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New comment by ticoombs in "Voxtype – Push-to-Talk Voice-to-Text for Linux and macOS"

ticoombs — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:38:36 +0000

Been using this with Omarchy and have not been disappointed

Voxtype – Push-to-Talk Voice-to-Text for Linux and macOS

ticoombs — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:38:36 +0000

Article URL: https://voxtype.io/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670465

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by ticoombs in "Instagram's URL Blackhole"

ticoombs — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:19:42 +0000

I have blocked medium.com because of that. Same as the SEO spam dev.to.

It's actually interesting how often I end up seeing the uBlock 'blocked' page because of it. And how blind I end up being to the serp domains.

I of course can click the bypass button on a case by case basis.

New comment by ticoombs in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

ticoombs — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 03:51:05 +0000

Ditto. No issues at all that my friends did not experience as well. (Long download/patching times).

New comment by ticoombs in "NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut"

ticoombs — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:59:44 +0000

Do you have any acticles or references about this? That would be great research (pun intended) to find out

New comment by ticoombs in "Backing up Spotify"

ticoombs — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:47:16 +0000

They have marked the repo as noindex (or GitHub is forcing a noindex header).

Its returning a noindex flag so every serp is correctly doing what the repo has been asked.

That is... except for brave! I checked on my searx instance and it still showed up in brave's results

New comment by ticoombs in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

ticoombs — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:13:07 +0000

I migrated to forgejo a few years ago and never looked back. While there are some edge cases and known issues. All of my actions "just worked".

New comment by ticoombs in "Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received"

ticoombs — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 20:08:42 +0000

https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...

Was hugged to death for me.

New comment by ticoombs in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

ticoombs — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:44:55 +0000

Yes. Nearly every game is compatible. Checkout protondb.com and check the games you play.

Anything that has a kernel level anti check (Valorant) will always be a resounding No. But besides from that, everything is pretty damn nice.

New comment by ticoombs in "Yt-dlp: Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads"

ticoombs — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 22:32:44 +0000

Checkout https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

New comment by ticoombs in "Pass: Unix Password Manager"

ticoombs — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 08:53:52 +0000

I solve this by Syncthing running on all clients. Very rarely do I ever have a problem with conflicts. Only if I add a new pass while my phone is offline and then make another edit on my computer would there be an issue. I think it only happened once, and that was because I did it on purpose to see what happened.

Turns out syncthing creates a .conflict file and then I tell keepassxc to do a merge on the two files and then we are back to normal.

New comment by ticoombs in "iPhone Air"

ticoombs — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:12:55 +0000

(side note) And the folding phone will be a "Apple First".

I wonder if they still still have a stupid camera notch on the device. They is no point (to me) have a thin phone even you end up having a 5mm notch the size of your phone

New comment by ticoombs in "Turning Claude Code into my best design partner"

ticoombs — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:35:25 +0000

I used to joke about prompt engineering. But by jiminy it is a thing now. I swear sometimes I waste a good 10-20minutes writing up a good prompt and initial plan just so that claudecode can systematically implement something.

My usage is nearly the same as OP. Plan plan plan save as a file and then new context and let it rip.

That's the one thing I'd love, a good cli (currently using charm and cc) which allows me to have an implementation model, a plan model and (possibly) a model per sub agent. Mainly so I can save money by using local models for implementation and online for plans or generation or even swapping back. Charm has been the closest I've used so far allowing me to swap back and forth and not lose context. But the parallel sub-agent feature is probably one of the best things claudecode has.

(Yes I'm aware of CCR, but could never get it to use more than the default model so :shrug:)

New comment by ticoombs in "Save the web freely – wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages"

ticoombs — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:40:38 +0000

A great self host alternative to pocket

Save the web freely – wallabag: a self hostable application for saving web pages

ticoombs — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:40:38 +0000

Article URL: https://wallabag.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44070173

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ticoombs in "You might not need WebSockets"

ticoombs — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 04:27:21 +0000

I always try and push back on those beliefs, about reasonings why they believe it will be faster or more efficient than some other solution.

I've found , if you could type cast those people, they would be a tech architect who only uses "web scale" items. (Relevant link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpOfwbFRcs )

New comment by ticoombs in "Railroad Tycoon II"

ticoombs — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:47:51 +0000

If your willing to try /r/homelab and /r/selfhost have great wikis and are good enough entry points to start you on your way.

There is a lot you can do with a rPi and an 8TB HDD!

New comment by ticoombs in "AMD's Turin: 5th Gen EPYC Launched"

ticoombs — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 06:22:51 +0000

> 500w is only for... 128/196 chips. The 16 core fast sku has a 320W TDP.

When you think about it. 180W more for 7x threads is amazing

New comment by ticoombs in "PostgreSQL 17"

ticoombs — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:29:29 +0000

I use this for my Lemmy instance & lemmy-ansible and it's been great! No longer having to support upgrade scripts and write a complete upgrade process[1] for people to follow has made my life a lot easier! Amazing product

- [1] https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ansible/blob/main/UPGRADIN...

New comment by ticoombs in "U.S. court orders LibGen to pay $30M to publishers, issues broad injunction"

ticoombs — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 21:09:08 +0000

Anna's Archive has a complete repository on how they have it setup.

https://software.annas-archive.se/AnnaArchivist/annas-archiv...