> Which company will win the AI race is anybody’s guess. Regardless, OpenAI’s embrace of the Anthropic business model makes one thing abundantly clear: For all the wonder and change that generative AI brings as a technology, there hasn’t been any real innovation in the business models of Silicon Valley. For decades, most tech companies have succeeded by either selling ads or selling enterprise tools. One day OpenAI or Anthropic might cure cancer and remake the world, but for now they still have to pay the bills.
I create a playlist for each month (e.g., 2026.01) inside of a folder of the corresponding year (e.g., 2026) and add new tracks there (instead of using Spotify likes).
This allows me to jump back to a specific year/month.
You can also hit play on the folder to play all songs from a specific year.
I used to have a single Inbox playlist to save music and keep the date when I saved each song.
I've always preferred 1Password and Bitwarden to LastPass.
I still prefer to encrypt sensitive data and "secure notes" with custom workflows (GPG keys, for instance) instead of relying on third parties, and even more when the data would be store in the cloud, in a centralized location.
I can't imagine the nightmare of having all your secrets exposed, not just for the risk of it but for having to reset all your exposed accounts.
> "If it’s finished, the applause, the thanks, the gratitude are something else. Something extra and not part of what you created. If you play a beautiful song for two people or a thousand, it’s the same song, and the amount of thanks you receive isn’t part of that song." (Seth Godin, The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?)
Descript acquired Lyrebird years ago and already have a product that can synthesize your voice.
They require training data longer than 15 seconds, which could lead the out out to resemble more the actual voice.
I've seen weird behaviors where the AI voice forces a British accent to pronounce certain words which I don't have.
Descript also uses voice synthesis to regenerate edited portions of conversations with a noticeable cut to smoothen the transition, which is pretty useful.
> When the product officially rolls out there will be a “no-go voice list” that detects and prevents AI-generated speakers that are too similar to prominent figures.
Should they then let anyone register their "voice id" to prevent others frok generating similar voices?
What if your voice happens to resemble the voice of a "prominent figure?"
> In theory, switching from diesel or electricity to PV pumping should eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. But in practice, farmers often use their solar pumps to supplement existing pumps, rather than replacing them. And, however it is pumped, the extra water available will also encourage farmers to adopt more intensive farming methods, using more fertilizer and machinery to grow thirstier cash crops, increasing the carbon footprint of the farm.
I've been streaming and recording locally with OBS in 2K (1440p) with an M3 Max MacBook Pro and it works like a charm—with a Sony ZV-E10 being capture by Elgato HD60X.
I can even develop and run Apple MLX code while I'm streaming. (I lose a few frames when generating images with Stable Diffusion or load big LLMs like Gemma 7B.)
My MacBook Pro M1 wasn't there for streaming and recording at the same time. But even an M1 Max could do the job as well.
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