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human_llm··on Hister – A private, full content search index that you control
Thanks you for making Hister. I have been using it since May and find it immensely useful. It's a piece of mind to know that I always will be able to easily find what I looked at. So I don't feel the need to bookmark things, which I used to do, but then never looked at anyways ;).
human_llm··on Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K
Yes, they operate at 4.2 K (liquid helium temperature).
human_llm··on Make a 6-Tesla-class high-temperature superconducting dipole magnet at 4.2 K
I found it odd that they call it high-temperature, but then perform all their experiments at 4.2 K. Also, at 4.2 K, the magnet performs worse than established Nb-Ti technology, so it doesn't seem to be a significant advancement.
human_llm··on How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?
You forgot "I will take full responsibility"
human_llm··on Running NanoClaw in a Docker Shell Sandbox
I recently started experimenting with agents and found this sandboxing tool for OpenCode useful https://github.com/glennvdv/opencode-dockerized
human_llm··on Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)
HA! It read your post I read back then and I have been using it ever since. So thank you. I guess I need to check out borg ;)
human_llm··on Outsourcing thinking
Absolutely. Like most things on the Internet, it will get enshittified. I think it is very likely that at some point there will be "ads" in the form of the chat bot giving recommendations that favor certain products and services.
human_llm··on No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter
Waterfox just released version 6.6.6. Are we sure it is not evil?
human_llm··on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
Remember Moab
human_llm··on Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
This looks interesting. How feature-crippled is the self hosted version?
human_llm··on Silicon Labs Shrinks Wireless SoCs to Extend BLE to Miniature Devices
Nordic Semiconductors has BLE SOCs in even smaller packages. E.g. the nRF54L15 is available in a 2.4 x 2.2 mm package.
human_llm··on My Beancount books are 95% automatic after 3 years (2024)
ERPNext is fairly easy to automate. We have a number of Python scripts that use the ERPNext API to create sales invoices, add and reconcile transactions from PayPal, Stripe, etc.

We originally used Quickbooks Online and I'm glad we decided to switch to ERPNext a few years ago.

human_llm··on DigiKey's Tariff Resources
It will be $85: 35% customs plus $15 brokerage charges from UPS.
human_llm··on Long Convolutions via Polynomial Multiplication
Also known as Z-transform in digital signal processing.
human_llm··on I tried every top email marketing tool
We use mailster with AWS SES and it works quite well. We have a lot of subscribers but don't send a lot of e-mails, so the cost of other solutions is ridiculous to me.

https://mailster.co/

human_llm··on GenAI is set to create a mountainous increase in e-waste
What is a good place for buying used servers / GPU's for when the AI bubble bursts?
human_llm··on GnuCash 5.9
We used GNUCash for a few years for small business accounting. After a while we migrated to Quickbooks Online as it has some features that GNUCash was missing, e.g., automatically pulling in PayPal and bank transactions and inventory management. This turned out to be a very frustrating experience. Due to the following:

- The price increased every year. We started at about $60/month and after a few years it $80/month. Today the same plan is $99/month.

- The PayPal integration randomly stopped working and was missing transactions. QB customer support was completely useless and we spent hours searching and manually adding transactions. The bank integration (via Plaid) was also not reliable.

- The inventory management is very limited. E.g. you can't repack/combine items without using weird hacks.

So, after a few years I got very frustrated and ended up moving to ERPNext. Migrating all the data was quite a bit of work and involved a number of Python scripts to pull out the data from QB and re-create it in ERPNext, but after about a week we had 5 years of data migrated.

ERPNext is not perfect, but works quite well for us. A big difference to QB is that it supports inventory and manufacturing operations. It also has an API that is fairly easy to use and we use it to get transaction data from PayPal and Stripe.

human_llm··on Sigrok – a portable, cross-platform, FOSS signal analysis software suite
This looks interesting. I wanted to try it with my Rigol DS1054Z, but there is no AUR package for Arch Linux for it, which makes the installation cumbersome. The user experience with Sigrok is superior in that aspect ;)