windthrown (u/windthrown)

windthrown commented on OTranscribe: A free and open tool for transcribing audio interviews otranscribe.com/... · Posted by u/zerojames

leiferik · a year ago

You're always welcome to try my service TurboScribe https://turboscribe.ai/ if you need a transcript of an audio/video file. It's 100% free up to 3 files per day (30 minutes per file) and the paid plan is unlimited and transcribes files up to 10 hours long each. It also supports speaker recognition, common export formats (TXT, DOCX, PDF, SRT, CSV), as well as some AI tools for working with your transcript.

windthrown · a year ago

Thanks! I've had good results with Turboscribe (paid plan) and appreciate having this as a service. I typically use it for 2-3 hour long video recordings with a number of speakers and appreciate the editing tools to clean things up before export.

windthrown commented on After 10 years, Yelp gave my app 4 days observationalhazard.com/2... · Posted by u/WoodenChair

toomuchtodo · a year ago

Is there a more open reviews platform not associated with a company? OpenReviews sort of thing or perhaps an open POI database associated with OSM, with reviews as attributes?

Somewhat silly we’re still relying on big companies to collect this data when they then gate it. The timing is right with LLMs that can make maintaining and rating reviews less burdensome on human labor (“moderation” broadly speaking). It’s just text blobs and possibly images linked to people and places.

windthrown · a year ago

https://lib.reviews/ is one I've used but none of the open options seem to be able to gain significant traction.

windthrown commented on Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone dumbph.com/turn-iphone-in... · Posted by u/hbroadbent

ghostpepper · a year ago

What is “organic maps”?

windthrown · a year ago

A specific app which displays mapping data from OpenStreeetMap: https://organicmaps.app/

windthrown commented on KPMG Fined Record $25M in Exam-Cheating Scandal wsj.com/articles/kpmg-fin... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

wolverine876 · a year ago

The other missing cost is losing client business. How do clients see the fraud and still trust KPMG? Do you want to hire someone who can't even pass the accreditation test? An organization that tries to pass them off to you?

windthrown · a year ago

You're starting with the assumption that ethics are a priority for clients. While certainly and extreme case, don't forget that Enron was happy with Arthur Andersen's auditing for quite a while...

windthrown commented on Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished troyhunt.com/thanks-fedex... · Posted by u/ahonhn

eastbound · 2 years ago

Can you file a small-claims?

You have nothing to lose, it’s not like they could threaten to stop delivering your packages.

windthrown · 2 years ago

Why couldn't they threaten to stop delivering? I was under the impression that only the Postal Service (USPS) had a regulatory mandate to serve all US addresses.

windthrown commented on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/chamoda

summerlight · 2 years ago

https://support.google.com/googleone/answer/14534406#zippy=%...

Looks like they got some complaints from Fi users and now they've updated their wording to a more reasonable one; previously it was something like "no, you can't, you gotta remove your Google Fi Unlimited benefits via customer service" or similar.

windthrown · 2 years ago

Ah I see, thank you! Thankfully I am not on an unlimited plan.

windthrown commented on Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced blog.google/products/gemi... · Posted by u/chamoda

summerlight · 2 years ago

Beside of the model quality or whatever, I think the subscription plan tiers are structured in a quite weird way, especially for those who already use Google One. Previously, the tiers are reasonably structured:

  1. $9.99/month for 2TB + other benefits. Offered in both monthly and annual plans.
  2. $24.99/month for 5TB. Includes all benefits above. Offered in both monthly and annual plans.
  3. Higher tiers for 10~30TB. Includes all benefits above. Offered only in monthly plans.

The 3rd option doesn't have an annual plan but other than that it's consistent and easy to understand. Now we have one more plan for "AI".

  4. $19.99/month for 2TB + other benefits + Gemini access. Offered only in monthly plans.

Now the existing Google One subscribers are now put in a weird situation. 2TB annual plan users now need to move to a monthly plan to use Gemini. It's worse for higher tiers, since they don't have an upgrade option at all without decreasing the storage size. And Google Fi users are even in the worst case, as they don't even have an option for upgrade, even if they're willing to do so.

I guess they know this so they specified that high tier subscribers can use AI features at no extra charge until July 31 and probably prepare a new plan for them then, but this still create lots of user confusions. Having YT Premium as a separate subscription plan is already a pain, but Google, you don't have to bring this trouble into the product supposed to be the "One".

windthrown · 2 years ago

I'm a Google Fi user but have not tried to sign up yet. Would you mind expanding on your point about Fi affecting the ability to upgrade?

windthrown commented on FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal fcc.gov/document/fcc-make... · Posted by u/ortusdux

dantheman · 2 years ago

Imagine the FCC goes to congress, proposes a new rule and then congresses passes it. Then there is debate and congress can't abdicate its responsibility.

windthrown · 2 years ago

In theory sure but have you been following Congress for the past decade? They can't even come to terms on continuing resolution funding bills, let alone pass complex rules related to new contentious technologies. Perhaps I'm just a pessimist but is something that makes you think this might drastically change?

windthrown commented on YouTransfer: Self-hosted file transfer and sharing solution github.com/YouTransfer/Yo... · Posted by u/janjones

crtasm · 2 years ago

What do you wish to use that is blocked?

windthrown · 2 years ago

I'm still bitter that abuse brought down Firefox Send

windthrown commented on System76's Cosmic Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-... · Posted by u/mindracer

FirmwareBurner · 2 years ago

But why do they need another DE when Gnome and KDE can suffice botrh demographics and are vastly more mature and see more dev effort?

windthrown · 2 years ago

They have done a pretty solid job with PopOS, so I am inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt.