Futurology Today

I've noticed on this website a lot of Americans like to call their president their "big wet boy."

And I would like to notify them that in Ireland, the president (currently Michael Higgins, different guy than the taoiseach Micheál Martin) is Uachtarán na hÉireann (President of Ireland). Uachtarán means cream (like when cream rises, also why we say "cream of the crop" in English).

All of this to say, while America may have a big wet boy for now, Ireland always has and will always have a creamy boy.

Knowledgeable privacy aficionados of Lemmy, perhaps you can help.

I'm searching for a U.S. English speech to text program I can use for note taking, dictation, and internet searching that runs locally on Windows and doesn't collect information or send it off to either the software company or third parties. I'm looking for an out-of-the-box easy option first- if needed I can explore writing scripts and using an LLM to craft a UI, but I'm not looking for something that would require a significant amount of extra building or coding. Ideally it'd be FLOSS and be light on compute, but I'm not averse to paying for a solid product that meets the privacy requirement and if it's not ludicrously heavy on compute, that's okay.

Vosk seems a good option, though in my brief exploration, I haven't found a UI or scripts to use it easily.

WhisperAI, while very accurate, doesn't natively support real-time speech to text, though there are some mods that try and address that.

Anything I'm completely missing?

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Those who believe that this call to action is an overstatement of the threat understand neither the nature of the tyrant-in-chief nor the slow but inexorable nature of how democracies are lost. I witnessed Trump’s cruelty and lack of empathy as I dealt with him during the Covid pandemic, as he willfully withheld help and then consciously spread misinformation that caused so many needless deaths. Anyone who saw this up close would make the call for resistance I am making today. How can anyone not understand that the refusal to follow the law on January 6 continues in full force today? Why would it stop unless it is made to stop?

Interesting to see how more American politicians are choosing to publish in The Guardian. And by "interesting," I mean "pretty damn alarming."

A Navy fighter jet fell overboard Monday when the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier veered to avoid fire from the Houthis, according to two defense officials.

The military was using the $60 million jet as part of its weekslong campaign against Houthi fighters in Yemen, who have attacked commercial and military shipping in the waterway for the past two years.

The aircraft’s loss adds to the growing price tag in the effort against the Houthis, which has included seven MQ-9 drones shot down by the group over the past several weeks. The Houthis have brought down more than a dozen of the surveillance drones since October 2023, when they began attacking ships in the Red Sea to, as they said, help ~~Hamas in its war with~~ Stop the genocide committed by Israel. They cost more than $20 million each.

Online retail giant Amazon on Tuesday walked back a proposal to show consumers how much US President Donald Trump's tariffs have contributed to the price tag on its goods after the White House blasted the idea.

Archived version: https://archive.is/newest/https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250429-amazon-says-it-will-not-show-tariff-costs-goods-white-house-rebuke-trump

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Did everyone notice how this election wiped out all the previous leaders and now we're faced with being introduced to a new crowd of political leaders.

Elizabeth May with the Green Party is the only one still standing.