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mgrandl··on ISponsorBlockTV: SponsorBlock client for all YouTube TV clients
Crowdsourcing doesn’t work for Podcasts because most providers cut in ad segments based on your location. Those differ in length so the sponsorblock approach would not work. I slopped up a small go app that uses whisper API to transcribe and then uses Jev-compatible API to classify ad segments. Works great and costs like $0.01 per episode.
mgrandl··on Libghostty 1.0
Can you describe the iOS experience? Is it just a terminal that mirrors your sessions from the server? I have yet to encounter a good terminal experience on iOS that doesn’t make me want to rip my hair out so if they have some secret sauce to make it enjoyable I would be interested…
mgrandl··on Asahi Linux Progress Linux 7.3
What about ProMotion/120hz and HDR? Last I checked Asahi didn’t really make full use of the Macbook Display. But very interesting!
mgrandl··on Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament
I mean this specific example seems like a far cry from how horrible the Orban regime was. It’s basically ultra-conservative posturing. And Magyar being super conservative was known ahead of the vote. Granted I am no expert in Hungarian politics, but from this single example it seems a bit intense to call him Orban 2.0.

And I also don’t think you can compare Magyar pre- and post election to the new Serbian elected government at all. But I do agree actually producing enough noticeable change until the next election will be hard for both. It just takes time to unfuck countries.

mgrandl··on Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained
Just fyi, i switched to span-02 on openrouter as well since it’s 10x cheaper than mammoth and it’s performing just as well for me, if not better because it’s noticably faster! So thanks for the recommendation.
mgrandl··on Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained
Ah damn and also interesting. I am using it for classifying ads in podcasts. I am listening to a lot of English podcasts, but I am in Germany so often German segments are cut in. Mammoth-1 has had zero issues classifying those segments, but I guess my usecase might just be a lot simpler than yours.

You might also be interested in this index for decision models: https://huggingface.co/spaces/multimodalart/jev-decision-ind...

mgrandl··on Microsoft Decision-1: 9B Qwen Model Launch Explained
Have you checked mammoth-1/elephant-1 models? They are benchmarking quite well compared and are currently free on openrouter. I currently use mammoth-1 for a small internal app and it works flawlessly for what I am doing.

https://huggingface.co/baselabs/mammoth-1

mgrandl··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
Ah ok fair enough.
mgrandl··on Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now
This is so embarrassing. OCI images could have easily been prepared to be ready for the announcement.
mgrandl··on Tesla Roadster
I wonder if the Roadster can seriously compete with the McMurtry Spéirling Pure. It’s lightweight and has crazy active aero. The Roadster has the thrusters, but I can’t imagine those lasting long if the race is long enough. (i understand it “refuels”, but I can’t imagine that being quick or energy efficient).
mgrandl··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
Do you have sensory issues with specific fabrics as well? I have the same issues with long sleeves and it’s made much worse when it’s polyester. I can tolerate loose long sleeved cotton/linen pants much better.
mgrandl··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
I am exactly the same way. This year I had to attend a wedding during the heat wave in Germany (no AC anywhere). It was a sensory nightmare. Other guests seemed to just tank it or even somehow enjoy the weather…
mgrandl··on Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes
The autistic community embraces self-diagnosis for lots of reasons (off the top of my head):

- it can be hard for autistic people to even go see a specialist - lots of autistic people have traumas related to being diagnosed wrongly and receiving bad treatment as a result

mgrandl··on Meta VR Glasses
Yeah I would love this form factor with Linux drivers…
mgrandl··on We made Playwright 2x faster and 80% more token efficient
I think what they are suggesting is that this would replace playwright/cypress in favor of stagehand+test runner (like vitest or whatever you are already using)
mgrandl··on You can run Git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
Sweet. It’s kinda wild to me that this hasn’t been done. Would be so much nicer if gitlab/forgejo/gitea/… supported object storage for everything. Currently you always still need a filesystem for git repos.
mgrandl··on Show HN: OJ – A drop-in replacement for Vite in Rust
Vite 8 with rolldown is plenty fast and usually not the bottleneck, is it?
mgrandl··on Isar Aerospace reaches orbit and deploys payloads on second flight
Sachsen-Anhalt != Sachsen . And I think voters there are too far gone…
mgrandl··on Retatrutide – people risk the gray market for the newest weight-loss drug
People use it for more than just weight loss. In fact it seems to be very popular with gym bros specifically. I have no experience with any peptides, but I think it’s fascinating that people are willing to inject themselves with gray market chemicals with no long term studies.
mgrandl··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Sounds like paseo is for you. It wraps whatever harness you want and makes it accessible on the go. I am the same way as you and openclaw is not for me.

https://paseo.sh

mgrandl··on TigerBeetle Core System Architecture: Deconstructing Performance Engineering
Isn’t that literally what Turso said they wanted to be?
mgrandl··on Ox Alpha
Glm-5.3 is dog slow compared to opus and sol. I tried the same real world task on all three and GLM-5.3 was the slowest by a factor of 3.
mgrandl··on Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
But did they create those plots “by hand”, or did they use one of million open source libraries that create SVG plots? In my experience even SOTA models suck at generating SVG graphics like logos.
mgrandl··on Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown
This would increase the malware surface area and make it much easier for automated security scanners to detect. So win-win for everyone.
mgrandl··on Hy3
GLM 5.2 already matches GPT-5.4 easily.
mgrandl··on Slate EV truck starts at $24,950
And that is completely ignoring maintenance cost which tends to be a lot cheaper on EVs.
mgrandl··on Podman 6: machine usability improvements (2025)
I can recommend microsandbox. More mature than smolmachines. I have tried both.

https://github.com/superradcompany/microsandbox

mgrandl··on Making Debian or Fedora persistent live images
And ostree is likely being replaced with composefs in the near future… things are moving fast in bootc!
mgrandl··on Gooey: A GPU-accelerated UI framework for Zig
I mean GPUI is rust and Gooey is Zig so if you wanna do a project in Zig you probably wouldn’t choose GPUI.
mgrandl··on Zig ELF Linker Improvements Devlog
Isn’t go (with cgo disabled) still at least as fast to compile?
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