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New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

OkGoDoIt — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:17:09 +0000

Yeah, this does seem somewhat reasonable. I get that most users will probably accept it without thinking twice, but if you’re going to do something like this, this is at least a fairly upfront and consenting way of doing it. For the TV platforms where this isn’t allowed, you have to wonder if apps are still doing it but just completely secretly, and trying to hide their tracks as well.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Nearly half of LG smart TV apps contain residential proxy SDKs"

OkGoDoIt — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:14:42 +0000

In the article they mentioned that Amazon and Roku block apps from using these SDK’s, and specifically after Roku recently made a change to disallow this kind of thing, many of the affected apps were withdrawn from the Roku app store. The implication is that those other smart TVs don’t have the same third-party apps because these apps were specifically created to act as a foothold for these residential proxy networks.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "The AirPods Effect"

OkGoDoIt — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:54:25 +0000

Whenever I try to do that, the noise canceling amplifies the wind noise so much it winds up being louder and less comfortable than not wearing them at all.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Babel-USB: USB drive with every file"

OkGoDoIt — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:24:33 +0000

The readme explains how to set this up, but it doesn’t really explain what it does. What does this do? I’m guessing it pretends to be a flash drive containing infinite books and then somehow fetches them on the fly from the Internet when the operating system attempts to access them?

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Ask HN: Is anyone working at least 4 hours daily on an Apple Vision Pro?"

OkGoDoIt — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:37:16 +0000

Yeah this seems like an obvious thing that would make it a lot more useful. Sad that Apple is barely scratching the surface of what’s possible, and it’s too closed for third-party developers to attempt to do anything like that.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop"

OkGoDoIt — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:49:42 +0000

I’m surprised the search function in the start menu doesn’t do anything. Seems like that would be super useful. But I did enjoy this, nice job with the polish.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

OkGoDoIt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:12:14 +0000

In case anyone’s wondering, I tried it again and it worked this time, even without logging in. Maybe because this was my first visit to GitHub in a new country (I’m currently on vacation), I triggered some sort of anti-scraping measure or something.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

OkGoDoIt — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:07:43 +0000

Sorry for being off topic, but why can’t I open this without being logged into GitHub? I thought gists are either completely private or publicly accessible. Are they no longer publicly accessible?

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

OkGoDoIt — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:58:00 +0000

Is that better or worse?

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

OkGoDoIt — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:03:05 +0000

Presumably professional hardware uses ECC memory, which automatically corrects these kinds of errors.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Ask HN: Are there examples of 3D printing data onto physical surfaces?"

OkGoDoIt — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:02:32 +0000

I’ve been plenty of graveyards where the old gravestones are completely unreadable. Did they use different/worse stone in the past or is this the most likely outcome of new gravestones after a couple hundred years? Several people have mentioned engraving into stone in this discussion but in this one example I can think of engraved stone, it doesn’t leave me feeling confident about the medium. What am I missing?

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Your pet's microchip may now be useless after chip company goes out of business"

OkGoDoIt — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:27:52 +0000

What city requires you to register your pet and get a license? I’ve never heard of that before. Sounds kind of crazy. I’m assuming this is very regional.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

OkGoDoIt — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:19:44 +0000

I’ve seen gift cards work around this by charging a “monthly maintenance fee” after a year of inactivity.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

OkGoDoIt — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:13:51 +0000

I had the exact same thing happen to me at a hotel in China. I could not get the person at the checkin desk to understand the problem so I ended up having to just eat the extra cost. Very frustrating, it was not a small amount of money.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

OkGoDoIt — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:16:02 +0000

It’s using AI to try and determine if it’s a proper noun or other scenario where multiple words are really one semantic term. Except it’s really really bad at it and it’s almost never the behavior I want, but there’s no way to turn it off. (I vaguely remember there was a WWDC talk sometime a couple years ago where they went into how this works)

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

OkGoDoIt — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 22:59:44 +0000

Everything about this feels like what Microsoft should have done. It’s absolutely amazing to me that search is so broken in Windows and yet a free third-party tool can instantly find any file anywhere.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "The Codex App"

OkGoDoIt — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:09:04 +0000

Also interesting that they are both only for macOS. I’m feeling a bit left out on the Windows and Linux side, but this seems like an ongoing trend.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Hacking Moltbook"

OkGoDoIt — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:50:37 +0000

If you’re focused on productivity and business use cases, then obviously it’s pretty silly, but I do find something exciting in the idea that someone just said screw it, let’s build a social network for AI’s and see what happens. It’s a bit surreal in a way that I find I like, even if in some sense it’s nothing more than an expensive collaborative art project. And the way you paste the instruction to download the skill to teach the agent how to interact with it is interesting (first I’ve seen that in the wild).

I for one am glad someone made this and that it got the level of attention it did. And I look forward to more crazy, ridiculous, what-the-hell AI projects in the future.

Similar to how I feel about Gas Town, which is something I would never seriously consider using for anything productive, but I love that he just put it out there and we can all collectively be inspired by it, repulsed by it, or take little bits from it that we find interesting. These are the kinds of things that make new technologies interesting, this Cambrian explosion of creativity of people just pushing the boundaries for the sake of pushing the boundaries.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones"

OkGoDoIt — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 04:12:39 +0000

I don’t believe that’s true. Locking is entirely something done by carriers for promotionally-priced phones attached to active phone plans.

Can you point me to anywhere documenting your claim? That would definitely be a new low if true, but I really don’t think that’s how it works.

New comment by OkGoDoIt in "Apple Withdraws iOS 18 Security Updates"

OkGoDoIt — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:02:35 +0000

iOS 18 with glaring, actively-exploited security holes is still better than iOS 26.