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djkoolaide··on Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Tried it today on a B70 and couldn't get anything usable out of it.

Prism's llama.cpp fork only has the kernels for CUDA, CPU and Vulkan. No SYCL at all :(

djkoolaide··on Stop Ruining It
On his YouTube channel he claimed that FLAC is different from WAV[1]. No need for any of that in my subscriptions anymore.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QNXQ0KOWyc

djkoolaide··on The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers
What's a Chinese firewall?
djkoolaide··on Ubuntu 26.04
The beta installer was completely unsuccessful in setting the TPM-backed disk encryption on both a ThinkPad X1 Carbon (Intel 258V) and a ThinkPad P14s (AMD 300-something). Hopefully they ironed that part out in the release, but it seems still early for this feature (at least for my comfort level).
djkoolaide··on Stealth signals are bypassing Iran’s internet blackout
that's how it works. point a free-to-air dish at the right place in the sky, demodulate the DVB-S2 signal, and it's often IP traffic moving through mpeg transport streams.
djkoolaide··on Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
Tossing in a suggestion for Vallum[0] here. It's not FOSS but very polished and a fraction of the cost of Little Snitch.

[0]: https://vallumfirewall.com/

djkoolaide··on Television is 100 years old today
I've had two SSDs "die" over the years, both of them went read-only, but I was able to recover all data. SSD failure modes are weird.
djkoolaide··on SCiZE's Classic Warez Collection
Highly recommend downloading the .isos and playing them in mpv with deinterlacing. Lot of great native 60i footage in this doc.
djkoolaide··on Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage
We build bespoke servers installed at client properties to support our service. Since August, our unit cost has jumped from $3,500 to $5,500. It’s a bleak situation and will directly impact many businesses.
djkoolaide··on New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
404 Media is a great place to start.
djkoolaide··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
Yeah, a password manager/autofill would have set off some alarms and likely prevented this, because the browser autofill would have detected a mismatch for the domain npmjs.help.
djkoolaide··on XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images
Given my understanding of Debian, I don't believe this can be attributed to a "marketing strategy."
djkoolaide··on Changes in schizophrenia diagnoses associated with cannabis use disorder
People have this strange concept that weed is supposed to make you see rainbows and stuff lol. I'd say your experience is about normal.
djkoolaide··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
I use both the Windows and macOS version almost daily (work vs home), and I'm happy to report that the macOS version is just as efficient as the Windows one when dealing with huge directories. I regularly have to deal with thousands of files at a time, and it just zips through them. One of my all-time favorite applications, no doubt.
djkoolaide··on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update
I believe it's still used. Whenever I print anything (Sonoma 14.4) I have to allow connections for 'cupsd'.
djkoolaide··on Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Too Many Records is awesome -- just installed it and I think this will help me in selecting records for my weekly vinyl gig. Great work.
djkoolaide··on GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories
Seafile is fantastic and I'm surprised I don't see more discussion about it around here. I've been running it on a VPS with MinIO as my object storage for about two years now, ~4TB of data just shy of 100,000 files. It syncs fast, stable af, and I "own" all my data. Can't recommend it enough.
djkoolaide··on Google's advanced music generation model and two new AI experiments
While the mixing process is certainly a frustrating one, it’s also the part I’m most addicted to. I mix something almost every day, whether it’s my own work or other multitracks “acquired” from the internet. It’s so much fun working backwards on a song I’m familiar with and going “ok, how the hell did they make the kick sound like that?!” and figuring it out :)
djkoolaide··on What I learned about MP3 encoding
I'm interested in knowing more, but after a few minutes of searching, I can't seem to find a modern macOS implementation of the reference Fraunhofer codec. All my tools (Audition, xACT, ffmpeg, and even dbpoweramp) use various versions of LAME. Does Fraunhofer's encoder preserve above 20kHz at 320kbps?
djkoolaide··on Running Windows NT 4.0 on an Intel 13th Gen CPU [video]
This might be interesting for those of us supporting legacy hardware in our environments.
djkoolaide··on Bypassing YouTube video download throttling
I can answer about the audio.

YouTube (and most other streaming sites like Spotify etc) use something called ReplayGain. It's essentially a tag that specifies the calculated average loudness of the video/song/whatever (this number is calculated at upload time).

Upon playback, the official YT client knows to use that tag and adjust its volume level accordingly, but I'd imagine either the tag isn't getting downloaded, or perhaps MKV doesn't support ReplayGain tags natively.

djkoolaide··on A Blog Post with Every HTML Element
Do you mind sharing this? Sounds like it would solve the exact problem on my ultra-wide monitor.
djkoolaide··on Average color of the NYC sky every 5 minutes
Could be mistaken but I think my Mac already does this -- it has "true tone" and when I open the lid, my main external monitor changes color temperature.

I wonder if there's a way to scrape that data and then send it to Home Assistant for light control.

djkoolaide··on Why it can be a good idea to say “Thank You” to ChatGPT
I say "thank you" every time because I imagine it gives the engineers a little smile as they read logs :)
djkoolaide··on TikTok Owner Had 'Backdoor' for CCP Access to US Data, Lawsuit Alleges
The thing is, this is a pretty standard playbook for many intelligence-turned-civilian types. They become "consultants" for basically every industry. Not defending it, but it's not really unique to TikTok.
djkoolaide··on Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
For a long time now, imgur simply hasn't worked for me unless I whitelist JS for medialab and a bunch of other 3rd-party domains. Even direct image links get hijacked back to the tracking-infested page. Good riddance, imgur, you won't be missed.
djkoolaide··on Patriot Act on steroids: anti-TikTok Trojan horse for censorship, surveillance
can you please explain how a phone app will reduce liberty
djkoolaide··on Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)
I think there may have been a misunderstanding. There are many of us who regularly switch to a different stylus depending on the record or genre we're playing. I haven't heard of anyone treating a stylus as single-use.
djkoolaide··on FFmpeg 6.0
and if you're encoding an x265 file, it needs

-tag:v hvc1

for iphone/quicktime to recognize it.

djkoolaide··on Let Teenagers Sleep
Because in the US there is very little public transport infrastructure and most neighborhoods are not walkable. Buses have already left the school by 5pm. The only way for the kid to get home is their parent to pick them up.
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