1 year ago

Hotspots, Prompts, and Domains"

Guess that gives me a good heads up though that I'm gonna be successful in the next two years

Like we start making a lot of money or something because somebody felt the need to go to the future

To register a domain that I was gonna want to buy for something

All right, so good sign. That's how we're gonna take it. Yeah

We're not gonna say that name keep is full of crap and they just didn't want to sell me that domain

Because it was great

All right, so I'm recording locally in Reaper on my own track so I can mark Rieker Reaper

Wow, it's gonna be a fun show so I can mark Reaper up

When things happen like that, huh? That's a good kind of

Backup, I mean it's not ideal. But what I can do now is you recording clean feet

Yeah, I'm recording in clean feet. Okay. Good deal. Go ahead. Oh, okay. So what I can do now

is like I have my hotspot for clean feed as zero so I hit Vio space on that and

that downloads that but I just picked a random place in Reaper and if I set Vio

one to that that opens Reaper I don't care where I am and then M and all of

a sudden I have a marker at least that should work but for some reason it is

not why is that okay for some reason keyboard so I just need to hit a

up arrow to make sure and then hit the mark.

And it's not gonna be perfect,

but it'll give me a good representation of, you know,

something needs my attention around this point.

Yeah.

So I was gonna be cool and come into Clean Feed and Firefox?

No.
But I couldn't paste a link into the URL bar in Firefox.

So.

That's not good.

Firefox alternately has good releases

and slightly screwy releases on the Mac with voiceover.

I found the most consistency, honestly,

either using the beta or nightly,

and then I will go to the release,

but I just did the release version, so.

It's been a little weird.

It works sometimes really well, sometimes it doesn't.

Gotcha.

I ended up having to rebuild my loopback.

I'm gonna put that there.

I ended up having to rebuild my loopback device

because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing.

And let's just say the headphones came off pretty fast.

And I frantically hit command delete, command delete.

And I'm glad I did because now what I set up

is any audio that's in my left ear tells me that that audio is live.

So for example, if I'm like, well, hey, let's do something kind of cool.

Sometimes I don't know exactly what I'm doing and what's going live.

But I know if I hit this button, faintly you'll hear music or other audio and I'm going to switch

it out. But I know that because I was able to faintly hear it

under my voice. And you know, I know what's going where, even

though there is a slight delay, to me, it is more reassuring.

it's a good hack, though.

It is. And then pass through devices, sir. Pass through

devices. With sound source. Because I'm at the point where I

I can just take in the audio that's playing on the Mac.

That's how my left and right ear devices are set up.

It's like, they're just pass-throughs.

I just switch stuff to them in SoundSource.

Yeah.

Your episode went live today.

Well, not your episode.

Lynn's episode went live on Unmute today

and I cut it down to 28 minutes.

Good deal.
You have to listen to it and see what you think

'cause you were part of the conversation.

So there was stuff that I cut, obviously,

'cause otherwise it would have been

about 43 minutes or so.

So there was stuff that I cut,

but I think I did an okay job.

The first time I published it though,

I got an email from someone

and Michael Doyes texted me

about the same time Marty called me

and I realized it on the Google Home,

I forgot to set the play right back to zero or to one

when I rendered the project and I did not change.

I did not lock the pitch.

So Marty sounded like a chipmunk.

I didn't tell Marty, he sounded good as a chipmunk.

He wasn't as thrilled as I thought he would be,

but I fixed it.

So if you happen to have a chipmunk,

you version of unmute on your pod catcher app,

then just re download it.

Cause Michael told me that Taylor downloaded it

a little bit afterwards and she not the right one,

which it was supposed to be that way.

So yeah, well, it wasn't supposed to be sped up, but yeah.

It was supposed to work.

So when you updated the episode, it refreshed everywhere.

Yeah, I've been making little mistakes like that.

