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If you want a local and open source option (MacOS only at the moment though), I've been happily using Keyscribe for dictation, which is built on Moonshine I believe.

https://rsperko.github.io/keyscribe/

Because (A) it has an OpenAI logo on it and (B) they made $13B and lost $21B last year?

Like any other detection system you will always have determined adversaries that put in the work to bypass it.

But that doesn't mean you shouldn't still try to block the much larger number of less sophisticated/resourced adversaries that are using OOTB libraries and low-effort setups.

Huh I had no idea these were in demand.. I still have an original GUS card in a box somewhere. I forget the exact model but it was one of the better ones.

It's uncanny how much the job of "crafting contrived yet plausible scenarios to over-sell the utility of our service" has become such a critical part of AI vendor marketing.

Isn't a PE firm going public just an admission of failure, and an attempt to make their private investors whole on the public market's back?

While I agree that their specific approach sucks, I do wish more companies would declare products as "done" and stop messing with the UI and changing features every quarter, and just go into a long-term stability mode.

This doesn't even account for the fact that while the tech industry's dominant language is English, lots of people in our industry count English as a second (or third/fourth/etc) language, so they might use AI to help them write in English in an effort to be better understood by others.

To arbitrarily dismiss all AI-assisted writing shows a real lack of understanding of the possible reasons one might use it beyond the "lazy author" trope that everyone likes to throw out there.

All writing is open to interpretation by the reader.

Some people let punctuation or grammar mistakes ruin an entire text or post for them, because they choose to focus on those flaws, rather than looking past them and taking in the content itself.

"this was written/assisted by AI" is starting to feel like next-gen "this has spelling/grammar mistakes in it, therefore it is invalid".

Anytime someone is an actual expert at anything, AI output appears insufficient or incomplete or outright misleading

Yes, this is exactly so. AI is able to confidently sound plausible enough to convince laypersons or anyone who isn't very familiar with the subject matter, which is a big part of the mass-appeal "magic" of ChatGPT and other similar tools. It's like having a know-it-all friend (who also makes shit up to bridge their own knowledge gaps).

In many non-advanced non-specialized situations, AI is right enough to be at best useful or at worst not harmful (usually landing in the middle somewhere).

But speaking for myself, in areas where I consider myself quite proficient, I can very easily spot the subtle inconsistencies and naive conclusions that AI responses provide, and I have to guide/steer/correct it a lot to get good results when the subject matter is complex enough.

I think you can say that for any nascent / figuring-it-out industry.

The early days (late 90s / early 00s) of web development and web agencies was pretty much the same thing.

We were all learning as we went, there were very few senior people, and the company owners/leaders certainly didn't know any better than we did.

But we felt lucky to be doing this exciting and cutting edge work, so being at the office working was often the thing we _wanted_ to be doing the most.

The inmates ran the asylum, as they say..

The whole front part with the lenses and processors is removable, and there's an expansion connector on the face piece for future accessories, so it's certainly possible that colour cameras could be released later, and be an add-on for the Frame without needing to buy a new device.

I think you (and others) are getting caught up in your own worse-case interpretation of the words of that statement, instead of looking at the intent of it.

It is perhaps not the best wording but I think it's pretty easy to take that "megabytes per second per dollar" statement and choose to interpret it less poorly, and more like "having better, cheaper and more abundant useful data about yourself and your health".

Because "Technical Consultant" is associated too strongly with the old-school consulting firms, and the new crop of companies selling into enterprises want a cool new title.

It also riffs on military terminology which, for better or worse, is "in" right now..

We're still in the FA phase of FAFO when it comes to LLM code generation, aren't we?

I see tons of evidence of positive impact, but I suppose everyone has their own perspective.

I did try to account for that with this line:

For some companies, Z might be less than 1 though. ;-)

So what if it is? The example still stands.

A "unit of work" that required X people to complete in Y time can now be done by X/Z people in Y time, where Z is whatever efficiency you are able to get out of applying AI tooling to your business.

For some companies, Z might be less than 1 though. ;-)

So you still need skilled people, just not the same amount as before, because you have different tools available to you.

This has happened before with other advancements in industrial/technological automation. It's not a new concept.

Maybe ask the people who buy in early but are left behind by the pivot

Ironic, or appropriate?

So it seems RW2 support is in the non-beta version of 21, I spoke too soon.

The docs page is incorrect, I was able to load my Lumix RAW files in no problem.

Oh I missed that, thank you! That's good to know..

Yeah I've used previous Studio versions to edit videos from my camera without any trouble. I'm just excited to finally ditch my Adobe subscription ASAP. :-)

I haven't had a chance to look at the non-beta version but in the 21 Beta, the Photo page didn't support Lumix or Olympus raw formats, and I own two cameras: a Lumix and an Olympus. :-(

I assumed they would add them later, I hope I'm right!

edit: nope, still only supports Canon, Fuji, Nikon, Sony and iPhone ProRAW.

This might feel like a reasonable take in isolation, but if you take it in context of today's society, and how everything actually works, it's not reasonable or realistic. Nor is it empathetic in any way.

These social media companies have created an environment where they are the dominant, near-exclusive, medium for communication in our digital age. If you are running a consumer-facing business in 2026 you *must* be on these platforms.

Given that these companies have actively pursued these positions they now hold, do you not feel they have a responsibility to be fair, reliable and trustworthy? That they have some obligation to their users, paying or not. They are choosing to offer the service for free, and they do make money on you regardless.

Losing your business accounts on Meta or Tiktok or Youtube can have catastrophic real-world consequences. And mistakes happen all the time, so you can't realistically assume every ban or cancellation is justified or correct.

I've heard this framed as "AI raises the floor by 2x or less but raises the ceiling by 10x or more"

Is this still the case? I have a "Files" app on my iPhone that shows me files and folders stored on my device, I can save/load files from most apps (that have a concept of files) and it's even integrated with iCloud so when I save a file to my phone's Downloads, I can access it from my Mac (and vice-versa).

I don't know about Android but on iOS I feel like we've had a simple and ubiquitous user-facing file system for a while. I use it all the time.

I suppose it might not be top of mind for most users because it wasn't there for so long.

No OP but I used to work at a large company with a similar number of repos.

When I left about a year ago, we had just started (after being on Github for almost 8 years) an ongoing project of first archiving old/outdated repos in place, and then moving them to an "archived" sub-org, and waiting to see if anyone complained.

Previously no one wanted to outright delete or remove repos because of the risk that someone somewhere was relying on it, and also there was no actual downside to just leaving them there (no cost savings, no imminent danger other than clutter, etc), so resources were never allocated to do it. There was always something more important to work on.

In an org with a higher floor of engineering management, a proactive program for removing unused or outdated repos would absolutely be expected though I think.

The lower prices enabled by automation

LOL

In the modern digital era, technological efficiencies and disruption have almost always led to rent-seeking monopolies, regulatory capture to prevent competition and enshittification leading to higher prices for end users.

Looking at all the outdoor scenes that you can walk around, I wonder how long until we start seeing this in places like Google Maps/Earth, as a replacement for the low-res 3D renderings we have now.

I guess the number of samples required to generate a GS is the constraint now, but maybe that will get solved.

I thought looking at the aggregates that the top 10% pay something like 1/3rd of all income/cap gain taxes.

If we're bringing receipts, how about you start? Do you have the data for this initial statement of yours?

Like I said, we don't live in "movie world".