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We already have this. We don't need Mythos to categorize images on my phone. A small dedicated model would do.

I’ve been a paying user for years, but the free tier change announcement is a sign of the enshittification to come.

It means the old guard is moving away and potentially starting initiatives not in the best interest of the user. In the worst case scenario they will sell my data or introduce stupid changes that risk security.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that noticed this is madness.

I find it crazy to build a complex system to juggle 10 different threads in your brain, including the complexity of the tool itself.

The one thing Qt is the most attacked for is the licensing. I disagree with this sentiment, it is pretty straightforward to me.

There are other fair criticism of Qt, more specifically about Qt Quick/QML: the need for 2-3 languages (C++/QML/JavaScript), using C++, not using modern C++, not enough out-of-the-box widgets compared to Qt Widgets, and the clusterfuck that is layouts in QML.

Out of all, the only real one for me is layouts. They are painful to deal with. I never had a problem with Qt Widgets layouts though.

Have you tried the Azure Speech Studio? I wonder how your custom model compares to this solution.

I played around with python scripts for the same purpose. The AI gives feedback that can be transformed to a percentage of correctness. One annoyance is that for Mandarin, the percentage is calculated at the character level, whereas with English, it gives you a more granular score at the phoneme level.

Qt Widgets is fantastic, but now dated since it has not been updated for the modern world. Plus it is C++, which a lot of devs dislike.

QML feels like a refresh with great ideas, bringing declarative UI and reactive programming. Where it falls short for me is it does not have feature parity with Qt Widgets, so you end up having to roll up your own components, wasting a ton of time. Dealing with layouts in QML is also an exercise in frustration.

If anything, that’s their excuse for keeping it locked.

“Mr hacker man can trick you to download an app and take all of grandmas money from the bank”, “North Korean hackers can tap into your baby cameras unless we gate the app installation process and charge 30%.”, etc.

With that move to React or whatever web based monstrosity it is, it lost a lot of the existing user experience crafted over the years.

Not only OS pre-installed apps are much slower, but it broke shortcuts and common sense behaviors.

Recall for Linux 9 months ago

Not only leaks, but anything on the cloud is subject to be inspected by the government.

The ones hit hardest are usually younger generations

Reminds me of prop 13. If you challenge grandma having a $3M house paying peanuts for property taxes you are a monster.

If you defend young people that are ready to start a family, "they can kick rocks and move to Bumfuck, Middle-Of-Nowhere, no one is entitled to live in the Bay Area".

This echoes what I have thought about my career. What to work on.

I've been blessed to have a good paying career in software engineering, but I've never really felt passionate about the products I work on. At the end of the day, my job is a paycheck. I do feel joy solving problems for others, improve society, be able to answer colleagues questions when they "come to my office". My family is happy that I can provide and that I am a role model for them.

I sometimes think I should work on things that make me happier. Sometimes I think that my career path is a mistake, I should work on problems "closer to god", make more meaningful contributions, build the next Kubernetes/ChatGPT/Google/<insert revolutionary product>, advance AI, climate change. I end giving up, I'm not that ambitious or driven.

I'm important to my family and colleagues. That may be good enough.

Who’s this built for and what is the use case?

This tool wouldn’t be useful for most (if not) all enterprise services I’ve worked for. For enterprise, you want fully featured synthetics services such as Thousand Eyes, plus an internal monitoring and alerting system.

Also you typically don’t want to expose your health endpoint to the outside world. It’s a security risk.

Why do they hate the idea?

It’s not clear what the core problem is. Are they contractually or by law obligated to comply with security/privacy requirements? Are they afraid you’ll misuse their data (steal their business, etc).

If you can be explicit about what “hate” means, you can find a solution, or decide this is not a potential customer.