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oli-g commented on We're bringing Pebble back repebble.com/... · Posted by u/erohead

This is great news. In the last few years, I have upgraded my apple watch couple of times hoping to accept even marginal improvements to battery life and hackability but every time I stop using it seeing how it's still not what I am looking for.

I tried keeping my pebble alive for so long even after it's demise, I bought 2 Pebble Time when a few were still available on ebay.

I remember writing my first integration from scratch to control room lamp using my Pebble watch. I hacked it together by getting a wifi socket and programming a web-server hosted on my raspberry-pi.

Here is the DEMO video I made 8 years ago: https://vikashbajaj.com/pebble.mp4

My pebble watch would call an app on my phone, in turn the app would make a request to the webserver and the webserver would then make a query to the wifi socket to toggle it.

It lagged a bit but it got the job done. I could connect anything to these wifi sockets and control any appliance with my Pebble time. This was before hackable smart hubs were a thing.

oli-g · a year ago

> My pebble watch would call an app on my phone, in turn the app would make a request to the webserver and the webserver would then make a query to the wifi socket to toggle it

When you ask your programmer husband to turn on the light

oli-g commented on Fabric is an open-source framework for augmenting humans using AI github.com/danielmiessler... · Posted by u/kristianpaul

shadowgovt · 2 years ago

For what it's worth, I definitely want to automate my job. If I'm not writing code that is supposed to put me yesterday out of a job, it doesn't matter whether I'm wasting my employer's money; I'm wasting my one finite shot at this planet.

oli-g · 2 years ago

And once you reclaim your one finite shot at this planet, who's gonna pay for your dinner?

oli-g commented on Sheryl Crow: 'Resurrecting Tupac with AI Is Hateful' bbc.com/news/articles/cn0... · Posted by u/belter

tokai · 2 years ago

Hateful can mean "unpleasant; dislikable; distasteful:"[0] or "having or showing a desire to cause someone pain or suffering"[1]. For me its you that is intentionally loading the word.

[0] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/hateful

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hateful

oli-g · 2 years ago

One of the sources you provided has only one, clear, obvious definition: one that applies 99% of the time, and aligns with how they (and me, and I can assure you, every single reader of BBC.com) interprets the word.

The other source has practically the same definition listed as the top one, providing two alternatives, one of which is practically synonymous, and another showing an obscure alternative which is new to me and almost makes sense in the example sentence.

Yet they're loading the word.

Therefore sorry, but for me it's you who comes off as hateful. As in, unpleasant; dislikable [1]#2 :D

oli-g commented on A useful front-end confetti animation library github.com/catdad/canvas-... · Posted by u/blini2077

jjice · 2 years ago

She said no - but we went on to be great friends still to this day, so I'd say it did work. We joke about it still.

oli-g · 2 years ago

That's nice :)

I'm curious though - did you use tabs or spaces?

oli-g commented on Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data foundation.mozilla.org/en... · Posted by u/skilled

bee_rider · 2 years ago

It has been apparent for quite a while that these privacy-violation-as-a-service companies will suck up and monetize every bit of info you give them. But people seem to keep using them for whatever reason. I think it is totally nuts, but for some reason people just don’t seem to care.

oli-g · 2 years ago

> for whatever reason

If you pointed a gun to my head, I'm pretty sure I could think of a reason why someone would want to use Tinder.

oli-g commented on OpenVoice: Versatile instant voice cloning research.myshell.ai/open-... · Posted by u/ulrischa

Narishma · 2 years ago

There's a Black Mirror episode about something like that, though I don't remember the details.

oli-g · 2 years ago

Yup, "Be Right Back", S2E1

And possibly another one, but that would be a spoiler

oli-g commented on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform scuttlebutt.nz/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

losvedir · 2 years ago

Why? I think it's a fine name, better than most, because it's a normal English word that says exactly what it does / what it's for. You're not just saying that because the word happens to end in "butt" are you? Or am I missing something?

oli-g · 2 years ago

> You're not just saying that because the word happens to end in "butt" are you?

They're saying precisely that and they're 100% right, and it seems you're missing a lot of things.

It's a social network. Its only value is in it having people using it and coming back.

Just try and imagine any person in your IRL circles (who's not on HN) actually using a social network with butt in its name. I seriously can't believe you see no issue there whatsoever. A teenager. A young artist. A YouTuber. "Follow me on TikTok, Instagram, Scuttlebutt and Poopypants". I dare you to find a creator willing to say these words.

Or if you just hang out with smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-ages people who see past these things, then great, we have a new "social network" for smart, like-minded tech-savvy middle-aged people.

oli-g commented on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform scuttlebutt.nz/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

rglullis · 2 years ago

I get not liking a name, but to pass judgement on the quality of a product/project based on its name alone seems like a complete midwit thing to do.

oli-g · 2 years ago

When it's a DB layer, sure.

When it's a social network?

"Hey guys, have you seen Dave's new post on Poopypants?"

oli-g commented on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform scuttlebutt.nz/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

jrm4 · 2 years ago

Upvoting because I'm also the guy who understands that, similarly, GIMP will never be big as it should be.

oli-g · 2 years ago

I wanted to hate on it, but I just downloaded the latest version and I see that after like 20 years, they finally realized that each tool window doesn't have to be a separate application.

Good for them, for once I might be able to try actually try it.

oli-g commented on Scuttlebutt social network: a decentralised platform scuttlebutt.nz/... · Posted by u/p4bl0

Solvency · 2 years ago

Everyone here is focused on the tech and I'm here wondering how I'm supposed to convince my friends and family to join me on something called Scuttlebutt.

oli-g · 2 years ago

Someone at last, thank you!!