MollyRealized

For what it's worth, OCR is now built into Spectacle.

Table for what Meatloaf would and wouldn't do:

https://imgur.com/gallery/ZAQXJdY

Timetable of One Week:

https://imgur.com/gallery/rsvhp2z

What are they basing their right to do so upon?

He speaks to three examples: YT videos, podcasts, and newsletters/etc. With YT videos and podcasts, I either yank the transcript and pipe it through whisper.cpp, or with YT videos, I'll use the built-in "Ask [Gemini]" and ask it to summarize.

https://textfiles.libsyn.com/

I have to admit, I had hoped that Bluesky would have countered that 300-character limitation and been a true microblog. I'm not sure why they chose to ape Twitter's limit.

It is not insane, but we are talking at cross-purposes here. It is not insane to tell someone to write for their audience.

I don't have a Mac now, but this makes me a little excited for the next time I go that route, to know this feature now exists. :)

Quite pleasantly surprised to see Jasika Nicole in this short. Really quite an actress in FRINGE; she was excellent here, too.

  @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

  @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
  body {
  width: 960px;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  background: #333;
  }
  }

As far as I've been able to determine, the main feature this article speaks to is not even on the Pixel 9 - it is only a feature on the Pixel 10.

IANAL, IANYL, and I am not his lawyer. I did work with publishing companies to get my grandmother's books freed up for CC0/public domain, but I'm at most a talented layman (and legal administrative assistant, but not in IP).

As far as I can understand from what the blog's author reproduced, it looks as if the problem was that his DMCA requests may have not been compliant. Go to [1] and do a Ctrl-F downward for "Elements of Notification."

