In this case, AI wasn't used for anything.

I believe that it was used to generate the post that you replied to.

AI driven/automated farming for kharma will only get worse...

The person you are replying to wrote that post.

I have been searching for something like this. I am immensely annoyed by ads on streaming services and will put forth an unreasonable effort to mute them before I spend another penny on streaming. I'd rather a one-time purchase for an offline ad-blocker/ad-muter.

These types of services almost seem squarely in the space of what governments should/could do with intelligent leadership.

It is probably not too late for a state-driven type of service layer like this from some rationally led government somewhere in the world.

> not too late for a state-driven type of service layer like this

We call it the postal service.

USPS should get into the business of running whitelabel warehouses?

I mean it seems to make good money

Should the government also get in the business of drilling for oil, or making medical products, because "it seems to make good money"?

It has nothing to do with intelligent leadership, but departments founded to prevent such things from happening are not doing their jobs. Basically civil servants prefer to not rock the boat and sail through to retirement.

This is a great app and will likely sell well if put in front of the right people.

Many people are far too picky and have expectations out of line with the rest of the world when it comes to software. Ignore those. There are plenty out there who will happily part with $3 for some entertainment to share with their pet.

You will never please everyone.

Requires google signin

As a reminder, lacolhost.com and all subdomains will forever resolve to localhost (well for as long as I'm around at least)

> (well for as long as I'm around at least)

Rather big caveat IMO. As a side note, your domain doesn't seem to have an AAAA record (which [.]localhost binds to by default on most of my machines, at least).

> As a reminder, lacolhost.com …

I’m assuming that typo is intentional?

Very curious if there's a way to use the accessibility features of Android TV to auto-mute when the ads appear. It's not worth it to pay for anything more than the lowest price plan here.

I'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 agree even just an auto mute functionality would go a long way.

People used to hack on this stuff decades ago. I suspect it's not as common now because for those who care (said hackers) they already cobble together some ad blockers and pi-holes. But ad delivery has stained so much daily life now they've sweetened the pot for a new generation of, not ad blockers, but... video shields?

I might have talked myself into tinkering on this. Curious what tools HN recommends.

In before someone floods this with ideas to chase the patent troll model

My gut says there are sharks circling this issue waiting to pounce once this storm passes. They want to see it gutted so they can strip the carcass to the bone and try to extract rent from half the internet.

Enshittification comes for everything, eventually.