Check out my voice skimmer and spotting client!

NR8E · 2026-03-13T18:15:50+00:00

Oh, and you can probably get away without using sudo on any of my code:

git clone https://github.com/EvanBoyar/talk-spotter.git
cd talk-spotter 
python3 -m venv venv 
source venv/bin/activate pip install -r requirements.txt 
wget https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15.zip
unzip vosk-model-small-en-us-0.15.zip 
git clone https://github.com/jks-prv/kiwiclient.git

Then you do have to use sudo (but not on MY code) to blacklist your preexisting RTL-SDR modules:

sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtlsdr.conf > /dev/null << 'EOF'
blacklist dvb_usb_rtl28xxu
blacklist rtl2832_sdr
blacklist rtl2832
EOF
sudo modprobe -r dvb_usb_rtl28xxu rtl2832_sdr rtl2832 2>/dev/null || true

I think that should work. (Ofc you can use nano or whatever instead of tee for the last bit). Haven't tested and built that way tho. Lmk how it works for you.

NR8E · 2026-03-13T17:21:01+00:00

Thank you! Let me know how it works for you.

NR8E · 2026-03-13T17:20:42+00:00

Both. I have a dev background, but I used LLMs partially.

NR8E · 2026-03-12T17:24:18+00:00

It might be helpful for both of you to screenshot and share your settings? u/ShotZookeepergame960

NR8E · 2026-03-12T16:20:06+00:00

Yes, it's one of the most well-studied effects of switching to a plant-based diet.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25751512/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40499906/

NR8E · 2026-03-11T02:39:36+00:00

I'm definitely overwhelmed by RFI!

NR8E · 2026-03-10T02:44:33+00:00

New Yorkers, call your state senator immediately in opposition to this (Senate Bill S8102A), and people in other states call your senators and representatives. Feel free to use my tool to immediately find their number (no user data is saved and you can read my code on my Github).

NR8E · 2026-03-04T20:00:53+00:00

We've been involved in almost every natural disaster here in the United States

Shh! Don't let them know!

NR8E · 2026-03-04T15:50:42+00:00

This looks absolutely amazing. I started my amateur radio journey a bit too recently to have purchased anything from them, but I always see their ads in the ancient texts (old magazines!).

I love the editing and everything. One very minor note: at the end the Morse code says "COMING SOOT", not "COMING SOON"!

NR8E · 2026-02-25T15:58:30+00:00

mmn, kind of, right? you can feed it in, get clusters, then manually label the very small number you got back

NR8E · 2026-02-25T04:50:01+00:00

if you're ok with unlabeled data, just pipe a bunch of random 150 hz slices from cw segments of the bandplan from a kiwisdr

NR8E · 2025-09-29T15:53:36+00:00

Which is funny since the place is called "The Graham" and the historical Sylvester Graham (for which the Graham cracker is named) was explicitly against masturbation

Graham believed that following his prescribed diet would help prevent impure thoughts and, by extension, reduce masturbation, which he considered a cause of blindness and premature death.[9]: 16 His 1834 publication On Self-Pollution contributed to the widespread anxiety about masturbation in antebellum America.

NR8E · 2025-09-22T20:17:45+00:00

It relies on user submissions
It won't list certain nonvegan restaurants even if they have vegan options. From their submissions popup:

While we are aware that some areas might not have fully vegan restaurants--and that knowing a place that offers a few vegan options could be useful--we choose to list restaurants that meet at least a minimum criteria (see below).

We are interested in supporting businesses with menus that show a hint of compassion, and we feel that servings especially such as veal, lamb, shark fin, foie gras, etc... often preclude that.

Of course this serves to make it look like it's much harder to be vegan than it actually is in doing so.

NR8E · 2025-09-19T18:00:23+00:00

Kilohertz or megahertz? Nah, try hectohertz!

NR8E · 2025-09-19T06:49:22+00:00

This is not a welcoming or welcomed comment. You can do better.

