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by varenc 4y ago
They’re both the same really! Though I prefer doing the visualizing in mpv because than it’s easier to switch to different visualizations at runtime. With my mpv config I have obscure keyboard shortcuts that'll switch between different
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by varenc 4y ago
Riffing off those, here's a ffmpeg/mpv command to run an audio frequency spectrum visualizer on a live microphone (or a virtual loopback one): ffmpeg -f avfoundation -i ":0" -flush_packets 1 -flags low_delay -muxdel
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by varenc 4y ago
You can use the app with the location permission disabled no problem. (On iOS at least)
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by varenc 4y ago
It's impressive how simple the code is: https://gitlab.com/pyjam.as/tunnel/-/blob/main/tunnel.py All the heavy lifting and reverse proxying is done by Wireguard and Caddy! Very slick. Though of
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by varenc 4y ago
See section 6 titled “Conclusions, Limitations and Societal Impact” in the research paper: https://gweb-research-imagen.appspot.com/paper.pdf One quote: > “On the other hand, generative methods can be leveraged for malic
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by varenc 4y ago
Fun fact: 0.3 micron particles are the most penetrating particles of any size, including smaller particles . It’s counterintuitive, but 0.1 micron particles will be filtered out more easily than 0.3 micron particles. [0] That’s in fact wh
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by varenc 4y ago
If and only if you would have used electrical heating anyway, then using a GPU's waste heat for heating your home is one of the best things you can do with it and it's "100% efficient". That is, 100% of all the energy
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by varenc 4y ago
Expanding on that a bit more, the article isn’t advocating that marketers senselessly put up Viagra ads everywhere, but instead to “pivot to more contextually relevant and attentive channels, while working with partners who had permissioned
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by varenc 4y ago
Wow, I didn't know there was a paid Pro option, but the same developer also makes the open source app Rectangle, which sounds like the same thing minus a few features. I use it daily. https://github.com/rxhanson/Re
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by varenc 4y ago
> full of these UI "tricks" that remain undiscovered by 99% of users What percentage of users can actually make useful decisions based on the advanced WiFi info? Here's a screenshot for example: https://dl.dropb
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by varenc 5y ago
An increase in gas fees doesn't correspond to an increase in energy consumed/CO2 produced. The network was chugging along at its usual hash rate like always, but this sudden demand for transactions creates a bidding war for the ex
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by varenc 5y ago
I love the idea, but they're horrible in practice. Provide very little help for most data brokers. And the opt out links are out of data for many sites.
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by varenc 5y ago
The monthly subscription only make sense if you consider that new data brokers are popping up all the time and opting out is a constant process. That said, it seems like 90% of the value you get from a one-time usage, but of course they ins
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by varenc 5y ago
Just FYI, the parent commenter is the Founder of Optery! So I think they’d recommend it, though I appreciate their light touch. It does seem like Optery is the only legit offering in a sea of scammy opt-out services/schemes.
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by varenc 5y ago
His first comment says the opposite and that they've tried hard to get the price down. Of course we have to trust him on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25063726#25067359 But I can’t really find any other la
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by varenc 5y ago
Awhile back the Founder of Visionect refuted this idea that patents are holding things back on hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25067824 My personal take: E-Ink screens have too many drawbacks for 99% of co
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by varenc 5y ago
> Most (US) homes put outlets on a 15A breaker (sometimes 20A), which gives have 1.8 kW to play with. So this is less power than a typical home outlet. US outlets run at 15A, but per the NEC [0] no single plug-in appliance can continuous
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by varenc 5y ago
Shouldn't we be able to trade off the higher speed for less conflict by having each client spend less time taking up air space? Like if we can achieve 5GBps, than presumably there could be dozens of networks operating at ~200MBps speed
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by varenc 5y ago
You’re implying that all uses of `sponge` are interactive with a user actively involved. I used sponge a lot in scripts where I’ve already checked and validated its behavior. When I’m confident it works I can keep just use sponge for simpli
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by varenc 5y ago
They're the same thing. There's no separate Apple Watch app. This iOS app just has an Apple Watch app component that can be installed on the watch if you have one. So the reviews include both. (I think this is true in general and
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by varenc 5y ago
I just gave this app a try it doesn't seem like an out-right scam to me. It has 20,000 reviews and plenty of them look like they're written by real humans that actually appreciate the app. The app also works with other bluetooth S
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by varenc 5y ago
Oh I don't actually disable WASM. Those are just different scripts that can apply to pages when a filter matches. I disable sendBeacon everywhere with `*##+js(disable-sendBeacon.js)` but the others I don't use or only use on a sp
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by varenc 5y ago
I use an adblocker, and lots of filtering lists, but most of the `navigator.sendBeacon` requests I was seeing weren't being blocked. Sometimes they were when the URL matched a pattern, but often they weren't. Which makes sense s
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by varenc 5y ago
It's definitely mostly dog poop! I actually find myself telling this to people a lot. Perhaps I should make that more clear.
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by varenc 5y ago
Totally agree that most of it is animal poop from slacking dog owners. Poop in SF gets a bad rap because SF311 has very open data polices and they misinterpret these reports as being all human feces. NYC collects the same sort of crowdsourc
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by varenc 5y ago
This website seems relevant: https://poopscoop.io/ (A real-time map of sidewalk poop in SF)
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by varenc 5y ago
It's cool seeing Warp folks so active on here! Some more thoughts: I've tried it a bunch, and my big issue with Warp is it just throws away a bunch of the more obscure/advanced shell features and pretends like they were never
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by varenc 5y ago
See my other comment for what I use, TripMode, but a DNS block on *.sentry.io would block the sentry calls. I tried setting a proxy to see Warp's other network activity but only the sentry.io calls actually respect the system-wide pro
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by varenc 5y ago
ooops, I already replied to losvedir directly, but for everyone else on macOS I recommend TripMode: https://tripmode.ch/ It's far far simpler than little snitch. It's intended purpose is for managing low-data conn
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by varenc 5y ago
If you have a Reddit account no extensions are needed to fix this. Just go to your Reddit account settings[0] and click "Opt out of the redesign" at the bottom. (Or on old Reddit you uncheck "Use new Reddit as my default exp

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