Deebster
@Deebster@programming.dev
(new account since lemmyrs.org went down)
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 2 weeks ago:
I have Tasker running, and you can set it up to do this too. Between ntfy and Google’s version I think I’m covered already!
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 2 weeks ago:
Most of the manga I have is amateur translated stuff, so the metadata quality varies with release groups.
The graphic novels are generally retail releases, but sometimes I still want to edit to get rid of marketing words (e.g. the title might mention how it’s now a Netflix series or something).
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 2 weeks ago:
I guess I’ve just been lucky then! I’ve stripped DRM off everything else, so I expect theirs would come off using the same tools.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 2 weeks ago:
The latest Kindle update broke the jailbreak even if it was installed, so you’ll need to stop updates. Not being able to use the internet to pull down books from your Calibre-web server means you may as well just send books via Calibre.
I’m planning on getting a Kobo Clara BW when my Kindle dies (it’s currently got holes at the corners and a few dodgy-sounding rattles so soon™). Then I can use Koreader+Calibre-web to download books and sync read state like you can do with Amazon.
So your process here is get comics -> comictagger -> upload to server and kavita, correct?
Pretty much, apart from that I often add them and only fix if necessary, e.g. they’re not going into series properly.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 2 weeks ago:
None of the books I’ve bought from kobo.com have DRM.
- Comment on How do you handle absolutely critical alerts on your Android phone? 2 weeks ago:
I went with ntfy as well - you can set the different levels to alert in different ways and my max priority it set to always ring even if the phone is on silent. Mostly I use max prio as a find-my-phone tool, but there are real alerts that would use it.
- Comment on Confused about the many ebook/manga management solutions 2 weeks ago:
Ebooks: I use Calibre locally and Calibre-web on the server (read-only metadata db, I overwrite with the Calibre version as tagging, etc is far easier on desktop).
You can connect Koreader to Calibre-web and until maybe a fortnight ago you could jailbreak a Kindle and use Koreader instead of the default software. Now you’ll need to manually move files over, or use the email-to-Kindle option (probably a bad idea, but I expect Amazon can tell if you’ve side loaded pirated content anyway). Nowadays I buy from not-Amazon sources, strip any DRM and send it over.
Manga/comics/graphic novels: I use Kavita on the server and I use comictagger on desktop to fix the metadata.
I’m happy to use different set ups for the different types as they’re quite different experiences and specialist tools work better.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 2 weeks ago:
It uses a neutral net that he designed and trained, so it is AI. The public’s view of “AI” seems mostly the generation stuff like chatbots and image gen, but deep learning is perfect for science and medical fields.
- Comment on High school student uses AI to reveal 1.5 million previously unknown objects in space. 2 weeks ago:
I found his paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/…/ad7fe6 (no paywall 😃)
From the intro:
VARnet leverages a one-dimensional wavelet decomposition in order to minimize the impact of spurious data on the analysis, and a novel modification to the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) to quickly detect periodicity and extract features of the time series. VARnet integrates these analyses into a type prediction for the source by leveraging machine learning, primarily CNN.
So they start with some good old fashioned signal processing, before feeding the result into a convolution neutral net. The CNN was trained on synthetic data.
FC = Fully Connected layer, so I assume they mix FC and convolution layers in their NN. I need to read the whole paper, which won’t happen right now.
- Comment on lemsha.re - Lemmy shareable links 4 weeks ago:
I wasn’t entirely serious, but…
If memory serves, you just add
lemmyverse.link/after the https:// bit, so it’d be
lemmyverse.link/lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282It looks like lemsha.re works similarly:
lemsha.re/https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40704282It’s a bit weird that it insists on the link being via https but then includes that in the url…
- Comment on lemsha.re - Lemmy shareable links 4 weeks ago:
You missed a great opportunity to use lemshare/lemmyverse here
- Comment on South Central Ambulance 999 call handler receives death threats 1 month ago:
“Commentator posts hot take, demonstrating a massive lack of empathy to people doing a stressful and important job.”
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
Yes, I still have it showing up in Windows/Android, and phone numbers show their cost per minute.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly killing Skype 1 month ago:
I have a load of credit on there still (got tricked by them deactivating my credit and popped up unnecessarily). I still use it for international calls at least once a month, I hope this news story is overblown.
- Comment on Just think how much deeper the ocean would be if sponges didn't live there. 2 months ago:
I think it’s probably a mix of criticising a joke for its accuracy, and the fact that it’s in a single paragraph so it’s a huge wall of text.
- Comment on Type-safe C-killer Delphi turns 30 2 months ago:
Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.
I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.
- Comment on How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse 4 months ago:
I enjoyed the post about Trying to use a terminal only laptop.
- Comment on Another offensive pub name 4 months ago:
I assume Peta just wants to be in the news? The Sly Old Fox is not an offensive name.
- Comment on How I started my GoToSocial instance in the Fediverse 4 months ago:
Quality post, with plenty of useful and good advice.
I’m happy to see sqlite being recommended - I think people don’t realise how resilient and performant a database it is.
Very surprising to hear you need to restart GoToSocial to add new users!
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
Not funny, but interesting!
- Comment on Petrichor 5 months ago:
Their spelling was moulded by the US
