I love it though!! These kinds of projects are fun to do and attack a real life use case for the creator. I bet he and his girlfriend get good use out of it. If my roommate wasn't so insistent on unfettered access to internet, I'd try to do similar DNS filtering for our apartment.

I'm a little confused, why beware of this?

His comment appears to me to say "please don't bother my friend". Him saying that file sync "wasn't common knowledge at the time"...ok? It is much easier than the solution the commenter proposed. In this thread, it's the same, people are proposing a complex solution as if it's trivial just because it is trivial to them.

They are doing this, just at a mind-numbingly slow pace. They seem to add controls for brightness and power but don't make it clear what works when offline. It's not even worth trying because there's no guide or documentation on what commands would be available. You just have to go into airplane mode and try asking stuff. Awful UX

+1 this. Whisper works insanely well. I've been using the medium model as it has yet to mis transcribe anything noticeable, and it's very lightweight. I even converted it to a coreML model so it runs accelerated on apple silicon. It doesn't run *that* much faster than before.. but it ran really fast to begin with. For anyone tinkering, ive had much success with whisper.cpp.

What was the process of converting it like? I assume you then had to write all of the inference code as well?

not the gp but found this https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp/blob/master/models/c...

This may be a dumb question, but when you have video doing autoplay (as in the video starts playing while you're scrolling looking at multiple videos - you haven't clicked on one), does it show up in your watch history?

Just tested. If you hover for 10s+ then it does get added to your watch history.

EDIT: or did you mean on autoplay as in part of a playlist playing in the small player in the corner while you are on the home page?

Thank you so much for this. I hate YT Shorts but never thought to look for extensions to block them.

GM is... frighteningly misinterpreting the law at best. If I drove on my own private road on my 1000 acre farm, GM is going to collect and sell my driving data based on that drive, because that's what they do. However they would argue that I had no reasonable expectation of privacy. If I am driving around my own property, this argument falls apart.

Also, isn't their argument saying that you can reasonably expect someone to follow you around and STARE at you as you drive, noting everything about the drive? Because how else would any member of the public be able to know the distance traveled, roads traveled, average speed, etc. You would need to literally follow that car and stalk the driver to learn all that information at the same level of detail as what GM is selling.

One last thing: I interned at GM years ago and worked on telematics within the vehicles. Some smart people at GM, but nobody was ever concerned about the sheer level of data they collected from the cars. Not one person seemed concerned about customer privacy. However they do pay exceptionally well.

Given your work on vehicle telematics have you any follow on behaviour and / or tips?

eg: Do you disable such things in your car, follow any hackers who give sound advice on how to do so, interesting blogs or forums in that space to share, etc.

It's moot to me .. I'm still driving and maintaining classic old cars (rural Australia), trucks, tractors, etc and doubt I'd purchase a car wih a link.

I'm curious to see if cars are released anytime that respect driver privacy and allow wireless connections to be effectively severed, restricting connections to service diagnostics at a shop.

I wish I did. They collect a pervasive amount of data from all customers, not just the ones who pay for the connected service (like remote lock/unlock from an app). So the car keeps its internet connection no matter what unfortunately.

One thing I looked into was removing the modem from the head unit. They store the cell modems in the head units (radio), so if you can find a tutorial for your specific car you could pull it out one day and completely unplug the cell modem. That's the only thing I've found to be able to stop the tracking & data collection. Issue with that is dealers and people on the GM forums think you're insane for wanting to do this. A dying percent of us care about privacy anymore, it's sad

Disagree. I think when people are that busy they don't have time to find and attack a corporation on BlueSky.

You could say the same about most Internet activity: busy people don't have time to post on HN, or make stupid LinkedIn posts. Yet here we all are, reading and writing despite our busy startup lives.

Oh, my bad, I should've phrased it differently. I didn't mean that they're necessarily busy and have to handle a lot of matters, but rather that a lot of things are happening around them. It surely can be stressful even if one's not actively involved in something, but if they're merely witnessing something happening.

This is such a good article. No notes. I share the same annoyance with how often algorithms are used - if we could give power users an ability to say "yes, I know what I want" and bypass all the recommendations, that would be ideal.