Like I also, I'm not gonna go fix it

'cause it's not worth it, but like your audio super quiet

'cause I didn't normalize you,

which I probably should have done,

but I don't know, it's little mistakes that I've been making.

I think I need to slow down like Mallory always tells me.

Hmm, yeah. - Go down.
I was trying to Google something.

Oh, Reaper pre-render.

Oh, to have it run actions before you render it,

so that way I can protect myself.

Or at least check, like, warn you to check.

It's like that pre-publish in WordPress where it's like,

did you do these things?

Have you done these stuff?

If there's no title, it warns you.

Like, hey, there's no title.

I need to figure out how to hook into that.

So did you find it funny that,

I don't know if you cut this out of the actual show or not,

but did you find it a little ironic

that I just said yesterday or whenever we recorded that,

I would say that Max do get viruses.

It's a matter of scale, basically is what I said.

and then he dropped this story to me today from Macworld.

I was like, man, not Macworld.

I hate going to Macworld.

But anyway, it's a little better than it used to be.

Man, it used to auto-play movies all the time.

But I saw that and I was like, "Oh, that's funny."

I literally just got finished saying that yesterday

'cause she was like, "Oh, you know,

Macs don't get viruses."

I was like, "Actually."

I didn't really want to be that guy,

but I had to be that guy.

Well, actually, the Mac does have viruses.

they exist. Just this a matter of scale. You know, you got 300 million users of

Windows. I'm just throwing out random numbers and, uh, you know, 50 million Mac

users. Like, obviously if somebody hits, I mean, who are you going to go after?

More money over there. But then you're also going to hear more about the

Windows people because there's more of them. Right, right.

Okay, I'm going to leave that off.

Huh.

Good to know.

Yeah.

I thought that was quite interesting when I sent it over.

That's the one I sent over to you, right?

Cause I sent you one earlier.

I've been trying to use Lear more if you can't tell.

And that's one of the first stories and we go, that's funny.

I did leave that in the show.

I think, I don't know when, when I edit audio, sometimes I don't remember what

stays and what goes.

Well, I know the feeling when I have to, the times that I had to edit DM, like I

I couldn't have told, I may have been

to tell you what to tell you, like I cut this part out

because ultimately we found out that that wasn't true

or we didn't find the infro, you know,

something like that, that's easy, but the rest of it,

I don't know what I cut out, man, listen to it.

I mean, one time I did actually listen back to my episode,

but one of the episodes I edited and I was like, huh.

So I cut out the part about the thing

that I was looking for in the thing,

you know what I mean, tell nobody about it.

Oh, yeah, editing audio.

It's a fun art.

Going back to Michael Dooley for a second though.

Him shout out to Michael Doyce he chatted us up on mastodon. Yeah, he told me that I need to go get on mastodon

So I got a notification from ivory

I don't know if I told his story on the shore or not

But so when ivory came out everybody was all excited. Well when it was in beta everybody was excited about it now

97% of the people that were excited about it that I were hearing that I was hearing about or hearing from were sighted people

that were former Tweetbot users.

The Tweetbot developers, of course,

don't have an app anymore for Twitter

'cause they got their API shut down.

So they started making ivory.

I took...

I didn't get in on a beta.

I was like, "Well, it may be worth looking at

"because they have some years now of people

"talking to them about accessibility

"that may be starting here.

"This will be different."

And also, Mastodon, like, I mean, you got child apps.

It's like the early days of Twitter, right?

