Now that Discord is out, you can record your talk and post it to any existing group (private) chats to get a better experience from audio in seconds.

What do you do when social media is full of clickbaits, fake engagement, and AI slop? You switch to private chats with audio-to-video.

https://www.petrikajander.com/lappaa-slides-into-your-dms/

Turn your voice into video 🎙️➡️📹

Here's a demo how Lappaa bridges the gap between audio and video

Lappaa handles the heavy lifting:
✅ Instant on-device transcription
✅ Beautiful audio visualizers
✅ Customizable captions & artwork
✅ One-tap export for Socials or DMs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7gR3NhHLrE

The guide goes more in-depth into the details

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxPwVCUxM4Y

Update or download now: https://nuotit.org/download

What did the podcast host just say?

Now you don't need to second-guess again.

I've been cooking mainly text last month.

Here are the cool bits since the latest version just dropped.

"Listening to a podcast is a personal experience. The speakers are in my ears. It can be disturbing or distracting when the audio takes away from the message.

When you don’t find the solution, it’s time to build it."

https://petrikajander.com/nuotit/

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A truck loaded with thousands of copies of Roget's Thesaurus crashed yesterday losing its entire load.

Witnesses were stunned, startled, aghast, taken aback, stupefied, confused, shocked, rattled, paralyzed, dazed, bewildered, mixed up, surprised, awed, dumbfounded, nonplussed, flabbergasted, astounded, amazed, confounded, astonished, overwhelmed, horrified, numbed, speechless, and perplexed.

@EnglishLiteratureinfo

might be a good idea to take a look at the engagement on posts that accused mastodon of a major security leak (private DMs being publicly visible), and then take a look at the engagement numbers on the posts by masto CEO [1] and by the person [2] who originally raised the potential of a leak who both deny the leak and retract the claim

1: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/112608441965799612
2: https://hackers.town/@thegibson/112608665148939194

Incredible what a hail storm did to an Austrian Airlines plane (A320), it landed safely, the pilots didn't see the bad weather coming on their weather radar. OS434 Palma to Vienna
#AirbusA320 #hail #extremeweather #austrianairlines

Apple is about to become a content moderator for the first time, and eight other observations after I got a briefing about Apple Intelligence today at WWDC: https://www.platformer.news/apple-intelligence-features-chatgpt-content-moderation/

@John I have: https://iris.to/petri

I’m surprised this wasn’t mentioned in the keynote or State of the Union, but Apple’s model training data is either licensed or publicly available on the Internet. No personal information is used.

You can opt out of the web based training here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829 (no idea if it’s retroactive - probably not).

Again, this should have been mentioned in the presentations because it’s a good approach and directly relevant for developers.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple-foundation-models

I turned in my manuscript!

I’m excited to say that I turned in my manuscript for the ActivityPub book for O’Reilly Media today. I started working on it in September of 2023, with a lot of interim checkpoints and deadlines since. In April 2024, I finished the first draft of the manuscript. Over the month of May, I’ve been working on improvements suggested by the technical reviewers who agreed to look over the book, and from my own re-read.

In total, my TODO file for this month has about 250 changes to be made. Some are small — just changing a word or two — but one required adding a whole new chapter, and many required multi-paragraph sections.

I took the last week of May off from my work at Open Earth Foundation to concentrate on making changes. My team was really supportive, which I deeply appreciated. I went to our country house in the Eastern Townships of Quebec, and I spent the week writing, editing, drawing and thinking.

Now, the next stage of book making starts: production. The production team at O’Reilly will be copyediting, indexing, and laying out the book. Their designers will be taking my UML diagrams and turning them into professional-looking illustrations. We have two rounds of quality control on code samples and fact checking on content.

In September 2024, the final e-book will be available for sale. I’ll have a link here for the pre-sale version when it comes out. If you’re eager to read the book, I highly recommend reviewing the early release version.

Thanks so much to my friends, family and colleagues who’ve made space and time for me to do this work. It has meant a lot to me. I hope the final product helps more developers create cool projects using ActivityPub.

The #Into publishing house has published their very first #audiobook (#TunteetTapissa by #KatleenaKortesuo) using an #AI clone of #CarlaRindell as reader, through the #Lexofon service. The voice quality is astounding. Incredible to hear how far we’ve jumped since the first voice synthesiser I heard on an 8 bit computer in the 80s…

LinkedIn the new gaming platform

”LinkedIn’s mission has always been to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful.”

How’s playing games making your more productive?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pinpoint-queens-crossclimb-game-lakshman-somasundaram-k1zwc/

Max discovered the secret of Finns

https://www.flare.pub/w/naddr1qppyg5jpge2z6jfdwd6x7ursv4jz6umdd9kxjmn894nx7u3dxckk6mmww358xttpdejz66t5943ksctwvajkgttd0ykkc6txv5khvanfwanhjqgkwaehxw309aex2mrp0yhxummnw3ezucnpdejqyg870a4udaen3dmth7qdksp2meje203qkteruehgnqsykc7vgffe5vpsgqqqskasqdhyvj

Intereting breakdown of building, scaling and growing Bluesky

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

@Setok You’re not supposed to power it down?

It’s an exception to force reboot it 😁