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https://github.com/jstilwell/MacAudioInputLocker

I maintain a fork of this app, which allows you to quickly set and lock your audio input device, so that they don't switch your audio input device to bluetooth as soon as you turn them on. Mostly because of the first gen of these headphones. They LOVED to keep the mic on at all times with no way to disable that behavior.

I assume it's the same with the second gen.

Predictably, Google has banned that extension from Chrome, but if we all ran AI agents in container swarms...

If enough people did it, their entire business model would likely collapse.

Neat, someone should develop an easy-to-deploy script that spawns a headless version of this agent that scrolls through and repeatedly clicks every single ad on X and Facebook using a session cookie.

I find myself in the same position, but thought it warrants discussion at least.

Yeah, I agree. The character file is kind of convincing, though.

https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/blob/develop/characters/tru...

Kagi is amazing. The ability to permanently remove sites from the results and promote sites you want to see is a game changer.

Part of personality lives inside of our stomachs as well, apparently, and so much of who were are is driven by our interaction with our nerve endings. I think even with a perfect copy of consciousness, it's pointless without a perfect copy of our bodies as well.

I think that AGI, when and if we ever reach that stage of technological innovation, will enable us to live in a utopian world where our bodies are impervious to biological defects or age and we have little to no reliance on food and water — where we can control all aspects of how we feel with a slider, or a thought.

Like the Lotus-eaters from Homer's Odyssey, some alien tribe will eventually show up and decide we're imperiled instead of living a perfect life in blissful stasis, and kill us to stop whatever afflicts us from spreading to them.

Anyway, I don't want the brain preservation thing, thank you.

Honestly, I'm not super worried about AI — at least this iteration of it — because of the uncanny valley effect. I would expect the VO industry to outlaw it purely because if people start to wonder if they're listening to an AI voice, that's a non-starter and they will stop paying attention. Even with the best AI, there are artifacts that make it easy to identify.

The primary goal of the voice actor is to achieve a personal connection, and I don't see how AI is a real threat to that end. I feel the same about other mediums as well. This will likely be used for scams, but I doubt it will ever draw as many eyes, or ears, as something a real human can produce. Thus, it won't be a valuable tool to marketers and largely unprofitable.

BlueSky is going to win. Domain verification and custom feeds (user-generated firehose filters) are its killer features. It's already better than Twitter, and it's still behind invite codes as they refine it.

Once brands realize that they can utilize custom feeds to reach potential customers granularly instead of -- or in addition to -- paying for advertising, it's going to be over for Twitter. Twitter could introduce something similar to compete, but they shit-canned all of their talent, and in the process hamstrung their ability to innovate.

These engineers won't be having fun, because these engineers will be working for Elon Musk. Also, it's a rebrand. He fired the vast majority of the engineers he had.

Everyone is hating on "X" because the people who possess the ability to think critically, i.e. engineers, are rightfully perplexed by every single move that this moron makes. It taps into the uncanny valley response for smart people, and it is amplified because Elon Musk has branded himself a genius.

This is a shitty rebrand from Twitter to something that is impossible to search for on Google, and nothing more. It is the X-shaped shadow of a fiery ball of mediocrity that is hurtling towards San Francisco pavement as we speak.

Hey uh, why not pay top-tier talent to build a more modern platform from scratch, starting with zero technical debt, and then when it's ready, merge in the Twitter userbase, and sunset it?

It's because he's a fucking moron.

I don't think you're right about this. In fact, I think the killer AR/VR apps will be utility apps.

My friends and I watch a movie in VR every week and it's the highlight of my week. It's all I use my Quest 2 for. Just sitting in a fake theater, not moving, talking over movies in spatial audio.

There is a problem with VR games. They eventually make you feel sick if you move around. They can make you sweat. Most people sit on their couch to watch T.V. to relax because they don't want to move around or sweat. VR/AR gaming is gimmicky as hell.