If I were filing a DMCA request with Google, I would do it as follows, matching the requirements laid out for a valid DMCA notice. The below should not be considered legal advice or the practice of law.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512

~~~~

Both via Google's webform and as an e-mail to: dmca-agent@google.com

To whom it may concern:

This is a notification of claimed infringement under 17 USC § 512(c)(3), for purposes of 17 USC § 512(d)(3). To maintain the limitation on liability under § 512(d), upon receipt you must respond expeditiously to remove, or disable access to, the reference(s) or link(s) identified below.

If you believe that the material below is insufficient for the requirements of § 512(c)(3)(A), I ask you to specify precisely what you feel is absent from this notice yet necessary to meet those requirements.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(ii)

I identify the copyrighted work as:

- Title: [FULL TITLE]

- Author: [AUTHOR]

- Copyright owner: [YOUR NAME / ENTITY]

- First publication date: [MONTH DAY, YEAR]

- ISBN/ISSN (if any): [NUMBER]

- U.S. Copyright Office registration no. (if any): [TX/VA/PA-…]

- An authorized copy is available from [PUBLISHER] at [BOOK PAGE ON PUBLISHER WEBSITE].

- The infringing material reproduces the work in full.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iii)

I identify both (1) the infringing material and (2) the specific reference(s)/link(s) on Google that must be removed or disabled as follows:

A. Infringing material (destination URL(s)):

1. [FULL INFRINGING URL 1]

2. [FULL INFRINGING URL 2] (if the same file is reachable via more than one URL, list each exact variant you can find, including http/https, with/without "www", trailing slash, and direct PDF/EPUB links)

B. Specific Google reference(s)/link(s) to remove/disable (information-location results):

1. Google Search results page URL where the reference appears: [PASTE THE FULL GOOGLE SEARCH URL SHOWING THE RESULT] (Example format: https://www.google.com/search?q=…&… )

a. Google Surface: Google Search (web results) at google.com

b. Locale: United States / English

2. The specific result on that page that must be removed/disabled:

– Result position: [e.g., "Result #3 on the first page"]

– Result title as displayed: "[TITLE SHOWN IN RESULTS]"

– Displayed URL as shown: "[DISPLAYED URL]"

– Snippet text (first ~15–25 words as displayed): "[SNIPPET]"

– Target/destination URL that result resolves to when clicked: [INFRINGING URL]

– If available, the Google redirect URL for the result (copied via "Copy link address"):

[PASTE THE https://www.google.com/url?… LINK]

3. Any Google-served cached/stored version of the same infringing material (if present):

– Cache URL: [PASTE webcache.googleusercontent.com … URL] (or: "The ‘Cached’ link (if shown) for the above result.")

4. When observed: [DATE + TIME, TIME ZONE]

5. Screenshot attached showing the result described above (due to webform limitations, attached on e-mail message only).

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(iv)

I am the complaining party. My name is [NAME]. My postal address is [POSTAL ADDRESS]. My telephone number is [TELEPHONE NUMBER]. My e-mail address is [E-MAIL ADDRESS]. [Alternately, use business contact information, or your agent's contact information.] Please redact this information in any public copy of this notice.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(v)

I have a good faith belief that use of this material in the manner I am complaining of is not authorized by the copyright owner (myself), any agent that might have the right to authorize such use (there is none), nor the law.

REQUIREMENT PER § 512(c)(3)(A)(vi)

By my electronic signature below (satisfying § 512(c)(3)(A)(i)), under penalty of perjury, I certify that the information I provide above is accurate, and further certify that as the owner of an exclusive right I allege is infringed, I am authorized to act on my own behalf.

/s/ NAME

2025 was a difficult year for me. I am trans, and transitioning at a late age (post-50s). I am confronting a lot of my own self-hatred in the process. It is also a discouraging thing to be trans in this current national (sometimes global) climate. I also had a cardiac episode. There were definite achievements, but it was unabashedly a mix. I'm hoping 2026 will be a better year in most respects where I can build on the good parts of 2025.

So, I'm not anyone related to them, but considering you just kind of baldfaced admitted to it right there in your title, I'd get some lawyers on retainer.

I'll also have to add, though, that you'd have to figure out a way for it to be cross-platform or live outside just macOS. Unfortunately, that's a very uncommon choice in the legal world (or anywhere else).

I'm a litigation legal admin - I have been for 25-30 years. I instantly brought this up to an associate, telling them, "Maybe not now, but before you retire, this'll be the norm in the industry."

She had been complaining the day before about having to reconstruct a huge bunch of little 0.1 entries involving e-mails to various individuals in cases. If it could be done automatically, through a local LLM? chef's kiss

Trust me, law is definitely where you want to land this thing.

In all honesty, I have absolutely no negotiating power or decision-making authority for my firm, but it's a big one -- if that's a direction you want to go, can't guaranty I can swing enough weight, but I probably could find you the right people to talk to, give you an introduction.

Person A declines Group B's invite.

Group B thinks that it's a desire-based decision: that Person A does not want to participate.

They don't always realize - because for many, this simply doesn't "track" - that Person A may simply consider themselves unworthy.

This is something I think I am learning now, painfully late. I'm 51. I think I'm beginning to realize that I was a feral kitten for much of my life, claw-swiping at the milk syringe out of fear when people were trying to be nice to me.

