Besides being a great project, this device reminds me a lot of the Technifant (https://technifant.de) which, under the hood, is similarly simple. The "hats" that you put on the Technifant contain a cheap USB thumb drive with the contacts soldered to a magnetic connector. All the audio is stored locally on the hat itself, and you can even add your own MP3 files with a cable provided by the manufacturer.
Readit Newscarpenecopinum commented on Boxie – an always offline audio player for my 3 year old mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/badlogic
carpenecopinum commented on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why? thefoggiest.dev/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/ingve
Isn't every Android phone a Linux phone? OK, i guess we want something that is less encumbered and more transparent with more digital sovereignty for the user than the Android that we get from the various big phone vendors.
What's the difference between an AOSP Android phone and a Linux phone? For me, there is no substantial difference. The Android based phone is likely to be way more usable the various "Linux phones". The linked article states "Linux phones and their apps are all open-source and do not depend on ads or surveillance to sustain some nefarious business model, which means there is much privacy to be won." but this also applies to AOSP Android devices with open source apps.
In other words: If you seek a Linux phone, why aren't you picking GrapheneOS or LineageOS? Is there anything else that's missing?
For me personally at least a few aspects about this are efficiency and control:
The number of CPU cycles my current android phone burns through just to boot and get ready to accept my "first useful input" is probably in the same order of magnitude as or higher than my old N900 would use for the entire day (600MHz single core vs. 8 cores at several GHz). Yet somehow the N900 could easily run quite a lot of things in parallel and would still react quickly to inputs, while I decided to get rid of my previous (still several times more powerful) phone because it would regularly hang for 10 more seconds without any good reason (also there were no more OS updates).
Also with the N900, I had control over every aspect of the system, I could easily script things in python without installing a huge app for it, which the OS would decide to randomly kill to save battery, etc.. Closest thing you can do on Android is root your phone and now every second app complains what a horrible person you are for wanting a bit more control over your own hardware.
That being said, I too eventually buckled to the fact that all the software you need to make a smartphone useful/entertaining is pretty much only available for Android and iOS. And the most realistic way to get "Android-compatibility" to a Linux phone is to just ship an entire Android build with it, due to how interwoven things are on Android.
carpenecopinum commented on Daily driving a Linux phone, but why? thefoggiest.dev/2025/04/2... · Posted by u/ingve
Anyone using PostmarketOS on a phone? And I mean as a daily driver, with no other phone. I have been following it for years and would like to switch someday, but that moment hasn't happened yet.
Currently I use Sailfish from Jolla on a Sony phone. For a linux phone, it serves my needs. I would be open to change.
I have a OnePlus 6 becoming "free" soon and I will definitely give PostmarketOS a shot (I had a glance at their compatibility list and noticed the OP6 is on there). Thanks for bringing this to my attention!
carpenecopinum commented on Show HN: DataFuel.dev – Turn websites into LLM-ready data datafuel.dev/... · Posted by u/sachou
It is the responsibility of the user. Everyone should be responsible for their own actions. We still allow knives to be sold, and most people use them for good.
Now imagine that knife stabbings became so common that almost everyone started wearing body armor and you start selling body armor defeating knives explicitly. I can honestly see why most people would be upset about that.
After living in 2 EU countries and the UK for decades, I don't think I've ever seen a political ad on any Google product (and even overall?).
It's probably a very minor impact to Google's ad bottom line.
In a roughly two-week window of not having adblock enabled, I have seen a ton of "politics-adjacent" ads in Germany. They'd usually start off with something that will get right-wing nuts excited ("This Green Party politician ruined their career, learn more.") and will then pivot to some crypto-scam.
I'm wondering if those will be affected by the new ban as well, or if crypto scams aren't political enough to apply.
carpenecopinum commented on Starting today, YouTube is almost unusable on Firefox old.reddit.com/r/youtube/... · Posted by u/3371
Imo, it's just too difficult to maintain compatibility through a natural language specification.
Things like browsers need some kind of open source reference implementation to act as a spec to maintain interoperability.
1) I'm reasonably confident that this issue is not an accident. Better compatibility / better specs won't help here, I'm afraid.
2) A reference implementation for browser-features is an insanely complex project. Already there are effectively only two entities on the entire planet who can produce a browser that is reasonably close to the current spec. If you forced a reference implementation to exist, it'd probably just end up being Chrome(ium), which is arguably an even worse situation than where we are now.
carpenecopinum commented on Spot the Drowning Child (2015) spotthedrowningchild.com/... · Posted by u/EndXA
How to get more than one click without restarting? ANd how to to see the answer?
In most videos, there'll be a whistle-blow that marks the point where the life guard in the video reacts to the drowning person. Upon clicking the right location, you are "graded" based on how quickly relative to the life guard you reacted. You get the "answer" by looking at who is getting rescued.
In my case, it started with a video that appears to be broken (?) the video just ended without any life guard reaction, but you can hit "Play Another Video" which appears afterwards.
Or just use ints and encrypt them when you want to return them to the user.
I like the general idea, but the page you linked explicitly states that it isn't meant to be used to hide (user) IDs, or actually encrypt data.
I have to admit that those dark patterns on Amazon already saved me a good amount of money. For every order, I have to confirm that I don't want Prime (an estimated) 3 times now. Usually between the second and third click I'm reminded that I should shop around and to look for a better deal elsewhere (and usually there is one).
In that sense, thanks for your greed, Jeff.
carpenecopinum commented on Is the US trying to kill crypto? bbc.com/news/business-658... · Posted by u/activiation
"Is the US trying to enforce pre-existing financial regulation on Crypto in the US?"
fixed that crappy title for you! and no need to read, the answer is "Yes."
Which basically means the same thing, as the main use of crypto right now is to avoid financial regulation.