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zenwheel

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Husband, dad, software engineer, linguist, geek, photographer, driver, ketogenic

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daringfireball, to random
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The Talk Show: ‘Chockdingus’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/31/the-talk-show-401

zenwheel,
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@daringfireball one option for iPad is just to bring the virtualization framework over, introduce that at WWDC on iPad, let devs build tools like https://getbushel.app and also give pro apps more options for background tasks so pro apps can run jobs to completion

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Official signage gets straight to the point 😅

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith we stayed near there on our honeymoon almost exactly 17 years ago

geerlingguy, to random
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Psst... soft relaunch of my merch store today: https://www.redshirtjeff.com — I'll announce it on YouTube later, but if you like classics like "It was DNS" or "Cosplaying as a Sysadmin", get them now before the wider YT audience makes 'em go out of stock!

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy my daughter drew a picture of me the other day, guess which shirt she drew, maybe I wear it too much?

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Just what iPad Pro needed: a spec-bump

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith maybe the virtualization story waits for WWDC next month 🙏

siracusa, to random
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Someone at Apple has been watching the hydraulic press channel on YouTube.

zenwheel,
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@siracusa seems like a waste of perfectly good stuff

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith I made pretty much the same thing on classic Mac OS using MacInTalk to make a cartoon face animate like 30 years ago https://www.zenwheel.com/software/mouth.html

siracusa, to random
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Stay for the ending credits on this one: https://zeppelin.flights/@robot/112276541729005783

zenwheel,
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@siracusa @robot that was an impressive Kermit voice and rendition, bravo!

zenwheel,
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@siracusa amazing work @lexfri !

geerlingguy, to random
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Getting files to and from a PowerBook 3400c with hfsutils (on the theme of ...) https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/getting-files-and-powerbook-3400c-hfsutils

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy my 3400c suffered a fall in the 90s (pre-MagSafe casualty), I got it running a few years back. I had a heck of a time with older netatalk on modern platforms, but had success with NetBSD in a VM (luckily I have a switch that still talks 10Mb and an Asanté gateway for older Macs)

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy last time I messed with that 3400c, I wrote https://github.com/zenwheel/legacyproxy so I could get something to load in Netscape... upon investigating, there's an issue on that repo from 4 years ago, maybe I should update it this , the idea was to speak SSL in the proxy and downscale images to be smaller than the max RAM on those old machines

stroughtonsmith, to random
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Why don't SF Symbols autocomplete in Xcode? 🤔 It could even have its own autocomplete picker type with thumbnails

(see also https://github.com/jnewc/SystemIcons)

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith I just always leave the SF Symbols app open https://developer.apple.com/sf-symbols/

dmoren, to random
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I’ve got the Photos widget on my home screen and I enjoy seeing the memories it surfaces, but I had to pause this morning seeing these pics from a concert last year. How did it know which band it was? Pulled from my email? The web? Listen to the songs from video I recorded? Kind of wild.

zenwheel,
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@siracusa @dmoren I wish they had a timeline of locations, we have a stadium that was replaced by another one, I’ve never been to the new one, but all my old photos show up as at the new place (Metrodome->US Bank Stadium)

daringfireball, to random
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The Talk Show: ‘Halos and Harps’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/01/04/the-talk-show-392

zenwheel,
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@daringfireball you mentioned the Prius as being a lousy EV, a big part is Japan’s grid can’t support full EV adoption so Toyota isn’t investing in it

geerlingguy, to random
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Frigate and a Pi 5 is pretty cool

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy hey, I just installed this too, but on an Intel Mac Mini, and it is pretty cool

stroughtonsmith, to random
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If Disney World fireworks are representative of the rest of the US, I can see why you have such a firework culture. Those things aren’t fireworks, those are warheads 😳

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith they really are, I got to go behind the scenes at a show in Wisconsin once, the bigger shells were 16” (41cm) in diameter and filled the sky when launched

Row of large firework tubes being prepared to launch

geerlingguy, to random
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How do you measure the air quality at your home or office?

My Dad has been testing a few AirGradient air quality sensors, and we made a video about them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrN-qCe_-s4

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy I use Awair monitors which work in HA and have a local endpoint for data, but not really open, AirGradient sounds interesting 🤔

geerlingguy, to random
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My MagPi priority queue Raspberry Pi 5 just shipped today! Excited to get a final production unit

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy I just got a shipping notification from PiShop, but it was only for the Active Cooler, not the Pi 5 itself 😱

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy well, not too much longer of a wait, got the shipping notification this morning 🕺

stroughtonsmith, to random
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How is it that the Messages data store is still allowed to balloon in size until there’s no space for anything else left and the device grinds to a halt and refuses software updates? Because it forces people to buy larger sized iPhones and iCloud plans, sure. But seriously? This is with Messages in iCloud enabled. I shouldn’t need local copies of /anything/, certainly not 50GB worth. Where’s the ‘offload attachments’ option?

zenwheel,
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@stroughtonsmith happens on the Mac too 😱 at least I could temporarily move some things (not messages) to an external drive while I updated

geerlingguy, to random
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Soundproofing my studio: the devil's in the details https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXHqPokxNLs

zenwheel,
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@geerlingguy this is awesome stuff, I’m finishing up framing a basement home office and have some similar concerns with adjacent HVAC and home lab equipment (not to mention kids above)

jamesthomson, to random
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Disappointed that this Apple developer demographics survey cuts off at “10 years or more” because I don't get a chance to show off how old I am.

zenwheel,
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@jamesthomson but you showed me how old I am, 10 years was so recent, I think my first code was in Think C, before Code Warrior. I also remember being excited to get stuff on InfoMac.

paul, to random
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Neat new toy. Cheap blink1 USB controllable LEDs from eBay. They look a lot better than they photograph.

zenwheel,
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@paul I was in on their kickstarter. I use Home Assistant and found it easier just to use Hue bulbs to show server status.

viticci, to random
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My favorite TV show tracking app, the excellent TV Forecast by @mattcomi, is back with a big 2.0 update that has added support for movies.

I've been using TV Forecast for years and I always go back to it because of its clean design, integration with Trakt, and approachable UI.

Our review: https://www.macstories.net/reviews/tv-forecast-2-0-adds-movie-tracking/

zenwheel,
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@viticci @mattcomi thanks, I’ve recently felt lost in streaming services and wanted exactly this

paul, to random
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Costco has the base Studio at $1500.
https://www.costco.com/mac-studio---apple-m1-max-chip---512gb--(2022).product.100948103.html

zenwheel,
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@paul making room for an updated one in a couple weeks? 🤔

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