theage
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Comment · 2 months ago
If you can get your recording to play in the browser my TivySkip Web Extension[0][1] will skip broadcast commercials for free. I use Jellyfin's web portal to playback my recordings adfree but the ext will actually work on any site playing live TV with various jump around and visual block/mute schemes to choose from.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tivyskip/ [1] https://github.com/relaxo-player/TivySkip-extension
Comment · 7 months ago
Do people even want their culture democratized with just anyone being able to produce high entertainment? The recent popularity of "Harry Potter by Balenciaga (2026)" AI fashion parody retelling shows we might actually be stuck in this cultural rut forever with or without AI help.
Comment · 1 year ago
Insidious perhaps. There is no middle ground of neutral advertising to be had. It's all just pressing upon the pain points of one social sect or another, undermining mental acuity to make 'em feel inadequate or falsely adequate.
I run an adblock app as well so it's hard to begrudge anyone trying to gain undeserved significance for their thing - when some invention is new who is to say what is deserved unless the right people know about it?
Whilst you might be able to block the ads for now you can't block the downslide of polite society that largely accepts the techniques into their lives and keeps them in their back pocket.
Comment · 1 year ago
Can you point me to that chromecast tool or tell how it worked?
I'm in the process of releasing a video player with adblocker for live IPTV on android that can definitely auto-mute the whole adbreak for you if you watch the stream in the player (see my previous comment for link).
But if you are suggesting a system-wide mute triggered by a dormant app as another live broadcast plays in some official app then that's easier in some respects and harder in others because people need to trust the data is accurate. Once we have enough users sharing accurate adbreak data (powered by accurate software with human corrections) we can offer a system-wide mute for ads in any other app playing those known broadcasts.
Comment · 1 year ago
We've built an android video player that lets you adblock live IPTV [1]. It does exactly as you describe and more. Just endlessly avoids ads going from A->B->C->A and helps you update what plays instead of ads with ease. A passive hardware solution is certainly the endgame, we got enamored with adblock at the codec level as lets us add all the extra worthwhile UI features that should be inside of an innovative linear TV player.
[1]: https://relaxoplayer.com - join waitlist for link to beta apk.
Comment · 2 years ago
If it's a social app users should worry about account take over making you look bad/illegal or tricking you to enter your password to other OAUTH accounts. Privacy implications etc. Similar to if the app owner changed hands to someone trying to milk it. As always you be suspicious of any permission asks to limit damage in these cases.
Comment · 2 years ago
Github reserve the right to stop serving those release downloads at any time. They usually just kick you off entirely if your project gets unwanted attention. I don't see them allowing revanced (modded popular social apps) forever so we still need a better way to trust outside that touch and go easy relationship.
Comment · 2 years ago
Finally, a no nonsense Auto-App-Updater App! if only sites would include a version number somewhere on the download page so obtainium could find it. Looking at you https://grayjay.app (it doesn't seem to work for partial file hash either so I had to turn auto updates off for this one)
We sorely need 1:1 replacement of app store trust and discovery mechanisms too without any kafka-esque approval hoops. Obtainium app config sharing and perhaps a standard for APK release webpages would be a great first step towards that.
Comment · 2 years ago
The choice of intonement even mimics creatives which I'm sure they'll love. The vocal fry, talking through a forced smile, bumbling host is so typical. Only, no one minds demanding better from a robot so it's even more excruciating fluff with no possible parasocial angle.
Limiting choice to frivolous voices is really testing the waters for how people will respond to fully acted voice gen from them, they want that trust from the creative guild first. But for users who run into this rigid stuff it's going to be like fake generated grandma pics in your google recipe modals.
Comment · 2 years ago
for dev there is already pg-lite server (postgres as nodejs/wasm) you can spin up, it's self-contained single-folder db to disk, 100MB RAM thingy. Highly experimental. Not sure if supabase codebase is setup for debugging the way you suggest.
Comment · 2 years ago
For prisma/nodejs devs who just want postgres-in-a-can for local dev you are better off using the recently released serverizing of pglite, pglite-server: https://github.com/kamilogorek/pglite-server
It's faster, can persist data to fs, though less stable under heavy use than the full x86 emu e2e test server. I found pglite-server uses only 150MB ram compared to 830MB for pgmock-server. You can then use dotenv to checkout a new .env.local with updated DATABASE_URL for all your nextjs/prisma package.json run scripts
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/awesomeproject"
"db:pushlocal": "dotenv -e .env.local -- pnpm prisma db push"
Comment · 3 years ago
eye on ai had Yann LeCun on the other day and has cool ideas about present and future that the less expert host is doing great to get out of him.
https://aneyeonai.libsyn.com/150-yann-lecun-on-world-models-...
the two aussie brothers who try to deep dive the latest news/thing they can test/banter about in a fun producty way. https://www.thisdayinai.com/
found via https://allainews.com/podcasts/
Comment · 3 years ago
Many broadcasters are positioning to accepted the broadcast part of their business as the freemium entry point into their online app. The ads will never be turned off everywhere but the better experience will only be found over the jump.
Comment · 3 years ago
I like the interface but to be truly private it'd have to be offline first like https://everywhen.me. And I don't know if I'd ever trust a score I hadn't reasoned myself. I already do a version of this style of rubberducking with LLMs and the idea score you naturally give something changes with each unexpected key question the LLM spits out. Problem is you don't know what key opens your idea or closes it and it needs to be worded just right.
Like "who is angered most if they could no longer get your product" and "under what context is the value your product provides most apparent to your target audience".
www.relaxoplayer.com/#android