Show HN: Disable ACR on Sony Bravia TV's Without Rooting
https://github.com/joelio/bravia-guard
Note, I've only got one Sony TV so it's a limited sample set, but might be useful to some so sharing here. PR's welcome
_joel
Re:WTF Ubuntu?
on Monday November 02, 2026 @10:15AM (#50337926)
Switch to vanilla Debian. What I did, no real issues that weren't easy to fix. Rock solid still.
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?
on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:59AM (#50336887)
fwiw I've disabled ACR on my Sony Bravia, not the cleanest way but it's something useful perhaps if you already have one. https://github.com/joelio/bravia-guard
Re:Bones may release proteins that slow aging and extend life span
on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:21AM (#50335439)
God damn it Jim, I'm a calcium rich biological structure, not a doctor!
Re:OccupySaaS
on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:45AM (#50335196)
"Why Homer, your hands are so soft". It got dropped years ago, so safe to say, yea it's not very PC.
Re:Restrooms along the Norwegian Scenic Routes
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:28AM (#50325506)
As an Englishman I can confirm they are built like brick shithouses.
Re:Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:58AM (#50232978)
People still bought TV's when they were comparatively more expensive (hell we rented them here in the UK). I don't buy this line that "oh if you want a cheap TV...". No, it's an underhand tactic to try and justify adtech's creepy outreach.
Re:OBS Studio 33
on Saturday October 24, 2026 @08:51AM (#50220792)
Are you sure that's not time machine stomping all over it? You system might be snapshotting and having trouble at low disk space. Or if you're swapping a lot, then that could also be a reason?
Re:Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than publi...
on Friday October 23, 2026 @10:27AM (#50209661)
Yes, utility privatisation in the UK has been terrible for the consumer (and environment) too.
Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:39AM (#50179234)
It's Rails, currently at version 8. I don't think it's going anywhere soon.
Re:Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @07:26AM (#50179099)
Err yes, of course it does.
Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video]
on Monday October 19, 2026 @05:19PM (#50158220)
The next iteration is the drones removing those pesky humans from the command chain too :/
Re:I Built a Drone with Only One Motor [video]
on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:58PM (#50157954)
This is from the same guy (Joshua Bird) that built the 4 axis 3d printer (and special algo for it too) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEgwnhLHy3g
Re:I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @01:54PM (#50143508)
Direct drive, yes, also direct drill.
Watch out for the gear change, may end up in hammer action.
Re:The Commodore 64 hardware simulator: break chips and pins, see the ...
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:53AM (#50139892)
Paging Adrian Black
Re:Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @09:37AM (#50103536)
Snaps did it for me, that's when I moved away to plain Debian.
Re:Be The Onion's Hero for Once
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @04:45PM (#50047641)
They could have just lost them too, doesn't need to be nefarious.
Re:Decade-old RAM is making a comeback
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @01:28PM (#50045599)
Heh well, forget DDR4, DDR3 rides again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4c2FSSaCsw
Re:How I reverse engineered a commercial spatial audio effect
on Sunday October 11, 2026 @12:47PM (#50045153)
Yes, it's called impulse response, used to capture convolutional reverbs, to model "real" sound stages like a large hall or what have you
Re:Docker Agent
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:29AM (#50004090)
We're all typing in the same prompts
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @06:26AM (#50004074)
Oh, just like CSS did for DVD, lol.
Re:'Jonathan' Is the Oldest Land Animal on Earth
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @05:46AM (#50003782)
A greenland shark, just with lots of water on top of the land too.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:45AM (#49993591)
You also don't get Sony deciding to remove your access to already paid content. Bit difficult form them to physically come and steal it from your house, than change a row in a db.
Re:Show HN: A walkable 3D art history museum built from Wikipedia
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @10:23AM (#49993296)
Easily done if you leverage https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/stories/operation-night-watch/... - sure there are loads more museums that offer such a service now too.
Re:PS5 Jailbreaks Are Escalating at an Unprecedented Pace
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:53AM (#49992087)
Don't poke the bear then by trying to change the definition of ownership and making games download only.
Re:A font recreated from photographs of classic Commodore 64 keycaps
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @08:51AM (#49992053)
The readme is just a text file, the files are there, it doesn't take a genius to find them.
"How do I download the TTF". Well, use your brain.
Re:Nicholas Polson has authored 258 academic papers in 2026 (so far)
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:47PM (#49899301)
Polson - NoSlop
it was right in front of you :)
Re:Claude partial outage
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @10:51AM (#49894339)
Hey, it's 99.9 if you look at it upside down.
Re:ESP32S3 cluster running 1.58-bit (BitNet) Language model
on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:23AM (#49891377)
How many rollingupdate pods does it take to change a lightbulb?
Re:Fakecloud: Local AWS cloud emulator for integration tests
on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:22AM (#49866889)
Oh nice, not aware of this. We're opentofu on GCP, so could be a good addition to ci