Notices by Uckermark MacGyver :nonazi: (maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.social)

@Pomegranatepirate @gemlog what do you want to install on your Mac? There are multiple options. Some GitHub repos offer already compiled Binaries (that's the readymade executable program) that you can just download and unpack and start.
If they offer only the source code ... then it's getting complicated. While you can install the macOS development tools on your Mac, compiling software isn't trivial and might not work if the source code isn't already prepared for macOS.

A good way to start getting OpenSource software on your Mac is Homebrew. That's a little tool you install and use as a package manager. You tell it which piece of open source software you're looking for and if there is a "formula" then homebrew installs it for you.

https://brew.sh

Beginning to think we normalos are a minority 🤣

Ich finds sehr stark von Collien Fernandes, dass sie das so öffentlich durchzieht. Es tut mir natürlich gleichzeitig unglaublich leid für sie, dass sie das überhaupt erleben muss. Ich hoffe es hat Konsequenzen. Konsequenzen für den speziellen Typen. Konsequenzen für die Gesetzgebung und Strafverfolgung die sowas bisher offenbar so gut wie gar nicht verhindern.
Die Scham muss die Seite wechseln. Es kann nicht sein, dass Männer nach kurzer Zeit aus so etwas halbwegs unbeschadet wieder rauskommen und Frauen weiterhin darunter zu leiden haben.

@marcia not yet. But I'll definitely have a look. I'm using the payed MacWhisper. The transcoding is happening on my local machine but with non-free models from NVIDIA. But at least the data is not leaving my machine.

@marcia tested OpenWhispr now on macOS. Works without creating an account and can connect to local LLM providers like Ollama. Offers to download LLM models for local transcript and local summarisation of the notes. Downloads from GitHub and HuggingFace.

Good recognition for English spoken content with the NVIDIA Parakeet model. No speaker recognition. You'll get a long text with all the spoken content. No time markers or anything.

@marcia Opensource, data secure and you don't wanna self host? That might be a hard combination to find. The open whispr models are basis for many free tools. But not trivial to set up. Especially difficult if you want speaker separation on a single audio stream.

@gemlog @falko I am ;)

Ab nach Wuhlheide

Oh the memories. I was here a few times as a kid back in GDR times. It was a great amusement park for the party's youth organization "Pioniere" #GDR #FEZ #ewnas @falko

Very quick hardware update on my homelab server. I swapped out ye olde DELL Optiplex 960 with its Intel Core 2 Duo for a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910x with an Intel Core i5-7500. I really only had to move the SSD over into the ThinkCentre, enable legacy boot in the BIOS and change the network interface name in the network config. That's was it. And now my peertube instance can finally run the latest official docker image. @moellus finally coerced me into this upgrade #homelab @falko

@gemlog it's T-Shirt weather over here... at least for some of us ;)

Heute so beim Kinderarzt: Sie haben vergessen Beruf der Eltern und Telefonnummern auszufüllen.

Ich: Wofür brauchen sie diese Daten?
Praxis: Das brauchen wir für die Unterlagen
Ich: Das ist Quatsch, und das wissen sie. Entweder, sie erklären mir wofür sie diese Daten im Rahmen der Behandlung benötigen, oder ich lass das hier frei.
Praxis: OK, dann lassen sie das frei.

Geht doch ... 🤪

@gemlog I also never got into that. It was just too weird and sloppy for me.

First lunch out on the terrace in 2026 🙌😎 @falko #uckermark

@gemlog you can still come over to the mainland :D

@MMRnmd @slamr @kranfahrer I think we have a project here: bring @gemlog to Europe!

@slamr @gemlog I do! But quietly 😘🤗

Good turn out for the first Digital Independence Day of the #Uckermark today. We had about 13 people attending the first gathering, and they were listening closely to what we had to say about social media and independent alternatives to the large commercial offerings there. Also, funny enough, there were questions about how to move to Linux from Windows systems, as Microsoft keeps nagging people that their hardware is no longer supported. Apparently they're doing a really good job of pissing people off and pushing them towards alternatives. #diday @falko

This is my retirement plan. I'm rich!

Whoops, MullvadVPN DNS blocker for social media also blocks my own Mastodon instance 😳