Readit NewsI've looked multiple times for something like this that I could load onto my nvidia shield, but nothing seems to exist.
There is a tool available for chromecast that works very well, but my ideal solution would be an app I can load onto the shield that auto-mutes during ads and un-mutes when the ads are finished.
If I didn't already have my hands full with side projects, I'd dig into this on my own time.
Can you point me to that chromecast tool or tell how it worked?
I'm in the process of releasing a video player with adblocker for live IPTV on android that can definitely auto-mute the whole adbreak for you if you watch the stream in the player (see my previous comment for link).
But if you are suggesting a system-wide mute triggered by a dormant app as another live broadcast plays in some official app then that's easier in some respects and harder in others because people need to trust the data is accurate. Once we have enough users sharing accurate adbreak data (powered by accurate software with human corrections) we can offer a system-wide mute for ads in any other app playing those known broadcasts.
I'm surprised we haven't seen the "AI-powered" uBlock Origin of video yet. Not blocking by the web request but rather by analyzing the video signal itself.
Or even a nice appliance-tier solution. I want to buy an HDMI splitter that when it sees an ad coming through Input 1, switches to Input 2. Switches back to Input 1 when its over.
For folks still stuck with cable TV this is Nobel Prize territory.
We've built an android video player that lets you adblock live IPTV [1]. It does exactly as you describe and more. Just endlessly avoids ads going from A->B->C->A and helps you update what plays instead of ads with ease. A passive hardware solution is certainly the endgame, we got enamored with adblock at the codec level as lets us add all the extra worthwhile UI features that should be inside of an innovative linear TV player.
[1]: https://relaxoplayer.com - join waitlist for link to beta apk.
theage commented on Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source obtainium.imranr.dev/... · Posted by u/janandonly
Your app is a massive target, if your domain or web server is taken over, what implications would this have on the end users using your app (if any)?
If it's a social app users should worry about account take over making you look bad/illegal or tricking you to enter your password to other OAUTH accounts. Privacy implications etc. Similar to if the app owner changed hands to someone trying to milk it. As always you be suspicious of any permission asks to limit damage in these cases.
theage commented on Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source obtainium.imranr.dev/... · Posted by u/janandonly
Would prefer everything is hosted on GitHub to reduce the attack surface. But this is cool!
Github reserve the right to stop serving those release downloads at any time. They usually just kick you off entirely if your project gets unwanted attention. I don't see them allowing revanced (modded popular social apps) forever so we still need a better way to trust outside that touch and go easy relationship.
theage commented on Obtainium: Get Android App Updates Directly from the Source obtainium.imranr.dev/... · Posted by u/janandonly
Finally, a no nonsense Auto-App-Updater App! if only sites would include a version number somewhere on the download page so obtainium could find it. Looking at you https://grayjay.app (it doesn't seem to work for partial file hash either so I had to turn auto updates off for this one)
We sorely need 1:1 replacement of app store trust and discovery mechanisms too without any kafka-esque approval hoops. Obtainium app config sharing and perhaps a standard for APK release webpages would be a great first step towards that.
theage commented on Google Illuminate: Books and papers turned into audio illuminate.google.com/hom... · Posted by u/leblancfg
The choice of intonement even mimics creatives which I'm sure they'll love. The vocal fry, talking through a forced smile, bumbling host is so typical. Only, no one minds demanding better from a robot so it's even more excruciating fluff with no possible parasocial angle.
Limiting choice to frivolous voices is really testing the waters for how people will respond to fully acted voice gen from them, they want that trust from the creative guild first. But for users who run into this rigid stuff it's going to be like fake generated grandma pics in your google recipe modals.
theage commented on Ask HN: Wouldn't it be cool to have a Supabase for SQLite? · Posted by u/thenorthbay
for dev there is already pg-lite server (postgres as nodejs/wasm) you can spin up, it's self-contained single-folder db to disk, 100MB RAM thingy. Highly experimental. Not sure if supabase codebase is setup for debugging the way you suggest.
For prisma/nodejs devs who just want postgres-in-a-can for local dev you are better off using the recently released serverizing of pglite, pglite-server: https://github.com/kamilogorek/pglite-server
It's faster, can persist data to fs, though less stable under heavy use than the full x86 emu e2e test server. I found pglite-server uses only 150MB ram compared to 830MB for pgmock-server. You can then use dotenv to checkout a new .env.local with updated DATABASE_URL for all your nextjs/prisma package.json run scripts
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/awesomeproject"
"db:pushlocal": "dotenv -e .env.local -- pnpm prisma db push"
I run an adblock app as well so it's hard to begrudge anyone trying to gain undeserved significance for their thing - when some invention is new who is to say what is deserved unless the right people know about it?
Whilst you might be able to block the ads for now you can't block the downslide of polite society that largely accepts the techniques into their lives and keeps them in their back pocket.