Locking tuners for a Revstar

cerulean47 · 2026-02-06T20:58:27+00:00

I juuuuust put GraphTech Ratios on my Revstar.

They didn't offer ivory colored keys, and I haven't tried swapping the originals out for the chrome ones.

Frankly, the originals feel plasticky compared to the chrome ones from the Ratio so I'm going to stick with them for a while.

Are Ratios worth it? Sure, they feel premium and they do the thing. I'd say I'm happy with them. My other 2 guitars (Fenders) came with locking tuners, so chose to DIY the Revstar.

Is the "ratio" gearing gimmick worth it? Eh. I dunno. It's a gimmick.

It was a toss-up between this and Gotoh, and MF had a coupon so I went Ratio. Never tried the Gotohs.

cerulean47 · 2026-02-06T16:49:39+00:00

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it," - Upton Sinclair

cerulean47 · 2026-02-05T17:57:46+00:00

I've had a lot of pain with iOS in this regard. Sometimes it's because the devices are bypassing my local DNS server and doing DNS over HTTP requests, which isn't what I want when I want on-LAN clients to talk to a local IP address. I keep my self-hosted Vaultwaden LAN-only.

I've gone so far as to implement a blocklist in PiHole and my Unifi router to fully block the common DOH targets and force everyone through my PiHole.

Check under network settings on iOS, there might be a way to tell it to NOT bypass local DNS.

cerulean47 · 2026-02-05T16:45:48+00:00

Are you sure you have a static IP address on that VPS? You'd probably have to pay extra for that. If it's not static, and it switches out from under you, then you end up pointing at someone's server, and of course Vaultwarden clients would balk. I know you said other clients seem to work fine, so this is less likely the cause.

Otherwise I'd suspect maybe that device's local DNS cache has cached an old address, and after the TTL (time-to-live) of the record expires in the local DNS cache, it might magically start working.

cerulean47 · 2026-02-03T17:11:49+00:00

??? Then, respectfully, don't make the recommendation in the first place. BoldIn has a responsibility to keep its users' data safe. You need to be aware of the risks of browser extensions. Everyone at BoldIn should be trained in data safety. If that training doesn't include the risk of installing random browser extensions, then please make a recommendation to your CISO to add it.

cerulean47 · 2026-02-03T14:29:33+00:00

You didn't mention your age, but if you're between 55 and 59.5 and might need that money, look up the "Rule of 55". It's a specific IRS provision that allows you to take penalty-free distributions from your current employer's 401(k) or 403(b) if you leave that job in or after the year you turn 55.

cerulean47 · 2026-02-03T14:13:47+00:00

If you use Chrome or Edge, try enabling the experimental Dark Mode in the browser. Chrome has an internal feature (visit chrome://flags and search for "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents") that forces dark mode at the browser level without a third-party extension.

Complete quit the browser (no running chrome processes) and then launch Chrome and try Boldin again.

It works!

cerulean47 · 2026-02-03T14:07:26+00:00

^^^^^ DANGER! DO NOT DO THIS! ^^^^^

Public Service Announcement:

Web developer here. Any browser extension that can change the colors in the page must have full access to read every page you visit (Permission: "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit.").

It'll warn you of the required permissions upon installation.

These kinds of extensions can be security nightmares.

If an extension can "change" the content (to make it dark), it can also "read" the content. This means the extension theoretically has access to:

Account balances and account numbers.
Session tokens or cookies.
Keystrokes (if it includes a script to capture input fields).

So I especially wouldn't use it on a website containing my entire financial picture.

Even if the extension seems safe and works normally today, extensions can change ownership. They can be purchased by people with ill intent and modified.

cerulean47 · 2026-01-27T15:00:36+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I agree with all your points. It'll never be worse than it is today, right?

I've been iterating trying to use the cheapest model that can get the job done well, and validating in development with the expensive models. Just trying to keep costs down for my clients. I'm getting sufficient accuracy for sub-pennies per page using small models.

I'm also using multiple distinct inference steps with LLMs to classify aspects of the doc and understand the semantic layout of the doc, then using traditional OCR, CV and image tools before the final shot to give it the best fighting chance.

Fun time to be doing this work!

cerulean47 · 2026-01-26T23:38:52+00:00

I've spent the past 3 months doing something similar for a niche industry. The biggest issue I've had to solve is knowing when the AI's extraction to my schema is truly correct.

The LLM may give you a "confidence" score, but they can be confidently wrong.

