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Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)

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Re: Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)

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What's with the fad where articles start by describing how a random person overpacked? It's such a cliche by now, yet I see it everywhere.

Can a cliche be a fad?

> Can a cliche be a dad?

This particular cliche has grandkids by now.

Re: Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)

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What's with the fad where articles start by describing how a random person overpacked? It's such a cliche by now, yet I see it everywhere.

We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmother who is not with us anymore.

I loved my grandmother, we’ve spent such a great time together as we used to do our daily walks in the green park in front of our house and we watched all those dogs running around and birds chirping, while enjoying our ice-cream that we had acquired from the shop around the corner.

Then I wake up, and I go on Hacker News to read about all those interesting and innovative things that happen around me all the time, while my little dog wags his tail and watches me as I click every link on the front page.

Thank you for reading this.

Re: Who's listening? Growing privacy concerns around transcription services (2020)

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Privacy concern is the main reason we still have a local-only mode in our transcription app [1]. It’s a web-app, but we play the audio/video file directly from the user’s computer, and we use local storage to store typed text in users’ browsers. This way no transcription data leaves users’ computers. We also use service workers to allow this mode to work offline, for good measure. We’ve been working on it for over a…

A post on HN yesterday said Local Storage is not secure from XSS attacks.

Thanks for sharing. Just read through it and like one of the comments mentioned, if malicious JS is able to run on any site, that’s a larger issue and would affect not just local storage right?

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We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

Communication is about co : sharing information that is wanted to be sent and wanted to be received. Readers aren't meant to be a captive audience for shaggy dog tales. The article is on the review of Journalism website, not a storytelling website. Overpacking a story with junk (how ironic!) makes it harder to spread the important ideas of the article, which hurts the author's goal.

Oh, you know the author's goal? Likewise, if it was published on the site - arguably the curators read the article and approved it - but because it doesn't fit your own expectations of the only kind of content you want there, then it's inappropriate? That sounds like gatekeeping and perhaps perfectionism.

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We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

Communication is about co : sharing information that is wanted to be sent and wanted to be received. Readers aren't meant to be a captive audience for shaggy dog tales. The article is on the review of Journalism website, not a storytelling website. Overpacking a story with junk (how ironic!) makes it harder to spread the important ideas of the article, which hurts the author's goal.

Different people like different things. Rather than assuming the author, the editor, and various other reviewers are all idiots, perhaps consider that you are not representative of their typical audience.

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We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmo…

Thanks for writing it, whether in no, half or full jest - I appreciated it.

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We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmo…

Go on..

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Can anyone provide an update on the state of open-source transcription packages, with language models? I'd love to have the equivalent of spaCy, gensim, Stanford NLP, or NLTK, but for transcription. That is, packages that will just work at quality comparable to cloud transcription APIs if you generally know what you're doing but maybe don't keep up with the latest literature.

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Pro tip: Jump to paragraph 11 to skip the life story of the random person and get to the point.

What's with the fad where articles start by describing how a random person overpacked? It's such a cliche by now, yet I see it everywhere.

Have to pad those word counts when you're paid for length. If you don't have eyeballs on your website for X amount of time per visit, how are advertisers to know they got their money's worth?

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We're story tellers with lives, perhaps it allows a person to feel like they're more than a cog in a wheel existing just to please some impatient internet stranger?

When I go to bed, I think about how I’m going to wake up next morning and have a hot cup of coffee, a marvelous breakfast and brush my teeth before sitting in the comfy armchair that I have next to the couch in my medium-sized living room. Then, when I wake up, I do all those things that I have in mind that I went to bed with, that I dreamed about while sleeping in my large wooden bed that I inherited from my grandmo…

But... you forgot to share your grandmother's recipe for making lemonade!
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