Yes, but I guess it includes the "payment check" in the pre-built releases? Not sure but perhaps

DiCoW-v2 seems to work better than whisperX for diarization, by the way.

https://pccnect.fit.vutbr.cz/gradio-demo/

I have used whisperX with success in a variety of languages, but not with diarization. If the goal is to use the transcript for something else, you can often feed the transcript into a text LLM and say "this is an audio transcript and might have some mistakes, please correct them." I played around with transcribing in original language vs. having whisper translate it, and it seems to work better transcribing in the original language, then feeding into an LLM and having that model do the translation. At least for french, spanish, italian, and norwegian. I imagine a text-based LLM could also clean up any diarization weirdness.

I'm using VoiceInk which is great and open-source (free if you build it yourself!)

Won't too much fast charging deteriorate the battery health faster?

It is unfortunate that modern web development has led to websites so complex that they either break entirely or look terrible in text-based browsers like Lynx. Take Mastodon, for example:

  $ lynx https://mastodon.social/
  […]
  To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript.
  Alternatively, try one of the native apps for Mastodon for your
  platform.

The C2 Wiki does not load either:

  $ lynx https://wiki.c2.com/
  […]
  javascript required to view this site
                   why

To their credit, at least they use the <noscript> tag to display the above notices. Some websites don't even bother with that. But there are many old school websites that still load fine to varying degrees:

  lynx https://danluu.com/            # Mostly okay but some needed spaces missing
  lynx https://en.wikipedia.org/      # Okay, but a large wall of links on top
  lynx https://irreal.org/blog/       # Renders fine
  lynx https://libera.chat/           # Mostly fine
  lynx https://news.ycombinator.com/  # Of course!
  lynx https://sachachua.com/         # Mostly fine
  lynx https://shkspr.mobi/           # Renders really well
  lynx https://susam.net/             # Disclosure: This is mine
  lynx https://norvig.com/            # A classic!
  lynx https://nullprogram.com/       # Also pretty good

If you have more examples, please comment, and I'll add them to this list in the two hour edit window I have.

While JavaScript has its place, I believe that websites that focus on delivering primarily text content could prioritise working well in TUI browsers. Sometimes testing it with text-based browsers may even show fundamental issues with your HTML. For example, several times, I've seen that multiple navigation links next to each other have no whitespace between them. The links may appear like this:

  HomeBlogRSSAboutCodebergMastodon

Or, in a list of articles, dates and titles may appear jammed together:

  14 Mar 2025The Lost Art of Dual Booting
  15 Mar 2025Some Forgotten Features of Gopher 
  16 Mar 2025My Favourite DOS Games

The missing spaces aren't obvious in a graphical browser due to the CSS styling hiding the issue, but in a text-based one, the issue becomes apparent. The number of text-based web users may be shrinking, but there are some of us who still browse the web using tools like lynx, w3m, and M-x eww, at least occasionally.

    Just in case you haven’t tried it, the blog also works really well with terminal-based browsers, such as Lynx and ELinks. Go ahead and give it a shot. The header that normally appears at the top of the page is actually at the bottom of the HTML document structure. It’s out of the way for browsers that ignore CSS.

Yes, but we've managed to do it automatically without any library/language specific hooks! It's probably one of my favourite things in Subtrace :)

We generate an ephemeral TLS root CA certificate and inject it into the system store. The generated certificate is entirely in-memory and never leaves the machine. To make this work without root privileges, we intercept the open(2) syscall to see if it's /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt (or equivalent). If so, we append the ephemeral root CA to the list of actual CA certificates; if not, we let the kernel handle the file open like usual. This way, none of the other programs are affected, so only the program you start with `subtrace run` sees and trusts the ephemeral root CA.

After we get the program to trust the ephemeral root CA, we can proxy outgoing TLS connections through Subtrace transparently but also read the cleartext bytes.

All of this is fully automatic, of course.

I generally blog about things that took a week+ of research and I want to save some other poor bastard the pain of what I had to piece together.

This is especially useful because link-rot means that resources I was able to uncover might not be available in the future. A few years ago I did a massive amount of research into internals of old unixes for data recovery and maintenance of said systems in the modern era(machines attached to million dollar pieces of testing equipment go away when the machine does). I was maintaining and upgrading(mostly scsi2sd) and backing up systems that all predated y2k. Most of my research references are now dead links to nowhere. I now print to pdf as well as take archive.is links of all my referenced sources.

I'm generally terrible about blogging, but I'm changing that for 2025. I'm now in a position where I'm solutions architecting a lot of things as my primary day job. This makes easy blog post subjects that not only clarify my thoughts and understanding, but end up being the basis for the internal documentation on the subject.

A lot of what I now do is in terraform, cloudformation, golang, or Python. I make sure when I publish my blog post, I include a complete working example. For all my terraform, all one has to do is clone and run terraform apply, after satisfying the barebones prerequisites.

Why can't git push, when it encounters a `.git/shallow`, just ask the git server to fill in the remaining history by verifying the parent hashes the client can send?