Answer: You are a creature of the night, terrible, able to strike terror into a superstitious, cowardly lot.

Monday = Wednesday (Addams).

This almost seems like a web-i-fied 'reminder' system - and I've found one-and-done memory-aid-type reminders to be the area least addressed in current systems.

How does one get rid of the rainbow background?

Given the majesty and nobility of HN commenters, augustness is just getting started.

I'm not saying that removing it was a bad decision, but I will say that Firefox became infinitely less useful to me when they wiped out so much extension capability. There were so many 'power user' things you could do. I miss my extensive Keyconfig, for example.

"Welcome to Costco, I love you." That movie was so damn eerily prescient.

Tectonic shifts of masses ...

Goblin.tools

I am not an attorney, but have been a litigation legal admin for over two decades in a major American megacity. I feel that this position may actually lend me towards a more objective analysis than a litigation attorney or the article's author, because I am a longtime assistive witness to the process of law without necessarily being its direct proponent/creator.

There were things I found problematic about this article. One of the primary aspects I found incomplete was that it doesn't go on to specify HOW he supposedly used AI to avoid the necessity for a litigation attorney. To me that was a vital piece of information necessary for the author to prove their point, and its omission means the essay is significantly flawed.

Much like a surgeon, a litigation attorney knows 'surgical' techniques - they know the specific dynamics of law that are at play. They further know from local experience with judges (and their colleagues' experience with same) and the "plaintiffs' bar" (i.e. people who are looking to make cases) which techniques are best for which set of circumstances, much like a surgeon can evaluate which surgical techniques are best suited for the job they see in front of them -- they have the power of accurately observing and evaluating what is in front of them in full 3D high definition, whereas AI is going to be subject to how the facts are reported to it (and what facts may be either purposefully or accidentally omitted by the reporter).

None of those techniques are gone into by the author; he merely indicates that he used AI, without going into what it advised him to do. The act of omitting that piece of information means - at least IMO - that the editorial itself cannot by definition make its point.

Much like a surgeon, a litigation attorney knows 'surgical' techniques - they know the specific dynamics of law that are at play. They further know from local experience with judges (and their colleagues' experience with same) and the "plaintiffs' bar" (i.e. people who are looking to make cases) which techniques are best for which set of circumstances, much like a surgeon can evaluate which surgical techniques are best suited for the job they see in front of them -- they have the power of accurately observing and evaluating what is in front of them in full 3D high definition, whereas AI is going to be subject to how the facts are reported to it (and what facts may be either purposefully or accidentally omitted by the reporter).

None of those techniques are gone into by the author; he merely indicates that he used AI, without going into what it advised him to do.

I will agree that - much like it has done for me with medical knowledge - AI has the power to "prep" you very well for appointments with your attorney, assuming that it is not giving you a higher-level hallucination or leading you into a knowledge blind spot, which, as amateurs in the profession, laymen may not know enough to recognize (I don't omit myself - I would at most consider myself a 'talented amateur' at law).

But entirely omitted from all this evaluation: attorneys nowadays are very conscious of a client's desire to be budget-conscious; they know they charge an arm and a leg and they will try not to, and will try to help. They're not always just out for the almighty dollar, despite the caricature. They will often know what you are looking to spend and they will work to accommodate such price range - because they want to foster client loyalty to them or to their firm, and garner a favorable impression and word-of-mout. Just as one example, as a very experienced legal admin, I have sometimes done things free (not illegally so) that might have, in old days, been done for cost by an associate. (I am not speaking of the practice of law. But attorneys in olden days might've had associates charge for administrative things that can be done freely, and with greater ease now with the presence of the Internet.)

Also, one reason why lawyers are more like surgeons than they are "general contractors" is that lawyers specialize. There are multiple fields of law expertise, much as there are multiple fields of surgery, and litigation attorneys are a particular surgical field.

In short, while I agree with some aspects of the essay - I think that there's value in allowing AI briefing to get you up to speed to be a more educated client, which itself can then save you time with an attorney, which may then translate to money saved - I think there are multiple statements within the article that are simply flawed, wrong, or don't reflect the current reality of law, and how lawyers interact with clients nowadays.

None of the above reflects any attorney-client confidential information. I am not a lawyer, I am not your lawyer, and I do not speak for (nor am I empowered to speak for) my employer.

Although I'm not a programmer, I type 126 wpm as a legal admin. At the beginning, it was an asset. I find though that it enables my fingers to keep up with my mind - what the author writes about - but that this can be a real flaw in the business world.

Writing four nuanced paragraphs because it takes you a few seconds is much less desirable than short notes.

whereas the history of the US civil war can probably be updated less frequently.

Depends on which one you're talking about.

Just remember $60/yr. can also be seen by some as a high hurdle.