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vincengomes··on An ad-free Android TV
In past one week, there has been a lot of Projects on debloating Smart TV's.

I think it all started with a guy making a plex app [0] in rust thereby reducing the launch times of the app.

Then lots of projects started coming up including replacing the browser itself. All these projects seems to be created with claude code.

This is truly a golden age of Personal software.

[0] Reddit Post: https://old.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1x043yp/i_used_...

vincengomes··on In the wake of Tippett Studios’ closure, a digital archive appears online
Direct Link to the digital archive at Internet Archive -

https://archive.org/details/tippett-archive/

vincengomes··on Gemini 4 Argon
Logan Kilpatrick announced [0] that training for Gemini 4 started towards the end of July. I'm surprised they could finalize a frontier level model within 2 months.

If an entire model training can be completed in 2 months there is really no moat for any company in this space now.

[0] https://i.redd.it/upsh5fekuleh1.png

vincengomes··on Sonnet 5.5
For the folks asking what is the point of Sonnet 5.5 when Opus 5.5 is better in every way, Sonnet is now the new default in the free tier and now people using Claude Web in the free tier get access to an almost close to the frontier model.
vincengomes··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoleon Bonaparte

Let all the files get released first.

Then show your hacks.

vincengomes··on MacBook Air M4
Thinkpad is great. At-least you know your job is safe for next 28 years.
vincengomes··on Website Themes with uBlock Origin
Not on topic, but I have to admit.

That cow in the webpage is a nice touch.

I fully expected a modal window asking for my email to share updates and was surprised to receive a Joke instead.

vincengomes··on Mars Has Influence on Earth's Oceans and Climate, Repeating Every 2.4M Years
Man, this study is going to be paraded as the proof that astrology is scientific and ancient people were more knowledgeable than us.
vincengomes··on Details on Xiaomi EV
The only standout feature of this car is that it doesn't come in the usual white or black colors.
vincengomes··on A 90-year-old man who built a western wear empire
The title gave me the impression that a man started a western wear Empire at the age of 90.
vincengomes··on Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?
I just visited bulma.io and couldn't help but notice the sketchy-looking Patreons/GitHub sponsors that Bulma has listed. Lots of casinos are supporting Bulma.

Are these genuine Bulma customers happy to support a product they use, or am I witnessing some new way of money laundering here? What is the Phone Tracking app doing there? I mean, Bulma needs all the support it can get, but what does a casino want from Bulma?

vincengomes··on Show HN: Autotab – An AI-powered Chrome extension to create Selenium scripts
Im also seeing it for first time.

But i assume it means Bring Your Own (Open AI Authentication Key).

vincengomes··on Show HN: I made a website that color-codes the world by language
Good Luck to whoever thinks of getting around in South India by speaking Hindi.
vincengomes··on A messaging app startup that raised $200M shuts down afters users were 95% fake
The name of the App is IRL.

It boasts of 10M+ downloads in Google Play

vincengomes··on Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11
Is this limited to Win 11 Pro edition only or also available for Win 11 Home users ?

Everywhere they are mentioning coming soon to Windows 11, but considering they are projecting it as a developer focussed instead of for normal people i get the vibe it is not for Home edition.

vincengomes··on The new Bing runs on OpenAI’s GPT-4
What do you mean by downloaded Bing? Did you download an Android / iOS app?

Bing with GPT feature is only available via https://www.bing.com/new which you have to access through Edge Browser only. Dont ask me how Edge can only display the page when its just chromium underneath.

Then again there is a wait list. You have to enter your email and wait for access to be given.

vincengomes··on Filmora and Adobe decide to use “Kdenlive” as a keyword in their online ads
As stated in the reddit post itself - "They had them on Google too, but we complained and they were removed."

The ad targeting is done on Yahoo and Bing searches

vincengomes··on GitHub announcing a $10M open-source fund
Direct Link to the Blog Post :

https://github.blog/2022-11-09-an-open-source-economy-built-...

vincengomes··on Redditor acquires decommissioned Netflix cache server with 262TB of storage
Link to the Reddit Post

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_...

Followup Post

https://old.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/ydollm/so_i_got_a_...

vincengomes··on NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android
One of the biggest strengths of Vanced over NewPipe when i tried them both was SponsorBlock [0]

Is there a similar feature available in Newpipe now?

[0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

vincengomes··on Female African elephants are evolving without tusks due to ivory poaching
No. They evolved to become fat and became rhinoceros
vincengomes··on Show HN: Find Reddit discussion threads for your TV shows
A Few Observations :

I initially searched for marvel shows presently in limelight. Loki -> Not available What If -> Not available The Falcon and the Winter Soldier -> Not available Wandavision -> Available

Marvel Shows are more discussed in marvel subreddits like /r/marvelstudios than individual subreddits like /r/wandavision

After sorting out by No of comments only i found out, author of the website has actually grouped them together under Marvel. So Wanda vision Discussions are shown under two places but not linked to each other.

Another one aspect the website fails to capture is the discussions going on in multiple subreddits created for the same TV Show.

For example game of Thrones had individual subreddits for each houses in the show, out of which /r/freefolk was very famous (1M+ Subscribers) and had in depth discussions going on when each episode aired.

vincengomes··on A CSS-Only Clock
Considering that this article is posted in CSS tricks, i expected an embedded Codepen example which would have made it more fun.
vincengomes··on What Does My Site Cost?
There is a small mistake in the results.

Its Hong Kong not Honk Kong

vincengomes··on Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
As per the Sponsorblock extensions Github page only App for Android based Smart TVs with sponsorblock buitin appears to be Smart Tube Next [0]

[0] : https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/

vincengomes··on Internet Search Tips
You conveyed exactly what i wanted to say. I don't remember reaching for 'Disable JavaScript' this fast for a website.
vincengomes··on In Defense of Dumb TVs
In India, amazon calls it a Standard TV.
vincengomes··on Elderly patients 23% more likely to die if surgery is on the surgeon’s birthday
If there was a party on Surgeons Birthday, he might be hung-over the next day. Like the day after Christmas. or New Year.
vincengomes··on YouTube-dl's repository has been restored
youtube-dl -U
vincengomes··on Players are fixing Microsoft Flight Simulator’s monuments with Google Maps
Luckily for Google, Genius doesn't "own" any lyrics.
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