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New comment by peterleiser in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

peterleiser — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:34:12 +0000

Yes

New comment by peterleiser in "How to draw construction equipment for kids"

peterleiser — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:22:04 +0000

Lol, right on! I grew up on a farm in an area where the economy centers around Ag. There used to be an annual fundraiser dinner in a nearby town (population 309) with various games for kids. One of the more popular games was to see who could hammer a nail into a board first. Good times.

New comment by peterleiser in "Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font"

peterleiser — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:10:32 +0000

This

New comment by peterleiser in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:30:20 +0000

California Democrats would need to choose pragmatism over party and rapidly deploy nuclear power for desalination.

But states playing no-rules hardball with each other would end up being a gigantic fail for everyone.

New comment by peterleiser in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:06:21 +0000

Definitely red. But I think in northern and central california the whole blue city / red outside cities thing is kind of like the European Coal and Steel Community. So much shared infrastructure and interdependence, and water and electricity is not evenly distributed.

New comment by peterleiser in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:57:03 +0000

Yes, just a thought experiment. I grew up on a farm in Northern California (mostly rice and tomatoes), lived in the bay area for 20 years for college and working in tech, and now live in a red state. I tell people the same thing you do about blue cities and red everything else. It's bizarre how many people in red states and blue states don't know that (and don't want to believe it).

New comment by peterleiser in "Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:12:56 +0000

The site says "Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others." I'm using Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. When I try a second tab or one in Firefox and one in Chrome my computer's network connection locks up (pings stop). I have to close the tabs and then pings to google.com come back at 30 seconds and slowly come back to normal. It appears that http://playground.nostrcheck.me/relay is the problem.

New comment by peterleiser in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:38:49 +0000

Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but (and I'm genuinely asking) what is your point here?

New comment by peterleiser in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

peterleiser — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:33:53 +0000

Southern California is vulnerable to that, but not Northern California. California is the largest food producer to the US, including about 1/3 of our fresh vegetables and 3/4 of fruits and nuts. The country wouldn't starve without California, but I sure wouldn't want to experience a situation where California stops exporting to red states.

New comment by peterleiser in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

peterleiser — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:15:24 +0000

I used diarization in https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI last night and once it downloads the model from HuggingFace it runs offline (it claims).

New comment by peterleiser in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

peterleiser — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:06:53 +0000

Check out https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI

I ran it last night using docker and it worked extremely well. You need a HuggingFace read-only API token for the Diarization. I found that the web UI ignored the token, but worked fine when I added it to docker compose as an environment variable.

New comment by peterleiser in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

peterleiser — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:58:19 +0000

You'll probably like Whisper Live and it's browser extensions: https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Start playing a YouTube video in the browser, select "start capture" in the extension, and it starts writing subtitles in white text on a black background below the video. When you stop capturing you can download the subtitles as a standard .srt file.

New comment by peterleiser in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

peterleiser — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:43:21 +0000

I grew up in a town that did not get broadband internet access until 2017. Before that people had little to no high-speed internet service other than the town library (and they would park or sit outside the library to use the wifi when it was closed). They would also use cell phone data plans.

New comment by peterleiser in "AOL to discontinue dial-up internet"

peterleiser — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:09:11 +0000

I see what you're getting at, but that doesn't explain bandwidth deserts in parts of rural California. They might have local conservative representatives, but the state leadership is obviously not conservative.

New comment by peterleiser in "Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)"

peterleiser — Tue, 06 May 2025 15:00:10 +0000

In the past I had parakeets and lovebirds. I think the app is great, but my first (joking) reaction was "Now let's setup a control group by putting the tablet in selfie-mode to simulate a mirror".

New comment by peterleiser in "Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo"

peterleiser — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 03:21:11 +0000

I don't know the trick, but take a look at the "7". It looks like it's made from the vertical line in "4" and a portion of another number.

New comment by peterleiser in "Nintendo Switch 2"

peterleiser — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 15:24:55 +0000

"This year we put a 12 on the box"

New comment by peterleiser in "Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory"

peterleiser — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 22:29:51 +0000

I look forward to watching my future grandchildren install a minecraft mod that dematerializes them and let's them play inside minecraft. Then I'll start ranting about Tron and they'll just shake their heads about Grandpa and how he still lives on the old Earth moon colony.

New comment by peterleiser in "Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut"

peterleiser — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 06:45:03 +0000

Exactly! I used to ski double black diamonds in the Sierra Nevada range wearing jeans, with gaiters to keep the snow out of my boots.

New comment by peterleiser in "An NFC movie library for my kids"

peterleiser — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 14:24:45 +0000

Yes, we also switched to TV only on weekends.