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alacritas0

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alacritas0··on Jellyfin 12.0
not necessarily always a VPN, but you can also use a reverse proxy like caddy or nginx where encryption and security are primary concerns instead of something non-essential like in jellyfin.
alacritas0··on Jellyfin 12.0
With the *arr stack, some of the trackers it uses to search for a torrent will present a captcha when Prowlerr queries it for a search. If you integrate FlareSolverr and set up Prowlerr to submit queries through it for the trackers that have CAPTCHAs, it won't get blocked by them.
alacritas0··on Show HN: Sesame - a local-first, open-source password manager
bitwarden clients are open source, so it would be possible to fork them if bitwarden ever makes user unfriendly decisions
alacritas0··on Firefighter arson a long-standing issue – expert
This may also be subject to survivorship bias, and there may be a portion of firefighter arsonists who escape prosecution or conviction
alacritas0··on The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin
yes (through a plugin), and yes (if you set it up)
alacritas0··on APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs
I need to remember this when I buy gifts
alacritas0··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
If you add 5.1kΩ pulldown resistors on the CC lines for USB-C, you can get the standard 5V without a handshake although current may be limited by some chargers without negotiation.
alacritas0··on A word game I built to understand semantic distance
I don't know if you have already played it, but https://contexto.me/ is probably the best UI I've seen for semantic word guessing games. It is simple enough that it can fit on a phone screen and only displays the rank of previous guesses in a bar that fills up more on guesses that are closer
alacritas0··on AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8000-series processors
integrated GPUs are not powerful in comparison to dedicated GPUs
alacritas0··on Apple announces ability to download apps directly from websites in EU
the link is working for me. it's showing a court opinion
alacritas0··on Tests show high-temperature superconducting magnets are ready for fusion
homogeneity is only optimized for a small volume within the bore. Regardless, the superconducting coils will still experience a change in Lorentz forces as sequences are run, and noise from other components will still be "heard" by the main magnet
alacritas0··on Please make your table headings sticky
What's bad about the sticky property?
alacritas0··on Apple Vision Nope: Why I returned mine
high pixel count != good quality. With all of the smartphone cameras, the sharpness in the details is poor that the image quality is comparable to a mirrorless with half the resolution or less. And then there's low light performance and artifacts which the computational photography introduces
alacritas0··on Show HN: Play the game I'm developing directly on its website
It does, and it's a very good game, but this feels like plagiarism with how similar it is -- artwork style, mechanics, even UI is essentially identical to the GBA games
alacritas0··on Stable-Audio-Demo
this sounds like progress, but it is still very bad except for highly repetitive music like the EDM examples they give, and even then, it still can't get tempo right
alacritas0··on Stable-Audio-Demo
this can produce some pretty disturbing, but interesting music using the prompt "energetic music, violin, voice, orchestra, piano, minimalism, john adams, nixon in china": https://www.stableaudio.com/1/share/953f079e-d704-4138-904c-...
alacritas0··on The Ultraviolet Myth
Even though this is tangential, I think it's important to note that this experiment should be called as the Millikan-Fletcher oil drop experiment to acknowledge Harvey Fletcher's contribution to this experiment as a grad student which he was coerced into relinquishing to receive his PhD
alacritas0··on The Ultraviolet Myth
i wouldn’t consider a quarter century of work by the field a crisis
alacritas0··on Semiconductor Fabrication 101
what are you talking about? it's fine on firefox, and I don't expect an academic department to test on every browser
alacritas0··on Scientists succeed in growing dolomite in the lab
I read it as: for the same calculation, what would have previously taken 5,000 CPU cores * hours ran on a supercomputer can now be run in 2 milliseconds on a desktop. Or about roughly 10 orders of magnitude faster
alacritas0··on SRI’s radioactive contamination treatment is now in its first-in-human trial
And if it is ever needed, let's hope the stockpiles and logistics are in place to allow for quick distribution of the drug to broad portions of populations which are affected. We saw with COVID-19 that the U.S. let the Strategic National Stockpile become depleted. In the worst case, let's hope the drug has been maintained to be immediately available.
alacritas0··on SRI’s radioactive contamination treatment is now in its first-in-human trial
This is factually incorrect. This HOPO 14-1 chelates f-block elements, many of which are radioactive, without depleting other metal ions from the body which are essential for metabolism and other functions. Also, there are a large number of agents which can mitigate the damage done by radiation exposure when administered prophylactically
alacritas0··on This website is solar powered and running on a Raspberry Pi-like computer
dithering improves efficiency because it reduces the bit depth
alacritas0··on Japan Government warned citizens to shelter after ballistic missile launch
The Japanese government has confirmed what appears to be a ballistic missile launched by North Korea has not fallen in the northern prefecture of Hokkaido or surrounding areas.
alacritas0··on Japan Government warned citizens to shelter after ballistic missile launch
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20230413_11/
alacritas0··on When splines were physical objects (2016)
no it isn't. Running 107.0 here and it looks fine
alacritas0··on Show HN: Campus FM – live stream college and independent radio stations
You could attach an rtl-sdr to a raspberry pi and locally host a websdr server (https://github.com/jketterl/openwebrx is a good open source one). The rtl-sdr doesn't have a high enough sample rate to cover about half of the commercial fm broadcast spectrum at a time where you can see quickly switch between stations in that portion e.g. 89-94 Mhz. Going to the other half just requires having two different modes and switching between them in the websdr interface.
alacritas0··on Chicago scientists are testing an unhackable quantum internet in their basement
Looks like the University of Chicago needs to retrain cleanroom safety for all its authorized users. A photo in the article clearly shows somebody in the cleanroom not wearing shoe covers.
alacritas0··on Elon Musk: ‘Aren’t You Entertained?’
https://archive.ph/p4k5G
alacritas0··on Retinoid restores eye-specific brain responses in mice with retinal degeneration
This seems initially strange since one of the common side effects of retinoids like tretinoin and adapalene is they cause dry eye by damaging the meibomian gland. Unless anybody knows better, if this treatment works, it probably comes at the cost of dry eyes.
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