Curious how you talk to Claude? I have some automations set up but I feel locked into Gemini on android if I want to be able to use a wakeword (e.g. while driving). I use Claude for non-voice but haven't found a convenient way to start up a chat with Claude.

I looked into this a bit yesterday and had similar issues. One hacky option on Mac could be to [1] use BlackHole virtual audio device as the system default input (which Claude expects), [2] vibe code some app that can pick your actual mic as the input device (browser engines seem to have a pretty good support for this stuff), [3] stab a speech-to-text model there (whisper or lighter) that detects the wake word from a stream and [4] proxies the audio after that to the output side of BlackHole. I did not try it myself yet, though.

You could make a push-to-speak-hardware-button and talk like walkie-talkies. If you have an existing device and you only want to do it in software, there's usually extra buttons you can bind to, like the "AI" button, or volume button.

Yeah...wish there was a better way than just opening the app and clicking the voice button. I haven't found one. My talking is usually in the car, so it's not too inconvenient for me to do that.

I see, yeah that works when I know I'll be in a situation for a while where I may want the option to say something or going over something like verbal brainstorming but I find I am much more often having a random thought and want to capture it right away without pulling out my phone or interrupting what I'm doing.

Can only hope google relaxes their limitations on choice of ai assistant. In the meantime I'm setting up a raspi with openwakeword to just act as an interface for voice to voice interactions for while I'm home.

He is a humanist, how could relying on humans possibly go against his beliefs?

The word "relying" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. The point I'm making is that "relying" on human experts, as opposed to AI experts, is the same thing: you're giving up your autonomy for the illusion of productivity, and in the process courting disaster. To put it another way: Every single one of you who downvoted me has clearly never read Frank Herbert's Dune. Machine-think is not limited to machines.

It sounds like you're under the impression it's meant to be a real product rather than a joke

Yup, definitively. Thanks for opening my eyes.

Have you considered merging efforts with Where Is Public Toilet? Service has existed for many years and seems to have a decent amount of locations in Winnipeg

There is already an app for this, called Where Is Public Toilet that covers most of north America and parts of Europe

So don't make the modifications at all if it's going to make it a nuisance?

There are non-liquid chemical attacks that could be facilitated from something like anthrax to powdered pepper spray. Disallowing liquids does nothing to stop those

they can harass you for non-liquids too. I honestly don't even know anymore I've had so many random things confiscated. My favorite was a wine bottle opener which got me into trouble after many years of flying in my bag... in France facepalm

Being told you're gifted often isn't a self fulfilling prophecy, and can easily lead to failure or giving up when being gifted isn't working.

"Giving up when things get too hard" is a gift in itself. Not everyone is good at knowing when to stop.

I'd say that applies extremely rarely. When success depends on putting in the work (which is most often the case, especially if you have a higher aptitude than most), giving up easily is a major impediment.

I say this as someone who had this problem myself. Always being told "things come so easily to you" made me immediately avoid everything where I didn't excel out of the gate.

Not only that, they dynamically change the poster to try to make it more appealing to each person and it still fails miserably.

They wrote a blog post (that I can't seem to find) a few years ago about how they A/B test their thumbnails.

Doesn't seem to work well in Firefox, the effect is very different from the sample images and the text is borderline unreadable

Weird. I've tested it with Firefox (on Windows and Mac OS). What OS are you on?

I think I'm running into the same issue, Windows 11 Firefox 109.0.1. The "ridge" of the reflection effect is stuck to the lower ~10% of the button, and completely dark, and the gold looks distinctly green.

Left is firefox, right is Edge (appearing, I presume, as intended)

[0] https://snipboard.io/AVU6zh.jpg

Working fine for me using Firefox 109 on Ubuntu 22.04.