Hacker News: petabytes

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: Share your personal site"

petabytes — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 17:44:13 +0000

https://danielc.dev/

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

petabytes — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 15:55:05 +0000

Not yet, although I'm slowly working on an alternative to Fuji's X app

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: What side projects landed you a job?"

petabytes — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 02:19:23 +0000

Hacking the firmware in Fuji cameras definitely impressed a few recruiters, and helped me get a position recently.

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?"

petabytes — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 15:42:57 +0000

https://github.com/webui-dev/webui is a lightweight alternative to webview/electron/tauri

New comment by petabytes in "Apertus – Open-Source Camera"

petabytes — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:41:17 +0000

Honestly it would make more sense to buy an old $300 Canon camera, install Magic Lantern (or CHDK)

Hate to say it, but in my experience open source hardware is always been poor quality, unless it's a single board computer.

New comment by petabytes in "Darling: Run macOS Software on Linux"

petabytes — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 20:30:25 +0000

I've been using this the past few weeks to try and cross compile my software. Clang works, but a lot of the core libraries are missing. pkgbuild for instance won't work. And even native Cocoa apps I've tried won't work. That being said, this has a ton of potential. I really wish the devs had more time to work on it.

New comment by petabytes in "A space station fell to Earth. An Australian boy brought it to San Francisco"

petabytes — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 14:57:35 +0000

Why wouldn't they just pay it? Would there be any negative consequences?

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: Is anyone else bearish on OpenAI?"

petabytes — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 07:51:12 +0000

I sometimes use it to reformat some text or code, or write some very simple boilerplate code. So honestly it only saves me a few minutes a day typically.

New comment by petabytes in "Email obfuscation rendered almost ineffective against ChatGPT"

petabytes — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 21:56:57 +0000

I thought I was smart by putting my email in a png image on my page. Still, no spam mail after about a year.

New comment by petabytes in "BeeWare Toga v0.4.0 – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit"

petabytes — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 06:44:04 +0000

Really wish there was something like this, but C or Rust instead of Python Or JavaScript.

New comment by petabytes in "Software that supports your body should always respect your freedom"

petabytes — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 22:15:57 +0000

The app needs to be reversed engineered and have a 3rd party reimplemention. Even if it's slightly inferior, it's always good to have an alternative.

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: Who's looking for contributors for OSS Projects"

petabytes — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 04:09:19 +0000

Magic Lantern definitely needs a lot of help in terms of reverse engineering, build system (we are still depending on python2) and also documentation and wiki stuff. https://magiclantern.fm/

New comment by petabytes in "Android 14 review: There's always next year"

petabytes — Sun, 29 Oct 2023 17:05:57 +0000

Probably means one of the GTK based distros running on a phone, like on the Purism phones

New comment by petabytes in "Trabant"

petabytes — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 23:51:35 +0000

How do you double the value of a Trabant? You fill the tank up.

New comment by petabytes in "Leica camera has built-in defense against misleading AI, costs $9,125"

petabytes — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 22:25:22 +0000

About a year ago when AI was getting really big, I was really interested in C2PA, since then I've come to the conclusion that actual artists don't care about any of that crap

New comment by petabytes in "Solar eclipse of August 12, 2026"

petabytes — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 05:27:59 +0000

Just remembered the Magic Lantern eclipse user meeting that's been planned since 2020 https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=25236.0

New comment by petabytes in "Every app that adds AI looks like this"

petabytes — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:02:06 +0000

As a programmer, it ended up being useful for a few things in the beginning, but I don't even use it anymore. Maybe every other week to reformat some text or make some boilerplate code.

New comment by petabytes in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

petabytes — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 18:59:34 +0000

https://github.com/petabyt/fudge

Alternative Wifi app to connect to Fujifilm cameras. I mainly wanted to just try and make a MVP to see if it's possible, and now it's grown into something usable.

New comment by petabytes in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

petabytes — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 05:04:53 +0000

It's pretty much the same types you see in Rust or Zig, and I think Linux even uses some of the same types.

New comment by petabytes in "My personal C coding style as of late 2023"

petabytes — Mon, 09 Oct 2023 00:52:53 +0000

What's wrong with it?