Paul Philippov

Creator of many amazing things including

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

political animeme #glorytoai

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

@AndrewKaufmanMD Or install Thingino and own your data.

[Tom's Hardware @tomshardware]

Firm quietly boosts H.264 streaming license fees from $100,000 up to staggering $4.5 million — backbone codec of the internet gets meteoric increase, AVC hikes follow disastrous H.265 licensing increases https://t.co/8xk7evhBDH

[gabbi @gabbisoong]

i built https://t.co/8dtoS1BdDx to solve this issue!!

arcotype sorts all of the 2000+ fonts on google fonts for the first time by visual similarity + vibe tagging for easier browsing & searching

no more defaulting to inter anymore haha

[Rebane @rebane2001]

did you know that SSH has a little-known secret menu?

i wrote a post about this on cohost a while back, but since that site shut down i'm posting it here too

[Mambo Italiano @mamboitaliano__]

Italian intelligence

Beat this 🇮🇹😅

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

Got an email from donotreply@ address. You wish! I did not even read.

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

With thingino, you can make your wyze doorbell play it on a motion detection.

[T. Bernadetti @MrsRoyKeaneo]

My new "ring door bell" song.

Turn it up!😂

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

I hate this timeline.

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

With Thingino, I give you back a part of the freedom taken from you by mandatory cloud subscriptions. Be the owner of your hardware and your data.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Digital ID is the gateway to this life. This will 100% be our world if we don’t stand up and resist now!

This is not a drill. This is a clip from the chillingly brilliant sci-fi short, Utopia.

The film exposes a "paradise" where citizens use a government app to surveil and fine each other for minor infractions. It’s a world of sunny aesthetics and cheerful music, masking a horrifying surveillance state built on social punitiveness.

A terrifyingly sharp satire that feels only a click away from our own phone-saturated reality. A must-watch.

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

I just solved the strangest tech problem I've ever come across.

My wifi kept dropping packets, confirmed by ping. It would look something like the first image (packets dropping, then it comes back to life). After a while the connection would just stop working completely and drop all packets. If I turned my wifi off and on again, it would resume working normally.

I thought this was a problem with my router, cables or ISP, so I went through the usual troubleshooting processes: checking settings, swapping cables, powercycling, etc. nothing worked.

Eventually I started noticing that it would only happen when I sat in my office. I was taking a video meeting and it kept dropping segments of audio, making it hard to understand the other person.

I unplugged my laptop from my monitor + keyboard because I wanted to try walking into another room. Immediately, the video started working perfectly.

I thought it was because I was a few steps closer to my router - but that didn't really make sense because the router had always worked fine from that location.

I started thinking about what I'd changed in my desk setup recently, the only thing I could think of was when I changed from using a USB-C <-> DP cable for my monitor, to using a HDMI <-> HDMI cable.

I tried plugging my screen back in. Immediately, the packets started dropping. I unplugged it, the dropping stopped.

It turns out my HDMI cable doesn't have enough shielding, so it was jamming my own WiFi signal with radio frequency interference 🤯

I unrolled the HDMI cable that was sitting behind my laptop and draped the main length of the cord down behind my desk, and now my internet works perfectly.

Apparently this is a fairly common issue?!

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

@geerlingguy Check out https://t.co/bCePYMF0Gk

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

@AgileJebrim @FFmpeg I guess I've seen enough already. Lol.

[Paul Philippov @themactep]

@AgileJebrim @FFmpeg So, no code, right?