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Makes sense, it was launched in 2021


Thought the same thing, and agree completely with jiggawatts. Troy does very well off the back of this relationship, and on that note I hate how confusing the marketing language of "Microsoft Regional Director and MVP" is.


Wow! Didn't hear about this. What test did you get done? I'm hoping it wasn't whole genome or exome?


It wasn't an actual DNA test, but the military takes blood samples of every recruit. I'm referring to this hack:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...

edit: the relevant text is below

> The data breach compromised highly sensitive 127-page Standard Form 86 (SF 86) (Questionnaire for National Security Positions).[8][18] SF-86 forms contain information about family members, college roommates, foreign contacts, and psychological information. Initially, OPM stated that family members' names were not compromised,[18] but the OPM subsequently confirmed that investigators had "a high degree of confidence that OPM systems containing information related to the background investigations of current, former, and prospective federal government employees, to include U.S. military personnel, and those for whom a federal background investigation was conducted, may have been exfiltrated."


Saw this tweet the other day that helped me understand just how crazy PDF parsing can be

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1955355127818358929.html


There are a few other reasons why PDF parsing is Hell! > https://unstract.com/blog/pdf-hell-and-practical-rag-applica...


I too thought it was a joke, then the comments made me doubt myself


I tried looking up his blog post history to get a sense of his style. This is his first blog post, so the jury is still out.


My side project now is a websockets based dashboard that acts as a todo list for my easily distracted children in the morning. The tv remote is an lg one that can be used as a mouse, and they pop the tasks on the screen. I used chatgpt to generate some kawaii style stickers (think big eyes and sparkes). They love it. The reward is (in the morning at least) however many Blueys they can watch before the predetermined departure time.

A few improvements to go, but from what I hear from other parents (without raising it) is that they'd take advantage of something like this.


Sounds very cool! Are you displaying this on a dedicated screen or using an app on a lg tv?


Just using the TV web browser. Do you have kids? Mine are so easily distracted in the mornings. It spawned from the bewilderment of them having so few jobs to do in the morning (compared to us parents) and the complete lack of focus



Hopefully OP is going to give them some (a lot of?) money, considering there's a promiment link to Product Hunt that says "Launching soon", and nothing on today's Internet is made just for fun anymore, but for $$$$.

Oh yeah the ATC radio is also directly from liveatc.net servers, which says on their site: "NOTICE: Third-party use of LiveATC live audio streams is prohibited." and this site probably violates many points on https://www.liveatc.net/legal/ (unless, OP did get their permission to do this...).


OpenAI et al have taught us that breaking millions of website ToCs is completely meaningless.

Soma rightfully seem to have just enabled CORS though after seeing this traffic spike.

Edit: And now OP just started proxying around it, hilariously adversarial when embedding a donation-based service.


This appears to be

SomaFM https://somafm.com/groovesalad/

plus

LiveATC https://www.liveatc.net


Ah, that explains the good music selection!


Yeah these days I just go to LiveATC and start my own choice of music before I start my day. I used LofiATC and it gave me this hobit.

Judging by what happened to LofiATC though, it seems LiveATC was not fond of this kind of things.


That's some strange UX! Usually a drop down without a button would be associated with an affirmative choice in this day and age.


I agree, I would add a default "nothing" entry in the drop down and enable both ATC feed and the music when an option is clicked.


Will try to enhance that one, thanks for sharing feedback


That or move the toggle up closer to the drop down, though then you have to consider moving the volume slider


I don't think it's that low of a bar. Threads benefited from easy account creation and promotion from Instagram (2b MAU?)

Bluesky started from word of mouth invite only


Yeah, getting anywhere near what the major tech companies are capable of should be understood as a triumph.

Does anyone remember now Spoutible? Substack Notes? How about Spill, Hive, or Post? Being even with in anything approximating striking distance of Threads would have been a triumph for any of them.


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