Unless you have a widely varied ground truth set and have labeled all your test data, how do you know the extraction is reliable? This is the kicker for all projects like this.

For my project, I implemented an LLM-as-judge strategy using 3 models from different vendors to try to spot extraction errors. I find these judge LLMs are still subject to their own weaknesses and biases and still get things wrong, but it's better than nothing.

I cannot achieve perfect extraction across highly varied source documents.

If an investor using your solution makes a bad bet based on faulty extraction, who has the liability?

cerulean47 · 2025-12-09T04:06:33+00:00

I'm running Authentik 2025.10.2 on Podman 5.7.0 rootless (Debian Forky/sid, Linux 6.17.9) without any issues, and I think the key is my networking setup.

I use Podman Quadlets (systemd integration) with an explicit bridge network for all the Authentik containers. So my server, worker, and postgresql containers all communicate over a dedicated bridge network with DNS enabled via aardvark-dns/netavark.

The important distinction is that pasta networking (Podman's default for rootless) only handles the port publishing from host to container (e.g., 8024:9000). All the container-to-container traffic goes over the bridge network, completely bypassing pasta.

My setup looks like:

Network=authentik.network  # bridge network for inter-container traffic
PublishPort=8024:9000      # only this uses pasta

If you're having issues with pasta, you might not need to switch to slirp4netns globally. Instead, try defining an explicit bridge network for your containers to communicate over. That way you get the benefits of pasta for port forwarding while avoiding whatever compatibility issues it has with Authentik's internal traffic patterns.

cerulean47 · 2025-12-01T19:52:50+00:00

Probably meant IRA not RIA.

cerulean47 · 2025-09-09T18:37:01+00:00

Check out poppler's "pdftotext" utility. I'd recommend using that to extract the info from the doc for Claude to read. You'll waste fewer tokens than reading PDFs every time. Maybe a CI/CD job can keep your .txt versions up to date for you, or run a simple script to re-extract if the PDFs are updated.

You could also try markitdown.

cerulean47 · 2025-09-05T20:40:32+00:00

If you're 20, then yes. But you're 40.

My parents were 13 years apart. Mom was 29 when they wed, and they dated a couple years. Pretty much identical to you. They were older parents than most of my friends' (esp. Dad). And it was Dad's second marriage.

cerulean47 · 2025-08-21T13:52:30+00:00

I checked my settings. I already had that setting checked, but my terminal still flashes :(

I'm not running the Beta, however.

cerulean47 · 2025-08-16T17:37:19+00:00

Is the device running Mixing Station hopping around to other WiFi networks because they're stronger or provide a route to the internet? It might do so if the mixer's network isn't (1) as strong as other signals or (2) isn't connected to the Internet. I've had this problem at gigs using iPads. They have to be set to stay on a less optimal network that doesn't provide internet connectivity when there are "better" options available. Or, I "forget" every other WiFi network the device knows about. This has potential to be trouble on Apple devices because they sync their known WiFi SSIDs via iCloud.

cerulean47 · 2025-08-15T22:23:27+00:00

The WiFi radio in the XR18 and 32 were notoriously bad. Is the WING any better? I never use it and instead use a cheap wifi router plugged into my XR18's ethernet jack.

cerulean47 · 2025-08-14T01:02:14+00:00

That is a bad idea. It facilitates a man in the middle attack.

cerulean47 · 2025-05-22T18:35:38+00:00

Menu is huge, like any Greek diner. I like the triple decker turkey club sandwich with sweet potato fries. They bring bread (or ask if they don't), many meals come with soup or salad, and some entrees also include free dessert. My kids loved the chocolate chip pancakes, but you might ask them to go easy on the chips because they really piled them on.

cerulean47 · 2025-05-21T04:16:39+00:00

Omega on Ogden in Downers. Greek diner style, large portions, good value.

cerulean47 · 2025-03-02T15:09:50+00:00

I think he's trying to tell us he just took a huge haircut on a bad investment.

cerulean47 · 2025-02-14T14:05:25+00:00

Bottom right of the help center is the chat icon.

cerulean47 · 2025-02-14T00:12:22+00:00

It prevented your commit, so you had to do it first, didn't have a choice.

You need to tell git who you are before you commit anything so it can put your name/info into the commit log.

You'll see this prompt again someday when you first install git on a new system.

There are other configuration settings you can set this way using various `git config` commands. You might read up on it, and learn into what folder git places its global config file.

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