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New comment by thakoppno in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

thakoppno — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:20:36 +0000

> processing is not recording

Debatable and definitely semantic - at the very least this requires putting the audio into a buffer, so a newly mallocd block of memory. Sure, it’s not a recording in a conventional sense, but it is a copy of data.

New comment by thakoppno in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

thakoppno — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:55:16 +0000

The World Cup is broadcast in many different languages with the same video feed. That’s likely one of the main reasons audio fingerprinting is better than video. You also get better idea of the target demographics language preferences and that leads to more relevant advertisements.

New comment by thakoppno in "What I learned selling 2,500 MIDI recorders: Hardware is not so hard"

thakoppno — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:51:48 +0000

> Imagine we had that for software - "your JS is too big, you can't ship until you get it under 50 kB".

We’re one decade into cookie banners and privacy regulations by jurisdiction. There’s some vague similarities with interference here.

New comment by thakoppno in "Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone"

thakoppno — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 21:18:01 +0000

either way, maybe a portent for the times.

apple’s secrecy agenda has been defeated to an extent by the practicalities of ubiquitous technology?

New comment by thakoppno in "How we can reduce traffic congestion"

thakoppno — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:32:29 +0000

One factoid about Norman Mailer: he stabbed his wife.

New comment by thakoppno in "Has_not_been_viewed_much"

thakoppno — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 01:00:04 +0000

there’s probably some decent arguments on how to implement this.

New comment by thakoppno in "Alan Greenspan has died"

thakoppno — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:38:28 +0000

Chaos theory and all but my career in tech doesn’t happen without haxor economist. My Econ major collided with it somehow and a year later ended up with a CS degree.

New comment by thakoppno in "How does Shazam work?"

thakoppno — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 05:07:12 +0000

I was thinking more like interactive content. Do you remember when VH1 had a pop-up music video show?

Shows could synchronize additional content that’d be visible when Shazam mode enabled.

New comment by thakoppno in "How does Shazam work?"

thakoppno — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 04:39:59 +0000

Perhaps obviously this is the same technique that enables ACR on TVs.

It occurs to me that Shazam has such a better reputation online because the intent and consent of the user is honored.

It makes me wonder if there couldn’t be an implementation on TVs that is similar and actually is a net positive for consumers. Basically would customers actually like TV ACR if the data wasn’t just going to sell more ads?

New comment by thakoppno in "How does GPS work?"

thakoppno — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:23:52 +0000

This is likely the first time I wish a page requested GPS sensor permission. It would make the visualizations even more compelling.

New comment by thakoppno in "Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)"

thakoppno — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:54:58 +0000

> on his last show on the Tonight Show, he told his audience to be kind and work hard

Conan really handled that disaster with tremendous grace and it paid immediate dividends. I can’t really think of a similar situation in popular culture. It is a good reminder of how to handle oneself especially during turmoil.

New comment by thakoppno in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"

thakoppno — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:38:54 +0000

it’s the claim of it being a file system that’s throwing me. obviously nbd but maybe my mental models broken again.

New comment by thakoppno in "Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout"

thakoppno — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:22:57 +0000

> Satellite TV uses a file system called an MPEG transport stream that allows multiple audio, video, or data layers to be packaged into a single stream file.

Interesting read but that part really made me question my own sanity. It’s probably just lost in translation.

New comment by thakoppno in "Apple App Store threatened to remove Grok over deepfakes: Letter"

thakoppno — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:49:43 +0000

So much of the Internet is pay-walled now.

It’s sad. It never occurred to me we’d get here.

New comment by thakoppno in "How Passive Radar Works"

thakoppno — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:24:15 +0000

It seems to me this makes broadcast towers targets.

New comment by thakoppno in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

thakoppno — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:48:49 +0000

There’s no bottom to this line of reasoning, however.

One can always suppose the identified individual is a double, triple, quadruple agent.

New comment by thakoppno in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

thakoppno — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:36:58 +0000

Micro machines guy could be vibe coding at an absurd rate.

New comment by thakoppno in "IBM, sonic delay lines, and the history of the 80×24 display (2019)"

thakoppno — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:41:40 +0000

One theory I saw argued the punch card size was the reason for 80x24. But why were punch cards that size? They were designed off of the cards used for the census. Why were the census cards that size? Because they were modeled after the dollar bill size.

I do love thought experiments like this but do believe they’re insatiably unresolvable.

New comment by thakoppno in "When internal hostnames are leaked to the clown"

thakoppno — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 06:19:15 +0000

> the Internet is a bad place

FWIW - it’s made of people

New comment by thakoppno in "California invests in battery energy storage, leaving rolling blackouts behind"

thakoppno — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 05:18:31 +0000

> the URL slug

when will it replace the headline in editorial importance?