AR is going to kick start a revolution as soon as people discover they no longer need to go to a movie theater, deal with Ticket Master's fees, or buy a TV again. As soon as they realize they never need to buy another monitor -- or multiple monitors.

Cool, thanks for this welcomed break from work today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7CXt1zXDU

I won't be using this unless it has a web app, and without an Android app, they're freezing out a lot of people who could contribute. This won't go anywhere. BlueSky is just fine.

If AWS ever decides to suspend your root account, good luck with that. They never, ever, ever give it back. I had a root account I used for free tier stuff on my primary e-mail address that I never got back because I had $2 charges I didn't pay for 4 months because I didn't realize they were even trying to charge me.

God damn it. Google Domains was my registrar of choice because I figured I wouldn't have to ever think about logistics and their lookup rules. Ah well. I guess I'll see what Squarespace does to the experience. I'd transfer them to Cloudflare, but have similar concerns.

I'm not sure how you would control for this. I was born in 1981, not long after the Vietnam war ended, and my Dad was a veteran with PTSD who never went to a therapist. My home life sucked and I came out of it with pretty severe depression. I became addicted to computers as a means of escape, and thankfully -- luckily -- it turned into a lucrative career.

However, even though my home life sucked, society as a whole felt much better than it does currently and I still wanted nothing to do with it.

Is it possible these kids now just have a front row seat to witness their generation being systematically torn down in front of them before they even have a chance to get a footing? My parents sucked. Their whole world sucks.

I have my doubts that it's about the phones. It seems more likely that their adult problems are the student loans, the cost of rent, the lack of jobs, the corporate greed, and on, and on.

Skeleton UI (Svelte + Tailwind) is how I go about it. The developer experience is very good. As for the UX, that's mostly just a matter of actually thinking about how people will use the app and taking the time to account for it.

In my experience, bad UIs are a product of laziness more than know-how.

Can it simulate my parents screaming at me about long distance bills? I miss them. My parents, too.

Except this post is 8 hours old and I'm still able to view this link.

It's weird that several large tech companies all need to fire around 10,000 people at the same time. It's almost like the number is completely arbitrary and they're all soullessly choosing profit over their people because they can.

Oh, thank you for that. I missed those settings completely - mostly because I couldn't read them haha.

I'm 41 and just getting into game development. I've been kind of weighing my options for awhile, and waiting for Godot 4 to come out. This is rad.

The only complaint I have is that the scale of the GUI is ridiculous. It's not like I'm running some crazy resolution. Why is it so small? Why hasn't it been complained into options to scale it? I literally cannot read the project creation interface without using Windows zoom.

Their app sucks for podcasts. That's where they went wrong. I stopped listening to several podcasts that went Spotify-only because their desktop app is so bad that it does not have an option to notify you of new episodes. That's ridiculous.

I pay close attention to the UX and UI of the tools that I use that are security critical.

I switched off of LastPass 2 years ago and convinced my brother to do the same because some things in LastPass apps started to feel very old, especially their 2FA implementation, which signals to me that either their stack is inflexible or there's a lot of churn in their dev teams. When those things are true, that means they're probably just maintaining old code instead of evolving it. Or even more terrifying: they don't know what needs to evolve.

Not regretting it so far.

Yep, the first sample was generated via OP's method. The tl;dr answer is that I used a few plugins in my digital audio workstation to make it sound better.

I made a video specifically in reply to you if you want to see exactly how I did it (3 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69Q-cseNCI4

They launched their beta way too early. It's missing a lot of features, it feels clunky -- like I can actually feel the API calls when I'm scrolling. I think there is a Twitter killer in the pipeline, but doubt it's going to be Post.

It'll be a Twitter clone with one extra killer feature... and dark mode.

Replaced Newsflow recently with Readwise Reader and I'm a big fan so far. I'm only using it for RSS feeds, but I suspect I will be using it for much more than that soon.

If copyright laws don't catch up, the sampling industry is cooked.

Made this: https://soundcloud.com/obnmusic/ai-sampling-riffusion-waves-...