Hacker News: aembleton

New comment by aembleton in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

aembleton — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:49:43 +0000

Also, non-multipoint Bluetooth.

New comment by aembleton in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

aembleton — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 10:14:14 +0000

They wouldn't have beaten him. Farage would win and he knows that otherwise he wouldn't have called the by election.

New comment by aembleton in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

aembleton — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:36:38 +0000

It keeps changing all of the time, so it might be easier to have Facebook load up in a headless browser, that takes a screenshot and sends it to an LLM and uses that to convert into a standard JSON document that can be rendered nicely. Or something like that.

New comment by aembleton in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

aembleton — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 12:34:59 +0000

you can use upward. For example

  facebook.com##span:has-text(Suggested for You):upward(8)

That then goes up elements in the dom.

New comment by aembleton in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

aembleton — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:00:04 +0000

The problem is extracting the data from Facebook. They do a lot of work to obfuscate their markup. You'd probably be best loading the whole thing in a headless browser, taking screenshots, running that through an LLM and getting the data.

New comment by aembleton in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

aembleton — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:56:52 +0000

Most people don't run adblockers, even though they're pretty effective against 98% of ads. I doubt they're all going to rush for a local AI model.

New comment by aembleton in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

aembleton — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:55:08 +0000

Or even someone wearing a Nike branded baseball cap, hoodie, trousers and trainers.

New comment by aembleton in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

aembleton — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 10:14:47 +0000

If they are an adversary, then you could inject broken information for them to distil with. Then have an alternative, private model for government and military purposes that doesn't have the broken information.

New comment by aembleton in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

aembleton — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:59:49 +0000

You could run the inference locally using the open weight models. Then you'd still get to use the models without sending money overseas

New comment by aembleton in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

aembleton — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:26:33 +0000

Maybe a pair of these: https://uk.shokz.com/products/openswim-pro

They have 32GB of storage, no screen, light enough to run and swim with.

New comment by aembleton in "Qwen-Image-3.0: Rich Content, Authentic Details, Deep Knowledge"

aembleton — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:46:18 +0000

Estate agents are also doing it; making interiors of houses look very different to how they really are.

New comment by aembleton in "Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign"

aembleton — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:15:31 +0000

Only if you consume the ads too

New comment by aembleton in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

aembleton — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:36:16 +0000

It is in Firefox. Which browser are you using?

New comment by aembleton in "StreetComplete: Fixing OpenStreetMap, one tiny quest at a time"

aembleton — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:59:18 +0000

If you go into settings and then quest selection you can choose what you do care about

New comment by aembleton in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

aembleton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 22:00:25 +0000

I guess each instance does its own moderation. Peertube has been around for years and still no one watches it.

New comment by aembleton in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

aembleton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:58:35 +0000

Thank you, I'd not come across makertube.net. Is there some website that collects all of these instances together? I thought peertube.tv would do that, but there are loads more content on makertube.net so clearly not.

New comment by aembleton in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

aembleton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:44:35 +0000

Peertube pays 100%

New comment by aembleton in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

aembleton — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:43:03 +0000

> which means catering to the lowest common denominator

At some point that becomes saturated, and you're better off catering to a niche that is poorly served.

New comment by aembleton in "Open Source Low Tech"

aembleton — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 09:29:11 +0000

Sounds like a Dutch bike would work well

New comment by aembleton in "AI children's books, body horror edition"

aembleton — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:35:04 +0000

Some of the older quality content uses language which is now considered inappropriate. Of course, it wouldn't be hard to replace those words and there are plenty of books that do, but we can't just use the older books as they were.