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I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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JoeAltmaier wrote: post #144
justsid wrote: post #143

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That’s insane. Here in Canada the waiter/waitress brings a portable pos terminal to the table and you pay through that. I’d be incredibly uncomfortable if they ran away with my credit card.

We had that locally. They're abandoning it, citywide. Nobody liked it, it was cumbersome and invasive, it involved your credit card anyway but was a worse experience for everybody.

How is that a worse experience? I don’t have to mess around the bill to add a tip, I just punch it into the machine and then tap my card or phone. It also makes it super easy to split a bill if you are in a group.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by justsid »

bongodongobob wrote: post #147
justsid wrote: post #143

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That’s insane. Here in Canada the waiter/waitress brings a portable pos terminal to the table and you pay through that. I’d be incredibly uncomfortable if they ran away with my credit card.

Why is that insane? I think a more appropriate description would be "perfectly normal".

Because normally you aren’t supposed to just let strangers wander off with your credit cards.

Re: I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

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Post by msephton »

msephton wrote: post #87

I remember a few projects like this, the first I saw was called Savant Recall in 2014. But it failed to be selected for YC, so was set free as open-source. Napster co-founder Ritter picked it up, renamed it Atlas Recall (2016), gave it a new UI, secured $20M in funding. A year later it was suddenly shutdown. On LinkedIn says "acquired by Xinova". Another one I'd heard of was called Apse (2019).

Interestingly, Xinova itself was shut down in 2021. it seems it was some sort of patent hoarding company, though they called it a "network of inventors". https://www.geekwire.com/2021/invention-network-company-xino...

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Post by jasonjmcghee »

RamblingCTO wrote: post #130
jasonjmcghee wrote: post #48

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Author of rem here. Come join in on development! It's MIT Licensed. I also kicked off a cross-platform version in rust https://github.com/jasonjmcghee/xrem which is earlier in development and could use even more help.

Awesome! But how about private browser windows?

I'm guessing you're asking if there's a way to prevent recording private windows?

It's possible to not record specific window IDs (at the code level) - so you'd need to be able to detect whether the window is "private". I am not familiar with such a flag.

Alternatively you might be able to just have a lookup or regex of all the most popular private browsing / applications...

Or let a user specify a pattern to look for and skip.

But at the same time, it's your private data and it's not going anywhere. There's no telemetry or network access of any kind.

Anyway- doesn't exist as a feature today. Maybe someone (you?) will build it!

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Post by helpfulContrib »

theblazehen wrote: post #67
helpfulContrib wrote: post #46

A long time ago, someone got "cryofreeze" working on Linux processes, where you could freeze a process to disk and unfreeze it later .. but this was purely experimental and doesn't seem to have persisted. Anyway, in my lab environment where I had this running .. over a decade ago now I guess .. I set up scripts to automatically cryofreeze the daemon processes I was writing, so I could indeed reset to the state in tim…

Have you came across CRIU? https://criu.org/Main_Page

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Post by cal85 »

justsid wrote: post #151
JoeAltmaier wrote: post #144

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We had that locally. They're abandoning it, citywide. Nobody liked it, it was cumbersome and invasive, it involved your credit card anyway but was a worse experience for everybody.

How is that a worse experience? I don’t have to mess around the bill to add a tip, I just punch it into the machine and then tap my card or phone. It also makes it super easy to split a bill if you are in a group.

You don’t mind the waiter/waitress standing over you while you decide how much to tip them?

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Post by dbish »

fragmede wrote: post #133
dbish wrote: post #112

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they also seem to have shifted to hardware/"AI" wearables (lavalier mics?). hardware is not a promising shift imho

the rise of open source competitors makes it harder to compete as a software-only product

I don’t think hardware is the right savior though, just moving faster with software, focusing on differentiation (ex: better understanding of the data for the task at hand rather then purely using OpenAI APIs). Hardware is the perfect way to kill your margins even with a successful product, look at the jawbone story

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Post by bongodongobob »

justsid wrote: post #152
bongodongobob wrote: post #147

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Why is that insane? I think a more appropriate description would be "perfectly normal".

Because normally you aren’t supposed to just let strangers wander off with your credit cards.

I offer up 40 years of my life as a counter example. Maybe it's a bit city thing, idk, but this is not the norm where I'm from. You get the bill, put your card in it, they take it and run it, bring it back, and you sign the receipt.

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Post by fastestjet »

ppqqrr wrote: post #59

Anyone know if there’s an audio equivalent of this software?

https://flyonthewall-3499fa132151.herokuapp.com/

I made one called flyonthewall, you can upload a m4a file and it gives back transcription from openAI whisper model. Basic setup (no accounts right now) that I use to transcribe plus summarize my audio notes from my dictaphone.

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Post by LeonB »

earleybird wrote: post #122
LeonB wrote: post #109

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Thanks again. Btw, I certainly didn't code it and maintain it single-handed -- my co-founder Atli Björgvin Oddsson deserves the credit for all the good bits. I have to say -- I'd rather you worked sane hours, and pushed back a bit. You only get one life, and giving too much of your time to (for example -- as I've spent years in that industry too) the oil and gas industry isn't everything in life. "You work sixteen ho…

Perhaps not a blues but folk legend Merle Travis :-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons

Cheers — Merle Travis after whom “Travis picking” is named!

If you’ve ever attempted Travis picking, and you haven’t spent a heck of a lot of time practicing it, you may recoil in horror at the name.

Looking deeper into it - “Travis” picking really goes back to Arnold Schultz (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Shultz) — who is practically lost to history, having never been recorded.

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