It’s not about the code, it’s about control of the servers and feeds. Decentralization doesn’t just mean multiple servers. It means no single entity has special authority over the user community. That isn’t the case with bluesky from what I can tell.
You don’t have to be a developer to use Lemmy, yet it has similar features to reddit including search. Maybe there are sociological issues in growing its userbase, but not serious technical ones, as Usenet showed 40 years ago.
It sounds like mastodon still has technical issues . If Lemmy’s were solvable, mastodon’s are too. Otherwise, how did mastodon get built in the first place?
If the problem is fixable technical shortcomings, why not fix them instead of throwing up our hands and surrendering?
By that logic we should also connect up with facebook and 4chan, not to mention twitter itself. bsky is just another one of those platforms from what I can tell. It is fairly new so not yet blatantly evil, but give it time. We here are supposed to know better.
There is already a fediverse twitalike called mastodon. I don’t understand why anyone here cares about bluesky.
I get the impression that recreating the Whisper training code is possibly doable, but the data is a bigger task.
This is a possible Whisper alternative with maybe similar issues: https://petewarden.com/2024/10/21/introducing-moonshine-the-new-state-of-the-art-for-speech-to-text/
Yes it’s nice that the phone app is free but STT is the difficult and important part. With Moonshine it might be possible to run the transcriber completely on the phone instead of having the STT on a remote server.
It’s interesting that they are able to do all that speaker distinguishing with just a single mic as found on both phones. There was a thread about phone features recently. Given this STT stuff, it could be useful to have a phone with 3 or 4 mics in the corners of the phone, like one of those tabletop conference mics, so it can figure out directionality of sound sources.
It didn’t say that on the linked page. Is the AI model and training code and data also free?
Added: it looks like it uses Whisper for transcription. So the inference code is there but it’s unclear about the other stuff.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisper_(speech_recognition_system)
Anyway, thanks for the update.
This is about a speech transcription program running on the company’s remote server. The app uploads your audio and the system sends you a transcript. You’ve got to be kidding. Reporting as spam.
SSDs for backup? Being rich must be nice. More srsly if you have the upstream pipe for it, remote backups are preferable in case something happens at home.
Tools:preferences, about:config, file downloads, form prefills, remember password, etc. yes you can try to lock everything but it’s too easy to miss something. And then there are outright RCEs. There’s just too much attack surface.
There’s no way to srsly prevent a full-bloat browser from messing with its environment. Make a static VM image and reboot it at the beginning of every session.
I use Voyager on android but the web client or “old reddit” style on larger screens. You could also look at redreader which is an android reddit client that could be adapted to Lemmy. IDK if there’s an iOS version.
It’s easier now that there are some control headers for it. At the time I tried a lot of things like bouncing through javascript opening a new window. Results varied by browser. The simplest way was to inconvenience users a bit by supplying text urls for them to paste into the nav bar, instead of clickable links.
I had some private pages a while back that linked to unrelated pages on other sites. I had to go somewhat crazy to stop the private urls from leaking to the external sites through referer headers when my users clicked on the links.
If chrome is sending people’s browser histories to Google that is invasive.
What does that even mean? But yes lots of us run Linux on servers. Just ssh in. Or even just wipe the VM and launch a new one if you want to upgrade.
This might be helpful for development:
15 minute video, I’ve watched about half, will finish it later, it’s interesting. Basically the money was transferred from free software to the now trendier area of AI.
A hosted services ad on c/selfhosted, maybe not the right thing, but I’ll defer to others.
just want some old junker (6/7/8th gen Intel)
You probably have to go back further than that for a 3.5" sff pc. Look on woot though, they have such refurbs all the time. Or scrounge a mini tower.
Salt Typhoon may have given them a clue.