Love it! A piece of the sort of Internet that's largely gone missing. If anything I wish it could automatically add to playlists.
Bop Spotter
371–380 of 405 posts
Re: Bop Spotter
#372I love everything about this. There is this undercurrent to our technology landscape. A kind of subculture somewhere in the locus of the hackersphere where a kind of punk-rock ethos rules the roost. I can only describe it as a live exploration of concepts _through_ technology, where functional fixedness is a foreign concept, including in the shared experience of social construct; everything becomes parts to be remixe…
.
..
Re: Bop Spotter
#373Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
Looks like someone's done it:
12:36 AM Flores LATIN MAFIA
12:36 AM Never Gonna Give You Up Rick Astley
12:32 AM El F Natanael Cano & Junior H
Re: Bop Spotter
#374Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's so cool, I gotta check out this Tasker thing! >when it boots again Do any Android phones turn on automatically when sufficiently charged? The ones I've had stay switched off but with a little battery charging animation. (I think my old iPhone auto powered on when charged past a certain percentage though.)
I used an old Motorola phone for this, and yes, if it dies it won’t turn back on again until the power button is pressed. I Googled around and there’s a way to disable this behavior though, through an ADB command. The bad part is that it supposedly might get stuck in a boot loop – it tries to boot but there’s not enough battery yet, so it dies and keeps trying to boot. Over and over. I made a second Tasker automation…
Interesting. The "power on when charging" thing appears to be a flag you can set, but not all brands support it.
Re: Bop Spotter
#375TIL about Shot Spotter
Oh yeah its been around for a long time.
Re: Bop Spotter
#376Re: Bop Spotter
#377For what it's worth, this is on page 6 for all-time HN everything, so congrats, Walz. Also, I'm curious how this would be different in other cities. What are the most commonly played songs? How does this differ from the typical lists (Billboard, for instance)? There's so much data here!
Re: Bop Spotter
#378Appreciate the website style. Reminds me of C&C for some reason or one of the OG RTS games - can't remember which one.
Re: Bop Spotter
#379Alright, who wants to go wardriving around the mission with me, blasting Never Gonna Give You Up?
Someone did it - October 1st 12:36AM
https://x.com/fulligin/status/1841022534848036949/photo/1
> As of 12:30am PST I have located the Box and successfully executed a Rickroll Injection Attack on the target system. Out of respect for the artist I will not be revealing the Box's location, but for any veteran Mission resident only a couple obvious locations exist.
Re: Bop Spotter
#380Earlier quoted context omitted.
Space-filling curve with a single song sequence? … Non-Euclidean space-filling curve, technically, because it has to fit the city grid topology. Large phased-array speaker on a stationary balloon platform above the city, capable of rapidly scanning and blasting every telephone pole in the neighborhood?
Someone out there asking google maps to plot them a Hilbert curve through San Francisco.
Someone out there with raw access to the underlying graph data for Google Maps plotting a Hilbert curve through San Francisco.