jduckles
Re:FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support
on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @03:25PM (#44892697)
WhipserX's diarization is great imo:
whisperx input.mp3 --language en --diarize --output_format vtt --model large-v2
Re:Calculating Oil Storage Tank Occupancy with Help of Satellite Imagery
on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:07PM (#44303364)
Did this with grain bins in the 2010s to estimate total on-farm storage capacity available in a few states.
Re:OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews
on Saturday August 10, 2024 @07:13PM (#41212914)
Yes
Re:I Looked into 34 Top Real-World Blockchain Projects So You Don’t Ha...
on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:01PM (#32292463)
Oh yeah Helium...that blockchain with a whopping $78k in annual revenue and a $2.1-billion valuation. [1] They're just paying venture money to hotspot owners at this point. There is no functioning business model.
Re:Google's Subsea Fiber Optics
on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @07:28PM (#31428884)
A bit old now, from 1996, but the classic book-length Wired article "Mother Earth Mother Board" by none other than Neal Stephenson is a peek into how this actually gets done from the physical cable laying pespective: https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
They're only encrypted when on iCloud, not when on your device. The hashes are computed on your device.
Re:Show HN: Make Your PDF Look Scanned
on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @03:59PM (#23158955)
I've extracted the oneliner command that runs this into a gist of a simple bash script. I don't want to send my PDFs to an unknown server. Also modified a bit (density and output compression) to reduce file size. https://gist.github.com/jduckles/29a7c5b0b8f91530af5ca3c22b8...
Re:GitPitch – Markdown Presentations for Devs on GitHub and GitLab
on Thursday April 27, 2017 @01:29AM (#14209372)
Cicero http://cicero.xyz/ does this using reveal.js