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Amnesia App Offers Easy Way to Get Rid of Monthly Access Reminders for Screen Capture Apps
In macOS Sequoia, Apple requires users to regularly reauthorize permissions for screen recording apps, a change that has not been popular with some Mac app users. During the beta testing process, these reminders came up weekly, but later in the beta, Apple changed those reminders to monthly...
NotebookLM summarizes my dissertation
I finally tried out Google’s newly-announced NotebookLM generative AI application. It provides a set of LLM-powered tools to summarize documents. I fed it my dissertation, and am surprised at how useful the output would be.
The most impressive tool creates a podcast episode, complete with dual hosts in conversation about the document. First - these are AI-generated hosts. Synthetic voices, speaking for synthetic hosts. And holy moly is it effective. Second - although I’d initially thought the conversational summary would be a dumb gimmick, it is surprisingly powerful.
Why I'm so fired up about macOS Sequoia's screen (and a solution!)
The above screenshot is from my computer. There are 16 apps that have screen recording permissions, and each one of them not only needs that permission, I intentionally gave them that permission when I installed them. I've been carrying along with my life, happy with how these apps were working,
GPU Hosting and Open Source AI Will Revolutionize or Kill WordPress
On the eve of WordCamp US 2024 we find ourselves in the midst of a revolution. It is perhaps the most profoundly transformative technology revolution our species has experienced in our short history in this Universe. In fundamental terms, since computers have existed we have been programming them by writing individual functions by hand. We ...Read More
2024 Shortlist of Finalists
The annual Open Education Awards for Excellence recognizes outstanding contributions in the Open Education community, recognizing exemplary Individuals, distinctive Open Educational Resources, and innovative Open Practices from around the world.
As part of sharing as much recognition as possible,