For an open-source alternative, consider checking out - Lulu [0]. It's not as feature rich nor has impressive UI like the former but gets the main work done.

[0] https://github.com/objective-see/LuLu

Sand companies more like sandworms who are producing melange (Chips) and not hesitating to eat away its consumers (Users) on the way... (# Dune vibes)

> I clicked on the two avatars but that didn't get me very far and the only thing left to click was "by alvin chang" but that was about as fruitful as I imagined it would be.

Thank god, I wasn’t the only one, just posted a similar comment here.

Regarding social media - it has created more gaps rather than making us more social. It's ultimate goal is to capture our attention for as long as possible rather than connecting us. And lately, with the celebrities populating it, it has become a showoff/bragging machine.

I don't have Apple TV but for videos on X, I download it temporarily to a intermediate server then stream using VLC [1] it's a hassle but I get great watching experience on all platforms. For now, you can stream this on VLC: https://bin.hrzn.pics/0AdLye8

Though I generally watch Everyday Astronaut's [2] coverage on YouTube.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vlc-media-player/id650377962

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtUMt0gsqrs

I'd greatly appreciate it if you can share the relevant link/repo for it?

If it were just individuals doing it, maybe it would've been somewhat digestible. But it's a pity that sometimes even trillion-dollar companies do it.

Pre-LLM days, the doers were atleast aware of their copy/clone/wrapper, but now it's happening unintentionally when LLMs give out modified versions of someone else's code without binding to its license, because AFAIK LLMs do not automatically add licensing details of libraries used inside their outputted code, or do they?

If there's anything that needs audio/video automation, I've always turned to FFmpeg, it's such a crucial and indispensible tool and so many online video tools use it and are generally a UI wrapper around this wonderful tool. TIL - there's FFmpeg.Wasm also [0].

In Jan 2024, I had used it to extract frames of 1993 anime movie in 15 minutes video segments, upscaled it using Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan [1] then recombining the output frames for final 4K upscaled anime [2]. FWIW, if I had built a UI on this workflow it could've become a tool similar to Topaz AI which is quite popular these days.

[0]: https://github.com/ffmpegwasm/ffmpeg.wasm

[1]: https://github.com/xinntao/Real-ESRGAN-ncnn-vulkan

[2]: https://files.horizon.pics/3f6a47d0-429f-4024-a5e0-e85ceb0f6...

Thanks

> It looks like Gaussian blur. Probably "deconvolution" can fix it. Random link from Google: https://www.ianmorison.com/deconvolution-sharpening/

After a quick search, the Smart Sharpen I used along with setting the remove dropdown to Gaussian Blur, does indeed deconvolution sharpening.

Will try the same in Lightroom & CameraRAW which the author suggests may have better results. [1]

[1]: https://gregbenzphotography.com/photography-tips/what-is-dec...

I encountered a video with a QR code blurred out with the caption “blurred to prevent intruders” [1]. Since I had watched a Veritasium's video [2] I had some idea about its working. So with an ethical hacker spirit, I tried to recover the QR. First step failed, where I checked HuggingFace for any QR unblurring models because that is what roughly most AI ImageGen models inherently do - keep unblurring until the desired result, but found no models, though I found some relevant research papers [3].

In the end, I manually identified the QR module size (81×81) and hoped for high error correction (H) so that 30% incorrect QR will still be valid. Since the blur varied across regions, I processed it in two parts: Adobe Photoshop's Smart Sharpen worked well on the outer section, while a PS script added black pixels to the inner region and applied gaussian blur until the final image had a similarity. Eventually, ZXing library returned a decoded result [5] and I assume that the URL is valid but the session has expired so the URL is harmless.

[1]: https://files.horizon.pics/29f1785d-11a5-414b-96df-acc627b9e867?a=1672&mime1=video&mime2=mp4

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5ebcowAJD8

[3]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2802083.2808390#tab-citations

[4]: https://files.horizon.pics/a5297fa9-dd1a-470f-bb8f-8038d2694867?a=1672&mime1=video&mime2=mp4

[5]: https://enormicom-chat.once.com/session/transfers/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6Ik1RPT0iLCJleHAiOiIyMDIzLTEyLTIxVDAwOjA4OjMzLjc2N1oiLCJwdXIiOiJ1c2VyL3RyYW5zZmVyIn19--7e7c2a242b835fff8df00467ca14fba85c7c8139e6adad052287ce13d9c5f659

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Agreed, I wish we lived in world where PWAs had atleast an equal share compared to mobile apps. Apps winning, mostly have been a suicide for privacy.

Coincidentally, there's another HN story with even more relevance to our discussion. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44689059

Imagine an e-commerce site that lets you review your order history and product pages offline (even if a bit outdated). That kind of experience feels genuinely useful—much more so than the "you're offline, here’s a cute dog (I love the pictures though)" fallback most sites provide.

Over the weekend, I experimented with service workers for the first time (assisted by Vibe coding). My initial impression was honestly a bit magical—“this website works offline, unlike most mobile apps these days that are just WebView-wrapped SPAs and crash offline.” [1]

That said, debugging was rough. Vibe coding output had subtle issues I found hard to untangle as a newcomer, cache saved v/s cache matching was being done incorrectly in the code, which LLM wasn't able to point out (cors/non-cors requests had issue).And Chrome’s DevTools made debugging manageable, but Firefox’s service worker support felt clunky in comparison (personal take).

Curious if others feel the same—are PWAs underused because of DX hurdles, lack of awareness, or just industry momentum around SPAs?

[1]: https://ball-sort-game.vercel.app/

Suggestion: You can possibly try if you can use OpenHaystack [1] to send some "unknown tracker found nearby" alert to any nearby iPhone even if the receiver device doesn't have your app installed or use the FindMy network to send arbitrary data for your app's communication. [2]

[1] https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack

[2] https://github.com/positive-security/send-my

Though my highlight (which I could completely comprehend) is "Section 14.b & 14.c - Getting the data..." All it took was 400K files (~275 photos/day after 4 years). We have so much of raw power of processing, storage & network still the most-used (probably) media-sync apps crashed or faced slow sync, AirDrop fails & lack of 'Select-All' UI feature. Crazy times we live/will live in... :)

> fullstack dev versus youtube - DEC 31 2024

[1] https://vincentsg.dev/blog/

(circa 2019) Why has India banned e-cigarettes? https://www.thehindu.com/news/why-has-india-banned-e-cigaret...

Worth sharing and the reasons are justified atleast for me...

If you're looking such option for Android, you can check out Mull [1] which is available on F-Droid [2] as well and use it along with uBlock Origin.

[1]: https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix

[2]: https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.fennec_dos/

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