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My company uses wireless on-street vehicle sensors to tell drivers where they can find an open parking spot in real time. http://www.peterleiser.com
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peterleiser··on Nokia’s legendary font makes for a great user interface font
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peterleiser··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
California Democrats would need to choose pragmatism over party and rapidly deploy nuclear power for desalination.

But states playing no-rules hardball with each other would end up being a gigantic fail for everyone.

peterleiser··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
Definitely red. But I think in northern and central california the whole blue city / red outside cities thing is kind of like the European Coal and Steel Community. So much shared infrastructure and interdependence, and water and electricity is not evenly distributed.
peterleiser··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
Yes, just a thought experiment. I grew up on a farm in Northern California (mostly rice and tomatoes), lived in the bay area for 20 years for college and working in tech, and now live in a red state. I tell people the same thing you do about blue cities and red everything else. It's bizarre how many people in red states and blue states don't know that (and don't want to believe it).
peterleiser··on Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking
The site says "Right now youʼre the only person with the page open, but you can cheat and just open this URL in another tab to see what itʼs like with others." I'm using Firefox and Chrome on Ubuntu. When I try a second tab or one in Firefox and one in Chrome my computer's network connection locks up (pings stop). I have to close the tabs and then pings to google.com come back at 30 seconds and slowly come back to normal. It appears that http://playground.nostrcheck.me/relay is the problem.
peterleiser··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
Maybe he is, maybe he isn't, but (and I'm genuinely asking) what is your point here?
peterleiser··on I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%
Southern California is vulnerable to that, but not Northern California. California is the largest food producer to the US, including about 1/3 of our fresh vegetables and 3/4 of fruits and nuts. The country wouldn't starve without California, but I sure wouldn't want to experience a situation where California stops exporting to red states.
peterleiser··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
I used diarization in https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI last night and once it downloads the model from HuggingFace it runs offline (it claims).
peterleiser··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
Check out https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI

I ran it last night using docker and it worked extremely well. You need a HuggingFace read-only API token for the Diarization. I found that the web UI ignored the token, but worked fine when I added it to docker compose as an environment variable.

peterleiser··on FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
You'll probably like Whisper Live and it's browser extensions: https://github.com/collabora/WhisperLive?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Start playing a YouTube video in the browser, select "start capture" in the extension, and it starts writing subtitles in white text on a black background below the video. When you stop capturing you can download the subtitles as a standard .srt file.

peterleiser··on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
I grew up in a town that did not get broadband internet access until 2017. Before that people had little to no high-speed internet service other than the town library (and they would park or sit outside the library to use the wifi when it was closed). They would also use cell phone data plans.
peterleiser··on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
I see what you're getting at, but that doesn't explain bandwidth deserts in parts of rural California. They might have local conservative representatives, but the state leadership is obviously not conservative.
peterleiser··on Design and evaluation of a parrot-to-parrot video-calling system (2023)
In the past I had parakeets and lovebirds. I think the app is great, but my first (joking) reaction was "Now let's setup a control group by putting the tablet in selfie-mode to simulate a mirror".
peterleiser··on Nine – seemingly impossible C64 demo
I don't know the trick, but take a look at the "7". It looks like it's made from the vertical line in "4" and a portion of another number.
peterleiser··on Nintendo Switch 2
"This year we put a 12 on the box"
peterleiser··on Create block devices on your computer backed by Redstone Memory
I look forward to watching my future grandchildren install a minecraft mod that dematerializes them and let's them play inside minecraft. Then I'll start ranting about Tron and they'll just shake their heads about Grandpa and how he still lives on the old Earth moon colony.
peterleiser··on Cheating alleged after men's world conker champion found with steel chestnut
Exactly! I used to ski double black diamonds in the Sierra Nevada range wearing jeans, with gaiters to keep the snow out of my boots.
peterleiser··on An NFC movie library for my kids
Yes, we also switched to TV only on weekends.
peterleiser··on Python’s Preprocessor
You can always ask the folks at Experts Exchange for guidance on naming things.
peterleiser··on How a car cigarette lighter works, in CT scans
Yes, very handy even for non-smokers. We have a 2015 vehicle that we bought used that came with a cigarette lighter. I removed it and put it in the glove box.
peterleiser··on No Uptime Hosting (2006)
Under "Key scenarios" they include "SETI@home output recorder". Ouch.
peterleiser··on Mistral NeMo
Agreed, it narrowly fits on RTX 4090. Yesterday I rented an RTX 4090 on vast.ai and setup Mistral-Nemo-2407. I got it to work, but just barely. I can run mistral-chat, get the prompt, and it will start generating a response to the prompt after 10 to 15 seconds. The second prompt always causes it to crash immediately from OOM error. At first I almost bought an RTX 4090 from Best Buy, but it was going to cost $2,000 after tax, so I'm glad that instead I only spent 40 cents.
peterleiser··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
In this case it was tracked to Russia.
peterleiser··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
Yes. And I was told by multiple nurses at St. Thomas Midtown that the hospital did not have manual procedures already in place. In their press release they refer to their hospitals as "ministries" [0], so apparently they practice faith-based cyber security (as in "we believe that we don't need backups") since it took over 3 weeks to recover.

[0] https://about.ascension.org/cybersecurity-event

peterleiser··on CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops
The second largest hospital group in Nashville experienced a ransomware attack about two months ago. Nurses told me they were using manual processes for three weeks.
peterleiser··on CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there
They should change their name to "IT CrowdStrike"
peterleiser··on Mistral NeMo
Welp, my data point of one shows you need more than 8 GB of vRam.

When I run mistral-chat with Nemo-Instruct it crashes in 5 seconds with the error: "torch.cuda.OutOfMemoryError: CUDA out of memory. Tried to allocate 40.00 MiB. GPU"

This is on Ubuntu 22.04.4 with an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with 8192MiB. I ran "nvidia-smi -lms 10" to see what it maxed out with, and it last recorded max usage of 7966MiB before the crash.

peterleiser··on Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide
Unraid does look pretty nice. Synology definitely has difficulty spikes, and then you have to search for some article or tutorial.
peterleiser··on Self Hosting 101 – A Beginner's Guide
That's fair, Synology can be confusing, and it's permission system is frustrating. However, my experience has been that many people use Synology, and I have found detailed articles about everything I've ever wanted to do with it, including adding unsupported 5GbE USB ethernet adapters. It's docker support is nice and makes it easy to setup and run infrastructure like MySQL, postgres, redis, iperf3, and apps like nextcloud, firefly III, only office, etc. It manages certs per-domain (import existing or have it use lets encrypt), and the reverse proxy handles multiple domains and sub domains and makes it easy to remotely access individual apps (or hosts and ports) by redirecting port 80 to 443 and then 443 to whatever the particular docker port is (or IP address and port of something else on your LAN). I also like that the apps can run on my SSD-only RAID storage, and then I have a separate large RAID on spinning disks for NAS storage. Then the Synology devices, fiber ONT, router, main switches are plugged into my UPS backup. For personal stuff I like the Synology platform because it's hassle free, and I think the tutorials by random users makes it approachable to consumers.
peterleiser··on The internet is already over (2022)
42 years, and then never mention it again.
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