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sorenjan commented on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support   code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FF... · Posted by u/rilawa
sorenjan · 16 days ago
I hope this is the start of more ML filters in ffmpeg. They added the sr (super resolution) filter years ago, but it's old and it's difficult to get the weights so you can run it, since they're not included. They have added support for multiple inference libraries like libtorch, but again, it's difficult to even get started. Hopefully they can get behind a consistent ML strategy, ideally with a "models" directory with ready to use models for upscaling, temporal upscaling, noise cancelling, etc. A lot of audio and video filter research use ML now, new codecs will probably also use it soon.
sorenjan commented on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy   thereader.mitpress.mit.ed... · Posted by u/anarbadalov
abdullahkhalids · 21 days ago
Simply download the Tor Browser [1], which is simply a hardened version of Firefox that connects to the Tor network.

Don't install addons in this browser. Don't resize the browser window. All tor browsers instances have the same default window size, which prevents websites from tracking you. Obviously don't login into websites with your regular email or provide websites with your PII.

If you are in a country or on a network that blocks the basic Tor network, the FAQ explains how to get around this by using Tor bridges or other techniques [2].

That's pretty much all you need to know.

[1] https://www.torproject.org/download/

[2] https://support.torproject.org/censorship/

sorenjan · 21 days ago
Is window size visible to web sites when java script is turned off? It's off by default in Tor browser.
sorenjan commented on Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?   dbreunig.com/2025/08/01/d... · Posted by u/dbreunig
sorenjan · a month ago
The last time I was reminded of the bitter lesson was when I read about Guidance & Control Networks, after seeing them used in an autonomous drone that beat the best human FPV pilots [0]. Basically it's using a small MLP (Multi Layer Perceptron) on the order of 200 parameters, and using the drone's state as input and controlling the motors directly with the output. We have all kinds of fancy control theory like MCP (Model Predictive Control), but it turns out that the best solution might be to train a relatively tiny NN using a mix of simulation and collected sensor data instead. It's not better because of huge computation resources, it's actually more computationally efficient than some classic alternatives, but it is more general.

[0] https://www.tudelft.nl/en/2025/lr/autonomous-drone-from-tu-d...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06419-4

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13078

https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.02705

sorenjan commented on Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024: WebAssembly SDK   docs.flightsimulator.com/... · Posted by u/breve
naikrovek · a month ago
I feel like everyone is trying to do things in the most inefficient way possible and it is starting to make me a little bit batty.

WASM is awesome, but if I'm reading this right, they're choosing not to write DLLs so that they can create WASM modules which are recompiled into DLLs prior to runtime.

I think our entire industry has taken banned-by-the-Geneva-Conventions, weapons-grade Stupid Pills.

The only reason I can think of to do this, is so that you can't have arbitrarily malevolent code running in the DLLs that mod authors write. But we can't run the whole game in a sandbox such as a VM because of Nvidia GPU licensing disallowing virtual GPUs in consumer grade GPUs.

If that's why this work is being done, some serious muscle needs to be used to twist Nvidias arm so that they stop being knobheads and start being part of the solution to security issues, instead of part of the problem.

If I pay for that GPU, I should be able to issue work to it however I please. I should be able to split it up among VMs all day long without concern for anything Nvidia wants.

sorenjan · a month ago
Nvidia is supported on WSL2, which is a VM, so that shouldn't be the issue.

https://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/wsl-user-guide/index.html

sorenjan commented on When we get Komooted   bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan
raffael_de · a month ago
I've been using Komoot a lot for bike tours in Germany and never have been particularly happy with it. It served the core purpose of telling me where to go but there were so many obvious flaws about it that I sometimes wondered if the people at Komoot actually even use it themselves.

Then there is the obvious Geschmäckle of taking advantage of OSM (a free open source project) while not providing a way to give back to it. For example marking a bridge or path as no longer functional or existent.

