thermometer inside the fridge so that I didn't accidentally eat food that felt cool enough but was bad.

This happened every year. I eventually gave it away for free, with a warning to the person.

sixothree··on Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
Are you saying Russia does not currently span 11 time zones, the same number as the former soviet union?
sixothree··on We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient
Where would the control come from? Software installed on the client's computer, or software installed connecting to an AI agent, or something else, something more external, something more interactive?
sixothree··on Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
They just walked away from an antitrust case with what can only be considered a huge win for them. I don't think regulating them is going to happen any time soon.
sixothree··on LG says we're fake news [video]
What do you mean "the network"? Do you mean the wi-fi you told it to not connect to or something else? Because something else sounds like a secondary path. It's enumerating devices for a reason. How many of those devices are LG or an LG partner?
sixothree··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Commented something similar at the same time. I hate weasel wording like this. There is nothing that prevents this data from being used that way now or in the future.

edit: And to be clear, the cameras specifically recognize and record people for a reason. This does not appear to be a fault in the system. One reason might be off-camera facial recognition.

sixothree··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Apparently police are accessing the network via their personal devices. I highly doubt their security practices online are any better than this. I wouldn't be surprised either to see things that chinese manufacturers do such as intentional back doors.

Overall this goes from disappointing to fairly repugnant.

sixothree··on Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
The thing is people knew. Coca-cola "aficionados" recognized the change for sure. Living in the deep south it was quite a thing.
sixothree··on Negativland, Culture Jamming, and the Art of Making Something New
I learned that Russia has 11 time zones because of Negativeland.

I would also not describe this music as timeless. It's incredibly hard for me to imagine people coming to this music fresh today.

sixothree··on San Jose officer used Flock to help relative track domestic violence victim
I would believe them if they actually charged him with a crime. It seems like they want police officers to have access to this data but just don't want the public to know the extent of their inexcusable behavior.
sixothree··on LG Says We're Fake News [video]
Can we really trust it to honor your request to stop using the internet? After hearing them speak on this subject, I have my doubts it will honor your request so quickly and easily.
sixothree··on LG says we're fake news [video]
You're making a huge assumption that it does not remember wifi passwords and that it would actually honor your request. You're assuming it does not communicate with/via other LG devices owned by neighbors. You're assuming it does not communicate via partner apps on mobile and other partner devices over other protocols. You're assuming they won't eventually simply add cellular modems to circumvent all of this.
sixothree··on LG says we're fake news [video]
You really aren't paying attention. They weren't talking about distribution channels. They were talking about capturing user data - "we know who's in the LG household. We know which devices are there. We know what you're exposed to on TV and we know how to extend that reach into mobile."
sixothree··on Houthis 'take control' of key island in global shipping route
We really are in a bad spot aren't we. In so many ways, strategically, reputationally, introspectively. It's hard to imagine coming back from this.
sixothree··on HuggingFace: Security.txt
But it's literally not the name of the emoji.

Edit: It was my understanding the official name was "Smiling Face with Open Hands Emoji".

sixothree··on HuggingFace: Security.txt
Not sure about humorless, but I'd honestly rather hang out with people who are serious in some way and welcoming to people not in their "in-group".
sixothree··on Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time
I really wish Honda would release the CRV plug-in hybrid in the states. But all we get is some weird hydrogen monstrosity. China has all electric vehicles with gas generators to charge the battery. That would make this work for my scenarios too.
sixothree··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
Stackable bins work too. Need various sizes as backup as you accumulate though.
sixothree··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
While he avoids using the actual PLE acronym, he does actually describe the concept quite well. I think you may enjoy this video. Specifically around 5 minutes into the video is the part you're looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1--PzaHafAU

sixothree··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Which harness are you using?
sixothree··on Apple Watch Series 12
I kept thinking they were revealing glasses the way they gave a feature list before describing the item in question.
sixothree··on iPhone Duo
It certainly feels like another 10% of the total effort expended would have made this product viable. And I keep saying that about Microsoft releases. It feel like an enormous effect to get to product release then complete abandonment - no communication, no improvements, no additions, no bugfixes.
sixothree··on iPhone Duo
I couldn't agree more with the criticism being too much. The negativity adds up and drowns a thread so much faster than the neutral comments. I don't know the reason it feels that way. And it seems so pervasive in so many places.

I wish there was a way to just put all criticism in a single thread and leave other thread trees for technology topics. Of course my first thought is a technology answer to a human problem.

That said, I simply couldn't sit through this presentation and did find it insufferable; and I've been waiting for a foldable iPhone for a long time. Having to close the presentation out of frustration tainted my purchasing decision.

sixothree··on Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs
Gen X here. Having grown up in the 80's I remember multiple occasions where someone would ask "what are you going to do with a computer?". As in, what could a computer possibly be useful for. Just imagine someone asking this question today. It would probably be more shaped like the comment you are responding to.

What are you going to do with a computer? I've always hated this attitude. We do these things because they are interesting to us, for the fun of exploration, because we enjoy learning, because we want to iterate and improve, to make the world better, or any plethora of reasons that involve intellectual curiosity of some sort.

sixothree··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
You might be surprised at the developer documentation for OS8088 (recently posted on HN). https://os8088.com/developers/

Instead of describing to the user how to setup their dev environment, section 3 basically instructs the agent to install all developer tools required for the application to operate in development mode.

sixothree··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
Or worse, buries an important detail somewhere in the text. Tangentially, over the weekend I had claude ask me if I wanted to continue with UIM-001. I couldn't find UIM-001 in any document it referenced creating or any text it had previously generated. Claude seems to be the worst about all of this stuff.

Also, somehow over the weekend it responded with these sections all clearly laid out - What landed, Decisions I made and recorded, Two findings, and What you need to do. Not sure why it can't do that all the time.

sixothree··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
I think this video is completely misleading about what LG does, versus what the TV is capable of doing. I tried watching this yesterday and was pretty offended by the lack of clarity and closed it.
sixothree··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Or allow posting (maybe to certain boards) by accounts only of a certain age. These both assume they haven't created hundreds of accounts long ago.
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