thinking about how the only "good" software anymore that's got widespread use is whatever open source projects survived long enough to be worked on across multiple decades of computer programming metagame changing, and how bigcorp and even littlecorp software right now only gets like 5 years at most to live before being taken offline forever since the need for growth means they need to find a new market every time they saturate one, and abandoning it once saturated is cheaper than maintaining it.
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in reply to @NireBryce's post:
Yeah this is one reason why I’m sad no big open source voice recognition project was successful
wav2letter is, as far as I can tell, about as open source as possible while still being ML based (MIT license), in that whether an ~unknowable model is 'open source' even if available is sort of an open question.
it rivals dragon dictation (at least in talon, which is closed source, but really just using the voice engine to spit out text and then use the text to run commands, and I'm sure other frontends exist)
I'm still blown away that that's had lossless jpg editing for like 20 years but none of the commercial OS pack ins do
It's the single greatest program. I hope that dude lives forever
so i guessed it was a name but thought it was a company and somehow never figured that out until literally a year and a half ago.
as much as it sort of is stealing valor from Irfan, I probably will still continue to straight faced tell people that it "started as a project to track industrial fan speeds with IR sensors in the 80s, but the diagramming software turned out to be pretty extensible" (I knew this wasn't the case at the time even, but no one checks at first)
That's fine. The icon is a cat run over by a car i think ol boy would appreciate it