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Big Tech layoffs are in the news, you say? On January 20th, 1998, Netscape laid off a lot of people. One of them would have been me, as my "department", such as it was, had been eliminated, but I ended up mometarily moving from "clienteng" over to the "website" division. For about 48 hours I thought that I might end up writing a webmail product or something. That, uh, didn't happen. At 8am on

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Quickly and easily transcribe audio files into text with OpenAI's state-of-the-art transcription technology Whisper. Whether you're recording a meeting, lecture, or other important audio, MacWhisper quickly and accurately transcribes your audio files into text.FeaturesEasily record and transcribe audio filesJust drag and drop audio files to get a transcription.srt & .vtt subtitles exportGet accurate text transcriptions in seconds (~15x realtime)Search the entire transcript and highlight wordsSupports multiple languages (fastest model is English only)Copy the entire transcript or individual sectionsSupports Tiny (English only), Base and Large modelsReader ModeEdit and delete segments from the transcriptSelect transcription language (or use auto detect)Supported formats: mp3, wav, m4a and mp4 videos.Which version do you need?You can download MacWhisper or MacWhisper Pro. MacWhisper Pro includes the Large model which offers the best transcription available right now and has industry leading accuracy but takes a lot longer to generate. The regular version of MacWhisper uses the Tiny (English only) and Base models, which are still very accurate and fast. Depending on your usecase you might want to use the Large version. You can always change what version you want later.Gumroad has a 250MB file size limit for apps that are listed for free so I had to make that part paid. Select MacWhisper Pro from the sidebar and pay 6 or more to get it. Coming Soon:Audio playback and syncing to transcriptsTranslate transcriptionsAuto UpdaterTranscribe podcasts by combining single track audio for each hostYou can download it for free (just put 0 in the price box) or you can pay a little bit for the app 🫶 Please let me know if you run into anything.👨‍💻 Check out my other macOS utilities:MacGPT - Use ChatGPT on your Mac and from your menubarTest Assistant - Generate useful text and manage your prompts with GPT and your own OpenAPI keyVivid - Double the brightness of your MacBook Pro by always using HDR modeForehead - Hide the Notch and round your MacBook cornersCooldown - Quickly toggle Low Power Mode from your menubarSpeedy - Fast Speedtest in your menubarPippo - Improve the Picture-in-Picture video player with seek controlsWhisper was made by building on top of all the hard work from Georgi Gerganov, check out his Whisper implementation here: https://github.com/ggerganov/whisper.cpp

In the intervening 17 months since my last update the OER Foundation (OERF) has continued to develop new online services for its global community of learners and educators. All of these services are themselves built with - and hosted on - Free and Open Source Software or FOSS. Each application is the work and responsibility of its own global developer community.

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Mastodon has really taken off this month, as a result of Twitter collapsing. The instance I run with Colin Wright, mathstodon.xyz, has grown from about a thousand active users to just over 5,000 as I

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After Twitter’s downfall, I also tried out Mastodon and absolutely loved it. I loved it so much that I also became an Fediverse/Mastodon…

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This tool allows you to create schedules (specifically tailored towards live stream marathons). It's free (as in free beer) and available both as a hosted service and as an open-source application.

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TIL how to run JavaScript in @obsdmd. A friend of mine had an interesting use case: He had a long reading list from his studies, and wanted to use Obsidian to decide what he could read given a certain amount of time. TL;DR: Here’s the script. And here’s the end result: Requires: Obsidian. The Dataview and Templater plugins. Also requires a separate markdown page for every chapter or bite-sized section of the book or course, with the metadata time_required in the YAML frontmatter.

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