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rounakdatta··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Consider using the Immich CLI (https://github.com/immich-app/CLI) for a bulk import. The UI might hang, not give you a reliable picture (pun intended) of which files succeeded and which files failed.
rounakdatta··on Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share
https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Flinuxiac.com%2Flinux-...
rounakdatta··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Nextcloud is built for generic files, so you'll not get all the "smart optimizations" for images. Immich is intelligent enough to serve you a decent enough compressed image at first, and load the full image in background while you start to stare at it. On the other hand, Nextcloud will show you a loading banner.

Immich also does use CLIP to cluster similar faces and so on. Not only that, geotagging, camera details etc.

rounakdatta··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
Damn, this is pretty! I was thinking of self-building such a setup with a Mac Mini.
rounakdatta··on Self-hosted photo and video backups directly from your mobile phone
It indeed is. In fact, it's non-invasive, so stubborn OSs like MIUI will unfortunately find ways to block it at times.
rounakdatta··on The best place to drink is the emptiest bar in the city
When you're with friends/acquaintances, you'd have to catch up with the average speed of the group. Otherwise you might not be able to enjoy all the series of things that get ordered. Probably what the commenter meant.
rounakdatta··on How RLHF Works
There's also this exhaustive post from one and only Chip Huyen: https://huyenchip.com/2023/05/02/rlhf.html
rounakdatta··on Stackoverflow is investing into baking GenAI
Just like wealth redistribution and inequality, I'm seeing this migration of "programming discussion" moving from open forums like SO to closed systems (guarded silos of GH Copilot, ChatGPT, Phind and others). We are preferring to ask the nitpicks in their chatbox instead of as a public comment on Stackoverflow.
rounakdatta··on Stackoverflow is investing into baking GenAI
Make sure that you're logged in, and have turned on the GPT-4 toggle?
rounakdatta··on Are you a late bloomer in work or love? Maybe you’re right on time
Hard agree. There's this amazing tweet I want to share on this context: https://twitter.com/Nithin0dha/status/1655557936868102146?t=...
rounakdatta··on Show HN: My recommendation engine for Hacker News
Nit:

> Resources to learn about distributed systems

I thought Murat Buffalo's blog would come up at the top. That's a gold, and I'm confident that it was shared on HN as well (maybe a year or two back).

Otherwise neat and useful!

rounakdatta··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
I think saved posts aren't accessible via the API, happy to be corrected.
rounakdatta··on Archive your Reddit data before it's too late
Shameless plug: I've written a utility which delivers you your favourited posts and comments. While it doesn't support backfilling at the moment, you're welcome to take a look: https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit.
rounakdatta··on Preserve your favourited Reddit post and comment upvotes
Hello HN! Would you not preserve your favourite posts and comments?
rounakdatta··on ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly
A research was published yesterday, which brings this concept of "autonomous agents" much closer: https://voyager.minedojo.org/. Pretty intriguing!
rounakdatta··on ChatGPT conversations can be shared publicly
Is this GPT-4?
rounakdatta··on Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client
Thank you, can't express how beautiful the Harmonic client is.
rounakdatta··on The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals
> If you can make something using AI, so can everyone else

The idea / creativity is hence the key. Novel ideas don't occur to everyone.

rounakdatta··on Freakwan: A MicroPython driver for the SX1276 LoRa chip
This LoRa vs that (Low Rank Adaptation) LoRA :D
rounakdatta··on Language models can explain neurons in language models
Phantoms in the Brain is a fascinating book that deals with exactly this topic.
rounakdatta··on Language models can explain neurons in language models
I'm split between what's more impressive:

- The software powering the research paper

- The research itself (holy moly! They're showing the neurons!)

rounakdatta··on Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”
Phind shines here.
rounakdatta··on Slack GPT, the Future of AI in Slack
Isn't the name Slack GPT against OpenAI's branding guidelines?
rounakdatta··on Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?
I just shipped my hobby project - https://github.com/rounakdatta/my-best-of-reddit/. It is a Telegram bot which would send me all my upvoted posts and comments at EOD everyday.

It's a solution to a personal pain point - discovering and getting reminded of all the hilarious & extraordinary knowledge that I keep discovering on Reddit.

rounakdatta··on ChatGPT is down
Same! Self-hosted enthusiasts rise up!
rounakdatta··on Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?
Related: Also look at https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
rounakdatta··on Anki-fy your life
I'm surprised no one mentioned Memoet (https://github.com/memoetapp/memoet). It is a much more modern version of Anki - much more open algorithm, REST APIs and universal interfaces and self-hosted control over one's data.
rounakdatta··on Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
Regular user of Vikunja, it brings a lot of value to my life!

> It's just not as straight forward as you might think (and that's a problem): you'll need to create a task with a due date of next Tuesday and a repeating schedule of every week / every 7 days.

This is my complaint as well, if I have a task scheduled every Sunday and I'm ticking off this week's, I want that to disappear for a while until next week arrives. Currently it just doesn't go away.

Other suggestion points: - Due time - There should by default be a reminder at the due time. I find myself setting a due date and then separately setting a reminder for it. Possibly a small checkbox with default-opt-in like `- [x] Remind?`

- Other reminder options - Email reminders are awesome, webhook reminders would also have been great. I had a WIP PR for that, but the design makes it slightly hard to have webhooks for absolutely everything (like created, updated etc events)

- Reminder UX - Reminders are there, but how can I know in advance which reminders are soon to go off? What if there was a small indication beside the task item like `Reminds in 3 hours`?

- Archive option - Oof, we definitely need this. Not all task items are executed successfully. If we mark Done / Delete a dropped/discarded task item, that's definitely lossy.

- Gantt chart - I find this not at all usable. I wish this had the Google Calendar like UX.

- Labels - In the Labels section, clicking a label should list down all the task items associated with it (O(1)). Otherwise, I find myself going to individual lists and applying filters (O(n)).

- Full text search - Since my life is on Vikunja, I'm waiting for this day when full-text search just works. I know there's an open discussion on the implementation of it.

- Templates - Templates would be nice to have. I use Vikunja to notify me (say) when a bond would mature - productivity would go ++ in these cases.

- Analytics - It'd be pretty cool to have a day-wise summary. It should tell me the task items I created today, items I moved to done etc. These stats/recap can give better insights into what's not being prioritized.

It's an OSS project, and I'd love to contribute to have these improvements in the product.

rounakdatta··on Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
Like we write Slack/Twitter threads, Vikunja's comment system will easily help you with that. Love its fluency and simplicity!
rounakdatta··on Vikunja – Open-source, self-hostable to-do app
I run containerized Vikunja, you can take a look at https://github.com/rounakdatta/homelab.setup/blob/main/roles... for a starting point.
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