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leovanderon OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

A lot of comments seem to forget that she was reached out to two years before, ignoring that and going straight to the line about working with a voice actor for months then them asking SJ one more time.

Additionally, glad no one here is a lawyer and should stick in their lane.

leovanderon Apple's risky bet on CarPlay

Top of my head, most car makers aren't rolling their own. It's either off the shelf with some white labeling or they buy it from another care manufacturer. i.e. Mazda default infotainment can be found in some Toyotas

leovanderon Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs

vv ~ w

leovanderon Ask HN: Is Hacker News under attack from spam bots?

I assumed the spam was trying to bury this via DDoS: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40117510

leovanderon How Nintendo's destruction of Yuzu is rocking the emulator world

> It sucks that Yuzu had to get bullied out of existence, but there's a universe where this went to court, and Nintendo is successful in making emulation illegal. At least this way, no legal precedent was set.

They got taken down because they were greedy (kind of opposite of the emulation scene no?) and distributed roms behind a paywall via their patreon and I believe even providing the new legend of zelda game before it released. Yes, it's an attack on emulation, but sister projects like ryujinx are still up and running.

leovanderon Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

Don't take it personally, managers at bigger companies have to evaluate their teams on a bell curve. The whole team can't score a 5 and someone has to be worse than the group.

leovanderon Sparkle: A software update framework for macOS

Here's someone's write up on setting it up in their application. I think I found this in a previous thread about Sparkle.

https://troz.net/post/2023/sparkle/

leovanderon Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal

Try it again if you have it in a drawer, its funky to get use to like re-training a muscle. Maybe try the Ergo Plus instead, I don't like the rubber material on the top but the added angle has my hand resting on it naturally.

leovanderon Discontinued and unreleased Microsoft peripherals revived by licensing deal

Mx Ergo is great as a thumb trackball, the Kensington trackballs are well reviewed, elecom has the giant mice and I think l-trac mice were bought out by x-key and they still exist and you have ploopy that came out of diy from Reddit.

leovanderon Woman with rectifier and electric car (1912)

> it will beat anything on the road. Any super car or hyper car, it will take in 0-60 and the quarter mile.

What roads are you racing on and how often are you having to race a quarter mile?

leovanderon Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover

As far back as May they were already figuring out which teams would eat each other up.

leovanderon I made a website that tells you which human foods are toxic for dogs

Are dogs allergic to American, watered down, chocolate or chocolate proper like you'd get from Cadbury in the UK or other countries?

leovanderon Using GPT-4 Vision with Vimium to browse the web

In the OP's specific instance when would you reach out for a traditional ETL tool vs an RPA solution?

leovanderon California wants to end Cupertino's tax deal with Apple

> This state has become such a shit place to live

> Make sf great again by pushing apple out.

So the current status of SF must mean the whole state is like that? You started off the sarcastic note but switched to saying seriously, thanks for the sweeping statement.

> Actually maybe this deal will make apple move to Texas.

Eh, people leave for no individual income tax then get hit by the even higher property taxes.

leovanderon It doesn’t take much public creativity to stand out as a job candidate

Sorry for not looking at your credentials, do you have enough experience to potential land staff+ roles? Would still be a cog but maybe a bit more breathing room depending on the type of role you apply for.

https://staffeng.com/book has a list of different types of staff+ roles that could maybe fit.

leovanderon 1Password 8 has been formatting dates incorrectly for over a year

Self-hosted, rust version, docker container?

leovanderon Simple Unix Chat

Critical yet feels like they are going down in quality.

leovanderon Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'

Since Altman is on their board, its moreso other companies that aren't OpenAI that would be effected? OpenAI got what it needed; has their own straw in the milkshake, make it more expensive for anyone else.

Purely conjecture obviously, but him being on both sides of that, not hard to see how all this becomes more favorable to his company making the moat wider for others.

leovanderon Lawsuit claims OpenAI stole 'massive amounts of personal data'

OpenAIs Sam Altman is on Reddit’s board, no? Don’t think Reddit would be starting anything.

Next up, all content will be only viewable if you are signed in ala twitters change this morning.

leovanderon Fidelity deepens valuation cut for Reddit and Discord

What are you saying in your comments if you are being suspensed/banned that many times? Time for a little self reflection?

leovanderon WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel

I'd have to double check if there is a difference in behavior between manually setting the computer to sleep vs the computer sleeping on its own after inactivity. I think the former may reduce the skewing, but if I walk away from the computer for a tad too long and wake the computer back up, it'll take me a bit to realize why my 2fa to my local server running in wsl keeps expiring.

leovanderon WSL 1.3.10 Brings Experimental Memory Reclaim, Updated DXCore and Linux Kernel

I'm waiting for https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/10006 to be resolved without using the work around mentioned in that issue and all the duplicate issues closed before it, before I can reliably recommend the less technical folks on my team to use wsl.

leovanderon Reddit App – Suspicious high number of recent 5 star, one word reviews

They were the original founders, he was given the title when he joined?

leovanderon The Reddit blackout will continue

Uh, they already offer that.

https://www.reddit.com/premium

leovanderon SwiftData

Ditto to this suggestion. Especially when you auto generate classes it ends up creating the main class for each entity and a separate extension file for each. By default we merge the two and avoid the separate extension altogether.

leovanderon Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

Infinite doom scrolling, clicking into threads, load more comments, replying/making comments, etc. It adds up.

leovanderon Rarbg Is No More

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34704654

I have since switched to SABnzbd from NZBget. I saw a comment regarding hard to find things, I am subbed to two indexers and either I am not looking for obscure things or I am letting the other tools I listed do most of the heavy work. Prowlarr is doing most of the heavy lifting doing the searches for me.

leovanderon Rooms.xyz

Reminds me of Solana Portals. https://theportal.to/

leovanderon Spacetop, a radical laptop with no screen

> Nothing is as good as a full keyboard.

I don't know what the solution is, but I remember most decrying that a keyboard on a mobile device would not work and that they wanted their Blackberry keyboards, but Apple nailed it. Here's to seeing that the next input/interface will be.

leovanderon OpenAI's Sam Altman attends secretive annual meeting with the world’s elite

> The tech titans will be joined by political heavyweights including former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

I rewatched The Inventor[0], sounded like Kissinger should be no where near these tech talks. One of the interviewees mentioned something along the lines of having his experience of speaking with other leaders as an asset, but had no room to speak when it came to healthcare/tech. They then proceeded to play an audio clip of Kissinger not being able to easily turn on the speakerphone. To be fair on the latter, if the interview was from around 2019 when the doco came out, he was in his 90s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inventor:_Out_for_Blood_in...