Petri

Who's still sending raw audio like it's the 90s?

That's why we have llms?

The dopamine test

Or when you listen to a podcast at 3.5x

Now that Discord is out, you can record your talk and post it to any existing group (private) chats to get a better experience from audio chats in seconds.

What do you do when social media is full of clickbaits, fake engagement, and AI slop? You switch to private chats with audio-to-video.

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How to do a quick recording, captions and export as a DM or social media video YouTube video by Lappaa - record audio to video on iOS

Turn your voice into video 🎙️➡️📹

Here's a demo how Lappaa bridges the gap between audio and video

Lappaa handles the heavy lifting:
✅ Instant on-device transcription
✅ Beautiful audio visualizers
✅ Customizable captions & artwork
✅ One-tap export for Socials or DMs

Retro vibes

Lappaa transforms spoken ideas into instant, shareable videos — perfect for quick DMs, social posts and on-the-go storytelling.

Record with high fidelity, watch beautiful real-time visualisers, transcribe entirely on device, and export ready-to-share videos.

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Ho ho ho!

The guide goes more in-depth into the details

Nuotit release update 11.25 YouTube video by Nuotit

What did the podcast host just say?

Now you don't need to second-guess again.

I've been cooking mainly text this month.

Here are the cool bits since the latest version just dropped.

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It works but first you have to play Minesweeper.

They still have sync issues?

I had a bad case of non-linear drift of audio three years ago.

Customise your podcast listening experience with audio profiles Nuotit is a podcasting app that gives the listener the power to customise the audio while listening. You can remove background music, fix audio noises, or enhance the sound to your liking, surrounding...

"Listening to a podcast is a personal experience. The speakers are in my ears. It can be disturbing or distracting when the audio takes away from the message.

When you don’t find the solution, it’s time to build it."

petrikajander.com/nuotit/

Choose yourself

Hi, I am starting the process of closing the blueskyfeeds.com feed service in early July. I am having difficulty dealing with site outages, issues with the firehose, ballooning cloud operating costs, and blocking users trying to 'stress test' with feeds that store every post (you know who you are).

And never do the 3rd time to disprove the hypothesis and avoid extra coding trouble

Bluesky Adds Support for Third Party Live Stream Indicators Bluesky's taking a more cost-effective approach to live-streaming.

New live stream indicators on Bluesky

Bluesky, censorship and country-based moderation This week, Bluesky hid accounts in for users in Turkey after a government order. I take a closer look at government censorship and ATProto, how geographic moderation labelers work, and the impact on t...

After a court order by the Turkish government, Bluesky made accounts unavailable for Bluesky users in Turkey this week.

I take a closer look at geographic-based moderation works on Bluesky and atproto, how it can be sidestepped, and much more

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In effect Bluesky will be indirectly deciding who gets to be verified, for a large part of the ATProto app user base. Bluesky's selection of trusted verifiers may then be a locus of controversy with possible calls for Bluesky to have a formal policy (like Mozilla's) re who gets to be a verifier 3/

See the book for context @fragmentsofreality.bsky.social

RIP, king

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I have a random thought about all of this and Elon. In Walter Isaacson's book (as noted by @davekarpf.bsky.social), he tells the story of Elon constantly going all in. davekarpf.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

Everything is transitory

aint that the rub. "We want a chronological app with no ads just photos!".
"OK, here you go"
"It's a bit boring".
I'm not sure what the middle ground is, but I like the ethos behind Foto and hoping they find their feet.

Bsky's DAU as measured on the firehose is currently 2.4M

This measures only active users who like/post/follow someone. Paul's number includes people who log into the app/site but do not otherwise engage.

So ~40% of active users do not like/post/follow

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Meta’s feed content is just filling the space between ads