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Liquix commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter

Am I missing something? I have a LG nano something TV that has many “smart” features, but I never let it connect to my WiFi ever. Since day 1 it has been hooked up to an AppleTV. Can I not buy any fancy smart TV in 2025 and use it as a dumb HDMI display for AppleTV?

Liquix · 2 days ago

the issue is that eventually SIM cards will be baked in to deliver ads and spyware; there will be no alternatives because everyone was fine with buying smart TVs and not connecting them to wifi.

see: Android's recent transformation into a closed platform which no longer allows users to control devices they purchase. it's important to fight against trends like this loudly and vehemently while we still can.

Liquix commented on CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork lwn.net/Articles/1024387/... · Posted by u/altilunium

Krasnol · 24 days ago

It is sad to see in discussions like this how ugly human behaviour can be. Many people work together to create something good and meaningful only for a few greedy individuals to exploit it.

I hope that one day, in a distant future, humanity will experience an awakening and finally rise against the destructive traits we inherited from our long-gone ancestors.

Maybe bio-hacking will come to our help...but probably it will make everything worse first.

Liquix · 24 days ago

uh, i think "related" is used a bit too loosely here...

Liquix commented on Adventures in upgrading Proxmox blog.vasi.li/adventures-i... · Posted by u/speckx

MallocVoidstar · 25 days ago

You told an LLM to generate three possible responses to HN articles and then just started pasting all three?

Liquix · 25 days ago

it seems like a bot or LLM "user", all their other comments feature the same broken quotes and nonsense responses

Liquix commented on Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship aclu.org/news/free-speech... · Posted by u/pabs3

lenerdenator · a month ago

This is why a real, committed FLOSS OS is needed for smartphones. Something like how Debian works. You have a non-commercial entity steering the project, it has a governance model, and the goal is to create something that ultimately, no one owns or can take full control over.

Liquix · 25 days ago

there are plenty of "real" open source mobile OSes. the issue is third party apps. if Debian couldn't run NGINX, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, it wouldn't matter how mature or solid the OS is, because 90% of software people want to run on a server doesn't work.

if FAANG apps and banking apps don't run on a mobile OS it will never be viable. the government, these big companies, and the device manufacturers all have a vested interest in making sure it never happens.

Liquix commented on Core Devices keeps stealing our work rebble.io/2025/11/17/core... · Posted by u/jdauriemma

gregbot · a month ago

What is this data that Core wants exactly? Are old pebble apps compatible with the new devices?

Edit: under what license did rebble scrape the app code? Couldn’t Core Devices scrape it from rebble under the same logic?

Liquix · a month ago

> ...Pebble Technology Corporation, went out of business and dropped support for the hundreds of thousands of Pebble smartwatches out there. Rebble – and our community! – put together a Herculean effort to salvage the data that was left on the Pebble app store.

> We’ve built a totally new dev portal, where y’all submitted brand new apps that never existed while Pebble was around.

> We’ve patched hundreds of apps with Timeline and weather endpoint updates. We’ve curated removal requests from people who wanted to unpublish their apps. And it has new versions of old apps, and brand new apps from the two hackathons we’ve run!

it sounds like Rebble scraped the original store, built a new API and storage layer, facilitated the publishing of new apps, and kept old apps updated when external changes would've rendered them otherwise unusable. then tried to work with Eric to reach an agreement where both parties could have a piece of the pie in the relaunch.

Liquix commented on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies angadh.com/inkhaven-7... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

ratelimitsteve · a month ago

mdma is pleasureful but extremely non-sedated

Liquix · a month ago

pure racemic MDMA has very little stimulant effect. street MDMA can feel stimulating because it is either intentionally mixed with caffeine/speed/meth or contains residual precursor from clandestine synthesis.

my major state was one of deep relaxation ... MDMA does not work like Dexedrine ... I feel totally peaceful.

- Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL

https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...

Liquix commented on Firefox expands fingerprint protections blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/ptrhvns

yborg · a month ago

In my case the single largest contributor to my fingerprint is ... canvas size. I run full screen with a custom Firefox setup that basically makes my canvas size unique :/ The "protection" Firefox uses for this is to always open a new window at a default size, which does nothing in my case since my toolbar config still makes the canvas size unique.

It would be really useful to have something that dithers the reported canvas size by 5 or 10 pixels in different containers to add noise there.

Liquix · a month ago

to defeat canvas size fingerprinting in firefox:

about:config -> set privacy.resistFingerprinting to true

about:config -> create new boolean key privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing set to true

this will set your canvas to a common size which fits in the viewport and display a grey "letterbox" border in the surrounding space.

Liquix commented on A.I. and Social Media Contribute to 'Brain Rot' nytimes.com/2025/11/06/te... · Posted by u/pretext

Mabusto · a month ago

I think we'll start to see AI as any other tool that can atrophy your natural faculties. You can use a wheelchair to get everywhere, but your leg muscles will start to wither, but a wheeled vehicle for going longer distances is a genuinely useful tool.

Reaching for AI as a _substitute_ for thinking is bad, but reaching for it as a tool to assist thinking is good; you just need to be honest about whether it's your brain in the driver's seat or the chat bot.

Liquix · a month ago

there seems to be a parallel with the industrial revolution - being fit and having muscles used to be the norm when everyone worked the fields all day. but now that grocery stores and sedentary jobs have made exercise optional. so choosing to pursue fitness signals to others that one is disciplined, takes pride in their appearance, etc.

i can see the next couple generations of AI agents causing the same effect on reading, critical thinking, and intelligence in general. thinking is no longer necessary with AI agents, so maybe cultivating one's ability to think will become optional/personal pursuits which send similar signals.