So I tried it I set up the free trial once it was released like I was like, okay

I'll do the seven-day trial what I did not do and I've started really trying to get into the habit of doing is I did

Not go counseling

So I ended up paying for ivory hadn't really used it. I was like, well, I got it for a year

I mean I canceled it now, but I got it for a year. It notified me that my

Macedon though. I did not get a notification from Mona, but yeah may not have set Mona up to do that either

So yeah me too because I did not get a notification but like you I don't think I set Mona up to give me notifications

That's interesting though that I've so tell me what did Michael say? Oh

What did Michael say

We will put a link to the

Mastodon can you do that and the show notes? Yeah. No, okay same way you do on Twitter

You just click the time and oh, I guess you could just share it too from the app

I mean, I really don't know how I'm going to do it

But we'll figure it can be done that much I do know like I can I can do it

I just I haven't done it yet. So we'll see but yeah, we'll put a link to it in the show notes

He was just sharing some travel tips. He mentioned

Pre TSA pre-check, I think

Yeah, usually mention that to me. I haven't looked into it any I should

He was like, "That way you don't have to take stuff out of your backpack."

I was like, "Oh."

Well, that's the...

People have to give me reasons to do stuff.

Just tell them, "Oh, yeah, pre-check will get you through a little quicker or whatever."

It's like, "Okay."

Right.

But I'm going to get through pretty fast anyway.

I mean, I'm not going to be bumped past a bunch of people, but I'm going to move along pretty quickly anyway.

Yeah, it's not gonna take me that long, so why not just get it done and just go through

it?

Why do I gotta pay money to do what I'm already doing?

It's that whole pay money thing and then am I gonna fly enough to really justify paying

this money?

Right, that's another thing.

But saying, "Hey, you don't have to take a month's crap out of your backpack."

Now that may get me interested.

That has to be interesting.

It's like, okay, this makes it worthwhile.

I don't have to take stuff out.

Okay, that's a reason to do it.

Even though I feel like I'm giving up more information

than I ought to be.

Did you look it up?
I had looked it up prior.

I have not gone to sign up for it yet.

'Cause there's still that question of like,

this may be the only time I fly this year.

Right, right.
It probably won't be, but it could be.
But it could be.
If it's the only time I fly this year.
Every year if I'm only flying once.
Yeah, like if I'm flying forward then it becomes a thing.

It's like I was looking at this app that I hear a lot of people talking about flighty.

I was like, actually, because it was on the front page of the home screen.

I like that app.

I use it to track Nicholas's flight whenever he comes in.

Oh, man, I wish you would have told me this.

I hadn't looked at it ever.

Because I mean, yeah, yeah, I use it like quite regularly just to like when Nicholas

was flying or when Mallory flew earlier this last year, I wasn't earlier this year, or

Maybe it was, I don't even know time anymore.

But yeah, I don't go trap just random fights,

but that's what I use to track other people's fights.

Ah, makes sense, makes sense.

So do you pay for it or are you able to do everything

you wanna do for free?

Yeah, I don't pay for it.

Maybe I could to get rid of the ads and stuff,

but for what I need for it, I don't pay for it myself.

So, the little app, if you haven't checked it out,

I will link, and I'm putting more work for myself,

to a Mystic Access review where Chris and Kim

actually went in and demonstrated the app

and showed people how to use it.

At uronepay.com/tw.

Ureonepay.com/tw.
So we're gonna work on the site redesign.

That's gonna get a big push through.

I gotta start focusing more on that

'cause we're having some technical issues

with the main site because, well, you know,

When you use a base WordPress database since 2013,

sometimes you just gotta scrub it and start over.

Yep, yep, yep.
Yeah.

Gotta figure out how to bring in.

I think I'm just gonna, huh.

So I don't have any content on your own pay.com

that's not a podcast.

What if I use the podcast importer plugin

and just imported each of the RSS feeds

for each of the podcasts

and then that already sets it up

to automatically import future content

if they have future content?

Instead of bringing in the content

directly over from your own head.

You made all the developments, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, I thought that's what you were doing.
Oh, no, I was just gonna bring it over

from your own pay.

So I'll just bring it in from Pinecast

'cause that makes more sense.

'Cause I don't need any of the old blog content.

That's what we were doing.

That's why we haven't,

I didn't just use the Migrator plugin

to pull your own pay over to the dev site

'cause we were gonna import stuff from Pinecast

using the importer plugin.