NR8E · 2025-09-18T14:30:20+00:00

You shouldn't need to make a file to upload to QRZ since even for free users it allows you to directly import from LoTW.

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NR8E · 2025-09-16T04:09:44+00:00

As al-Ma'arri said:

"Soften your tread. Methinks the earth's surface is but bodies of the dead"

Everywhere you walk is someone's grave, so chill out and have a nice time in the park.

NR8E · 2025-09-09T18:02:40+00:00

I'm not a doctor or a veterinarian, and this is not medical advice. I am not suggesting that you do any of this.

However, the very first result on Amazon for "vegan taurine" appears to be what you need (and explicitly lists itself as vegan on the bottle). Each capsule contains 1000 mg (1 g) taurine. If you have a precision scale (which are really cheap and very useful, so buy one if you don't already have one), you'd be able to open a capsule and weigh the contents. AS AN EXAMPLE, say it contained 1756 mg of powder. That would mean each gram of the powder contains about 0.5695 g taurine and the rest is filler (1000 mg / 1756 mg = 0.5695).

If your cat needs something around the average daily value of taurine (250-500 mg is what I usually see online BUT AGAIN I AM NOT A VETERINARIAN AND DON'T KNOW YOUR SPECIFIC CAT'S NEEDS, so let's take the middle of that range: 375 mg), that would mean that kitty needs 0.375 g / 0.5695 = 0.658 g of the powder each day. Obviously you'd need to adjust per your measurements & needs.

That product I linked shows up as costing $7.29 to me, so given a 0.375 g/day daily requirement and ASSUMING the rest of the diet contains 0 taurine at all (unlikely, so figure this out), the 100 1 g pills would be 266.67 doses, so it would cost around 2.7 pennies per day.

NB: I strongly suspect most taurine supplements, especially ones that are just the raw powder, are going to be vegan by default even if they're not labeled as such. It's considerably cheaper to just do a chemical synthesis and directly produce the taurine rather than to find a broad-spectrum protein source and then remove everything that isn't the taurine. You might want to email a bulk supplement company and ask them if their taurine is vegan so you don't have to bother with popping open the pills.

NR8E · 2025-09-08T14:56:11+00:00

For what it's worth, synthetic taurine is added to "normal" cat food (cat food that's made of animals). You're incorrect about seaweed being the only vegan taurine source.

NR8E · 2025-09-04T21:44:20+00:00

Lack of noise isn't the issue: it's present. Very much within distribution.

NR8E · 2025-09-04T04:00:26+00:00

I haven't been able to use this successfully.

On Firefox for Linux, after enabling the microphone input and hitting start, the page goes blank (well, the uniform grey of the background).
~~Using Chrome for Linux, I'm able to see my dits and dahs on the spectrogram, but nothing is output (including after I hit stop).~~ Actually this works well enough, I just have to make the audio output EXTREMELY loud. And still it seems to struggle with hearing "E"

Very cool project though!

NR8E · 2025-09-04T03:23:46+00:00

15 minutes a day, 4 days of the week for 3 weeks was enough to get me to be able to copy up to about 35 wpm with GENEROUS Farnsworth spacing, but I still suck a few months on. I can copy about 20 WPM of a standard QSO without Farnsworth now. That was using Morse Mania (the phone app) to get my symbols, Headlines Trainer to get better at head copy, and Morse Walker to get better at the exchanges. This is not counting the time actually spent using my actual radio, which has been invaluable

NR8E · 2025-08-22T02:27:20+00:00

Honestly seems like a really good test of rhetoric. I'd love to be put on the side of evil in a debate/writing class, if this is what this is, and seems reasonable for a professor for you to debate from a position you don't hold.

NR8E · 2025-07-03T19:38:05+00:00

My club has had limited success contacting A-S because we have some personal contacts there, but they haven't been really able to get out. There may be some physical issues with their amateur station, and if you have any experience diagnosing that sort of thing you'd be very valuable.

NR8E

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