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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • At least in America often the top-tier phones will get the best deals. An example is various carriers a few times a year will give you a new iPhone or Galaxy for free or low cost if you trade in an iPhone or Galaxy (often running promos even taking outdated and broken handsets Example Verizon iPhone 15 Pro deal). Very often budget handsets get little to no subsidy and worse trade-in deals. How many people facing the option of trading in a broken phone for a free high end model, or getting enough trade in value to buy a cheaper basic handset, would not choose and iPhone Pro Max.











  • Only transcription, it outputs to a few formats that amount to plain text with or without time coding including srt subtitles. It transcribes really well, one bit of note is that sometimes with more technical discussions I find better results using the smaller models. My best theory is the technical words are less likely to be assumed to be an accent/variation.


  • Not sure if you have tried/heard of Whisper. It automatically transcribes audio, I use it for meetings/lectures that don’t come with Closed Captioning, it supports audio/video files and a few languages. I had tried a few solutions with mixed results (e.g. Google is slow, many places limit lengths/sizes), IBM is supposed to be the best free/low cost cloud model but they would never approve my accounts. In the end locally with whisper in an Anaconda/Python environment was best cheap option for me.







  • It would presumably be the same it was essentially just a connection to the ISP so it is the same kinds of attack vectors browsing the wider web (arguably less since you presumably could call from random numbers and/or change ip address easily). The only one big thing I could think or is that since plain old telephone lines (POTS) were often directly interconnected (party lines/multiple phones to one line), someone could more easily pickup/tap the line to eavesdrop compared to broadband. USB modems do exist I believe 56k is the fastest you can find (iirc there was some FCC regulation limiting to 53k to prevent telco issues going faster, I believe 56-64k was the technical limit), but if you have a 2G phone that supports Circuit Switch Data you can use that and try out the magic of WML cards (specially formated html pages to run on phones) making up a WML deck / WAP site (mobile version of the site). There is a list of WAP sites here that may still work http://pubquizhelp.com/mobile/bestwap.html