So what do we need from you now?
'Cause it's just ephemeral content, right?

We can always pull all of that in at any time, so.

Yeah.

So what do we need from me to do on that set?

Right at the moment, nothing,

because remember I'm gonna drop that database

and just start from scratch.

So, and then we gotta figure out what we're doing.

I think we did decide,

we did decide what we're doing with unmute situation.

Yeah, unmute's gonna go into the network site

and then we're gonna do a separate WordPress install.

for e-commerce.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey man, I'm glad you remember where we was going,

because I had it slightly wrong.

We don't want to meet all over there by itself.

It's all by itself.

We talked about that, but then we decided to use that.

Yeah, but that's not what we decided.

The demo podcast site and stuff.

Yeah, yeah.

So I guess if you get some time,

you want to set up a separate WordPress install

and we can do some mapping of domain names,

Then I can start working on the shop aspect of your working on the subs or the

absent

Yep, multi-site gotcha makes sense

How we can make this happen as well commerce to the rescue the power of mailing lists, sir

Talking about 80 guys. Yeah, yeah, man

But in general like you know

Just in general but yeah top of mind for me was is what happened with the one we just sent out from there though

Yeah, if you're not aware the JJ is not paying us JJ. We're not doing recording this on the clock or anything

But if you want to check out the power banks, they're currently on the 10,000 million power bank

dot com is on sale through Sunday and you can check it out for $69.

Yeah, I'm still I'm gonna send JJ invoice for the advertisement.

Okay, you should just say it.

He'll probably just pay it and then be like, wait, what did I

just

Well, so Damasi, how is CRM stuff?

It is coming along. Right now I have a local install where I'm

kind of getting all the settings configured for my situation for

my site. And I'm hoping to get that deployed over the weekend.

So that'll be live next week. And I'm gonna try to send them our

first invoice out of there and make sure that works as

expected.

Okay, sweet. So I have a question about that invoice, but

I just thought about something that I really meant to put

towards the beginning. I've heard some feedback about how

our episodes are creeping a little longer past that hour. We

will try to stick around that hour time, but sometimes we just

get enthralled into different discussions. So yeah, we'll see

where it goes. It's your first year the membership pitch you

want to go you want a shorter precisely to the hour episode go

to your own pay.com/support and we will make sure you get that. Yes, yes. Is that first

invoice going to be to me for Dropbox family? Because you need to remember to do that. No,

it was not going to be. But that would be a good first one because one that I need to

send out, I need to send that out already. Yeah, that's a good test. But yeah, the CRM

is coming on pretty good. I got to get rid of Desiree on the copy and stuff for the website.

I expected target dates kind of shifted a little bit, but because of how I initially

set stuff, it moved me enough that I can still reach what was the, okay, this is last ditch.

You can't go past this target date.

Can people go to a domain name to sign up?

Not yet.

Next episode, at least in the next two weeks for sure that will be there.

Got to get the copy.

But yeah, that will be up so we'll announce that here first and you can go what you will be able to do is go sign up and

show interest as we continue building out the back end for

Multiple customers because this is all gonna be a hosted solution for everybody

So I gotta make sure all the security that's my primary concern is making sure like there's no leakage no data leakage

What do you got this week?

Man, I had something that I just saw.

And I forgot about it.

Like I saw before I rebooted.

I did get GPT API for access.

Oh, did you?

Yeah, you should check your email.

You may have gotten it too.

I did check my email.

But I don't think I got it.

No, I did not get it as of yet.

but that could come soon.

How much more is GPT-4 access?

Do you know?

Say it again.

How much more, how much does GPT-4 access costs more?

Like?

Dad, I don't know.

What's the most tokens you've done in chat GPT?

That you're-

I have not looked.

Oh, you don't monitor them?

Mm-hmm.

