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thekid314on Picard 3.0

Yeah it has been 10 years for me too. But yesterday I downloaded the RC to have my ChatGPT Agent run through my catalog and normalize everything.

Time to pull up Bandcamp and Soulseek and keep adding to my collection.

thekid314on Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data

Yeah, we are talking about 3 20TB drives in a closet here.

I'm an independent photographer and I have my 20TB drives behind my monitor, backing up to backblaze with an offsite synology. Keeping this archive up does take time and money, but PBS should have the budget and IT deparment for this.

thekid314on How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues

Because they are solid stone carved from the mountains south of Cairo, near modern day Helwan.

thekid314on Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers for Bus Mouse Support

That's the next Apple Neo color for you.

thekid314on Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs

Or SETI which would search for signs of alien life.

thekid314on Elevated Errors in Claude.ai

Yeah, the influx of people is disrupting my work, but it brings me joy to witness OpenAI’s decline in consumer support. So much for their Jonny Ive product, whatever it was.

thekid314on Ask HN: Share your personal website

https://www.daviddegner.com

Where I share my photography and in the blog section I share my coding projects and ideas.

thekid314on Berkshire Hathaway Announces Leadership Appointments [pdf]

I’m curious to know which you believe is overvalued. Is it the model creators, who are essentially producing a commoditized product that will never generate the current inflated values? Or is it the individuals who build useful tools that are only incrementally better than previous solutions? Or is it the companies that are attempting to develop groundbreaking products, but they are perpetually six months to two years away from delivery?

thekid314on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices

This will be the year of Linux on the desktop!

thekid314on I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon

I met Stallman once when he was pamphleting outside a beloved book store because they were using meetup to organize a book signing. The guy is consistent.

thekid314on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

This NYTimes article makes it sound like the problem is fixed, but I'm not seeing any improvement yet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/business/cloudflare-down-...

thekid314on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

The Synology Drive version mirrors the filesystem, though I’m sure it has a database for sharing metadata. Is that what they mean?

thekid314on DeepSeek OCR

Yeah, and fails quickly at anything handwritten.

thekid314on Oavif: Faster target quality image compression

Thanks for posting this, really interesting!

I've been building a wordpress plugin that converts JPEG to AVIF on the local server (since everyone wants to sell a service to convert in the cloud).

As a photographer who wants high quality photos on their portfolio website I love how AVIF respects color more the webp.

https://github.com/ddegner/avif-local-support

thekid314on Tesla market share in US drops to lowest since 2017

TSLQ

thekid314on Supercharger for Business – Tesla

Electrify America, EVgo, ChargePoint, and Blink Charging also offer "Site Host" programs.

thekid314on Line scan camera image processing for train photography

I love this! I tried to apply the same idea to scan the tallest tree in New England with a drone. It didn't come out great, but I might just try again now.

Here is how it came out: https://www.daviddegner.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Tree-...

It was part of this story: https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/discovering-old-grow...

thekid314on Tell HN: 1.1.1.1 Appears to Be Down

In NYC it appears down for me too. MacBook-Pro ~ % ping 1.1.1.1 PING 1.1.1.1 (1.1.1.1): 56 data bytes Request timeout for icmp_seq 0

thekid314on Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks

Yeah, I used an older version of a bluetooth messaging app like this. We wish it had been available in the times of Tahrir Square, but it was actually helpfull onetime when my bus stopped at a rural Ethiopian bus stop, my girlfriend ran into the bathroom but was taking too long and I was able to warn her that the bus was getting ready to leave.

Wireless internet is getting better, but when you really need something like this, you really need it.

thekid314on Building a Mac app with Claude code

Yeah, I've built a small iOS app and wordpress plugin for myself and love them. I'm curious if more people will do this in the near future, should we all be sharing our code on github?

thekid314on Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites

Here's a great podcast he was on today if you want more depth than one of those big bombs: https://overcast.fm/+AA4I1vyy4qY

thekid314on Canvas

Yeah, I think this is a shift that will be very interesting when commercialized. I already use chatGPT to write odd plugins for wordpress and programs for image and text manipulation. Now I can get an applet to do almost anything simple after an hour of messing around.

thekid314on Incident: Wordpress.org has blocked WP Engine customers from registry

Yeah, I'm afraid if WordPress.org doesn't have control over their own API's then they are compromised and reduces trust in them.

thekid314on WordPress.org bans WP Engine

He’s also using the foundations copyright to target the primary competitor to his for-profit business, demanding that they invest in the profits of the for-profit company, at the expense of the WordPress open-source community. None of this looks altruistic or for the good of wordpress.org.

thekid314on Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum

Here's the original with better media: https://global.honda/en/tech/Noise-reducing_Wheels/

thekid314on Honda's Hidden Resonators Keep Tire Noise to a Minimum

Okay, how do I get some Honda wheels on my 2015 prius?

thekid314on Egypt's pyramids may have been built on a long-lost branch of the Nile

Yeah, I photographed this story for the Smithsonian. It was talking about how the stones were transferred by boat from near Tora to Saqqara.

The water came most of the way up to the now seasonal lake near the pyramids there.

But also the river used to flood so there were some seasons when the water was high enough to easily transport the stone directly from Tora I assume.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shippin...

thekid314on Baltimore's Key Bridge struck by cargo ship, collapses

Was there a harbor pilot on board, or the normal ship pilot?

Were there tug boats helping with the exit?

I have often felt that the harbor protocols were overkill, but this is one of the times they could have helped.

thekid314on Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia will be completed in 2026

I have the same problem, but with a bakery in St. Louis Senegal. That darn brown butter filled pastry is still in my dreams.

thekid314on Old vs. new growth trees and the wood products they make

Thanks, I never expected to subscribe to a lumber podcast, but I am now.