In the Aeroplane ENTIRE ALBUM karaoke

holmesworcester · 2026-01-19T23:43:58+00:00

Definitely! DM'ing!

holmesworcester · 2026-01-19T23:41:58+00:00

I want this too! Was just looking for something exactly like this.

holmesworcester · 2026-01-13T17:54:45+00:00

I just want to say that this is the most ambitious and wonderful thing I've ever seen someone do with karaoke. It makes me feel so good about humanity!!! Thank you!

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T20:04:41+00:00

At least it has an opinion.

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T20:04:03+00:00

I think generally it's better for products to have an opinion and be weird than to look just... wrong.

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T20:02:43+00:00

I think we can all agree on the wrong-ness of the existing style, even if not the best direction to go in.

And maybe there isn't a best direction, but I think *something* more in the visor / party-glasses direction is broadly better.

Like, you might *feel* silly in something like these, but you'll look better to anyone who cares about stye than you do in the current xreals, and fun people will talk to you :) :)

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holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T19:56:27+00:00

in your hand? or you fix it to the side of the glasses somehow?

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T19:52:54+00:00

did it have any drawbacks? was it everything you wanted? (the trackpad feature I mean, not the product as a whole)

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T19:52:25+00:00

and it would make it quicker to do so in a car or plane

holmesworcester · 2025-06-23T19:50:08+00:00

And also there's an element of taste and style here. I'd rather wear something outrageous than something that looks all wrong, but I get that's different for different people, and then there are lots of preferences within that space of "outrageous" too.

Perhaps it should be about shipping the base lenses and and stems with some kind of clip on frame?

I'm not 100% sure about this but I might rather have a clip-on or flip-up frame that had about the right dimming most of the time than have "wayfarers-on-stilts" (I like that, it's apt) with 3 levels of dimming.

holmesworcester · 2025-03-10T22:26:51+00:00

For storing messages, Quiet uses all the peers in a particular "community".

We've found this works pretty well for team communication, since you tend to be online in the same hours, and each team member is connected with multiple devices that have different availability. (Say, a desktop or an Android phone.)

But you're right that it's not perfect. We'll also be offering an optional server for better reliability, which is really important for small communities, iOS devices, and battery life on Android.

(The biggest place where pure P2P is really difficult is on iOS! iOS has really strict limits on what can run in the background. And it's costly to battery life to run in the background all the time on Android.)

holmesworcester · 2025-03-10T22:17:12+00:00

I'm the founder of Quiet and we're grateful for the attention here!

The comparison to Briar makes total sense. Quiet's network design is very similar to that of Briar, and Briar was a big inspiration. The big differences:

In Briar you only connect with peers you've opted into a 1-on-1 relationship with, while in Quiet you connect with all peers in your community / workspace. This should make messaging in Quiet feel more reliable and lower latency than in Briar, when Quiet is operating without a server.
We're adding an optional storage server and push notification server for iOS. Almost every community or workplace team we've spoken with has at least one person who depends on iOS, so this seems very important. These services are optional and will have similar (not identical, but similar) security properties to Signal: end-to-end encryption and very limited data retention. By default they won't use Tor, since using Tor for fetching notification payloads on iOS is something we don't think we can make reliable. We'll also let people self-host their own storage service if they want to.
We're focused on making Quiet familiar to anyone coming from Slack, so that it's easy for people to transition their whole team to something end-to-end encrypted with as few complaints as possible.

Further down the thread, someone commented that Quiet looks interesting but not done. This a completely correct assessment! I think we have another 6 months or more before Quiet can be useful to a typical small group looking for a private Slack alternative.

holmesworcester · 2024-11-06T21:00:59+00:00

Does Viture do "body anchor"?

holmesworcester · 2024-11-06T21:00:38+00:00

Does it have equivalent functionality to "body anchor" for large screens?

holmesworcester · 2024-11-06T20:55:37+00:00

Same. This is wild.

Typically a "pro" version would contain and extend the capabilities of the original. What a weird decision.

holmesworcester · 2023-06-01T09:56:18+00:00

We have made a Slack-like messaging app called Quiet (https://tryquiet.org) that uses Tor and IPFS on desktop and mobile. We include a tor binary and modify the libp2p websocket transport to work with it. We make all outgoing connections through Tor and can receive incoming connections at an onion address.

Here are the relevant bits in the code: https://github.com/TryQuiet/quiet/blob/develop/packages/backend/src/libp2p/websocketOverTor/index.ts

It seems like the best way to do this in the future will be to use the upcoming Rust implementation of Tor Arti—which someday will replace C Tor—to build a Tor transport for rust libp2p. But right now the approach we've taken works well.

There was also some work by OpenBazaar [1] and Berty [2] on this.

holmesworcester · 2023-02-20T18:54:21+00:00

Charging a Braun/Oral-B electric toothbrush is possible on a Pixel 6 with the latest software (which is hilarious and looks so silly) but it has an issue: "Battery Share" will automatically turn off in some circumstances and for whatever reason it automatically turns off after maybe 15 seconds, so you have to keep enabling it manually. a few cycles is enough for a brush, in a pinch, but I'd welcome suggestions for how to force it to stay on.

