I am not surprised by so many people wanting personalized solutions. So many screen shot apps and annotators are so close, but just not quite right for a person's workflow.

I'm using off the shelf open source solutions now, but even those I have had to modify/patch to add just a couple of things to make it smooth in my workflow.

Update: I see that there are many ways to do this accountless. For some reason the search result was iroh.computer and I made some assumptions. There are definitely some iroh-based options that look like they would have essentially the same UX that I'm going for. Would love to hear if there's some specific pros or cons to croc or iroh.

Because of the hallucinations inherent in transformer models, I went looking for a transducer-based model with a low WER. I have been super pleased with parakeet-unified-en-0.6b. It's WER isn't as low as Canto, but it's about as low as you can get (~5-6.5%) with a non-transformer-based model as far as I'm aware.

I've been very pleased with its output.

I wasn't looking for this, but it's also lightweight enough to run on my little potato PC, which has an i5 8th gen processor, and still transcribe 9-10x faster than realtime.

I vibe-coded a little wrapper for it and use it on folders of audio or podcast rss feeds or even YT playlists and channels and it's been one of my new favorite tools.

I used Snapdrop before they got bought and found it pretty reliable. It sometimes would not transfer and I went exploring.

I used magic-wormhole-based Warp and liked it, but now I use croc of getcroc.com for almost everything. Whether it's sending files to myself or others, it's just the most flexible and seems to be reliable and fast from my use.

(I haven't been using it super long, but I heartily recommend.)

"These new capabilities are powered by the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models for deeply integrated Apple Intelligence experiences. These latest models run on device and on servers using Private Cloud Compute."

Also, when you bought from PianoDisc, did you agree to abide by a certain jurisdiction's laws in your use of PianoDisc? And did you explicitly agree to not share any sort of decoder/encoder in any ToS?

But when a person expert or no uses an llm, information is being lost. If I misunderstand an llm's sentence, it is possible that "it knows what it's talking about", but with how frequently they don't know what they're talking about, I usually don't try and move on. It's not worth it.

In America, at least, though perhaps this applies more broadly, so many trends over the past decades all converge towards the lowering of the baseline levels of trust you should give towards a stranger (whether valid or not!). And llms have been a net-negative so far. We have exchanged some amount of trust for intelligence. And it didn't have to be an exchange.

I care less about llm disclosure and more about this: If you use an LLM for writing, please think sincerely about whether the output accurately represents what you would say and how you would say it to another person. Please avoid serving others nothingburgers and wordsalads. This has always been possible and it's easy to do it without realizing it with LLMs. The output can survive a scan, but dissolves upon further inspection.

tldr; make sure that what you publish is trustworthy.

Looking at her bio, the only family connection I can find is, "Proud Mommy". For a "happiness and mortality expert", I would've expected her to say more in her bios across her sites about her loving husband and children. I'm not saying she's bad, I'm just saying that it would be more helpful if she, in general and in this article, talked more about what she's done outside of being a happiness expert. Why should we trust you? How do we know breaking up with this boyfriend was good? Even a comment about how that freed her up to find someone else who was truly better and worth committing to would be better than just selling us on this breakup on basis of her feeling they weren't right.

(And to be clear, I think feelings here are important. You don't have to enter into a relationship if you're not feeling it. A subconscious feeling can be onto something long before your mind is. But I feel that once you're in a relationship that's that intimate, feelings alone shouldn't end it.)