Okay, so you can set chat, you can set Mac GPT to show you the tokens in the amount of each of your

transactions that you have with it at the bottom of the screen,

which I think is kind of handy because I was averaging, you

know, two to 300 tokens. But when I started changing my

prompts around to become more specific and ask direct

questions, my token slash usage jumped up to about 1800 tokens,

because I was getting a lot more details and a lot more

information than my initial prompt. So it's interesting to

watch that number. And I will watch my bill here.

That's a good idea with the problem. So you've been we will

drop a link to this GitHub project where there's a lot of

different prompts.

Man, I didn't even count them. I did call just looked at the row

numbers because I clicked on the CSV and that opened a table.

I didn't see the CSV. You mentioned that to me the other

I just call the repo. Oh, yeah. The very last file in that repo is a CSV. And that's all it is.

It's just a CSV with all of them in there. So instead of even downloading, I just opened the

table and or opened it in GitHub and then save that. And then I can just look through the table

if I want. Oh, okay. Yeah, that does. Hmm. Different ways to do different things, you know.

Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I was just thinking about them pulling from a CSV and just rendering that.

So we'll put a link to this in the show notes.

It is a GitHub repository where they just have lists

set out up on their headings, very good navigation there,

showing different prompts that you can use to craft

for chat GPT.

So by default, and a prompt here is not what you're typing

in to get your answer.

It's like the, and Mike tell me if I'm using the wrong word.

I don't know if it's prompt.

Is it prompt?

At any rate, you're telling chat GPT how you wanted to behave before you even start asking

questions or submitting, you know, uh, in the chat, you're telling it how you want it

to behave.

So some examples were like behave as though you are a, um, mathematics teacher and you're

going to assist me in building a quiz, a math quiz for a sixth grader to ensure they understand

division or something like that, right? So that is how chat GPT

will answer your responses now is as though it's a math teacher

that is helping you craft a quiz, assuming your questions

are about trying to make a quiz.

Yeah, so what I've been doing with I would have thought the

usage would have went down, but you did say you're getting more

information back out of it. So I'm getting more detail. And

we're doing a lot of follow up back and forth as because what

I'm doing, for example, as I say, you are an assistant to a

podcast host on the unmute presents podcast. We just

released our new episode, which is a Friday finds episode. He in

this podcast series, we release three, we talk about three news

stories within 30 minutes. Ask me for the transcripts of each of

the segments of this show. Then give me a show title and

description with a promotional paragraph to share this episode.

And then when I send that, it asked me what's the first story?

What's the second story?

What's the third story?

I give it the transcripts.

What it did initially is it actually summarized each of them.

And then I took those summaries.

It gave each of those stories, its own title, and then I, a show

note summary, and then a promotional paragraph.

So then after I did all that, I re like it cleared out, I copied all of the

responses and then I cleared it out.

And I came back to it and said, you are an assistant to a podcast host on the

unmute presents podcast.

Our Friday finds episode shares three news stories.

Here are the summaries of those news stories you provided to me from the

transcripts, create one show title and show notes with a promotional

paragraph to promote this episode, this week's episode.

And then I sent it that and then it came back with the

information that I needed and combined all of it.

It said accessibility for the first word.

I changed that to subscriptions.

But then I think the, the final result that it came out with

wasn't horrible as I'm frantically switching over to the

right window to see what it called it.

It says subscriptions, subscription scams and privacy,

exploring the latest tech names.

And that was what Friday Finds episode eight called this week.

So I'm using it, I think a little bit more

and I'm a little scared to get chat GPT-4 access

because I hear that does cost more,

but also I hear the responses are a lot better

and maybe I won't have to break up the transcripts as well

to be able to be creative about it.

I can just send it all the data at once.

'Cause do you know what the token limit is on GPT-4?

that I'm gonna have to check.

Okay, you should see if you can invite me

and we can play with it.

Ah, that I should do, I'll try that.

But I'll take them.

Because then I don't have to wait.
I literally haven't--
I'll give them a card that you can add if you need one.

That's so.

