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crazysimon Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%

Maybe the same way Steve Jobs did the no plate thing. Maybe he just keeps cycling them. Might even send them to the labs at Ford for destructive analysis after each one is legally done.

crazysimon Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

"It’s a testament to their persistence that they’re managed to keep this up for over 10 years, and I for one will be buying Denis/Masha/whoever a well deserved cup of coffee."

https://gyrovague.com/2023/08/05/archive-today-on-the-trail-...

And one where the author's cool with whoever is running archive.today.

crazysimon I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

What I mean is that it should ignore permissions on external ext4 by default in Desktops.

crazysimon I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

Can't it just do what I _mean_ if it's a Desktop install and mount it like ntfs, udf, or etc?

crazysimon Allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15

Wireless Android Auto or Carplay generally use BT to setup but WiFi to send the bulk of the graphical data over.

That said, there are adapters to make an existing Android Auto Wireless if you want it. I think some are sold on Amazon too so you could probably try and maybe return. I don't have any experience with them since I'm very happy with my car's built in wired Android Auto and the reliability of cabling but it is something you can try.

crazysimon IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world

As GitHub keeps Azureifying, it'll be interesting to see if this changes.

crazysimon Show HN: Ez FFmpeg – Video editing in plain English

Gifski (https://gif.ski/) might be a good alternative to look to that's gif-pallete aware.

crazysimon OpenSCAD is kinda neat

Apparently the nightlies are the one to use. At least, they build it for Apple Silicon in those.

crazysimon No more O'Reilly subscriptions for me

For those curious about the ACM membership: https://www.acm.org/membership/membership-options

crazysimon Trying out Gemini 3 Pro with audio transcription and a new pelican benchmark

Since Gemini seems to be sucking at timestamps, perhaps Whisper can be used to help ground that as an additional input alongside the audio.

crazysimon Improved Gemini 2.5 Flash and Flash-Lite

Maybe the same reason why they kept the name for the 2.5 Flash update.

People are lazy at pointing to the latest name.

crazysimon Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link

Some of them support it but not all.

crazysimon TikTok has turned culture into a feedback loop of impulse and machine learning

It got Kodak'd.

crazysimon GitHub pull requests were down

It was probably just an example.

crazysimon OpenIPC: Open IP Camera Firmware

https://thingino.com/

I love how the front page doesn't scream SOCs/SOMs to you and is just straight up here's the compatible cameras with pictures (with some SOM info below).

crazysimon The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million

I wouldn't be surprised if the bills themselves are marked with specimen or something on the non-visible side. Maybe they're also artificially worn bills produced during bringup or testing.

crazysimon Modifying an HDMI dummy plug's EDID using a Raspberry Pi

I think multiviewer might have been a synonym for that.

I wonder if the chips on these dummy plugs are powerful enough to hack in HDCP support though.

crazysimon is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

I'm just curious how _low_ can you go before it does go wrong.

crazysimon Is-even-ai – Check if a number is even using the power of AI

How reliable is this? I'm half joking too but I wouldn't mind reading a report comparing this on OpenAI and various other LLMs.

Somehow I doubt it'll be 100%... right?

crazysimon Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

Issue is, you kinda have a agent 007, sort of setup with the advanced data protection thing. I think you need an appropriate solution.

crazysimon Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days

Do you think it's possible to jiggle it ala mouse jigglers and USB jigglers?

crazysimon Memory safety for web fonts

It also saved licensing costs to MPEG-LA too I guess.

crazysimon OpenAI O3-Mini

Is it possible people are voting for speed of responsiveness too?

crazysimon Track your devices via Apple FindMy network in Go/TinyGo

My partner and I are also Android only and honestly, I'm thinking about simply picking up a smashed up iPhone 11 or 12 mini and exclusively relegating it for precision finding needs with AirTags.

I don't think there will be equivalent alternatives, at least not ones with ultra wideband precision location functionality, availability, acceptable price, and robustness.

On the other hand there does seem to be some UWB support in some Android that might work with Tile's UWB: https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-enable-uwb-on-android-a...

crazysimon Microsoft didn't sandbox Windows Defender, so I did (2017)

https://gist.github.com/lelegard/8da0b20cc35708852c14fcf8996...

Just run

Get-ChildItem @( "C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientTools-Package.mum", "C:\Windows\servicing\Packages\Microsoft-Windows-GroupPolicy-ClientExtensions-Package.mum" ) | ForEach-Object { dism.exe /online /norestart /add-package:"$_" }

crazysimon YouTube now flooding your ad-block with "fake" ads that slow the browser

That isn't. But it's an example of how influential they are.

crazysimon YouTube now flooding your ad-block with "fake" ads that slow the browser

The more serious issue here is that other sites will use what YouTube is doing as a license to do this. It's happened before. YouTube was instrumental in kicking off the acceptance of killing IE6.

crazysimon Pwning a Brother labelmaker, for fun and interop

Been printing on my D610BT from my Mac via BT since I got it. Very handy as I don't need to fumble for a cable anymore.