owlbynight

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by owlbynight 6mo ago
https://github.com/jstilwell/MacAudioInputLocker I maintain a fork of this app, which allows you to quickly set and lock your audio input device, so that they don't switch your audio input device to bluetooth as s
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Predictably, Google has banned that extension from Chrome, but if we all ran AI agents in container swarms...
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by owlbynight 2y ago
If enough people did it, their entire business model would likely collapse.
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Neat, someone should develop an easy-to-deploy script that spawns a headless version of this agent that scrolls through and repeatedly clicks every single ad on X and Facebook using a session cookie.
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by owlbynight 2y ago
I find myself in the same position, but thought it warrants discussion at least.
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Yeah, I agree. The character file is kind of convincing, though. https://github.com/elizaOS/eliza/blob/develop/characters/tru...
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Kagi is amazing. The ability to permanently remove sites from the results and promote sites you want to see is a game changer.
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Part of personality lives inside of our stomachs as well, apparently, and so much of who were are is driven by our interaction with our nerve endings. I think even with a perfect copy of consciousness, it's pointless without a perfect
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by owlbynight 2y ago
Honestly, I'm not super worried about AI — at least this iteration of it — because of the uncanny valley effect. I would expect the VO industry to outlaw it purely because if people start to wonder if they're listening to an AI vo
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by owlbynight 3y ago
BlueSky is going to win. Domain verification and custom feeds (user-generated firehose filters) are its killer features. It's already better than Twitter, and it's still behind invite codes as they refine it. Once brands realize t
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by owlbynight 3y ago
These engineers won't be having fun, because these engineers will be working for Elon Musk. Also, it's a rebrand. He fired the vast majority of the engineers he had. Everyone is hating on "X" because the people who posse
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by owlbynight 3y ago
Hey uh, why not pay top-tier talent to build a more modern platform from scratch, starting with zero technical debt, and then when it's ready, merge in the Twitter userbase, and sunset it? It's because he's a fucking moron.
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by owlbynight 3y ago
I don't think you're right about this. In fact, I think the killer AR/VR apps will be utility apps. My friends and I watch a movie in VR every week and it's the highlight of my week. It's all I use my Quest 2 for.
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by owlbynight 3y ago
Cool, thanks for this welcomed break from work today. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KM7CXt1zXDU
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by owlbynight 3y ago
I won't be using this unless it has a web app, and without an Android app, they're freezing out a lot of people who could contribute. This won't go anywhere. BlueSky is just fine.
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by owlbynight 3y ago
If AWS ever decides to suspend your root account, good luck with that. They never, ever, ever give it back. I had a root account I used for free tier stuff on my primary e-mail address that I never got back because I had $2 charges I didn&#
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by owlbynight 3y ago
God damn it. Google Domains was my registrar of choice because I figured I wouldn't have to ever think about logistics and their lookup rules. Ah well. I guess I'll see what Squarespace does to the experience. I'd transfer th
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by owlbynight 3y ago
I'm not sure how you would control for this. I was born in 1981, not long after the Vietnam war ended, and my Dad was a veteran with PTSD who never went to a therapist. My home life sucked and I came out of it with pretty severe depres
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by owlbynight 3y ago
Skeleton UI (Svelte + Tailwind) is how I go about it. The developer experience is very good. As for the UX, that's mostly just a matter of actually thinking about how people will use the app and taking the time to account for it. In my
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by owlbynight 3y ago
Can it simulate my parents screaming at me about long distance bills? I miss them. My parents, too.
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by owlbynight 3y ago
Except this post is 8 hours old and I'm still able to view this link.
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by owlbynight 4y ago
It's weird that several large tech companies all need to fire around 10,000 people at the same time. It's almost like the number is completely arbitrary and they're all soullessly choosing profit over their people because the
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by owlbynight 4y ago
Oh, thank you for that. I missed those settings completely - mostly because I couldn't read them haha.
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by owlbynight 4y ago
I'm 41 and just getting into game development. I've been kind of weighing my options for awhile, and waiting for Godot 4 to come out. This is rad. The only complaint I have is that the scale of the GUI is ridiculous. It's not
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by owlbynight 4y ago
Their app sucks for podcasts. That's where they went wrong. I stopped listening to several podcasts that went Spotify-only because their desktop app is so bad that it does not have an option to notify you of new episodes. That's r
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by owlbynight 4y ago
I pay close attention to the UX and UI of the tools that I use that are security critical. I switched off of LastPass 2 years ago and convinced my brother to do the same because some things in LastPass apps started to feel very old, especia
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by owlbynight 4y ago
Yep, the first sample was generated via OP's method. The tl;dr answer is that I used a few plugins in my digital audio workstation to make it sound better. I made a video specifically in reply to you if you want to see exactly how I di
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by owlbynight 4y ago
They launched their beta way too early. It's missing a lot of features, it feels clunky -- like I can actually feel the API calls when I'm scrolling. I think there is a Twitter killer in the pipeline, but doubt it's going to
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by owlbynight 4y ago
Replaced Newsflow recently with Readwise Reader and I'm a big fan so far. I'm only using it for RSS feeds, but I suspect I will be using it for much more than that soon.
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by owlbynight 4y ago
If copyright laws don't catch up, the sampling industry is cooked. Made this: https://soundcloud.com/obnmusic/ai-sampling-riffusion-waves-...

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