Wandering Adventure Party

@rufustheduck Without the shoelace you would not realize how tiny that fellow is.

Max will be a lap full of cat in the near future.

@atomicpoet @simon_brooke I tried out the Whisper translation system and it's impressive. It nailed transcription of phone calls. Then I held an AM radio up to my laptop with a Spanish language radio broadcast, and got a perfectly readable English transcript out of it.

There are vast audio and video archives that have so far been accessible only if you can afford to hire professional researchers. Those can all be made searchable now.

That is the real AI revolution.

@gabe_sky Might as well join in: https://TheUnCloud.co/ WebRTC file transfer. Most of the code is in the page but you can download the rest. Share large files outside the cloud.

@cairobraga @seachanger Nah you don't have to pay. You can physically fill out the forms and mail them in, which I do. However, the government and the tax prep industry have openly conspired to prevent the government setting up a simple online filing system.

There is instead supposed to be a "free option" from the commercial tax prep companies for low to middle income people. But they used all sorts of dark patterns to steer people away from those.