utopiah

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by utopiah 3d ago
Internet connectivity as a requirement is an instant red flag ... but it doesn't mean we should have appliances we can't control. This false dichotomy is precisely the problem. I DO want to program my hardware, even ones with actu
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by utopiah 3d ago
I'm not advocating for touchless smart devices, I'm advocating for optional interface we can use to operate our appliances without having to rely on the manufacturers app and/or server.
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by utopiah 3d ago
Well that's a right, I'm asking for an actual interface, like USB-C or a protocol e.g. HTTP.
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by utopiah 3d ago
Honestly this, the countless "I hacked my [insert here the most random appliance]" every day, e.g. before that on HN https://medium.com/@ivangomezarnedo/how-i-added-a-non-wi-fi-... and the polite arguments in
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by utopiah 3d ago
Chromium based, not open source.
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by utopiah 3d ago
Well that's the point, you do want information in and out, including the ability to send instructions. Call it "smart" or "connected" or whatever marketing words you prefer, the point is having affordances that give
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by utopiah 4d ago
Oh no ... I think you do actually want those. It's quite amazing to receive a notification from your dryer that it finished its cycle. What you do not want instead is : - being mandatory - requiring a proprietary application - expectin
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by utopiah 5d ago
The same reasons we keep on teaching kids to read, write, do math, sketch, take photos, etc ... because it is fun, empowering and important. Most of them will never become professional actors, authors, mathematicians, artists, photographers
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by utopiah 5d ago
I wish but honestly that's unrealistic because a lot, if not most, people related to HN are currently their livelihood linked to AI, in one way or another. Most companies, in software or not, are imposing minimum (after backtracking to
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by utopiah 5d ago
thanks, rebinded my Tridactyl shortcut for HN to this.
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by utopiah 6d ago
The one software company, mature now, that is supposed to be at the absolute peak of software development AND simultaneously at "alignment", because it is its raison d'etre, can not manage do this right. It is a big red flag.
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by utopiah 6d ago
Damn, nearly 4hrs long, better be phenomenal. Thanks for the link!
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by utopiah 6d ago
Been doing it for years, decades even now, and IMHO it's like visiting a touristic place or any place public with strangers really : you have to keep your wits about you otherwise you will get mugged. If you setup your Website you will
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by utopiah 6d ago
This is such a naive position though. The most successful companies of the last decade have precisely been ... selling usage data. Makes me wonder if, in 2026, the same people drive a car without realizing that yes it does actually pollute
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by utopiah 6d ago
I think they hate the commercialized Internet, and I do too.
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by utopiah 6d ago
Indeed not Apple specific. That's also why there are different designs, e.g. in ear, over ear, open over ear, bone conduction, and technologies, e.g. noise cancelling, active noise cancelling, non voice filtering. Typically there are v
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by utopiah 6d ago
Honestly after a while my ears just can't stay earbuds anymore, it's just painful. For long haul flights (over 6hours) I also bring over-ear headphones regardless of battery life.
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by utopiah 7d ago
No, if I use a ruler or a pocket calculator they will reliabley give me the correct result. There is no gambling.
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by utopiah 7d ago
Sparked by a corporation with "Open" in its name. Great. /$
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by utopiah 7d ago
CrossPoint at least only support ePub and BMP so they could have printed to a directory of BMPs.
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by utopiah 7d ago
Fair enough but I trust CrowdSupply to keep them in check. I bought quite a few projects via CS and never been disappointed. They have too much trust from the community not to follow up, it's their most important differentiator versus
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by utopiah 7d ago
working on an daily life ePub generator (because I want to stick to CrossPoint) with the opposite goal, namely use the phone as little as possible, but I admit I would also like to tinker with an additional temporary display, at least for t
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by utopiah 7d ago
I think the cool kids now prefer Rapier for physics in the browser.
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by utopiah 7d ago
That's a very strange position. There are thousands, if not millions now, of people working on the problem, a vast majority of humanity text output used for training, an enormous infrastructure composed of the most complex human made d
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by utopiah 7d ago
Thanks, sorry to be asking for more but what about a Web visualization of the transcripts?
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by utopiah 7d ago
Much appreciated
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by utopiah 8d ago
Will it though? Do you think people will actually be more creative with this or will we get yet another e-ink device with a slightly different form factor, or a "less than a phone" with different constraints? In the end is the PCB
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by utopiah 8d ago
So related it's in the blog post.
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by utopiah 8d ago
Activists typically aren't secretive about their actions, on the contrary they tend to be as public as they can safely be. The setup though might be, if it's to prepare an event that might be crushed down before it even take place
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by utopiah 8d ago
This "Non-Signatory Participants : Taiwan *" is so weird precisely because Taiwan is the one who started the Silicon shield few years ago by making TSMC central to the whole ecosystem.

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