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bj-rn··on Ask HN: Can you recommend an “instant-switch” Monitor? Does one exist?
Workstation GPUs (Nvidia Quadro[1][2] / AMD Radeon Pro[3]) can emulate/force an EDID in the driver settings and the OS will "think" a display is attached. At least in theory that should get around the handshake.

[1] https://www.nvidia.com/content/Control-Panel-Help/vLatest/en...

[2] https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3569/~/m...

[3] https://portal.7thsense.one/user-guides/MC264-display-config...

bj-rn··on Pixel Accurate Atkinson Dithering for Images in HTML
I found this quite nice (explaining and comparing different methods of dithering):

https://surma.dev/things/ditherpunk/

bj-rn··on EU strikes provisional deal to create a sustainable life cycle for batteries
"The provisional agreement reached between the Council and the Parliament will apply to all batteries including all waste portable batteries, electric vehicle batteries, industrial batteries, starting, lightning and ignition (SLI) batteries (used mostly for vehicles and machinery) and batteries for light means of transport (e.g. electric bikes, e-mopeds, e-scooters)."

"The agreement provides that portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user [...]

Light means of transport batteries will be replaceable by an independent professional."

bj-rn··on Alma – Generative Graphics Creator
Check out Tooll[1] or vvvv[2] (not os itself but many of its libraries are, like for example fuse[3]).

[1] https://github.com/still-scene/t3

[2] https://visualprogramming.net

[3] https://www.thefuselab.io

bj-rn··on Fantasy Jodorowsky Tron visualisations
Oh, double-pasted. Unfortunately can't edit anymore.
bj-rn··on Ask HN: What search engines are you using?
Currently testing out spot which was forked from searx:

https://spot.ecloud.global

https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/infra/spot

bj-rn··on Affinity 2
Bought it exactly one month ago (all apps). No discount. Feel kind of bummed.
bj-rn··on Where else in London are there pylons?
You can use: https://player.vimeo.com/video/11137816
bj-rn··on Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere
GT Sophy maybe? https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-outraces-human...
bj-rn··on Protect your privacy and your phone number with Firefox Relay
Have you tried https://www.sipgate.co.uk ?
bj-rn··on Fork of the popular “I don't care about cookies” extension
They are working on that: https://github.com/OhMyGuus/I-Dont-Care-About-Cookies/pull/9
bj-rn··on Ask HN: Why are energy prices soaring in Europe?
>A lot of energy was imported from Russia via Nord Stream 1 & 2 pipeline

Nord Stream 2 was never in operation.

bj-rn··on The state of Flow-based Programming
Do you know vvvv gamma[1][2]? It's a visual programming environment for the .Net ecosystem. It's documents are saved in a XML format and they have build a visual merge / diff tool that works quite well. The strategies it applies are explained in detail in the readme of the repo[3].

[1]https://visualprogramming.net

[2]https://thegraybook.vvvv.org

[3]https://github.com/vvvv/MergeVLDocs

bj-rn··on Try Stable Diffusion's Img2Img Mode
https://teddit.net?
bj-rn··on Debian's Chromium changes default search engine to DDG
/e/OS does too. https://spot.ecloud.global
bj-rn··on The GPU Banana Stand
Check out Fuse[1][2], it also has a SDF to mesh feature and since it is based on Stride[3] (C#) it might be easier to port.

[1] https://github.com/TheFuseLab/VL.Fuse

[2] https://www.thefuselab.io

[3] https://www.stride3d.net

bj-rn··on TikTok’s Poison Pill
Checkout this documentary: https://www.bottledlifefilm.com/about-the-film

It's from 2012 but I suppose Nestlé hasn't changed much since.

bj-rn··on Ask HN: Anyone making software for kiosks, infotainments or similar?
Well, in both you connect nodes through edges to build a graph :) Seriously though, vvvv is a lot more low level and lends itself better to "application programming" while TD is rather focused on visuals. But ofc I am biased.
bj-rn··on Ask HN: Anyone making software for kiosks, infotainments or similar?
Not sure if it really fits your definition but I make interactive exhibits for museums, trade fairs and events. I am mostly using a visual programming environment called vvvv: https://visualprogramming.net/#Showcase
bj-rn··on YOLOv7: Trainable Bag-of-Freebies
MS put up some courses on github: https://microsoft.github.io/ML-For-Beginners

https://microsoft.github.io/AI-For-Beginners/

bj-rn··on Scratch is a big deal
> none that are more generalised

Do you know vvvv gamma? It's a visual programming environment for .Net. Its language (called VL) combines dataflow programming with features known from object-oriented and functional programming.

https://visualprogramming.net https://thegraybook.vvvv.org

bj-rn··on It’s time to make that indie C# game in Godot
Check out https://github.com/stride3d/stride

It's MIT and fully written in C#.

bj-rn··on Lenovo shipping new laptops that only boot Windows by default
I have to use Windows for work. One of the first things I always do is to install Open-Shell-Menu: https://open-shell.github.io/Open-Shell-Menu
bj-rn··on Ask HN: AI-Generated Music?
klingklangklong has a few nice AI/ML based projects, for example:

https://klingklangklong.com/project/meandering-river

https://klingklangklong.com/project/for-seasons

bj-rn··on Scunthorpe Sans, A font that censors bad language automatically
Reminds me of Paranoia Sans "a self-censoring, conspiratorial typeface that will automatically redact more than 150 words popular in conspiracy myths/theories."

https://fleg.de/paranoia

bj-rn··on Photorealistic Monocular 3D Reconstruction of Humans Wearing Clothing
Does this also apply to hands? They look mangled in these examples.
bj-rn··on Seashore: Easy to use Mac OS X image editing application for the rest of us
Didn't know Glimpse, looked it up and unfortunately the project is "on hiatus": https://glimpse-editor.org/posts/a-project-on-hiatus/
bj-rn··on Completely Locked-In Patients Can Communicate, Thanks to a Brain Implant (BCI)
A "false friend" maybe. Vowel translates to Vokal in German for example.
bj-rn··on Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud
Check out NextCloudPi [1] I have their docker image [2] running on a Qnap Nas for about three years now without any hickups.

[1] https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi

[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/ownyourbits/nextcloudpi

bj-rn··on Unity is buying Peter Jackson’s Weta Digital for $1.6B
Was wondering why virtual production doesn't pop up more often in this thread. The Mandalorian and its behind the scenes triggered a slew of similar studios, for example [1]. Alot of them use Unreal in their workflow. (Another tool often used is Notch[2]). And COVID (travel restrictions, no in-person events etc.) gave them a huge boost.

[1]https://bowl.studio

[2]https://www.notch.one

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