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Comment · 4 days ago
If you did this well, you could organize the world's information.
Comment · 4 days ago
And I'm sooo thankful we don't. As a guy who tries to save money by DIYing it in 3x-10x the time it should take, I would be broke.
Comment · 19 days ago
We all use screenshots so much. They are the [universal API](https://mattrickard.com/screenshots-as-the-universal-api)

I am not surprised by so many people wanting personalized solutions. So many screen shot apps and annotators are so close, but just not quite right for a person's workflow.

I'm using off the shelf open source solutions now, but even those I have had to modify/patch to add just a couple of things to make it smooth in my workflow.

Comment · 1 month ago
What value to you get from having this happen on every turn with a change? I get that the ratio should be a lot higher than the default. Doesn't doing this for every turn where something changed slow things down a lot without gain? I haven't experimented, that's why I'm curious. Why not 1 line or 2 in a CLAUDE.md or AGENTS.md so that the agent ups the frequency, but doesn't make it every single time?
Comment · 1 month ago
I've never used Iroh; can you use it with no setup or without an account? I send/receive files often enough from non-technical people, having a no-install/accountless solution for sending files is essential. For my use-case, my go to is croc or Bitwarden Send (I'm on a paid acct), depending on the person.

Update: I see that there are many ways to do this accountless. For some reason the search result was iroh.computer and I made some assumptions. There are definitely some iroh-based options that look like they would have essentially the same UX that I'm going for. Would love to hear if there's some specific pros or cons to croc or iroh.

Comment · 1 month ago
Congrats on the launch! I'm glad more progress is being made in this area.

Because of the hallucinations inherent in transformer models, I went looking for a transducer-based model with a low WER. I have been super pleased with parakeet-unified-en-0.6b. It's WER isn't as low as Canto, but it's about as low as you can get (~5-6.5%) with a non-transformer-based model as far as I'm aware.

I've been very pleased with its output.

I wasn't looking for this, but it's also lightweight enough to run on my little potato PC, which has an i5 8th gen processor, and still transcribe 9-10x faster than realtime.

I vibe-coded a little wrapper for it and use it on folders of audio or podcast rss feeds or even YT playlists and channels and it's been one of my new favorite tools.

Comment · 1 month ago
If you like Snapdrop, you'll love croc!

I used Snapdrop before they got bought and found it pretty reliable. It sometimes would not transfer and I went exploring.

I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it, but now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything. Whether it's sending files to myself or others, it's just the most flexible and seems to be reliable and fast from my use.

(I haven't been using it super long, but I heartily recommend.)

Comment · 1 month ago
What's under the hood:

"These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers using Private Cloud Compute."

Comment · 1 month ago
TIL about <meta http-equiv="X-Clacks-Overhead" content="GNU Terry Pratchett"> which is delightful and an example of what I love best about the Internet.
Comment · 1 month ago
Thanks! I wasn't familiar with it (using FUTO now), but it looks really good.
Comment · 1 month ago
Such as?
Comment · 1 month ago
I love that little guy! lol
Comment · 1 month ago
IANAL, but it might be relevant to others trying to answer what jurisdiction you are in. (US, EU, CN, JP, elsewhere?)

Also, when you bought from PianoDisc, did you agree to abide by a certain jurisdiction's laws in your use of PianoDisc? And did you explicitly agree to not share any sort of decoder/encoder in any ToS?

Comment · 1 month ago
If you would like a 3rd party x.com web viewer to survive, probably best to not call attention to it atm.
Comment · 1 month ago
Yes! And do you get the impression, like I do, that model effort and pelican effort seem correlated?

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