Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48376933

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Still a problem for me, and has been for years, but I may be holding it wrong. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255929514?sortBy=rank

The solution posted in the discussion is not really secure.

https://docs.github.com/en/get-started/git-basics/caching-yo...

Yes, I said "AI"...It's all the rage these days.

The conversion happens using the open.ai Whisper general model. You can change the language and model size on this line whisper.load_model("medium.en"). It may run faster or slower with more (or less) accuracy using other models. All's I can say is to test it out and see what happens.

It doesn't currently do diarization (speaker identification). I've started working on this in the diarization branch, but haven't gotten too far. PR's are welcome.

The idea for transcribing podcasts to ebooks (pod2book) came about whilst listening to a podcast that was very scientific, with a lot of details. I wanted to capture what the person was saying and be able to go back and review, highlight, create notes, study, etc. Then came different podcasts I wanted to do the same thing with. Well, necessity being the mother of invention, I coded something on up and it worked pretty good.

I then thought to myself, “Self, this could also be valuable for other people that are neurodivergent, or just like to read.” I also shared the idea with someone else, and they were like, “Oh yeah that would help people that are deaf or hard of hearing too.” I wish I thought of that part myself.

Podcast transcripts are nice and all, but difficult to find and organize. What I would really like is to have a storefront/library that has all these podcasts-turned-eBooks organized by author that could then be subscribed to on your eBook reader of choice. Perhaps the eBooks could even be broken down into volumes like, Volume 1 would include episodes 1-50 and volume 2 would have episodes 51-100, etc.

Well, since I don’t own the copyright to any of these, I didn’t think it wise to try something like that. I shopped it around a little bit, then figured, what they hay, just open source it and let the people have at it and create their own libraries.

Use Calibre.

Thanks, -Ben

P.S.

There are other hn posts that go the other way...from text (or eBooks) to podcasts:

https://www.charlieharrington.com/flow-and-creative-computin...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376356

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25117894

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41894856

I didn't see anything on hn or elsewhere in my limited research that already had the functionality of podcasts->ebooks.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43300966

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Announcement here (Nov 2021) https://www.docker.com/blog/news-from-aws-reinvent-docker-of...

https://github.com/runfinch

When I tried Rancher Desktop it didn’t work so well.

Edit: Apparently he posted this on HN 8 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30521545

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33555783

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The result of the migration was that there is little underlying infrastructure to maintain, and ongoing operational costs were lowered by 50% year over year. The CTO and I liked the setup so much, we started converting another large client of theirs. I followed up with them at the beginning of 2022 to see how things were going, and they still love it. There is so little maintenance, and now they have more time to focus on what they do best–Software!

Other options on the horizon that I'm testing include utilizing AWS Copilot with ECS/Fargate, and/or Copilot with Amazon App Runner.