Yeah, so I saw the email today, I was doing,

I knocked out a good bit of stuff on AT guys, I think.

So I saw the email and the only thing that I've done

about it period is going into S-GPT

and changed from GPT 3.5 turbo to GPT 4.

That was literally the only thing I did.

I did start playing around with that shortcut.

S-GPT?
Yeah, so I wanted to take out the messages.

The first thing I wanted to do was add my API key

to data jar and then pull in my API key that way.

Did you figure that out?
If I can figure out how to move this freaking field

where I needed to go in the shortcut stack.

Yeah, I'll be trying on the map.

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna do.

I hadn't had a chance to try on the Mac yet.

But that's about all I've done.

So I hadn't looked into anything on the API for four

other than making that change.

I think I may have changed it in Mac GPT to be API for,

but that's it.

Like I haven't typed anything in yet or anything.

Oh, by the way, if you want to know more about Mac GPT

on yesterday's unmute presents episode,

I demonstrate map GPT and how I'm using it.

And in that demo, I'm using 3.5,

but we'll see how 4 changes things up.

Yeah.

All right, so let's talk about the elephant

that's in my room.

And Damacy has absolutely no clue

'cause he probably hasn't paid that much attention.

I talked last week or the week before

about how super excited I was

that I was releasing newsletters every Sunday

and I wasn't dropping the ball on it.

And then I dropped the ball on it

and didn't actually release the newsletter that week.

The last one that I released was April 9th.

Yeah, I did miss that.
So I'm gonna try to get back into that habit.
I'll tell you why I missed it though.

And it also highlights the fact

that even though I've been trying to use Learymore or not,

it's not gotten back to be a habit

as much as it used to be at one point.

I thought it probably ended up in my RSS reader.

Oh.
No, RSS reader instead of in my email.
Gotcha.

I was looking at Sendy today and I'm like,

when was the last time I sent out a newsletter?

And then I knew I had to call myself out

'cause I mentioned it on that sample recording

I made for the weekly recap of unmute content.

I wanna kinda compress that a little bit.

I don't know if I'm gonna go anywhere with that idea,

but at least I tried it and played with it.

I think I sent you that file, didn't I?

I don't know, I sent you a lot of shit

that you probably only listened to like a quarter of it.

Yeah, I just get a random audio file,

it's like, what is this?

I don't know if I can play that,

'cause I don't know what it is.

Yeah, you did send me that one.

I did not listen to that one though.

Oh, Michael also, I mean, did I tell you what?

Oh, Michael shared a backpack,

which I'm looking for a backpack.

I was like, man, this dude is really paying attention

because that was gonna be the next place I was going.

I'm not buying a backpack anytime soon.

But I do need a new backpack.

I looked at a couple.

So I've been using numpad commander a lot more on the Mac and I don't have we ever talked about what our commit? Yeah, we've talked about what we have. Yeah, most of our kids said it best.

that zero and five and four to go through headings

and then letting go zero and four and six

to go previous and next item, that is pretty nice.

I find myself doing that a lot more

because then I'm only using my right hand

to navigate the Mac and it doesn't take both hands.

Yep, that is like, I've been thinking

about the Numpad Commander on both platforms actually.

So on the Mac, what I know I need to do

And I've been trying to track like what are the things I do a

lot to take two hands and I could do with one hand like

that with just using the modifier. Because I need to add

more stuff to the zero, zero modifier, like I don't have

enough custom stuff set there.

I need to also like change some of the things that I have set

because I set them to test them in the beginning. And now when I

use the keystroke, I mean, why? Why did I use that clear button

for this. I should have used like, zero two for that or

something to quickly get to it. So I need to go reconfigure

some things.

Yeah, like I need to reconfigure and put like the item chooser

the rotor list. And the web browser, like those need to be

probably like 0102. Because when I'm on the web, I'm always

bringing up item chooser or you know, like the links lists or

whatever. Did you know zero period will give you item

choose?

