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by metildaa 8y ago
Its also a ridiculous invasion of privacy.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Atom will likely see maintenance akin to how IBM maintains OpenOffice, a small continuous stream of patches that keep Atom somewhat working.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Woo, better facial recognition for all kinds of nefarious purposes! Edit: Dead serious, how will Rekognition positively affect the common person? All I see is a myriad of possible ways government, corporations and individuals have abused ca
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by metildaa 8y ago
Seems like you missed the horrid bootlooping issues of the Nexus 5x, the bad battery firmware on the Nexus 6p, and the bootlooping and flakey charge controller on the OG Pixel. Your choice in devices of the Nexus/Pixel series is very l
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by metildaa 8y ago
Unless your on AT&T for internet, its likely poor peering between your ISP and AT&T. Those "tier 1" networks like AT&T tend to only freely peer with other tier 1 networks (usually other massive Telcos) and a handful of
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by metildaa 8y ago
IPTV like what Centurylink Prism offers is a really good experience. Extremely fast channel switching, live previews of the last couple channels you were on, and a decent UI made for a good experience. I have yet to find another IPTV provid
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by metildaa 8y ago
The funny thing is the SoC in these smartphones can totally run Linux & Darwin, but the driver support for the peripherals is shovelware. Vendors do the bare minimum to suppprt the hardware, and you get a mess. Its frankly shocking that
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by metildaa 8y ago
The shoddy build quality, plus lack of microSD & heaphone jack means I will never buy a Pixel or other Google branded hardware. My friends seem to get a year or so before the SoC desolders from the motherboard, causing the device to boo
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by metildaa 8y ago
The common HN user over 1000 points is happy to downvote you, but your dead on that both major US parties are bought and operated by the major companies, with social policies being the main differentiator. Its really sad that there is no ch
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by metildaa 8y ago
Like Personal Guarantees for getting a Merchant Account to accept credit cards. Everyone but Stripe, Square & PayPal requires them.
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by metildaa 8y ago
A prior place I worked at paid somewhere around a million of dollars as part of a fax blasting settlement (an employee sent around 1000 faxes iirc). I don't know how this business didn't get nailed to the wall for it, the fines ar
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by metildaa 8y ago
Building that 5000+ hour dataset needed to train quality Speech to Text is a serious challenge, and presumably TTS has a similar threshold of audio needed. IMO that is why it is critical to spread the word about Common Voice (a CC0 licensed
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by metildaa 8y ago
Not particularly, the article needs some revision to flow properly & Twilio is of no interest to me.
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by metildaa 8y ago
For those lolking for something not hosted by a megacorp, check out Mozilla's Text to Speech: https://github.com/mozilla/TTS/blob/master/README.md Audio Samples: https://soundcloud.com&#x
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by metildaa 8y ago
Gotta love it when HN downvotes you for reasonable comments! To the downvoters of OP, where is safe from harassment and attacks? Here in Seattle, the queer haters literally roll in and beat us up for fun, even enclaves like Fire Island aren
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by metildaa 8y ago
The history of Pride Parades is literally beating back the cops who were out for blood, selectively enforcing laws: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots Modern corporate "pride" parades blow chunks
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by metildaa 8y ago
I couldn't find anything on domestic violence among gay couples, but I would be surprised if it were notable.
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by metildaa 8y ago
I would love to see a citation for this, as I can't find domestic violence statistics for this. Most of the domestic violence I hear about is family attacking the queer member of the household, my current SO has multiple scars from tha
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by metildaa 8y ago
This is on point. HN blows chunks for downvoting you, but whadaya expect from a site heavily populated by cis-gendered techbros pushing a lawbertarian agenda?
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by metildaa 8y ago
The price (starting at $1 per hour per agent) seems crazy expensive if you have any notable volume. Nevermind that Twilio isn't providing much beyond APIs (from my reading), it seems like a niche product that won't take off for mo
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by metildaa 8y ago
Its not safe to be queer. There are broad societal protection that one loses out on the second they aren't straight acting and cis-gendered, all it takes is a shift in the political winds for governments to start rounding up any class
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by metildaa 8y ago
I use PGP, but it is a pain in the ass to use, severely stunting its usr. Normal people can't effectively use PGP without significant training, hence no one outside some DMCA notice bots using PGP in production for the common person to
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by metildaa 8y ago
Is Google just desparate to expand in the Bay area? I guess its nearby to commuter rail, so there is some infrastructure, but unless San Jose starts doing many upzones, or Google includes over 10k units of housing, this will boost rent and
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by metildaa 8y ago
We had issues faxing rural areas through Twilio, like their SMS offerings (which lack shortcode support) it seems to be a partially baked solution. I asked them about it at SeaGL in Seattle, and the staff at their booth had few suggestions.
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by metildaa 8y ago
Internet access outside of cities and suburbs is pretty awful, there are lots of businesses and residences plugging away with flakey, capped internet and lifeline phone service. Worse yet, those running what service there is can go out oof
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by metildaa 8y ago
Inbound fax detection is pretty easy to script, I've gotten lots of sensitive faxes from insurers despite emailing them to cease and desist faxing me. Very annoying!
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by metildaa 8y ago
Fax has a carve out in PCI & HIPPA compliance, and there is a huge existing momentum behind continuing to use fax. Alternatives for actually secure document transmission boil down to difficult to use private messaging/"secure&
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by metildaa 8y ago
Is ZFS worth considering at this point? Btrfs seems to be quite featureful and stable, with a plethora of grocers and retailers all over the world using it. Wal-Mart, Kroger (and subsidiaries), all of IBM's old point of sale customers
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by metildaa 8y ago
Another angle on this is we have no way to know what is changed in each WhatsApp version. There could be APIs its hitting that leak data, private keys could be getting exported at the behest of a government, etc Commoners have no transparen
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by metildaa 8y ago
Its the same core freedom issue, currently the highest quality speech to text services only exist in the hands of a few tech giants. Just like with telecoms restricting and throttling access, these silos of technology are holding back progr

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