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petabytes

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About petabytes

Amateur systems programmer

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    Comment #41173252

    https://danielc.dev/

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    Comment #38518787

    Not yet, although I'm slowly working on an alternative to Fuji's X app

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    Comment #38513009

    Hacking the firmware in Fuji cameras definitely impressed a few recruiters, and helped me get a position recently.

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    Comment #38499349

    https://github.com/webui-dev/webui is a lightweight alternative to webview/electron/tauri

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    Comment #38424822

    Honestly it would make more sense to buy an old $300 Canon camera, install Magic Lantern (or CHDK) Hate to say it, but in my experience open source hardware is always been poor qua…

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    Comment #38424723

    I've been using this the past few weeks to try and cross compile my software. Clang works, but a lot of the core libraries are missing. pkgbuild for instance won't work. And even n…

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    Comment #38349170

    Why wouldn't they just pay it? Would there be any negative consequences?

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    Comment #38238243

    I sometimes use it to reformat some text or code, or write some very simple boilerplate code. So honestly it only saves me a few minutes a day typically.

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    Comment #38156056

    I thought I was smart by putting my email in a png image on my page. Still, no spam mail after about a year.

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    Comment #38148904

    Really wish there was something like this, but C or Rust instead of Python Or JavaScript.

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    Comment #38145740

    The app needs to be reversed engineered and have a 3rd party reimplemention. Even if it's slightly inferior, it's always good to have an alternative.

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    Comment #38138053

    Magic Lantern definitely needs a lot of help in terms of reverse engineering, build system (we are still depending on python2) and also documentation and wiki stuff. https://magicl…

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    Comment #38060523

    Probably means one of the GTK based distros running on a phone, like on the Purism phones

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    Comment #38054573

    How do you double the value of a Trabant? You fill the tank up.

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    Comment #38044803

    About a year ago when AI was getting really big, I was really interested in C2PA, since then I've come to the conclusion that actual artists don't care about any of that crap

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    Comment #37887120

    Just remembered the Magic Lantern eclipse user meeting that's been planned since 2020 https://www.magiclantern.fm/forum/index.php?topic=25236.0

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    Comment #37870741

    As a programmer, it ended up being useful for a few things in the beginning, but I don't even use it anymore. Maybe every other week to reformat some text or make some boilerplate …

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    Comment #37861500

    https://github.com/petabyt/fudge Alternative Wifi app to connect to Fujifilm cameras. I mainly wanted to just try and make a MVP to see if it's possible, and now it's grown into so…

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    Comment #37817056

    It's pretty much the same types you see in Rust or Zig, and I think Linux even uses some of the same types.

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    Comment #37815783

    What's wrong with it?

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    Comment #37815774

    Related: I was hacking Ambarella action cameras a while back: https://github.com/petabyt/liemoth Eventually I stopped not because of how low quality action cameras were, there were…

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    Ask HN: Share Your Personal Site

    I really enjoyed browsing and exploring hundreds of sites looking through this thread from last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30934529 Let's do it again! What's your p…

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    Comment #37716568

    When you hold down the power button, there is a big red emergency button beside the restart button. I've gotten pretty close to accidentally pressing it.

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    Comment #37655191

    They gotta put cameras everywhere when they do deorbit it. I wanna see everything burning and blowing up.

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    Comment #37453111

    Reminds me of what I did with ChromeOS in middle school, built a whole code editor in the URL bar.