By default. That's awkward. It is. It is.

One of those things that I kind of want to change. Like maybe

zero, I don't know, zero nine or something. And then I want to

change my windows switcher and from the clear to the number

seven maybe, because I just want to be able to slide a finger up

to get there, because then I'll use it more right now. I don't

know, it's just an awkward place to have it. But right now seven

is stop interacting and nine is start interacting. So I'll

probably change those. I'll play with it. And I think we should

retouch on that in a couple of months to see where we're using

numpad commander.

Yeah, funny. I literally was just thinking about it too.

I gotta start customizing this a bit more.

Then start thinking about Windows.

I gotta figure out some ways to handle Windows.

I do kind of really like this coherence mode,

though, with Parallels.

It is 85, 90% great all the time.

Like if I order a four in Edge and Windows,

it quits the Edge app,

but then drops me back on top of whatever

last night. Oh, I didn't try that. So command queue, you know,

just yeah, and out of there. Thank you. Just like you

normally would. I did that the other day on an accident and it

worked. I'm like, Oh, well, that's one of those things that

shouldn't work. But it does. And I like it. It's like, no, I

just need to figure out how to read word by word. Oh, well, do a

couple of things like basically get the commands to map in a way

that I want to and I was trying to figure out,

I'm trying to figure out ways to do it

without disabling voiceover,

but what I've also thought about too

is just set up some keyboard maestro macros.

'Cause it's gonna solve the problem.
And then use some system, use a system event or something.

Like when I switched to this app or just use shortcuts,

like option S becomes switched to Safari,

but also triggers the macro for, you know,

turn voiceover back on.

Huh.

Oh, oh.

So option S turns voiceover back on

and then passes the keystroke to voiceover.

Yeah.
Well, I guess you don't even have to do that.

No, just open Safari and turn voiceover on.

'Cause then that'll do it faster

and voiceover will be on by the time you hit Safari.

Then think about a alternative keystroke

that would switch you back to parallels or back to edge and

turn off always like option ears. Yep. Use right option with

keyboard maestro. Wow. Keyboard commanders in the I don't think

you can.

Let me try to find somewhere where I know out takes the

Option. I don't think you can't eat. I think

keyboard commander

but you can trigger a

shortcut

Which could then?

Which there you go switch to a different app and turn voiceover. Yeah

Actually, I don't think you can do a bunch but you could

So I like it see this and then

And then you could just leave voiceover,

just have it on Macly-Tron,

'cause that's what gets me every time,

is voiceovers trying to read Windows.

And it would be cool if it could.

And it's almost there,

'cause there's been a couple of times where I'm like,

oh, we shouldn't be able to read that voiceover.

(laughing)

Yep.

Either that or give me a way to switch my keyboard

when I'm in a Windows application, right?

To just say, okay, voiceover year now restricted

to the-- - Numpad.

Numpad, yeah.

And I'm using the screen reader on Windows

as the laptop layout, right?

So, but then I would give up my features

'cause I thought about like,

I probably could figure out a way to switch the modifiers

from being caps locked to control option when I'm in Windows,

but then that loses me one of the reasons I started

and really stuck with using Windows,

which is Zendesk and control option commands.

What if we picked up some of these Microsoft buttons?

I wonder what type of automation could be added to that

with its setup, and maybe we'll think about that.

You know, buttons, I'm talking about

those accessibility things they released last year,

that I said, "Oh, that would be a great add-on for Windows

to do automation with things like using a Stream Deck."

Yeah, I thought about, I was thinking about,

there's another company that makes,

and it was on Mac Stories,

so another company that makes a Stream Deck-like device.

And I was thinking about checking them out,

'cause I'm like, "Well, maybe they're more accessible,

or they're on the come up,

like people don't really know who they are necessarily.

Maybe they'd be willing to work harder

on accessibility over their platform.

