Hacker News: patja

New comment by patja in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

patja — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:47:37 +0000

Fair enough for GPU-intensive stuff like running Qwen locally. But do you really need a GPU for decent local TTS? I run parakeet just on CPU.

New comment by patja in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

patja — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:44:40 +0000

I've been using Chirp which uses parakeet on Windows. Learned about it here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45930659

Works great for me!

New comment by patja in "Oracle files H-1B visa petitions amid mass layoffs"

patja — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:17:28 +0000

491 Oracle jobs cut in Washington State isn't nothing

New comment by patja in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

patja — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 00:31:12 +0000

Wow that is wild. Thanks for explaining.

I've never seen a prompt like that on my phone and would not have guessed this.

New comment by patja in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

patja — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 17:13:41 +0000

How did this play out? Were the ads from an app from the store that you had installed? Or did they spam you over SMS because they associated your bluetooth info with an account you have with the store, or contact info they bought from a third party?

New comment by patja in "How often do full-body MRIs find cancer?"

patja — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:28:01 +0000

A colonoscopy has the risk of going very wrong due to a puncture.

New comment by patja in "Major European payment processor can't send email to Google Workspace users"

patja — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 15:33:27 +0000

Apple is another major player in the email receiving game for consumers. And they are awful, by far the worst of all the big providers. They do not send dmarc reports and they make it very difficult to tell why they accept some email and not others.

New comment by patja in "I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored"

patja — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 22:19:42 +0000

There is more to that clause:

Alone or in combination, annually buys, receives for the business’s commercial purposes, sells, or shares for commercial purposes, alone or in combination, the personal information of 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices.

So it only applies if you are buying or selling or sharing PII. Not if you just have 50,000 users/visitors to your website and keep it all private.

New comment by patja in "I made 20 GDPR deletion requests. 12 were ignored"

patja — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 19:00:05 +0000

But the California law only applies if your business has more than $25m revenue or does a lot of selling of PII. See SEC. 9. Section 1798.140 in the page linked.

New comment by patja in "Ads Are Killing Podcasting"

patja — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:53:53 +0000

The Race To Alaska podcast is only available on YouTube, Apple, and Spotify this year

New comment by patja in "Ads Are Killing Podcasting"

patja — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:30:03 +0000

I just wish I could still download all podcasts without needing an Apple or Google account to do so.

What happened to podcast RSS feeds? Many are still available but it certainly isn't universal like in the past.

New comment by patja in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

patja — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:25:56 +0000

Is this sarcasm? Apple pretty much invented the walled garden of personal computing.

New comment by patja in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

patja — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:38:34 +0000

Especially since HN readers are more likely to be using ECC memory

New comment by patja in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

patja — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:37:18 +0000

Are you referring to Microsoft Recall? My understanding is that is opt-in and only stored locally.

New comment by patja in "Dead Internet Theory"

patja — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:02:04 +0000

Are you using the word tweens in some sense other than its usual definition of pre-teen? My understanding is that discord, like most online services, requires registered users to be 13 years old.

New comment by patja in "First impressions of Claude Cowork"

patja — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:32:28 +0000

My 85 year-old father could probably resolve 90% of his personal technology problems using an LLM. But for the same reason every phone call on these subjects ends with me saying "can it wait until I come over for lunch next week to take a look?", an LLM isn't a viable solution when he can't adequately describe the problem and its context.

New comment by patja in "Are two heads better than one?"

patja — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 02:15:08 +0000

I am a sailor in the present and this same rule is why I have 3 digital multimeters on my boat.

New comment by patja in "Bose has released API docs and opened the API for its EoL SoundTouch speakers"

patja — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:50:00 +0000

On a related note, I'm eternally grateful for the conversion to open source of the Squeezebox platform (now known as Lyrion Music Server) and SageTV. I use both of these every day.

New comment by patja in "Eat Real Food"

patja — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 23:55:35 +0000

Habits vary (vegans exist!) And I agree 4 oz is a pretty small portion. But I don't think I personally know very many people who eat beef daily. For me and my family it is once or twice a week.

New comment by patja in "Show HN: See what readers who loved your favorite book/author also loved to read"

patja — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:18:28 +0000

I'd be interested in a filtering feature where you could pick a book and disregard all data from anyone who has it listed as one of their favorites.