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bonki··on Daft Punk Player
This is fun! Could you add optional quantization buttons so that the queued samples are aligned with the beat?
bonki··on MinIO Community version 2.0 is going back to be an object browser only
I think the changelog is pretty clear on that, but I assume for many users this is not a "just" thing and matters a lot. Enshittification started before this change, but now it's really obvious where they are heading.
bonki··on Do Managers Need 1:1 Meetings with Every Team Member?
All but one of my managers had their own bars set to quarterly meetings and all failed to deliver, so yearly one-on-ones it was, which is just silly. The one who tried to have monthly meetings ended up finding time for bi-monthly meetings. I appreciated the frequency, but they were completely pointless because he would ignore everything that he promised and forget about it until the next meeting, even though he himself took records of what he promised to improve in the relevant IT system. In the end he usually blamed me for not getting back to him, even though I would complain about the same things for months and he always promised to fix them. I don't think quantity matters that much, if your manager is capable and your work environment halfway decent you get away with a lot fewer meetings (especially if you have ad hoc ones when they are needed and you receive regular feedback when you need it - which doesn't have to and imo shouldn't be contained to booked meetings) , and if they are not those meetings probably are a waste of time and energy. Quality is more important than quantity.
bonki··on Johann Strauss' The Blue Danube to be broadcast into deep space
As an Austrian and Kubrick fan, this makes me happy.
bonki··on Ask HN: Openrouter Free Models
The free models are subject to tighter rate limiting.

They also offer free models like Quasar Alpha where they don't disclose who the model provider is. In exchange for you getting a capable model for free they get to log everything to improve upon it before a proper public release. Whatever that means, as I would expect everything and your mother to be logged and used for further training anyway.

bonki··on Ask HN: Anyone struggling to get value out of coding LLMs?
This is exactly why we can't have nice things :(
bonki··on Please don't upload my code to GitHub
IANAL but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works. If MS chooses to violate the original license that is between the original author and MS. You as the uploader do not and cannot grant rights to MS which you did not receive in the first place. You upload the code under its original license and if MS does not honor the license that is not on you. Not defending MS here in any way, btw, I do firmly believe in opt-out.
bonki··on Please don't upload my code to GitHub
The huge difference being that you do have the right to upload to GitHub if the code is released under an OSS license. If a project asks you nicely not to it would be equally nice to honor that, but there is no legal obligation to do so. Putting a copyrighted movie on Youtube to which you have no distribution rights is comparing apples to oranges and not the same thing.
bonki··on There is no German word for "self-aware"
I dare to disagree. Empathy would be Empathie or Einfühlungsvermögen. Mitgefühl is not empathy and a common translation for compassion.
bonki··on There is no German word for "self-aware"
What's your problem with "Mitgefühl"?
bonki··on There is no German word for "self-aware"
What's wrong with "selbstwahrnehmend"? It's literally (pun slightly intended) a literal translation of "self-aware" and doesn't have the ambiguity that "selbstbewusst" comes with.
bonki··on Authy corrupted my 2FA backup and all I got was this lousy blogpost
I use KeePass as main TOTP app but migrated from Authy to Aegis (open source, great app) years ago which I use as sort of secondary backup, which also allows you to create backups and import/export data. I sync those off my phone using Syncthing. There is absolutely zero reason to use Authy for standard TOTP these days.
bonki··on Unlimited text-to-speech using Kokoro-JS, 100% local, 100% open source
I'm on crappy internet right now so tried downloading the audio instead, which doesn't work and always fails with an "error initializing file save". Does the download option still require the model to be downloaded first?
bonki··on Show HN: A Wolfenstein3D-like raycaster made in Windows Batch
Supercool!
bonki··on Toshiba says Europe doesn't need 24TB HDDs, witholds beefy models from region
Weird headline, last time I checked the U.K. was part of Europe.
bonki··on Palette lighting tricks on the Nintendo 64
Not true, the N64 was released a couple of months after the first Game Boy games.
bonki··on Show HN: Self-Funded Game with Homemade Engine – Play Online, Steam Coming
Is there any documentation for the engine?
bonki··on A Tale of a Trailing Dot (2022)
That makes sense. What a stupid mess all of this is.
bonki··on Ask HN: How do you store private keys?
keepass
bonki··on A Tale of a Trailing Dot (2022)
I don't understand the HSTS part/situation. If trailing dot vs. non-trailing dot are to be treated as different identities because they could theoretically serve different vhosts, why is it (technically) not correct to ignore HSTS for one if only set by the other?
bonki··on Windows 10 wallpaper was physically built and photographed (2015)
The lightning might indeed not be the best but I really like it, well done!
bonki··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
Yes, that's the article I remember. Was just curious whether I missed something or not. Thanks!
bonki··on 20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu
... in the US.
bonki··on Husband and wife outed as GRU spies aiding bombings and poisonings across Europe
Do you have a source on the cash gifts?
bonki··on Radicle is an open source, peer-to-peer code collaboration stack built on Git
To my surprise, I have seen this more often than I would have expected (expectation = zero). It's not super common but not unheard of.
bonki··on Android 15 may make it harder for sideloaded apps to get sensitive permissions
Wasn't Private Location removed from the store though? If it's the app that I'm thinking about I used it before but it stopped working because the map API changed which broke the app and it never got updated, so it was removed. There should be a github issue about that somewhere.
bonki··on British Placename Mapper
The first "k" in Norwegian "kirke" (Swedish "kyrka") and "ch" in German "Kirche" are entirely different sounds (with exception(s), one German dialect comes to mind). The "k" in "kirke" is somewhere between German "sch" and "ch" but is neither really, the sound doesn't exist in [almost all] German [dialects].

Source: My native tongue is German and I've lived in Scandinavia for over a decade.

bonki··on Bzip2 Format Specification (2016) [pdf]
Someone posted this [1] here recently which I found extremely informative. Unless I've missed something zstd outperforms bzip2 in all cases there?

[1] https://insanity.industries/post/pareto-optimal-compression/

bonki··on British Placename Mapper
In which universe are German k and ch phonetically similar?
bonki··on Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management
The name confuses me profoundly.
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