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Why are they not using GPUs? is it use cases that don't suit GPUs or because of the limitations they are imposing on themselves to use SMIC domestic chips?

Maybe a good time to consider alternatives https://www.redpanda.com/compare/redpanda-vs-kafka

There's a standard perscription price in England, not the UK. in Scotland and Wales there's 0 charges to the patient

TrueCrypt. free multi-platform open source disk encryption that suddenly disappeared in mysterious circumstances

American brands like Ford typically sold models that were both designed and manufactured in Europe such as the popular Ford Escort and Ford Transit. They are completely different to what is sold in the US.

Oops HN truncated the title, I've fixed it. thanks for the heads up

We’ve been told for years that complex passwords full of symbols are required to be secure, but in reality, length beats complexity almost every time.

It's not though, it's written by someone called nothankyou1 https://github.com/jackjackbits/bitchat/graphs/contributors

Is this streaming server-side audio or is the TTS running locally on device ? Can it work offline ?

Couchbase mobile has been doing this for over a decade and early versions of membase 15 years ago were using a sqlite backend as a noSQL JSON datastore

Aiko is a free app for iOS and macOS that also uses whisper for local TTS

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Jan is a local app for running LLM models on Windows/Linux/MacOS, including an OpenAI compatible API.

The really nice part of Whisper is being able to use it offline and on-device, it seems whisper memos is uploading your audio and notes to a server of unknown security, confidentiality etc.

I like Aiko for on-device transcription both in macOS and iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/aiko/id1672085276

If you're talking about flip phones and trying to protect against an eavesdropper of a phone call or SMS, then there's no point. The network that these phones used is full of holes already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_System_No._7#Protoc...

In MacOS or Linux, you can use openssl on the CLI easily.

$ echo -n "private-message" | openssl enc -e -aes-256-cbc -a -salt enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: Verifying - enter aes-256-cbc encryption password:

Then to decrypt echo 'U2Fsxxxxxxxxxx' | openssl aes-256-cbc -a -d -salt

I don't understand how the size of the circles are determined. For example why is the UK with 439 the same size as the UAE with 15 ?