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nirav72

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nirav72··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
GP is using SingleFile browser extension. Which allows him to download the entire page as a single .html file. But SingleFile also allows sending that page to Karakeep directly instead of downloading it to his local file system. (if he's hosting karakeep on a NAS on his network). He can then use the mobile app or Karakeep web UI to search and view that archived page. Karakeep does the indexing. (Including auto-tagging via LLM)
nirav72··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
jokes aside. It has a mobile app
nirav72··on Compiler Explorer and the promise of URLs that last forever
KaraKeep is a decent self hostable app that has support for receiving singlefile pages via singlefile browser extension and pointing to karakeep API. This allows me to search for archived pages. (Plus auto summarization and tagging via LLM).
nirav72··on What do I think about Lua after shipping a project with 60k lines of code?
This is the second game I've found out recently that is written in Lua. The first one one being - Beyond All Reason.
nirav72··on DolphinGemma: How Google AI is helping decode dolphin communication
Or do you mind going over there and planting this round thing to the side of the ship belonging to the other humans?
nirav72··on 23andMe bankruptcy: With America's DNA put on sale
Wasn’t a cold case solved and a serial killer was caught based on family genetic data?
nirav72··on Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras
Arducam actually makes one with stereo depth sensing that has global shutter. (I've never tried it though)

https://www.arducam.com/product/opencv-ai-kit-oak-d-lite-ov7...

nirav72··on Intel RealSense Stereo Depth Cameras
I had both the original Kinect (xbox 360) and then Xbox One Kinect. I found that I was able to find a lot more libraries and projects around the original Kinect. Sadly, I misplaced the original 360 Kinect when I moved to a new house and have never been able to find it. I still have the xbox one Kinect. But it seems that there isn't lot of of development done around it. Even though it had more sensors and had better imaging.
nirav72··on Google calls Gemma 3 the most powerful AI model you can run on one GPU
yeah, I can't even keep up these days. So now mainly focus on what I can run locally via Ollama.
nirav72··on Repealing the CHIPS Act risks US national security
Yet his approval rating is higher than its ever. There is a segment of the population that seems love the bull in the china shop approach to governance.
nirav72··on Building a Personal Archive with Hoarder
Didn't realize Hoarder now supports SingleFile extension. amazing.

Regarding Hoarder - by selfhosting Hoarder , I was able to cancel my $40/year subscription to Pocket. With the money saved - I added $10 of OpenAI's API credits and use gpt-4o-mini for tagging. I don't have a powerful enough GPU to selfhost Ollama on my NAS where I'm hosting Hoarder. But gpt-4o-mini is dirt cheap for these type of use cases.

nirav72··on Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks
That probably won't last with the recent changes with the FBI leadership.
nirav72··on Show HN: Wireless video streaming on POV bike display
This is neat. Are you using some kind of slipring to pass the signal to the LEDs?
nirav72··on Everyone at NSF overseeing the Platforms for Wireless Experimentation is gone
More than 4 years. At least the way it seems right now. The democrats have no viable strategy or someone with a cult of personality that can unite all the factional groups.
nirav72··on Coral USB Accelerator with Google's Edge TPU
A mini-PC like a Lenovo m720q or m920q can be had for about $120 on secondary markets. It works great for me as a frigate server. I'm using it with 6 cameras and plan to add couple of more. If you look around on ebay, you might able to find one with 16gb ram and even a m.2 or SSD drive included. Then get the m.2 (A+E) version of the Coral TPU board ($30-35). That can be inserted into the wifi board slot. The m720q has a i5-8400T. While it's a 8th gen intel CPU , its more than capable of handling Frigate , as well several other applications if you run it in Proxmox or even barebones install. It has one m.2 for storage slot. But can also hold one 2.5 inch SSD. So you can drop in a cheap nvme drive for boot & OS. Use a much cheaper larger SSD for video storage. (what i've done)
nirav72··on The Fall of FiveM
Yeah, same here. I'm a Gen'Xer that grew up gaming since the early 1980s. Even though I still continue to game - I feel like I've lost touch with the community aspects of gaming since I hit my 30s & 40s. I vaguely know about FiveM because I have a teenage son. But other than that, lot of the stuff in the article went over my head.
nirav72··on Pi-hole v6
Have they added more to the existing API? They already had an http API to enable/disable blocking.
nirav72··on Pi-hole v6
Still no wildcard domain support for local DNS.
nirav72··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Where do you think the components that System76 uses are sourced from?
nirav72··on Tariffs result in 10% laptop price hike in U.S. says Acer CEO
Bringing it all back to North America isn't going to help much, since its almost impossible to locally source every single component that goes into a modern computing device. There there is the cost of labor.
nirav72··on NOAA's public weather data powers the local forecasts on your phone and TV
The VP has already stated that they'll disregard court rulings. So yeah, courts are going to be useless.
nirav72··on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
They’re not evil, they’re amoral and are designed to maximize profits for their investors. Evil is subjective.
nirav72··on Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]
Seems like they want to bring back supersonic commercial flights similar to the trans-Atlantic Concorde flights. But with more destinations.

Per their site - https://boomsupersonic.com/overture

nirav72··on We're bringing Pebble back
My very first 'smart wearable' I owned. Amazing watch. Also used it to build my first home automation project - Built a garage door opener and status monitor with a Arduino Yun , relay and magnetic switch. Was able to trigger it with a button mapped on the pebble that would trigger something in tasker on a android phone that would make an http call to open the garage door and also to get the status.

I'd be completely ok if they keep the new pebble as simple as possible. Using the same e-Ink display and functionality. One of the most memorable things about the original watch was the battery life. Didn't have to charge for days.

nirav72··on IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star
Reminds me of the planet inhabited by Arachna spider species in Vinge's A Deepness in the sky.
nirav72··on Reverse Engineering Bambu Connect
I've been on the fence about purchasing a Bambu. But given the amount of time I've spent over the past few years having to tweak my ender 3 V2 and CR-10- I was leaning towards finally splurging on a X1C.

Question to those more familiar with the bambu software ecosystem - do these recent changes to authentication require a constant online connection to print anything from a machine on the LAN? I'm assuming printing via microSD will still be possible?

nirav72··on Blue Origin reaches orbit on first flight of its titanic New Glenn rocket
I’m not knowledgeable in the deep technical details of rocketry. But curious - how else would the first stage be operated? Should it be autonomous?
nirav72··on Show HN: Atlas of Space
wow, this is amazing. Learned quite a bit just by looking at the orbits of various objects. Especially pluto. Didn't realize pluto had such an odd orbit relative to the ecliptic plane of the other planets and planetoids. I'm assuming that's due to Neptune?
nirav72··on Conscious unbossing – 52% of GenZ professionals don't want to be middle managers
The oldest Gen-z is still in their late 20s or early 30s. Could be that could change in about 10 years?
nirav72··on Show HN: I completed shipping my desktop app
Does the video editor allow combining clips of various resolution and aspect ratios?
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