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Continue reading →: mac: No space because of Time Machine hidden in Restricted FilesI had totally forgotten that I had setup one of my machines with Time Machine. Most of the time it has no impact, but when you are trying to download 500GB of LLM models it makes a difference. Time Machine is supposed to be smart about local snapshots, but when…
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Continue reading →: git: tag overwrites, recursing submodules and fetching themWell this is really advanced stuff, but with large mono repos you really want things to stay in sync, so here are some tricks:
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Continue reading →: dev: git submodule magicWell, git submodules are useful and frustrating at the same time, since we have literally a few dozen of these, I finally spent time figuring out what was wrong and it comes down to two commands and making sure you do not have error: Now that this is set, by…
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Continue reading →: mac: Text to Speech and Speech to TextAs part of their accessibility offerings they have a ton of cool but hidden features. here are my favorites Clock speaking every 30 minutes Apple has made it really hard to find settings, they are buried everywhere, but in System Settings > Control Center > Clock > Clock Options you…
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Continue reading →: tvl: I’m a Data Roaming idiotOk this is so silly but if you are traveling v through SE Asia here are some tips:
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Continue reading →: ai: Exo for distributed AIThis is a cool tool that lets you jam multiple Macs (or other machines together) and run inference in a circle with a project called EXO It does require a bit of setup. I tried to do a pipx install of it, but it is not packaged that way. You…
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Continue reading →: ai: ComfyUI Missing Mac Manual v1.4 2025-02-10OK, my previous post on Open WebUI was getting long, so here is a getting a little long and while it covers ComfyUI integration, the bigger topic of using ComfyUI is scattered all over the winds. So if you just want to get ComfyUI to work, here’s the missing manual…
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Continue reading →: pod: London AI Hub January 13 2025Well we had another one of these great events and it was so good to hear from everyone there and here is the Zoom. It’s a little ugly and messy but gets the points across which are: See it here on YouTube Or check it out as a Podcast on…
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Continue reading →: inet: Google Drive Storage Counts Get RealFor a long time I’ve wondered how Google Drive does it, no matter how many Google Slides I store with no matter how many images, the storage count against me is always 137 bytes or something. They only count the pointer and not the storage. I woke up this morning…
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Continue reading →: mac: Getting great Text to speechWhile there are better systems out there of course, nothing is better than free and what the Mac has isn’t bad. It is a complete pain to setup, but basically, you have to:
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