Thanks, I have that too I think. It’s great for sharing from my phone. On my laptop I have a python script that is a lot fancier that I’d like to rewrite as a browser extension someday.

Thanks! I saw the GH issue about that but didn’t figure out that it had been deployed.

Hmm, I thought ublock origin could only block links, not rewrite them. Am I missing something? I just looked through the docs and only see block/allow/noop rules, and I remember reading something a while back about how the devs didn’t want to rewrite. I’d love to have a pointer to the docs about how to do this if I’m wrong. Thanks ;)

Added: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/b9tdky/rule_for_redirecting_urls_to_cleaner_ones/ points to some github issues related to this.

Oh nice, that is pretty new, but will have to see if it works on those gumroad links. I have an offline script (not a browser extension, I haven’t bothered figuring out how to write those) that edits urls to remove tracking and it’s quite a pain, since there are dozens of sites and tracking schemes it has to know about. Also, rather than creating a pasteable url, a suitable browser extension should just rewrite the link automatically before navitation when you click on it.

We need browser extensions to kill those tags automatically.

They had 1000s of hours of fuzz testing. Model checking means something different.

I wonder whether some careful specifications and model checking could have found this.

I don’t know of such limitations and I’ve done some screen recording that way. But yeah the CLI options are confusing. The wiki (trac.ffmpeg.org) and libera irc channel #ffmpeg both help.

TSMC uses the same lithography and same wafers and gets working chips. It’s the fab process. Is it fixable? Idk.

They banned talking about the wrong kind of cat food, for Pete’s sake. I’m still not over that one.

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.

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.

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.

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.