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Allowing anything other than plain text in email bodies was a terrible mistake.

Kagi handles this perfectly, IMO. Defaults to normal search, but invokes an LLM if a `?` is appended to the query.

> The skill is open at ~/.claude/skills/video-index/. If you're working on something similar (indexing personal archives, getting a local model to do real archival work, building agents that drive editing tools), I'd be glad to compare notes.

When your Claude wrote this post they might not have selected the right URL to share, unless your home folder is exposed. Care to share the skill files?

I was able to find the references (including photos of the mentioned forearms) on PubMed and the RIMJ after a quick search. Paraquat is nasty stuff.

- [0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33769492/

- [1] http://www.rimed.org/rimedicaljournal/2023/06/2023-06-40-ima... (via https://rimedicalsociety.org/rhode-island-medical-journal/)

- [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraquat

first application to get installed on every nuke and pave

very cool. thanks for sharing!

What codec is your media in, and what are your players? I've virtually never had JF try to transcode something for me on the fly

and macOS!

jellyfin handles my 12 TB media library with transparent ease. i use infuse as a client on my apple tvs, including devices at my family and partners' places via tailscale on aTV

if it's good and it works well, then the human using the LLM did a good job, and need not credit their LLM of choice as one would not credit their rubber duck.

This looks cool and I've downloaded it. Clicking on the "free" tier on the subscription page brings you into Stripe checkout for the $6 tier, FYI.

I use the great, free, "Suspicious Package" app [0] to inspect installers like these.

In fact, it was Supertone Shift's installer that prodded me to seek it out (I happened to find and install Shift a couple of weeks ago).

In this case, it needs admin permissions to install to `/Library/Application Support` as well as `/Library/Audio`.

It needs to restart in order for the HAL driver to be loaded (this provides the virtual audio interface for using the app with Teams, Zoom, etc.)

The preinstall/postinstall scripts simply handle the app's directory in Application Support.

I decided it was safe enough, and had some fun playing with it. It contacts what it claims are licensing servers (when it starts), and won't start without it. It wanted to keep contacting those servers constantly, but blocking its network access via Little Snitch didn't prevent it from functioning. The network traffic was in the single-digit kilobyte range, so I felt reasonably confident no audio data was being looted.

[0] https://mothersruin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/

i have found the recent crop of SotA LLMs to be extremely useful for the latter few tasks you mentioned. Give it my full, comprehensive CV, as well as a prospective job description, then ask "tailor a condensed resume from the info in my CV to match this job description."

Of course you'll want to review and edit, but it's taken a huge amount of drudgery out of the process, for which I am grateful.

I'm curious why an exempt employee would ever have to fill out a timesheet...

would be interested in a write-up of this if you ever get a chance

Impressive. I've never dealt with a situation where even `rm` failed, but I have had the displeasure of using and managing modern Macs with 256 GB (or less) of internal storage. I like to keep a "spaceholder" file of around 16GB so when things inevitably fill up and prevent an update or something else, I can nuke the placeholder without having to surgically prune things with `ncdu`

There are a few, but these links should get you started and hint at future keywords for search. The first link is the one I was thinking of, but there are more. YMMV with link 3 (samba wiki).

1. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102010

2. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102050

3. https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Configure_Samba_to_Work_Bet...

The flip side of being "exempt" is that you still get the salary even if you actually work very little. Last time I got into the legal language of the classification (May 2020, as we were facing furloughs), I remember that it basically said (paraphrase) "an exempt employee is entitled to the full agreed-upon salary for any week of work in which any work takes place", meaning if everything you're responsible for was working just fine and all you did that week was send one or two relevant emails, then you'd "earned your keep"

I generally appreciated this (as opposed to tracking hours) since I was in a sysadmin-like role and outside of some truly busy weeks of deployments or migrations, there was really not much to do. (A friend joked, reassuringly, at times when I found this distressing: "You're basically on retainer.")

I've got a beefy synology nas and a variety of macs and have always had issues with smb shares, despite applying the configuration tweaks even apple recommends on their support site. i get full gigabit-speed as expected when using nfs, though, so i stick with that.

Report from CBS News mentions the bridge handled "11.5 million" vehicles a day.

EDIT: That number seemed fishy; I think the reporter is referring to the traffic along the entire I-95 corridor.

https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1772556368106450953?s=20

I'm very keenly interested on what their underlying tech/model is — I couldn't find any detailed information.

Storage is also horrifyingly cheap these days. Was just looking at recertified enterprise HDDs – can get a 20TB drive for $200. Wish I had some more spare change lying around!

I also pretty much gave up on running split DNS for internal stuff at home. avahi & .local just works enough of the time (though definitely not all of the time).

This is a really great write up, very clear and easy to follow. Was very impressed at your pure bash barcode generator. I'm eager to try this out on my own library card!

What are you using to configure or manage Insteon devices without the hub? did you grab one of their modems or plms?

It appears as though Apple doesn't consider nuclear energy "clean". They don't mention it in writing anywhere, and from my locale in Chicago, the "Grid Forecast" available in the Home app is very stingy with its determination of "cleaner" energy, despite IL running on at least 58% nuclear energy (as of 2020).

This is really cool, and the photos are almost surreal.

I've got over 50 Philips Hue Color bulbs running with no failures since 2016 (so, 7 yrs now) along with between 35-50 FEIT Electric LED bulbs (great for affordable >90 CRI) and only a few of the FEITs have failed over the years. Perhaps it's true that the quality of your electrical service matters; the power in Chicago virtually never goes out.

I'm a 'trimethylxanthine' guy myself.

`ditto` will also preserve resource forks, which is occasionally necessary for not breaking apps or installer pkgs. I've had to use it when doing a semi-automated deployment of some zipped-up software to a hundred or so Macs via bash over ARD. `ditto -xkv`