Maybe it's just the contrarian streak in me, but Firefox being on Gecko is why I haven't left. There must be more than just one browser engine to rule them all! We got rid of our trident just to get blinkered.

Firefox moving to Blink means I'm just hopping over to whoever has the slickest Chromium clone right now.

Google's recorder app for android will let you record audio files and make some transcriptions, right on the device.

Is that application actually doing on-device transcription? Under "Data safety" on the Google Play page it says "This app may share these data types with third parties: Audio" which doesn't exactly instill confidence that my audio will 100% always stay on my device. It also says "Data is encrypted in transit" but if data stays on the device, why it has to be "encrypted in transit"? There should be no transit at all.

Yes, it works completely offline, including transcription and recognition of music. There's an optional cloud sync feature, which I assume is the reason for the notice on Google Play.

(Work for Google, don't speak for them.)

Thanks. Whose the third party that might get access to the audio? First party would be me, second party would be Google and then the third?

I think it's just Google for backup, or other apps via Android's standard sharing sheet. You can read the details here: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/9516618?hl=en

I just tested it and it was pretty mediocre at least with my accent. I can definitely benefit from a decent app for quick note recording with a button press->transcribe->upload to gdrive/good UI app for later grepping.

Was this with the default base model, or the medium or large model? This can be specified with the —model flag.

I meant the 'Google's recorder app' from the parent comment and not Whisper.

Ah right, sorry got my comment threads mixed up! Someone else was asking about performance with accented English speakers in another comment.

Google's recorder app is NOT available for most phones. Only Pixels and a couple of other selected handsets

yeah. I've made the 'not going to do nothing but also not going to dedicate my life to self-hosting everything' choice: I bought a dumb spectre generic tv, then hooked up a roku stick, and am letting the pihole catch whatever it can, and hoping for the best from there.

So far, the banner ads in roku stay away, so it probably works well enough?

I was recently reading Steal Like an Artist and one of the sections referenced having an analog desk and a digital desk, the former for ideation and creativity modes, the latter for editing and revising modes, and I found that salient.

I love my fountain pens and paper, but for permanence and immediacy reasons. It's really hard to put a file attachment for safe-keeping on your hardcover journal.

I love OneNote, but for ease of dumping screenshots, digital ink annotations, file attachments, and generally building up context around a bit of specific information reasons. It's really hard to put your sticker from your family-member's letter on your OneNote notebook.

And those are two different tasks, just like the desks example above.

I watched [1] in parent comment (really about the 49 minute mark fwiw), that was heartwarming.

Ageism needs to be kicked from this industry. Yes, defeated, static, close-minded people of all ages exist, but don't tar everyone with that brush just because their hair is grey!

Very cool, I love the idea of feeding some rust code to my retirement community of old PCs, native PEs that I don't have to use Win32 and C to use.

I've not read the resource either, but it sounds like (from only reading your and GP comment) Anaconda moved something from free-as-in-freedom to free-as-in-beer-as-long-as-non-commercial.

Which is reasonable enough to me.

Based on the title, I read this article thinking I was going to read a 'master vulnerability' or weakness of some sort in all major crypto implementations.

I was ready to say 'well actually - as long as you have perfect forward secrecy and maybe a double rachet you can make it virtually impossible to break the encryption at scale blah blah blah', like a good little armchair crypto parrot would.

But instead, I learned a little something new about how cryptography studies work. Thank you HN!

Not to be dumb - but I don't want my car to have cellular connectivity, so this opens up more car purchase options for me once 3G goes dark. Granted, that's a tiny influx of new customers, but still, there's at least 1 new customer as result of their decision to still use 3G.

In the EU new cars now are mandated to have an automatic way to call the emergency services after a crash, I wonder if the governments have a clause about what would happen if 3G is turned off (I guess they're not planning to do that for a while yet).

If I were in power and I genuinely cared about saving the planet, I'd figure out how to make cars without this auto-emergency-dial system more expensive to insure; that way, people would look at newer cars more favorabily, and I'd incentivize electric cars as well. But hey, luckily the car lobby is still pretty strong in the France and Germany!

Why use such an indirect and backwards method? If you were in power, you could just tax non-green cars, rather than promote cars that become useless in 5 years when technology moves on.

It's a balance between doing what you want and screwing people hard enough to get voted out or violently deposed (transition mechanism depends on the system of government in question).

Sure, but second point is that it's dumb to assume "smart" or "connected" cars are more green. If they are being obsoleted much faster than "dumb" cars, then whether or not they are electric makes little difference in the grand scheme of things.

3G has been mainstream in the US since the mid 2000s. Granted it depends on when you purchase your car, but getting almost 20 years out of the technology is pretty good. Most cars will be scrap after that long. I'm not sure where you came up with 5 years.

Did you miss that cars are still being made that are 3g-only? And I’d be willing to bet that cars didn’t have 3g modems until long after 3g was first available.

Think Ricochet got replaced by cwtch.im correct? At least the binaries I can find of Ricochet are super stale.