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Memories of Murder, 2003

Watched on Wednesday April 2, 2025.

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First Blood, 1982

Watched on Monday March 31, 2025.

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A Real Pain, 2024

Watched on Saturday March 29, 2025.

Café Society, 2016

Watched on Friday March 28, 2025.

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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic

U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com, in "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans - The Atlantic"

hey… u up? wanna bomb a country?

Injustice, 2021

Watched on Sunday March 23, 2025.

The Apprentice, 2024

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

kaixxx/noScribe: Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification)

What is noScribe?
  • An AI-based software that transcribes interviews for qualitative social research or journalistic use
  • noScribe is free and open source (GPL-3.0)
  • It runs completely local on your computer. No data is sent to the internet. No cloud, no worries
  • It can distinguish different speakers and understands around 60 languages (more or less, see below)
  • It includes a nice editor to review, verify and correct the resulting transcript
  • It is standing on the shoulders of giants: Whisper from OpenAI, faster-whisper by Guillaume Klein and pyannote from Hervé Bredin
github.com, in "kaixxx/noScribe: Cutting edge AI technology for automated audio transcription. A nice GUI for OpenAIs Whisper and pyannote (speaker identification)"

This seems to work reasonably well out of the box on an Apple Silicon Mac. Maybe I no longer need my script based whisper-cpp solution.

Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years, 2025

Watched on Saturday March 22, 2025.

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uutils

The uutils project reimplements ubiquitous command line utilities in Rust. Our goal is to modernize the utils, while retaining full compatibility with the existing utilities.

We are planning to replace all essential Linux tools.

uutils.github.io, in "uutils"

The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war - Ars Technica

In an unsigned letter to the US Trade Representative (USTR), Tesla cautioned that Trump's tariffs could increase costs of manufacturing EVs in the US and forecast that any retaliatory tariffs from other nations could spike costs of exports.
arstechnica.com, in "The same day Trump bought a Tesla, automaker moved to disrupt trade war - Ars Technica"

Honey, did you leave the car on? I think it is sending unsolicited notes on trade policy to the White House again.

Trump makes flurry of posts as global markets fall amid fears of US recession | Donald Trump | The Guardian

After US markets closed – with the S&P down 2.7%, the Dow Jones down 2%, the Nasdaq down 4%, and shares in Elon Musk’s Tesla seeing their worst day since late 2020, falling 15 points – Trump’s account was posting ads for The Apprentice, the 2000s reality show that rescued him from financial oblivion and set him out on the road to political power.
www.theguardian.com, in "Trump makes flurry of posts as global markets fall amid fears of US recession | Donald Trump | The Guardian"

Another day another win for the Donald. /s

We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index

Currently, we rely on a mix of both Google and Bing libraries to provide you with answers to your searches. Starting in 2025, our new index will be added into the database pool to serve results in both the French and German language. We are starting small and in the home countries of both Qwant and Ecosia respectively. 
blog.ecosia.org, in "We’re teaming up with Qwant to build a European search index"

Good timing. I recently switched the default search provider on my iPhone to them.

Can I Run This LLM?

Find out if your computer can run popular Large Language Models
can-i-run-this-llm-blue.vercel.app, in "Can I Run This LLM?"