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nissarup commented on Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network   github.com/seemoo-lab/ope... · Posted by u/thunderbong
roywiggins · 7 months ago
Presumably you stick the bluetooth antenna in the physical keylogger.
nissarup · 7 months ago
Sounds like a line from a conversation between a couple of pre-teen AIs.
nissarup commented on The era of open voice assistants   home-assistant.io/blog/20... · Posted by u/_Microft
lxe · 8 months ago
Here's what I'm looking for in a voice assistant:

- Full privacy: nothing goes to the "cloud"

- Non-shitty microphones and processing: i want to be able to be heard without having to yell, repeat, or correct

- No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed. Since everything is private and local, this is now doable

- Conversational: it should understand when I finished talking, have ability to be interrupted, all with low latency

- Non-stupid: it's 2024, and alexa and siri and google are somehow absolutely abysmal at doing even the basics

- Complete: i don't want to use an app to get stuff configured. I want everything to be controlled via voice

nissarup · 8 months ago
Looks like you are in the market for a butler.

Especially your last point will, IMO, not be possible for a long time.

nissarup commented on Developer wrote 25k lines of Neovim plugin code using phone and touchscreen   old.reddit.com/r/neovim/c... · Posted by u/konradkpl
glidergun · 9 months ago
Try pairing tmux with mosh, it's how I've been working for years whenever I'm forced to admin through a brittle straw. Mosh combats lag pretty well and doesn't care if your connection drops intermittently. https://mosh.org/
nissarup · 9 months ago
"...admin through a brittle straw." :D That's exactly what it feels like.
nissarup commented on Unit tests as documentation   thecoder.cafe/p/unit-test... · Posted by u/thunderbong
nissarup · a year ago
For one narrow definition of documentation, yes.

I'm pretty sure our end-users would get no value out of reading the unit tests in the code of the application they are using.

nissarup commented on Floral formula   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flo... · Posted by u/theogravity
acka · a year ago
Too bad that deserializing DNA is rather time consuming and sometimes lossy.
nissarup · a year ago
Also prone to being infected by viruses.
nissarup commented on Google presents method to circumvent automatic blocking of tag manager   developers.google.com/tag... · Posted by u/iamacyborg
nissarup · a year ago
Does this not change who is responsible for the data shared with Google?

With this the owner of the host is sending the scripts collecting data, where before it was Googles servers.

nissarup commented on "Amazonian dark earth" was the work of ancient humans   bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/billybuckwheat
euroderf · 2 years ago
Let's say I have a small place in the country, with a vegetable patch and also a compost bin that I'm barely competent to operate. Maybe I also have access to chicken guano. And of course grass clippings, probably containing weeds too.

How do I leverage this to make biochar, and then how do I use the biochar to improve the vegetable patch ?

nissarup · 2 years ago
Make biochar, there are many guides on the interwebs. Add continuously to you compost bin along with the normal stuff you put in there. When the compost is done, add it to the garden.
nissarup commented on Things you're allowed to do (2020)   milan.cvitkovic.net/writi... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar
atleastoptimal · 2 years ago
50% made irrelevant by ChatGPT
nissarup · 2 years ago
Or you could say that ChatGPT has made more of them available to people who don't have the resources for, say, hiring a personal researcher.
nissarup commented on Optimal hydration may slow down the aging process in humans   thelancet.com/journals/eb... · Posted by u/EL_Loco
gingerlime · 3 years ago
It’s a 123 page PDF??! any TL;DR? :) (on mobile so forgive my laziness)
nissarup · 3 years ago
On page 3: Per liter of water: Sodium chloride 2.6g Glucose, anhydrous 13.5g Potassium chloride 1.5g Trisodium citrate, dihydrate 2.9g
nissarup commented on Ask HN: Is it still possible to live in a terminal?    · Posted by u/ilovecaching
pedrovhb · 3 years ago
I don't know about "living" in a terminal, but CLI/terminal tools are quite far from being out of the picture; if anything, I'd say they're thriving. It's not about one or the other; they're complementary, and I use both every day.

Personally, I use Firefox for browsing, PyCharm for coding, mpv/qimgv for media, and do pretty much everything else in the terminal. Terminal tools are incredibly versatile and composable in a way GUIs really can't match - for instance, I built a script that gets all the RAW files from my camera, converts them to jpg with darktable-cli, and optimizes them for filesize maintaining the same visual quality with jpeg-recompress, great for when I don't particularly care about editing each picture of a long hike. Next step will be to also push them to Google Drive, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. Similarly, the gopro-like camera I use for recording racing footage produces files with some weird filenames and terrible encoding which makes them enormous, so another script pulls the files, renames them to the date/time taken, and uses ffmpeg to transcode them to hevc, which saves several GB. Could I do this all from GUIs? Probably, but it'd involve a lot of hunting for files, dragging/dropping, and context switching between different programs. It's a lot more convenient to do it all in one short command.

There's also some amazing tools which just don't make much sense or would be quite contrived in GUI form. fd and fclones come to mind. AI is starting to be packaged as CLI tools, and it'll open up even more possibilities. Separate hiking pictures into their own directory? Sure! Find lecture videos mentioning a specific subject? No problem, this one doesn't mention the specific keyword you were looking for but it's also relevant at X timestamp!

nissarup · 3 years ago
How is the results from the Darktable conversion? Are you able to share the script?

u/nissarup

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