mikeortman

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Comment · 11 months ago
Its available for me now in gemini.google.com.... but its failing so bad at accurate audio transcription.

Its transcribing the meeting but hallucinates badly... both in fast and thinking mode. Fast mode only transcribed about a fifth of the meeting before saying its done. Thinking mode completely changed the topic and made up ENTIRE conversations. Gemini 2.5 actually transcribed it decently, just occasional missteps when people talked over each other.

I'm concerned.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think technically they can. It’s because they’re downgrading them to a free service. I’m going to venture to say that it’s a money grab on a previously generous gift by slack.
Comment · 1 year ago
Apple claiming that Liquid Glass is a technique only Apple can achieve, will be replicated, or at least indistinguishably replicated, in pure CSS... within 48 hours of today, out of spite
Comment · 1 year ago
Just the absence of a license generally means the creator has all right reserved by default. You don’t need a license in every file because in much of the world copyright is given by default to the creator. A licensed file is permission to do something with that copyright material.
Comment · 1 year ago
Just be careful! In SOME jurisdictions, you can get in trouble for 'stealing' if you take back something that was stolen. Possession vs Ownership are 2 different things. For instance, the thief may have stolen something, sold it to someone who bought it in good-faith, and you take it back from that person, it's technically theft!

File a police report, go through the right channels. If you know its yours, call the police department non-emergency and explain the situation

Comment · 2 years ago
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
Comment · 2 years ago
It's wild to nitpick the licensing like this. I get why its conter-intuitive and in violation of Github's guidelines, but it's winamp, folk. It has no intrinsic value these days to update or fork outside of giving people the opportunity to learn from the tricks they had to do to make stuff work. There are solutions significantly better and open source today. 'Canceling' winamp in 2024 was not on my life's bucket list after the year 2000.

There is hypocrisy here around internet archive, it's totally OK to store copy-write content on the archive, but its not OK when a company does so on their own.

Comment · 2 years ago
Comments are disabled or moderated. I tried as well.
Comment · 2 years ago
You didn't provide details, you provided a defense, which is weak at best.
Comment · 2 years ago
This checkbox will absolutely not look good in front of a jury. It's petty at best.
Comment · 2 years ago
I feel like we are living in an episode of the Simpsons at this point
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm glad we are starting to lean into cloud-agnostic or building back the on-prem/dedicated systems again.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think the very concept of this is to open source a common stack, instead of relying on a middleman like Porter, which also costs a TON of money at business tier
Comment · 2 years ago
It baffles me why people would be so unnecessarily critical on someone's project they are showing off in a show-and-tell fashion. It's a neat project with value.

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