spudlyo

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   by spudlyo 5mo ago

   Emacs has been a viable option for going on a half century now. The GNU Emacs 31 branch[0] was cut recently and is barreling towards a new release. It might be time to give it another look. I'm not saying its package ecosystem isn&#x27
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   by spudlyo 5mo ago

   So, this project consists of a ~175 line README and a ~500 line Python program that glues yt-dlp and Kroko together. Neat. I guess if it encourages you to install and figure out how to use ffmpeg, yt-dlp, kroko, numpy, and onnx that's
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   I was surprised how hard it was to stop the Python transformers library from phoning home to Hugging Face. I set HF_HUB_DISABLE_TELEMETRY=1, and when I called Wav2Vec2CTCTokenizer.from_pretrained I explicitly passed local_files_only=True, b
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   While I think it's a compelling idea that playing speech in your target language while you sleep can help, I don't think it's ever been demonstrated to work. Having said that, that sleep is incredibly important for learning a
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   I am really loving working on a fun Elisp project with pi, a minimal and very extensible agent. I have the agent use emacsclient to control my session, showing me code, running magit ediff for me, testing, formatting, reloading -- it's
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   The messaging around what is and isn't allowed with the various Claude plans has been so very muddled as of late. Add to that declining model performance, changes to default reasoning efforts, expanded token usage, caching bugs, corpor
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   I'm curious how the information is structured under the hood. I just recently learned about how folks in the digital humanities use the XML-TEI format for semantic markup of works like this. I've recently been exploring the Latin-
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   Hot-wiring the Lisp machine(scheatkode.com)

   68 points by spudlyo 6mo ago|8 comments
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   by spudlyo 6mo ago

   I’m not sure if it’s fair to describe a "wholly owned subsidiary" as unrelated. > Thunderbolt is funded through a dedicated investment from Mozilla and is being developed by a separate team focused on enterprise AI products,
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    by spudlyo 6mo ago

    Chrome on Linux is ~1.47 times faster than Firefox on the Jetstream 3 benchmark as recently reported by Phoronix[0]. That's how we want you to spend the money Mozilla, keeping up with your well-funded rival Google, and making it so we
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    by spudlyo 6mo ago

    For me the question often is, how can I keep from singing badly on recordings? I've had enough vocal lessons to know that I'm not a naturally great singer. I have poor tone, even worse control, and my vibrato sounds ... bad. Tim
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    by spudlyo 6mo ago

    Close, it's the width of the 'M' from the the famous author EMdash Forster's name. ;)
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    by spudlyo 6mo ago

    I'm writing an essay about how I use an ancient text editor, GNU Emacs, along with gptel, Gemini, some local models, yt-dlp, and patreon-dl to help me me study an ancient language, Latin. I want to show how I liberate poorly aligned, p
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    > mpv doesn't run on iPad so it's better for my situation to just burn the blackout into a new video. I would love to stop using the YouTube client on iPadOS. Do you just d/l the video with yt-dlp+ffmpeg and then post proc
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    setxkbmap -option terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp I had to put that in my .xinitrc, because like you I really missed that feature. I also made a .Xresources file and had to remember that xrdb was a thing. Good times, good memories. I also
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    Heh. Just today I started fooling around with a new X11 setup on a barebones Ubuntu Server VM with just xorg, xinit, xterm, Emacs and i3. It's pretty neat learning about iommu groups and doing NVMe passthrough with KVM/Qemu, and a
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6nem-F8AG8
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    Writing is what gives my thinking structure. Sloppy writing feels to me like sloppy thinking. My fingers capitalize the first letter of words, proper nouns and adjectives, and add punctuation without me consciously asking them to do so.
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    I've been retired for the last two years, it's been transformative. I've lost a lot of weight, I've greatly improved my cardiovascular fitness, I've finally treated my ADHD, I've learned Latin to an intermediat
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    > When you punish a person for dreaming his dream / Don't expect him to thank or forgive you > Hail Satan
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    Thanks, I ended up using this list[0] from github, and it worked great. I'm still fooling around with RSS and Emacs, but for now the problem is solved. [0]: https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    I run LibreWolf, which is configured to ask me before a site can use WebGL, which is commonly used for fingerprinting. I got the popup on this site, so I assume that's how they're doing it.
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    It just so happens I'm right in the middle of trying to change how I watch YouTube at my computer. Despite my best efforts, I find myself getting sucked into shorts, so I'm starting investigate if I can take advantage of YouTube R
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    malus, mala, malum ADJ bad, evil, wicked; ugly; unlucky; It's an interesting word in Latin, because depending on the phonetic length of the vowel and gender it vary greatly in meaning. The word 'malus' (short a, masculine adj
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    That is indeed a problem. If one must complain about it, I think it would help to at least try elevate these type of tangential remarks beyond hurled accusations. A focus on the the specifics (where arguments are poorly made, banal observ
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    I also run GUI Emacs on both Linux and macOS. I build it on Linux with --with-x-toolkit=lucid and for $REASONS I'm still on X11. I run it in a full-screen frame on its own monitor, and it does indeed feel faster.
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    On my M1 Mac Pro I get 0.13s wall, so not much faster than your Mac. On my i9-9900K Linux box I get 0.04s. I would think my M1 single core performance would be on par, if not faster. Perhaps it has something to do with macOS and gatekeeper,
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    You're right. It's wrong to think that all of those people are busy writing to congress demanding new laws be enacted. The problem is, the vast majority of people (while possessing a vague sense of right and wrong) do not understa
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    When I buy a book, I don't buy a license to read it, I don't sign an EULA that says I won't scan it, digitize it, or write a program to analyze the word frequencies it contains. Do you want buy a license to read a book, becau
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    by spudlyo 7mo ago

    > Surveys consistently showed that consumers believed artists deserved payment when AI generated content in their style. It's interesting that "consumers" are generally for the expansion of IP laws. At at the moment, I&#x2