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Daniel M. Drucker, Ph.D. dmd@3e.org

Director of IT, McLean Hospital Neuroimaging @ Harvard Medical School / Mass General Brigham.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/dmd; my proof: https://keybase.io/dmd/sigs/n7TmOEMKwPrPIcURqZYLYVX1387bzeEZxx42rrP8b2M ]

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dmd··on Copyparty, the FOSS file server [video]
Copyparty is an absolutely incredible tour-de-force and has an absolutely insane feature set.

But if you want something rock solid that probably solves your actual problem, I'd recommend looking at rclone - specifically the 'rclone serve webdav' command.

dmd··on Bad UX World Cup 2025
By search, since it's trivial to find any 8 digit string in the already-known digits of pi - in fact all 100 million combinations appear within the first ~2 billion digits.
dmd··on 210 IQ Is Not Enough
If a 12 month old can’t support its head that’s a big problem. That’s a 4-6 month milestone. 12 months is starting to walk.
dmd··on Adversarial poetry as a universal single-turn jailbreak mechanism in LLMs
Why wonder, when you could read the paper, a very large part of which specifically is about this very thing?
dmd··on Show HN: I built a synth for my daughter
Very cool. Reminds me of things like the Blipbox myTRACKS and the CHOMPI.
dmd··on Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)
Many (most, in the US; don't know about Sweden or Australia) institutions don't draw a distinction between the two and award MA regardless.
dmd··on Being poor vs. being broke
Is this the photo? https://navajotimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/dq-no-wif...
dmd··on Launch HN: Tweeks (YC W25) – Browser extension to deshittify the web
I'd really like to be able to sync my tweeks between the various computers I have Chrome on.
dmd··on Voyager 1 is a light-day away by November 2026
Or like Apollo 8 in the incredibly funny book Unsong.
dmd··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
> not one person stopped to pick any up.

Isn't that the old joke about the economist?

dmd··on The last-ever penny will be minted today in Philadelphia
You do know who would be the first person to rotate in, don't you.
dmd··on Gmail AI gets more intrusive
Good for you. 9999 out of 10,000 people don't know what a "gmail web UI" is, or even that there's something called email that is separate from the gmail web interface.
dmd··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
That's just it though. You're safer strapped into a seat, doing nothing, than you are doing whatever it is you do at home.

Would you be safer in your living room doing nothing, strapped to a seat, never doing anything remotely hazardous (like walking around), vs the same in a tube in the sky? Yes, of course. But that's not what people actually DO in their living rooms!

dmd··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
Given an hour spent flying in a commercial US-flagged airliner or an hour spent in your living room, and you're (far) more likely to get hurt or die in your living room.
dmd··on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport
> Every time I board a plane, I think what a crazy thing I am doing, but then I remember that I could be safe and snug in my house

To be fair, statistically, your living room is far more dangerous than the cabin of an airplane.

dmd··on My Truck Desk
Please don't do this. You wouldn't shit in public. This is the same.
dmd··on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
Clicking a link to launch an external web browser: no

Viewing a webview inside the app itself: yes

dmd··on State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions
well iTerm2 now has a #&*%( web browser built in...
dmd··on Tell HN: Mechanical Turk is twenty years old today
I used it to have transcribed our 2 kids x 5 years of daycare x 180 days a year worth of extensive wonderful daily reports from daycare.
dmd··on Do you know that there is an HTML tables API?
Same. I use this all the time, have for decades. Had no idea other people didn’t.
dmd··on Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road
Blue Highways was much better, IMO.
dmd··on Free software scares normal people
You are describing a form of the XY problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem
dmd··on Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade
They gotta have a computer too. And a source of power.
dmd··on How to Obsessively Tune WezTerm
This post would be a lot better if all the images weren't broken.
dmd··on The human only public license
> It's hard to imagine any country volunteering to wound its own economy so severely.

Yeah, imagine shutting down all the basic research that has driven the economy for the last 75 years, in a matter of months. Crazy. Nobody would do that.

dmd··on Creating an all-weather driver
I (1997, upstate NY) didn't even do that much. I got in the car with the instructor, we drove around the block once. I ran the stop sign because a truck was parked in front of it. The instructor didn't notice (I only noticed later).
dmd··on Avoid 2:00 and 3:00 am cron jobs (2013)
I have photos showing that my dad (born 1949, never in the military) kept his watch on UTC in the early 70s.
dmd··on JetKVM – Control any computer remotely
RDP/VNC don’t work when the computer is off. Or the computer’s network card is down.
dmd··on How to make a Smith chart
I’m just amazed there isn’t a nearly impenetrable Greg Egan book based on them.
dmd··on Armed police swarm student after AI mistakes bag of Doritos for a weapon
To that end, we should all have a cop assigned to us. One cop per citizen, with a gun pointed at our head at all times. Imagine a scenario happens where someone does something and that cop wasn't there? Better to be safe.
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