https://github.com/Purfview/whisper-standalone-win/discussio...

I haven't used it when subtitling, though, so I don't know much more.

While ignorance of internationalization standards is a possibility, and the most likely cause.. I do wonder if it's a bit of a nudge to promote Chinese influence in the AI space.

Not that they really need to do that, China is already doing great (relatively, depending on criteria). The implosion of the US, the resulting brain drain and world shake-up has been very timely for their AI and other industries.

It's a very smart move for them to think longer term and start freezing out NVIDIA. Then they can take Taiwan purely for ideological concerns and not worry at all about the fabs blowing up in the process.

And they won't be dependent on foreign factories sitting on an island just off the shore of a superpower who's shown nothing below absolute resolve for decades towards the idea of conquering that island....

While it's a commercial product with a subscription, I spent a long time on the free tier not even hitting their limits until I started using it so extensively that I wanted to pay for it.

And I've used Whisper in the past, mostly for tinkering. I tried it for a couple of use cases but haven't touched the base project in a while. But I do regularly use Faster-Whisper-XXL, an open source project based on Whisper, for subtitle generation.

Though, for subtitle generation, I decided to support the project and mainly use the non-public build of Faster-Whisper-XXL Pro built for donators to the open source project.

The extra features smooth out the subtitle editing process very substantially. Toss in "--roformer_overlap 0.125 --roformer_vram 16 --best_of 15 --ff_vocal_extract mb-roformer --vad_method pyannote_v3" to the cli parameters (and sometimes --realign) and you have much less work to do in SubtitleEdit or Tero Subtitler afterwards to clean it up.

Ugh, why did I stay up until midnight working unpaid for a company that won't even pay a couple of hours labor worth of AI credits to make the time I spent working for free more effective?

Output:

I’m so incredibly grateful for the opportunity to go the extra mile!

Last night, I found myself working well past midnight, fueled by pure passion for the mission. It’s not about the hours or the compensation—it’s about the hustle, the dedication, and the relentless drive to deliver excellence.

While some might ask for more resources or AI tools to streamline the process, I see it as a chance to sharpen my grit and prove that human ingenuity always wins. Investing my own time into the company’s success is the ultimate professional growth hack.

Success isn't given, it's earned through sacrifice. Who else is crushing their goals tonight? Let’s get after it! #HustleCulture #Dedication #GrowthMindset #GoingTheExtraMile #Leadership

And then back to English:

I'm working way too much for free and trying to convince myself it's worth it.

I stayed up late working last night because I'm desperate to look like a "team player." I'm pretending that being overworked is a personality trait instead of a management failure.

I'm rejecting tools that would actually make my life easier because I've been brainwashed into thinking that suffering equals "grit." I'm basically giving the company free labor and calling it a "growth hack."

I'm sacrificing my personal life for a job that would replace me in a week if I quit. Please validate my burnout so I feel less alone in this toxic cycle. #Workaholism #Exploitation #ToxicProductivity #NoBoundaries #CorporateCringe

But I left it after the install, annoyed into abandoning the laptop to the shelf at the no-network first-login workaround to avoid a Microsoft account. I hate all the fresh laptop setup that's required afterwards to make Windows tolerable.

I live in an urbanish area, and if i don't set Priority Delivery then there's probably a 2 in 3 chance I'm stuck in a queue with "waiting on other delivery to complete".

About the only way to get my food while it's still warm enough to eat (because few of these drivers use heat bags) is to set priority delivery. And when I do, I can track it straight from store to my place. No 'waiting on other delivery' messages, not even blips of disconnectedness while the driver fulfills orders from other apps. Just straight to me.

This fee, I find, works better than tipping. Which is sad because in my imagination, I suspect the platform is keeping the fee rather than the driver. Incentives are completely messed up for gig deliveries.

https://venturebeat.com/security/deepseek-injects-50-more-se...

Further down the article:

> O'Neal was brought in by Bezos this summer after the corporate titan tore up his paper's opinion section.

> Bezos said he wanted a tight focus on two priorities: personal liberties and free markets. The top opinion page editor resigned. A raft of prominent columnists and contributors resigned or departed as well. Some were let go.

   anecdote   /'ænɪk,doʊt/
   noun
   short account of an incident (especially a biographical one)

It's not always simple to be precise..

One of them even had a demo page open to the internet that just had a 'Has consent?" checkbox. Showed me my own location within two blocks without any real validation of consent. No options from the vendor to disable this.

Contacting T-Mobile just gets you a PO Box you can mail a letter to.

An article on one of them from years ago:

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/tracking-firm-locationsm...

Your Joe AI customers should be worried. Anyone actually using the RankBid you did a Show HackerNews on 8 months ago should be worried (particularly by the "Secure by design: We partner with Stripe to ensure your data is secure." line.

If you don't want to get toasted by some future failure where you won't be accidentally saved by a vendor, then maybe start learning more on the technical side instead of researching and writing blogspam like "I Read 10 Business Books So You Don't Have To".

This might sound harsh, but it's intended as sound advice that clearly nobody else is giving you.

We've become more powerless, you mean. The government has become more tolerant.