It didn’t say that on the linked page. Is the AI model and training code and data also free?
Added: it looks like it uses Whisper for transcription. So the inference code is there but it’s unclear about the other stuff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_system)
Anyway, thanks for the update.
This is about a speech transcription program running on the company’s remote server. The app uploads your audio and the system sends you a transcript. You’ve got to be kidding. Reporting as spam.
Every company tries to get people to use personal phones. It takes some gumption to refuse.
Writing a book when you don’t know the subject matter doesn’t sound likely to result in a good book. Even more so for a language like Rust, which (short of Haskell) is the closest thing to a mainstream language that is informed by a lot of pointy headed PL (programming language) theory. A book about programming in Rust doesn’t have to go into the theory per se, but the author should be familiar with it, just like someone who writes an introductory calculus or statistics text really needs a much deeper mathematical background than the book itself will convey.
If you want a Rust-related hobby, first of all, why not do Advent of Code in Rust, or otherwise make a study of Rust? And then if you’re interested in PL theory, that’s another area to study. Harper’s book PFPL is a good place to start: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl/
Don’t care at all about dynamic lock screens. Actively want to keep AI out of my phone, maybe excepting specific apps. Battery tech by itself is nice but you know that stronger batteries will just result in even power hungrier phones, so no real good will come of it. Hinged phones break more and cost more.
NTN (satellite text messaging for when you have no cell coverage) is the main interesting phone tech to appear recently IMHO. Everything else is just little tweaks or outright regressions. I prefer more repairability and openness to more features by now.
SSDs for backup? Being rich must be nice. More srsly if you have the upstream pipe for it, remote backups are preferable in case something happens at home.
Tools:preferences, about:config, file downloads, form prefills, remember password, etc. yes you can try to lock everything but it’s too easy to miss something. And then there are outright RCEs. There’s just too much attack surface.
There’s no way to srsly prevent a full-bloat browser from messing with its environment. Make a static VM image and reboot it at the beginning of every session.
I want to see the unfolding of a scorching romance between two partners, each not knowing that the other is an AI.
It’s easier now that there are some control headers for it. At the time I tried a lot of things like bouncing through javascript opening a new window. Results varied by browser. The simplest way was to inconvenience users a bit by supplying text urls for them to paste into the nav bar, instead of clickable links.
I had some private pages a while back that linked to unrelated pages on other sites. I had to go somewhat crazy to stop the private urls from leaking to the external sites through referer headers when my users clicked on the links.
If chrome is sending people’s browser histories to Google that is invasive.
Old but classic.
What does that even mean? But yes lots of us run Linux on servers. Just ssh in. Or even just wipe the VM and launch a new one if you want to upgrade.
This might be helpful for development:
A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I’ll defer to others.
just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)
You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.
It doesn’t appear for everyone to see.
Every user of the extension then, which is apparently a lot of users, enough to affect the site culture, if the other guy’s report reflects reality.
If the label appears on your profile for everyone to see without further info then it’s truth value is thrown away. IDK how big a problem it really is on bsky now though. The other guy says it is, you seem to think the opposite, I don’t care enough to look into it further.
If Twitter went Nazi post-Musk while it’s software stayed about the same, that shows that management really does shoulder blame.
Oh sweet child. What has Apple done to people? A removable battery looks like this:
https://www.ifixit.com/products/lenovo-thinkpad-x220-x220i-x230i-replacement-battery
You just snap it onto the computer. No disassembly. No tools. No screws. All laptops and cell phones except Apple used to have them. You could carry several charged batteries with you and swap them as needed. Some laptops even used two, so you could hot swap with no power interruption.
And we walked to school barefoot, in the snow, uphill both ways. :)
I get the impression that recreating the Whisper training code is possibly doable, but the data is a bigger task.
This is a possible Whisper alternative with maybe similar issues: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/
Yes it’s nice that the phone app is free but STT is the difficult and important part. With Moonshine it might be possible to run the transcriber completely on the phone instead of having the STT on a remote server.
It’s interesting that they are able to do all that speaker distinguishing with just a single mic as found on both phones. There was a thread about phone features recently. Given this STT stuff, it could be useful to have a phone with 3 or 4 mics in the corners of the phone, like one of those tabletop conference mics, so it can figure out directionality of sound sources.