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mjtechguy··on Try Zulip's next-gen mobile app, powered by Flutter
Awesome. Thanks Price! Keep up the great work. I do love a good self hosted, well designed app.
mjtechguy··on Try Zulip's next-gen mobile app, powered by Flutter
The app looks, ok… looking forward to seeing it improve over time when it comes out of test flight.

I will say, the only reason why I haven’t moved my private comms with friend over to Zulip or RocketChat, and this is gonna sound petty, is because their mobile apps don’t let you insert gifs from the keyboard in your phone.

mjtechguy··on Using AI Generated Code Will Make You a Bad Programmer
Using AI generated code will also make me a programmer I could never be. Been an infra and cloud guy, so this has been a game changer for me to actually create MVPs of things that have only ever existed in my head. I love it.
mjtechguy··on Why the Heck Isn't She Running Away with This?
Cuz she maybe isn’t to everyone’s liking which is why we get a “choice”. I say “choice” cuz a 2 party system of handpicked elites isn’t really a choice, but I guess it’s better than a dictatorship.
mjtechguy··on Show HN: Salad Transcription API ($0.10/hour)
Looks great! Is speaker diarization supported?
mjtechguy··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
I see your point. How far do we go to protect the fools and is there infringement upon the non fools when everything has to be scoped down for the lowest common denominator?
mjtechguy··on Legalizing sports gambling was a mistake
No one is being forced to bet. The crime is not teaching people self sufficiency and good decision making. If heroin become suddenly legal I would not start using heroin. It’s a choice and it takes self control. It is no one’s responsibility but one’s own to make good decisions. “A fool and his money are easily parted” holds true here. Don’t be fools.
mjtechguy··on Ask HN: Is a slow ChatGPT response an indication of difficulty in some sense?
LLMs don’t currently “think”. So I assume a slow response is just a system load issue.
mjtechguy··on Easy video transcription and subtitling with Whisper, FFmpeg, and Python
Nice. Does this support speaker diarization and output of subtitles to json format?
mjtechguy··on The Pile is a 825 GiB diverse, open-source language modelling data set (2020)
Would be interested to see what is in there. Luckily noone has posted the magnet link on Twitter.
mjtechguy··on After 4 years of remote, I'm about to quit, take a pay cut and go back to office
Cool. Have fun!
mjtechguy··on Show HN: CodeSpin - Code generation framework and tools using OpenAI APIs
Very cool project. Can't wait to give it a try. I havent had much success with gpt-engineer, aider and others. I think this has the granularity for complex operations that is missing from other tools.
mjtechguy··on Show HN: Dialoqbase – open-source chatbot creation platform (LangChain wrapper)
This is a really useful and well thought out app. Not without it's bugs, but Nazeem has been really responsive and cheerful about fixes. Curious if this is using RAG as well.
mjtechguy··on Ask HN: Are there good Cloudflare alternatives? e.g., edge cache, firewall
Any plans for a terraform provider module? Can’t use to many services that don’t support automation.
mjtechguy··on A copywriter swindled victims out of $200M by pretending to be a psychic
How is this different from a religion or a church. Seems like BS charges to me.
mjtechguy··on ChatGPT drops 10% traffic, as the hype around it wears off
More likely that people have found better (often open source) frontends that interface with the OpenAI API, other commercial LLMs, or any of the excellent self hosted models via something like LocalAI. I know that is the case for me.
mjtechguy··on Autogenerate IaC?
You can ask ChatGpt
mjtechguy··on Ask HN: Insane Azure Charges?
Not enough to be stopped, needs to be “deallocated” as well. I would probably take the discount they are offering…

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/itops-talk-blog/am-i-...

mjtechguy··on Notion as a Replacement for Pocket
Link is busted
mjtechguy··on Show HN: Code to Prompt (Chat-GPT)
This looks pretty slick. Forgive me if this is obvious, but it says it loads “files”. What files can it load? Is there a list of file types that are supported?
mjtechguy··on I let ChatGPT code my blog and here's what happened
The link to the conversation with ChatGPT is broken. Did you let chatgpt code that too? (JK). Interested to read the prompts.

I think having a bit of knowledge about the topic you are asking yields the best results. More than zero knowledge, but less than complete knowledge.

mjtechguy··on Local-First Web Development
+1
mjtechguy··on Ask HN: Best LastPass alternatives for corporate password management
+1 for Bitwarden
mjtechguy··on An aggressive, stealthy web spider operating from Microsoft IP space
This is exactly what I thought when I read this.
mjtechguy··on Tyler Cowen: Why Does the Tech Workforce Lean Left?
Does it lean left? Or does the vocal majority lean left? Are we not hearing from the center and right for fear of ridicule, shadow banning, deplatforming, etc?