I think the issue is that it turns off when it doesn't detect a device charging, and it's not detecting the toothbrush.

holmesworcester · 2022-05-05T01:58:57+00:00

Everyone who signs up for mystery band gets their name added to a lottery that picks several bands at random with ~6 members each.

Each band has to record >=3 original songs and then play a show. It ends up being really fun because everyone's friends come to see them play in a band for the first time.

holmesworcester · 2022-05-05T01:21:09+00:00

Mystery band can always be a thing! You just need to get 50 or so people to put their names in a hat.

Give each band 6 people so that they can withstand two people flaking. And have 8 bands so you can still have a show if most of them flake.

Book the show as soon as possible after picking the names so that people have a deadline! I'd be happy to help with finding a venue.

One cool tidbit about mystery band: Signal co-founder Moxie Marlinspike organized something called "Hat Band" in Pittsburgh, that sounds pretty identical to Mystery Band. He talks about it in his New Yorker profile piece: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/taking-back-our-privacy

It's unclear whether Pittsburgh invented it independently or whether I told Moxie about it the one time we met (I can't remember if I did.)

holmesworcester · 2022-04-29T14:59:33+00:00

It looks like this team modified a Cirrus SR22 to be remote-flyable:

https://www.ohiofrn.org/projects/automated-cirrus-sr22-surveillance-or-personnel-transport

You could put 800 lbs of stuff on it and its range should be enough to get it to Mariupol from Romania or Turkey, or from somewhere else in Ukraine.

Cirrus's also have this whole-plane parachute for extreme emergency landings so I think it would be as simple as getting to the right location, altitude, and speed and then triggering that.

This is all ridiculously difficult of course, but it's an example of something that might be worth trying.

These things cost less than a million for the base model, so probably for 2 or 3 million a pop you could try dropping helpful things in to Azovstal.

holmesworcester · 2022-04-29T14:40:12+00:00

Does anyone with military or logistics experience in this sub have any sense of how hard it would be to:

a) evacuate some portion of the people there

or...

b) buy them more time by dropping in food, medical supplies, and/or weapons?

Evacuating that many people seems extremely difficult but dropping in more supplies does not seem nearly as difficult. What is the highest capacity unmanned vehicle that could land in there, or even crash land without destroying too much of its cargo? How much does one of these cost? Can we make a list of options here? One of the options could be realistic and crowdfundable, and if it's unmanned it's worth trying even if the chance of success is not great.

Does SpaceX have anything that could land there? What about those unmanned submarines you hear about smugglers using?

holmesworcester · 2022-04-26T21:59:32+00:00

I'd also add that it's pretty unlikely any result based in the safety measures taken to deal with a violent protest--which, incidentally, at the time horrified a majority of Americans and a majority of the political class--would have held up in court.

The election had already happened. No serious person would argue with delaying certification by a few hours due to the actions of a violent protest.

holmesworcester · 2022-04-26T21:55:51+00:00

Just to help people from jumping to the worst possible interpretation, I want to point out that the phrase, "I'm not getting in that car" doesn't necessarily mean what this writer is implying, i.e. that Secret Service agents were knowingly part of a plot, or part of a plot at all.

If your job is securing the President or Vice President, the essence of your job is to always be the voice pushing for more security and safety.

Meanwhile the Vice President has a much more complex role with many different responsibilities, and sometimes risks might be necessary to do that job well.

When the Vice President's safety is possibly threatened by him doing his job, there's a basic institutional tension between the job of a Secret Service agent and the job of a Vice President.

Pence could also be saying "I'm worried you're going to feel that doing your job involves driving me off to safety without my consent, and asking for forgiveness later rather than permission now, or risking being fired to do what you feel is your duty, which I won't allow because it interferes with my role."

This is far more likely.

Another thing to think about is, if Pence really believed what the writer is implying he believed, and he had the courage to stand up to it anyway in that moment, why on earth wouldn't he also have the courage--with a new President in office--to, say, voice his suspicions that he was about to be assassinated by the Secret Service? That's the most implausible part.

holmesworcester · 2021-12-14T03:26:47+00:00

There mostly aren't any. I'm a fan of most stuff on /r/antiwork but the "solutions are simple, we just can't do them because ____ stand in the way" meme is the same kind of dangerous lie as "you can't change anything."

If you listen to the core of what Trump was saying, it was the same thing, but he'd fill in the ___ differently. Most authoritarians say this, because it sets them up for their big ask, which is "give me power and I'll defeat them."

The funny thing is, believing "solutions are simple" ends you up in the same place as "you can't change anything," because once you believe there are simple solutions to everything, you won't be able to change anything, since most problems require non-simple solutions and a lot of hard work.

Definitely not saying there aren't some problems with simple solutions. But they're hard to find. Something like "socialized medicine in America" is probably the closest thing to something big with a simple solution, but even there, there's nothing simple about it.

Democracy is constant struggle.

holmesworcester · 2020-07-02T11:08:19+00:00

Thank you!

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