I have been using copyparty since the last hn thread on it months ago. It is a masterpiece of "Just Works" Technology.
Readit Newskanemcgrath commented on Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video] youtube.com/watch?v=15_-h... · Posted by u/franczesko
Nice to see Stadia had some long term benefit. It’s a shame they don’t make a self hosted version but if you did that it’s just piracy in today’s drm world.
for self-hosted game streaming you can use moonlight + sunshine, they work really well in my experience.
kanemcgrath commented on The AI-Scraping Free-for-All Is Coming to an End nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/geox
Wow hadn't even considered this... so say I have a members only section of my site where I share high value content, one of the members browses using Comet, and that scrapes the private content and sends to perplexity?
Not sure if its still an issue, but companies were buying popular web extensions, then auto updating malware/spyware into them. I haven't heard much about this in a while, but I think chrome still forces auto updates for extensions, so I would expect this to be the biggest vector for scraping walled data now.
kanemcgrath commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
Whisper is genuinely amazing - with the right nudging. It's the one AI thing that has genuinely turned my life upside-down in an unambiguously good way.
People should check out Subtitle Edit (and throw the dev some money) which is a great interface for experimenting with Whisper transcription. It's basically Aegisub 2.0, if you're old, like me.
HOWTO:
Drop a video or audio file to the right window, then go to Video > Audio to text (Whisper). I get the best results with Faster-Whisper-XXL. Use large-v2 if you can (v3 has some regressions), and you've got an easy transcription and translation workflow. The results aren't perfect, but Subtitle Edit is for cleaning up imperfect transcripts with features like Tools > Fix common errors.
EDIT: Oh, and if you're on the current gen of Nvidia card, you might have to add "--compute_type float32" to make the transcription run correctly. I think the error is about an empty file, output or something like that.
EDIT2: And if you get another error, possibly about whisper.exe, iirc I had to reinstall the Torch libs from a specific index like something along these lines (depending on whether you use pip or uv):
pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
uv pip install --system torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cu118
Subtitle edit is great, and their subtitle library libse was exactly what I needed for a project I did.
kanemcgrath commented on DARPA program sets distance record for power beaming darpa.mil/news/2025/darpa... · Posted by u/gnabgib
IMO there's two safe ways to implement this:
- Ground-satellite-ground relaying, with at least one geostationary satellite between the ground stations. The satellites being geostationary means that the path of the beam through the atmosphere is constant, and air traffic can be routed around them in a reasonable way. (You could do this with lower orbits, but it'd be a hassle with current aviation industry technology).
- Beaming by tunnel! Can't get hit by a laser if it's under your feet. Obviously, this negates the benefits of the technology, and just turns into fibre lines without the fibre, over shorter distances, with all the pain in the ass of laying underground cable.
In the first approach, there'd have to be an effective exclusion zone around the receiving station (how big, I don't know), and it'd be nice to have satellites fail safe, so that if they end up pitching or rolling off axis, the beam will be shut off before becoming an accidental weapon.
You could also fire smaller lower power beams from multiple sources that converge on the receiver, like a gamma knife. 9 points around a large dish could fire beams close together, but only at the intersection would it be at full power.
kanemcgrath commented on Ask HN: Are AI dev tools lowering the barrier to entry for creating software? · Posted by u/joe8756438
For people who want to learn programming, I think language models are a very powerful teaching tool. I have learned more programming than ever before because I have been able to ask questions, and get answers directly relevant to what I’m working on. Maybe it depends how you like to learn things, or maybe works better because I already know a base amount of programming knowledge, but I tell people who want to learn programming to ask chat gpt to teach them through a simple project.
its mostly Homepage Wallpapers