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tjflon Show HN: Audiocube – A 3D DAW for Spatial Audio

I see "Sale Ending Soon: Lifetime Licences 71% off - only £29!" at the top of the pages. It looks really neat, but my interest was more curiosity. You need to login to download and then login again from the app (for the trial), and I ran into more friction than I had time for. Will bookmark in case I have a need for this later.

tjflon PixelSnap: The fastest tool for measuring anything on your screen

I've been using xScope since late 2015. I haven't used PixelSnap, but looked at it and was considering buying as PixelSnap's magic "snappable" features are pretty cool. xScope is $50 and PixelSnap is $40 to install on 1 Mac, but $70 to install on 2 Macs and $160 to install on 5 Macs. I have two laptops and a desktop and appreciate licenses to install on my personal Macs for non-simultaneous use, and xScope has this through the App Store purchase.

xScope also offers other tools. I use Rulers, Loupe, Guides, and Crosshair and they are all nice and work as expected.

https://xscopeapp.com/features

tjflon Lyrebird the Linux voice changer now supports PipeWire

Thanks! Is https://github.com/w-okada/voice-changer correct?

tjflon Self hosted YouTube media server

I didn't know this, neat! Going to try this out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedl/comments/mcvgmr/download_...

tjflon Increasing pressure on US men for income in order to find a spouse

Give yourself some credit--date smart_er_, tall_er_, rich_er_ women.

tjflon The US post office is spying on the mail – senators want to stop it

Public Intelligence has a copy of the request form: https://info.publicintelligence.net/USPS-MailCoverRequestsFo...

tjflon U.S. regulator set to take over First Republic

Except for the incoming question being on there, per your link:

> While it was notable that a potential question was written on Biden’s card, every White House press office takes scrupulous care to prepare their president for news conferences.

tjflon My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

I found it, and then some:

- https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/862#issuecomme... - https://gist.github.com/programus/d3bf9c6b8f9b7648891d1f59b6... - https://world.hey.com/jonash/alacritty-drop-down-guake-quake...

Really cool!

tjflon My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

Would you be willing to share your Hammerspoon config, or at least that part? Would love to do this with Alacritty!

tjflon Defamed by ChatGPT

> I learned that ChatGPT falsely reported on a claim of sexual harassment that was never made against me on a trip that never occurred while I was on a faculty where I never taught.

If you replace this guy with my name I'd be upset. In my non-software networks the hallucination part isn't common knowledge. It's just a cool Google replacement.

tjflon It’s Game over on Vocal Deepfakes

What is your favorite flavor of jam?

tjflon Show HN: Mr. Graph – A graph definition and execution library for Python

Maybe Dagster with Assets?

https://docs.dagster.io/concepts/assets/software-defined-ass...

tjflon Post-processing is ruining iPhone photos

I recently found and bought https://camerapixels.app/ which I love and it seems (to a hobbyist photographer) to give me a lot of control. The exposure and focus bracketing is really neat and pairs up with Affinity Photo 2 (and I'm sure many others). It has replaced the default camera app for me.

tjflon Silicon Valley law firm Cooley axes more than 100 employees

https://archive.ph/JjLwm

tjflon Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

It's really nice. I bought it last year, but don't use it frequently enough and didn't renew it this year. If you're in the same boat https://mitmproxy.org is really helpful and with `mitmweb` offering a web alternative to their TUI it's really convenient.

If you have ProxyMan you can renew with the discount, too.

tjflon Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

I couldn't find an option to buy directly from them, either. It's $21.29 on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AZWNS84/

tjflon Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?

$199 in US

https://www.razer.com/gaming-egpus/Razer-Core-X/RC21-0131010...

tjflon Virtual Crash Accident Reconstruction Software

I don't know either, but they have a demo reel at https://www.vcrashusa.com/gallery/ which was interesting to watch.

tjflon Oneway.tel: two-factor auth phone numbers for side-projects and small orgs

Hi, I was a charge.co customer a few years back. It was neat, and bummed it's no longer around. For this new service would customers own the phone numbers as long as they're paying for them? Could they be ported to another service?

tjflon Fissure: The RF and Reverse Engineering Framework for Everyone

The demo starts [here](https://youtu.be/AGHbxXXmnms?t=1208).

tjflon Ask HN: Better way to create Anki cards?

If you're comfortable with Python, https://github.com/kerrickstaley/genanki is amazing. You can pull your content from any source, use templates for the question and answer format, and even add media to each card (image, audio).

tjflon Show HN: Recut automatically removes silence from videos – built with Tauri

I love this idea. I stumbled upon a Gist[0] from vivekhaldar[1] some time ago and it really helped out when I had to create a screen recording for a colleague. Definitely not as polished as Recut, though.

[0] https://gist.github.com/vivekhaldar/92368f35da2d8bb8f12734d8... [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/vivekhaldar

tjflon Boston Fed releases report, source code of digital currency prototype study

https://info.publicintelligence.net/USPS-MailCoverRequestsFo...

tjflon The new warrant: how US police mine Google for your location and search history

Maybe it depends on age? For a lot of these activities it feels like it's always been that way (maybe not true if you're older?), so even if excessive you've had your whole life to get used to it. All of this covid stuff is new. I agree with mwint, don't have a home, not remodeling, no kids, and no business.

tjflon Show HN: A simple recording program with the ability to record the screen

I've used https://www.realartists.com/retroclip/ on macOS for years and highly recommend. I paid $4.99 when it was released, but it looks like it's available for free now.

tjflon Apple defends anti-child abuse imagery tech after claims of ‘hash collisions’

They're not owned by the federal government, but they do get a lot of federal government money.

> The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® was established in 1984 as a private, nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. Today, NCMEC performs the following 15 specific programs of work, funded in part by federal grants (34 U.S.C. § 11293): Source: https://www.missingkids.org/footer/about

US DOJ OJJDP lists recent grants totaling $84,446,366 in FY19 and FY20. Source: https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/awards/list?awardee=NATIONAL%2...

tjflon Red Ventures has turned very specific advice into very big business

Yeah, I'm never calling a toll free number again.

> For instance, they purchased more than a million toll-free phone numbers, and each visitor to their marketing website was shown a different one. So when prospective customers called, Red Ventures knew exactly what they had been looking at on the site, which gave the agents what they needed to make personalized sales pitches. This was a pretty high-tech form of digital surveillance in those more innocent times.

tjflon Police are telling ShotSpotter to alter evidence from gunshot-detecting AI

IANAL, but curious and searched.

> A number of techniques designed to detect gunshot residues (GSR) on the hands of a suspect or victim have been developed. These techniques range from the now-discredited paraffin test to the more modern techniques which use instrumental analysis or scanning electron microscopy. The limitations of all GSR techniques are that the residues can be removed by rubbing or washing the hands and usually must be collected soon after the firearm is fired, yet even valid GSR tests are not conclusive.

https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/forensic...