The main feature of importance for me was a convenient way of visual representation of the trip on a map + being able to easily take pictures and have them added into the tour route visualization. This is provides for a really neat trip summary. Maybe someone has an app or service suggestion for such a feature?

> Couchsurfing, Reddit, Twitter, and many more were similarly komooted.

I'd like to add another company to the list: carpooling.com aka mitfahrgelegenheit.de

> Capital does not invent interesting new ideas like gravel and bikepacking. It swoops in from the outside to appropriate.

That seems a little warped. Bikepacking (isn't new) is as old as the bike and gravel biking is pretty much a capitalist rebranding of bikepacking. Selling the idea that you need a "gravel bike" to for bike packing. Pretending that the tried and tested way of laterally attached baggage is not good enough anymore and now has to be attached medially and you need those special tires yada yada

sorenjan · a month ago
> The main feature of importance for me was a convenient way of visual representation of the trip on a map + being able to easily take pictures and have them added into the tour route visualization. This is provides for a really neat trip summary. Maybe someone has an app or service suggestion for such a feature?

Strava has this.

https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216917387-Addin...

sorenjan commented on When we get Komooted   bikepacking.com/plog/when... · Posted by u/atakan_gurkan
lonelyasacloud · a month ago
RideWithGPS. No affiliation with them, but have been paying for service for years. Far less glitzy than Komoot/Strava and far less paid advertising, but for my money it's better for route planning - particularly long distance off-road - than anything else I've come across [0].

[0] a) For instance Komoot's exports for GPS head units were not accurate enough to be as helpful with picking/finding faint/overgrown trails b) RWGPS UI makes it a bit easier to work with OpenStreetMap's inaccuracies. c) Its auto routing seems to consistently work a bit better than Google's if I want to ride on a roads where car drivers are less likely to try and kill me. (not sure how well Strava does this)

sorenjan · a month ago
Fun fact about Strava's routing, they don't support ferries, something most other alternatives like RWGPS do. They've been asked for years to support it, just as they've been asked for more than a decade to support multi sport activities, but they don't seem to care. When I was a paying Strava customer I still used RWGPS for routes.
sorenjan commented on The natural diamond industry is getting rocked. Thank the lab-grown variety   cbc.ca/news/business/lab-... · Posted by u/geox
sorenjan · a month ago
Apparently there's a big issue in Antwerp now that they're not allowed to import diamonds from Russia. Maybe they should stop fighting the synthetic diamonds and embrace them instead, as something guaranteed free of human suffering and war profiteering. But the whole industry hinges on manufactured demand, so they'd rather see the trade move to other countries I guess.

https://eutoday.net/antwerps-diamond-industry-facing-an-exis...

sorenjan commented on How to Firefox   kau.sh/blog/how-to-firefo... · Posted by u/Vinnl
akazantsev · a month ago
Firefox has no profiles. It has a bunch of hacks, such as containers, which are cumbersome to use. Chromium provides separate windows with different profiles, and Firefox should follow Chromium here. Firefox's "solution" forces you to switch Github tabs between personal and work containers constantly.
sorenjan · a month ago
I have a shortcut that starts a separate profile like this:

  <path to firefox.exe> -profile <path to profile folder> -no-remote
Separate bookmarks, separate search engines, separate history, etc. I've been using it for years, I usually have a Firefox window for each profile open on separate desktops, there's no problems running them at the same time.

sorenjan commented on Show HN: Built a desktop app to organize photos locally with duplicate detection   organizer.flipfocus.nl/... · Posted by u/mcvanhassel
sorenjan · 2 months ago
One feature that I'd like to see in general in these kinds of collection organizing programs is support for removable storage. Lets say I have photos and videos spread out on multiple external drives, being able to find a photo in the program and then see which device it's on would be very helpful. Obviously you'd only store some metadata about all files in the database, like CLIP embeddings, date, name, a small thumbnail, etc.

u/sorenjan

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