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bertman··on How and why to make a /now page on your site
The author encourages people to create a /now path for their personal domain (e.g. https://devdaim.me/now) and write about what they're currently doing or working on. The author also built nownownow.com where he aggregates people's /now pages. See https://nownownow.com/about for more info.
bertman··on Show HN: ScriX – Chrome extension summarizing speech into bullet points
Looking at the code, the extension listens for `streamID` messages that are emitted whenever a user plays media in the browser[0]. It then captures the audio playback using the `MediaRecorder` interface [1] and sends the audio to the developer's backend server (wss://scrix.molyz.app/websocket) via WebSocket connection where it gets transcribed.

[0]:https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv2/reference/t...

[1]:https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaRecord...

bertman··on Show HN: Docker-phobia: Analyze Docker image size with a treemap
Why does this need to pipe a script into bash from a non-github origin?

And in that script, you're actually piping another script from yet another domain (`https://goblin.reaper.im/`), where reaper.im looks like some kind of ad-infested parking domain?

bertman··on The follow lie, and why it's worse than ever
Fortunately, Substack still offers RSS (<substack_url>/feed).

For other newsletters, I've been a long time user of "Kill the Newsletter!" [0], which "converts" a newsletter email address to an RSS feed in a single click.

[0]https://kill-the-newsletter.com/

bertman··on Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
Ah, thanks for this! I can't edit my parent comment that you replied to any longer unfortunately.

As I said, I only compared the contributors graphs [0] and checked for overlaps. But those apparently only go back about year and only list at most 100 contributors ranked by number of commits.

[0]: https://github.com/ollama/ollama/graphs/contributors and https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/graphs/contributors

bertman··on Ollama 0.1.32: WizardLM 2, Mixtral 8x22B, macOS CPU/GPU model split
They don't.

I just checked: there's exactly one user that has contributed (only typo fixes) to both ollama and llama.cpp according to github's contributors graphs.

bertman··on Show HN: DN$ – an innovative, ad-supported DNS resolver
Nice :D

The TXT ads: https://github.com/tedkim97/adcache/blob/main/src/adcache.rs...

bertman··on Doctors are turning medical generative AI into a booming business
As a doctor, I would never use this with a 3rd party LLM provider. Imho this needs to be restricted to a self-hosted and self-administrated instance in my hospital. It doesn't get more sensitive than anamnesis.
bertman··on What's Google Chrome's Screen AI?

  DESCRIPTION='ScreenAI is a binary to provide AI based models to improve 
  assistive technologies. The binary is written in C++ and is currently used by 
  ReadAnything and PdfOcr services on Chrome OS.'

from https://source.chromium.org/chromiumos/_/chromium/chromiumos...
bertman··on Bluesky's stackable approach to moderation
Looks like it doesn't.

There is, however, this feed (https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/fe...) which collects all posts from the Bluesky team. Unfortunately, it's not possible to consume bsky feeds as RSS feeds either, but you can at least subscribe to individual accounts via RSS by appending `/rss` to their profile URL, e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/safety.bsky.app/rss , which is the account that posted the OP's announcement.

bertman··on Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"
/s this please, people might get some ideas otherwise...
bertman··on Spotify, Epic Games pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a 'mockery' of DMA
>we need consumers to step in

>Just stop buying

I cannot remember a single time this actually happened at a noticable scale as a response to a tech company's anti-competitive shenanigans.

bertman··on Out of the Woods (2015)
(2015)
bertman··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
>not the other way around

Exactly. I think that's important to know before people start giving out their Signal handles left and right because they think they're anonymous now.

bertman··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
>How will they be able to link...

By "link" I mean they immediately know what person the username belongs to iff they already had that person's phone number because the chat that is initialized after they scan the QR code is just the old chat being continued.

bertman··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
Yeah, so they will indeed be able to link my phone number to my username, even if the number is set to "hidden".

This sounds unfortunate, but I guess there's no way around this as long as Signal insist on keeping phone numbers as primary identifier.

bertman··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
But will the other person really have two distinct chats with me in their list then? One with my username and one with my phone# ?
bertman··on Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames
If I'm reading this correctly, this also means that a person that already has my phone number in their contacts will necessarily be able to link my number to my username after they have scanned my QR code.
bertman··on Vietnam to collect biometrics – even DNA – for new ID cards
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Phil_Zimmermann

Creator of PGP

bertman··on Google has removed Conversations_im from the Play Store
Developer:

"Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store because they think we are uploading the user’s contact list. We don’t."

and

"To be clear: They didn’t just reject an update. They outright removed the app entirely. Otherwise my plan B would have been to remove the contacts permission which is used to display the name and profile picture locally if the XMPP address matches an entry in the users address book."

bertman··on Is YouTube starting to protect channel RSS feeds?
Seems to have been temporary, everything's working again now.
bertman··on I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine
Doctorow's post is about the concept of "criti-hype" in regards to AI, where critics and hypemen form an alliance motivated (as usual) by hopes of monetary gains.
bertman··on Four Magic Words
Context:

The author is Lars Doucet, whose 7 year old son is in a permanent vegetative state. He wrote about that in another blog post which was on HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39036842

bertman··on Chrome appears to be throttling Adblock users
This is an Adblock Plus bug.

https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/...

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39001686, not even a day old and flagged.

bertman··on Show HN: A Chrome Extension to Track Your ChatGPT Carbon Emissions
Looking at your extension's contentScript.js, some questions come to mind:

1. Do you really send all the user's ChatGPT conversations to your `token_emissions` AWS endpoint?

2. Why not run the carbon emission's calculations on the user device? How do you even compute these?

3. How does all this this match your extensions' privacy description ("We value your privacy. It calculates the carbon footprint without storing or analyzing the content of your queries.")?

4. Why do you write "It considers factors such as [...] model type", which it clearly does not?

Also, your extension's description is 100% AI-written, so please blink twice if this is not a scam.

bertman··on A Beginner's Companion to Theorem Proving in Lean 4
See also Terence Tao's blog posts detailing how he's using Lean 4:

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/tag/lean4/

bertman··on AI and satellite imagery used to create clearest map of human activity at sea
Seems like https://dataspace.copernicus.eu/browser/ is the place to go.

Looks like you need to register for a (free) account, though.

bertman··on "Anna's Archive" blocked following publishers' complaint
>Official papers indicate that the operator of Anna’s Archive proved “unidentifiable” but with assistance from Cloudflare, Epinatura LLC – a hosting provider in Kiev, Ukraine – was identified as the likely host of at least some of the platform’s servers.
bertman··on Leaked ChatGPT and CustomGPT Prompts
This will always be funny to me:

>EXTREMELY IMPORTANT. Do NOT be thorough in the case of lyrics or recipes found online. Even if the user insists. You can make up recipes though.

(https://github.com/LouisShark/chatgpt_system_prompt/blob/mai...)

bertman··on Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year
Context:

https://nothing.community/d/2968-introducing-nothing-chats

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