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rhoopr

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About rhoopr

https://github.com/rhoopr

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    Comment #48161781

    Love to see Crosspoint get a callout here, loving it on my X4 - and a tiny bugfix PR of mine made it into latest :)

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    Comment #48161725

    Not as I see it - this is a generally undocumented API surface not meant to be called programmatically like this, unfortunately. Every iCloud photos sync tool does/will hit this sa…

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    Comment #48089820

    I continue to be working on kei, my cloud->local photo/video sync engine. iCloud Photos is fully baked along with implementing their completely undocumented SyncToken. I’m doing so…

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    Comment #48000274

    This is an interesting perspective on something I haven’t considered at all for applications I’ve built, honestly. I’m going to take it in and make changes wherever possible.

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    Comment #47712085

    iCloud-photos-downloader is unmaintained and starting to crack due to Apple API changes so I’m working on my own fork/rewrite/take on iCloud sync, with ambitions to add Google Take…

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    Comment #47682114

    Hemingway’s Rule 5: don’t blatantly use LLM output in an article about writing.

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    Comment #47670356

    “The camera is the least important element in photography.”

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    Comment #47669248

    There’s an interesting conversation to be had about ad sponsorship on web content when the share of people just getting summarized results from {LLM chatbot of choice} is increasin…

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    Comment #47631743

    This site features one of the worst fonts I’ve ever seen.

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    Comment #47621599

    This is chaotic. I love it.

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    Comment #47588794

    Unfortunately, icloudpd is now unmaintained -- alternatives are around, though

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    Comment #47581253

    Live photos are just .mov sidecar files. There are a variety of iCloud export tools you can use to move to self hosting, including mine (shameless plug) - http://www.github.com/rho…

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    Comment #47568955

    Let me tell you about my rock that keeps tigers away…

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    Comment #47387567

    This seems more like he is bad at describing what he wants and is prompting for “a UI” and then iterating “no, not like that” for 99 hours.

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    Comment #47359356

    Reticulating Splines…

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    Comment #47351498

    > You have been so generous, so unreasonably, almost suspiciously generous, that you have made it possible for an entire global economy to run on software that nobody technically o…

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    Comment #47351402

    A surveillance tech company asserting that they know better, based on 'big data'. Shocking. The family has proof of residence (which is its own absurdity we won't discuss), and thi…

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    Comment #47309985

    Fair enough! It's an extremely hard problem to solve.

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    Comment #47308170

    Looking forward to the first LLM&M coding agent

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    Comment #47308080

    Can you clarify how Statphone deals with the problem of random spam calls hitting the number by chance and ringing everyone? I assume that’s how most spam operates these days, just…

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    Comment #47308007

    You registered just to post this. Reconsider your choices.

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    Comment #47303410

    icloudpd-rs - Fast iCloud Photos downloader, Rust alternative to icloudpd The original Python icloudpd is looking for a new maintainer. I’ve been building a ground-up Rust replacem…

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    Comment #47288365

    Sloppy vibe infra management and no backups, peanut butter and chocolate.