Hacker News: desro

New comment by desro in "Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)"

desro — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:20:34 +0000

> The skill is open at ~/.claude/skills/video-index/. If you're working on something similar (indexing personal archives, getting a local model to do real archival work, building agents that drive editing tools), I'd be glad to compare notes.

When your Claude wrote this post they might not have selected the right URL to share, unless your home folder is exposed. Care to share the skill files?

New comment by desro in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

desro — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:34:37 +0000

I was able to find the references (including photos of the mentioned forearms) on PubMed and the RIMJ after a quick search. Paraquat is nasty stuff.

- [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33769492/

- [1] http://www.rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2023/06/2023-06-40-ima... (via https://rimedicalsociety.org/rhode-island-medical-journal/)

- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

New comment by desro in "Little Snitch: Network Monitor and Application Firewall for macOS"

desro — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 00:52:02 +0000

first application to get installed on every nuke and pave

New comment by desro in "Displaying RTSP stream on a jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite"

desro — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:52:56 +0000

very cool. thanks for sharing!

New comment by desro in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

desro — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:45:04 +0000

What codec is your media in, and what are your players? I've virtually never had JF try to transcode something for me on the fly

New comment by desro in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

desro — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:43:25 +0000

and macOS!

New comment by desro in "Jellyfin: We're Good, Seriously"

desro — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:40:47 +0000

jellyfin handles my 12 TB media library with transparent ease. i use infuse as a client on my apple tvs, including devices at my family and partners' places via tailscale on aTV

New comment by desro in "NetBSD bans all commits of AI-generated code"

desro — Thu, 16 May 2024 04:57:51 +0000

if it's good and it works well, then the human using the LLM did a good job, and need not credit their LLM of choice as one would not credit their rubber duck.

New comment by desro in "Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer"

desro — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:41:39 +0000

This looks cool and I've downloaded it. Clicking on the "free" tier on the subscription page brings you into Stripe checkout for the $6 tier, FYI.

New comment by desro in "Show HN: Supertone Shift – AI powered Real-time voice changer"

desro — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:19:40 +0000

I use the great, free, "Suspicious Package" app [0] to inspect installers like these.

In fact, it was Supertone Shift's installer that prodded me to seek it out (I happened to find and install Shift a couple of weeks ago).

In this case, it needs admin permissions to install to `/Library/Application Support` as well as `/Library/Audio`.

It needs to restart in order for the HAL driver to be loaded (this provides the virtual audio interface for using the app with Teams, Zoom, etc.)

The preinstall/postinstall scripts simply handle the app's directory in Application Support.

I decided it was safe enough, and had some fun playing with it. It contacts what it claims are licensing servers (when it starts), and won't start without it. It wanted to keep contacting those servers constantly, but blocking its network access via Little Snitch didn't prevent it from functioning. The network traffic was in the single-digit kilobyte range, so I felt reasonably confident no audio data was being looted.

[0] https://mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

New comment by desro in "I don't want to fill out your contact form"

desro — Sun, 05 May 2024 03:55:49 +0000

i have found the recent crop of SotA LLMs to be extremely useful for the latter few tasks you mentioned. Give it my full, comprehensive CV, as well as a prospective job description, then ask "tailor a condensed resume from the info in my CV to match this job description."

Of course you'll want to review and edit, but it's taken a huge amount of drudgery out of the process, for which I am grateful.

New comment by desro in "California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that allows employees to relax"

desro — Sat, 20 Apr 2024 06:54:46 +0000

I'm curious why an exempt employee would ever have to fill out a timesheet...

New comment by desro in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

desro — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 04:55:05 +0000

would be interested in a write-up of this if you ever get a chance

New comment by desro in "A disk so full, it couldn't be restored"

desro — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 03:16:12 +0000

Impressive. I've never dealt with a situation where even `rm` failed, but I have had the displeasure of using and managing modern Macs with 256 GB (or less) of internal storage. I like to keep a "spaceholder" file of around 16GB so when things inevitably fill up and prevent an update or something else, I can nuke the placeholder without having to surgically prune things with `ncdu`

New comment by desro in "macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies"

desro — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:41:03 +0000

There are a few, but these links should get you started and hint at future keywords for search. The first link is the one I was thinking of, but there are more. YMMV with link 3 (samba wiki).

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102010

2. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102050

3. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_Samba_to_Work_Bet...

New comment by desro in "California introduces 'right to disconnect' bill that allows employees to relax"

desro — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 02:36:19 +0000

The flip side of being "exempt" is that you still get the salary even if you actually work very little. Last time I got into the legal language of the classification (May 2020, as we were facing furloughs), I remember that it basically said (paraphrase) "an exempt employee is entitled to the full agreed-upon salary for any week of work in which any work takes place", meaning if everything you're responsible for was working just fine and all you did that week was send one or two relevant emails, then you'd "earned your keep"

I generally appreciated this (as opposed to tracking hours) since I was in a sysadmin-like role and outside of some truly busy weeks of deployments or migrations, there was really not much to do. (A friend joked, reassuringly, at times when I found this distressing: "You're basically on retainer.")

New comment by desro in "macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies"

desro — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 01:16:45 +0000

I've got a beefy synology nas and a variety of macs and have always had issues with smb shares, despite applying the configuration tweaks even apple recommends on their support site. i get full gigabit-speed as expected when using nfs, though, so i stick with that.

New comment by desro in "Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses"

desro — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:48:20 +0000

Report from CBS News mentions the bridge handled "11.5 million" vehicles a day.

EDIT: That number seemed fishy; I think the reporter is referring to the traffic along the entire I-95 corridor.

https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1772556368106450953?s=20

New comment by desro in "Pika 1.0, the idea-to-video platform that brings your creativity to life"

desro — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:51:10 +0000

I'm very keenly interested on what their underlying tech/model is — I couldn't find any detailed information.

New comment by desro in "Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads"

desro — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:10:40 +0000

Storage is also horrifyingly cheap these days. Was just looking at recertified enterprise HDDs – can get a 20TB drive for $200. Wish I had some more spare change lying around!