NoahZuniga's comments

On: TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe

[NoahZuniga]

> What they can't do is prevent you from deleting your DMs if you know you're under investigation and likely to be caught

If you are pretty confident your under investigation then this is might be Obstruction of Justice and that's pretty illegal.

On: Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral

[NoahZuniga]

Maybe an even better example: Should sports betting companies be held responsible for addicts that lose all their money? What really is the difference between chatgpt glazing you and a sports company advertising to you?

[vjvjvjvjghv → NoahZuniga]

I think in both cases they should be held responsible. Same for casinos. They know that they are driving people into the abyss.

On: Tunesia authoritative nameservers for .tn are down

[NoahZuniga]

Depending on your dns cache google.tn will resolve, but the root authoritative nameserver was down for a bit and is sending bad responses.

You can also try gov.tn

On: We Built a Video Rendering Engine by Lying to the Browser About What Time It Is

[NoahZuniga]

This wouldn't work for CSS/svg animations?

[geon → NoahZuniga]

That's what I thought, but the article says it does:

> The page behind that URL might use framer-motion, plain CSS animations [...]

And the code example does something with css:

`await seekCSSAnimations(currentTime); // sync CSS`

On: Show HN: Gapless.js – gapless web audio playback

[NoahZuniga]

It's not gapless on firefox latest.

[switz → NoahZuniga]

I run Firefox latest so it should work. There's always a risk when going from HTML5->Web Audio. There's an occasional blip that's impossible to avoid (or at least, I have never found a solution). It doesn't happen every time though. Try going from track 2 to track 3 in the second tab of the demo (if both are "READY" as web audio).

The problem with exclusively using the web audio API is that the entire track must be loaded into memory before playing it, whereas HTML5 loads progressively. So we use both to balance the techniques.

In prior versions of the library, we'd load the track in parallel to HTML5 and make the switch mid-track so it's actually far less noticeable even if it does blip. I'm considering adding that to the new version.

Another alternative is building a custom buffer using RANGE requests to exclusively drive it via the web audio API. But obviously that is a far more complex undertaking (and requires the server to support RANGE requests). I'm open to implementing it, though.

On: Seeking Advice on Improving OCR for Watermarked PDFs in My RAG Pipeline

[NoahZuniga]

I've had a lot of success doing "OCR" with gemini-<n>-pro. It gives incredibly accurate text (Most documents ~20 pages long have 0 errors), but no coordinates of the text. I don't need to coordinates so that's fine by me.

On: Nearby Glasses

[NoahZuniga]

> judge had for lunch

This would be a criminal matter, so a jury would have to decide if you're guilty. I feel like you'd have a hard time convincing 12 jurors that you're doing something wrong here.

On: Gemini 3.1 Pro

[NoahZuniga]

Output limit has consistently been 64k tokens (including 2.5 pro).

On: DNS-Persist-01: A New Model for DNS-Based Challenge Validation

[NoahZuniga]

DNS queries are still part of the critical path, as let's encrypt needs to check that the username is still allowed to receive a cert before each issuance.

On: uBlock filter list to hide all YouTube Shorts

[NoahZuniga]

This is not true. You can in fact block specific channels. From YouTube support[1]: > On certain pages, such as your Home and Watch Next pages, find a video from a channel that you don’t want recommended to you.

> Click More next to the video title.

> Select Don't recommend channel .

[1]: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6342839?hl=en

[calmbonsai → NoahZuniga]

This is also not true and hasn't been so for years. One can set a preference to "not recommend", but one can not explicitly block any channel.

Depending on your particular "preference constellation's weights" (over which you have no direct control), you can, in fact, be shown videos from that channel again.

[SoftTalker → calmbonsai]

Or they just launch another channel. I've had to block about a dozen channels by that bald bearded guy with the glasses.

[RsAaNtDoYsIhSi → SoftTalker]

The one with the really high quality crystal methamphetamine?

I actually liked him before he got gakked on the sauce.

[slater → SoftTalker]

VS__ce?

[driverdan → NoahZuniga]

You can block from recommendations but there's either a fixed length with the oldest bumped off or it resets. I have to reblock stuff all the time.

[587687646343767 → NoahZuniga]

I, too, believe anything Google says and deny the evidence in front of my eyes.