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by ldarby 4y ago
Isn't this it? https://github.com/openai/whisper
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by ldarby 4y ago
Given this story from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021944 it's easy to believe these stories about companies having awful support departments that can only be contacted via social media side-channe
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by ldarby 4y ago
Sylpheed is still Sylpheed. Claws is a fork of it.
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by ldarby 5y ago
How much engineering effort went in to this, instead of other improvements like reducing power consumption / increasing battery life? I would have bought a Librem 5 but haven't only beceause of the power issues (which is same rea
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by ldarby 5y ago
I'm not OP but a while ago I wrote this comment which you responded to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27206569 Since then basically none of the specific bugs I cared about got fixed (that I think could be unbear
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by ldarby 5y ago
I always decide between "Thanks," or "Regards,", or "Thanks and regards" or even the cringey "Thanks and best regards". It depends on the recipient and if I'm asking for something or giving advi
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by ldarby 5y ago
> To be fair to them, they were probably advised to act in this manner by their lawyers. Probably? Don't you think that's something that should be investigated and people held accountable for? Nope, doesn't matter, only t
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by ldarby 5y ago
Seriously, did you read a different article from https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3475967 ? I have re-read it several times but am not seeing what you apparently are.
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by ldarby 5y ago
Replying to myself to clarify a couple of things further. I'm not disagreeing with the idea of an IT accident review board, and I agree in general we should focus on eliminating bugs, maybe what PHK means is having even more details o
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by ldarby 5y ago
I don't think you (or the sibling comment) got my point. No where am I "excusing" bugs. Civil engineering bugs are indeed a fact of life too, just check the god damn news. What I'm saying, is that I think where PHK say
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by ldarby 5y ago
It's known what went wrong, computerphile has a video with some details: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBJm9ZYqL10 but it doesn't address any of the judicial and cultural fails, that's what needs to be fixe
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by ldarby 5y ago
It's ironic reading this and then seeing the page track your progress reading it. Here's a screenshot of my browser dev tools: https://i.ibb.co/8Yt7FY0/trust-in-software-an-all-time-low-t... . It's a we
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by ldarby 5y ago
> they tend to revert to explaining it a different way out of a suspicion that you don’t get it. I think that's because, in my experience (outside of HN), many people really don't get it. They say something like "this pro
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by ldarby 5y ago
Where it says "the whatsapp hack" it's referring to this: https://www.theregister.com/2019/05/14/whatsapp_zero_day/
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by ldarby 5y ago
I'm a bit confused by this attitude. You want the project to get better, and get better sooner than later. You could donate, in the hope that donating will make it get better faster (or, depending on the amounts involved, you could get
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by ldarby 5y ago
Elsewhere in this thread there's a link to https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-T0900200/public , which backs up what you're saying: "Metal film or thin film resistors have little excess noise in these tests and thi
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by ldarby 5y ago
> cURL has above-average name recognition. It might to you and people in your circle, but that's not the entire audience of the article. I wouldn't assume everyone knows what a Dremel is either.
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by ldarby 5y ago
Are you aware of this story: https://www.theregister.com/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/ ?
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by ldarby 5y ago
They recommend 80°C / 175°F: https://aeropress.com/use-it-now/getting-started/#steps
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by ldarby 5y ago
Thanks for the response, that sounds good and makes sense, I guess I'll continue waiting... My family regularly does things like forget which browser they last used, or re-install windows, or otherwise mysteriously have all browser set
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by ldarby 5y ago
The entire point of Matrix is that it has E2E. If E2E isn't a requirement then my prefered communication tool is email.
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by ldarby 5y ago
I wish Matrix would instead focus on fixing all the existing encryption usability issues instead of these new features: https://github.com/vector-im/element-web/issues?q=label%3AA-... I would love to migrate my fa
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by ldarby 5y ago
There are many variations of standards of life. Some are objectively better than others. Compare a wealthy person to someone whose standard of life was so bad they froze to death on the streets in winter, due to homelessness. There are ma
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by ldarby 5y ago
> "We are taking the position that people who are rich enough to buy into Team's ecosystem and throw lots of money to Microsoft might as well throw a little bit of money to Element to keep funding Matrix development." This
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by ldarby 6y ago
This is a good explaination why it has the current behaviour, but it doesn't answer the question of why the behaviour isn't better (i.e. which would be to tell the user what's needed, the path, instead of telling the user wha
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by ldarby 6y ago
The first email in the thread [0] has 10 reasons why Stallman should be cancelled. They repeat Stallman's earlier opinions about pedophilia from before he changed his opinion on that, so they shouldn't be valid. About point 5 abo
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by ldarby 6y ago
> Have you ever seen a payer demand a change from a proprietary vendor and get it? This happens constantly, but in private. Usually the conversation goes like this: customer: opens support ticket, asking how to do some task X
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by ldarby 6y ago
For me, it was contactless payments. For the longest time I didn't want a contactless card, a little bit out of fear of someone being able to steal just by being close enough but mainly out of "it's such a minor convenience
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by ldarby 6y ago
> GTK1 and GTK2 apps are not being left behind, they work perfectly fine even on a modern system Wrong, GTK 1 was removed from Debian over 10 years ago: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=520441
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by ldarby 6y ago
> Enterprises don't want federation. 100% of companies require a way of communicating with other companies/people, and federated email and phone calls are extremely common ways (granted that non-federated means are becoming mor

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