They'd demonstrate. - Give them that extra boost.
Use your chat GPT-4 access, find their name,

and send them this episode.

And if they wanna send you one to test,

then you'll send them some feedback.

There you go.
I read an interesting thing I unmasked it

on the other day when I was browsing it.

Wow, man, I need a HomePod now.
Why?
Because, see, I could have just ran SGPT right then

or a modified version of SGPT and told it that idea,

had it generate the email and then save it somewhere

or something or run a shortcut against it

that would save it somewhere.

So, funny thing, okay, I was literally going to send you

one of these HomePod minis.

I was like, oh, I'm gonna send Demacia a HomePod mini

I got that Sonos Play 3 from the...

Because I got that Sonos Play 3 from the San Francisco...

Goodwill.

Because I got that Sonos Play 3 from the San Francisco Goodwill on eBay, I think it was.

And I was like, "Oh, I like that.

Then I'll send them, I'll see one of these Home Pods, and I'll move the Sonos Play 1s

of the room because right now we're using the HomePods as a stereo pair for the Apple TV and it's

actually working quite nice. And you know, they're about head level. So you know, sounds pretty good.

But I'm afraid that I don't know, I might still send you one of these. But if I bring the Sonos

in here, I'm afraid that it's not going to work as seamless as it currently is. And if it doesn't,

then Mallory's not going to use it, then it's a waste. But that just means that I might eventually

have to get a pair of the HomePod standards because I'm not going to go buy minis again.

Now we know what they sound like, but I might send you one of these HomePod minis so that

you could have Siri and a HomePod and see how that works.

Try the, uh, try the Sonos is in there to see what happens.

Like just swap them in and see if it works.

But I don't know.

She seems like she said she came back after her little dalliance with Samsung or whatever.

Like she's been really going here for us Apple.

Yeah, we talked about that the other day with her dad.

Actually, he's like, I thought you weren't into the Apple

thing and we can actually, she tried it and she came back to

Apple and I don't think she'll try to get him for a little

while.

Good, now everything is Apple.

You gotta go to HomeKit.

HomeKit.

Did you see HomeKit support is now with Hughes devices?
Didn't see that.

I mean, so what, Matter Support or like direct support

so you don't need their hub?

their support. Okay, now maybe they'll sell my money for a

couple of bulbs, very specific bulbs, though. I'm not going down

the path with their ecosystem altogether. But yeah, I need a

high push to firmware update on Wednesday. I think need to

figure out some shortcuts to make me look at Lear more.

Because when I look at it, I learned things. And then I'm

like, Oh, I already knew about that when some of the tech

sources are talking about.

Yeah, I've been playing around and feed bin on the web

a little bit like tweaking some searches,

like trying to do some save searches and tagging things

to try and filter out stuff that I'm not going to read

from certain publications.

And to also cut some of the redundancy.

some of the redundancy because yeah because that can be a problem.

It was like Mac stories has this six colors has it the verge has this

I was like see this is where AI would be useful people keep trying to use machine learning

everywhere this is where machine learning will be good as if my RSS service would look at the fees

that I'm subscribed to and if you see the same stuff like this is just a basics

you'll get me to switch right now. I forgot the feature.

Did I tell you about chat GPT and it becoming my podcast assistant and what

it generated or did I say let's save that for the show?

I think I told you, you, you told me about it.

Yeah.

And they tried to get me to get put my Instagram username and password in a form fields.

And I said, this doesn't look secure.

How about we figure out a way that the user can click a button and authenticate

their Instagram account using the API.

And it came back and say, you're right.

That's not very secure.

Let's and then it modified the code.

I was going to send that over to you.

So you're going to take a look at it.

Oh, no, you didn't tell me about that part of it though.

Yeah.

I just read something not too long ago to where they were talking about, like

chat GPT will help you write code, but it's not necessarily going to be

secure code unless you ask.

Yes.

I was like, well, I mean, you just asked for some code.

I kind of see how that I can see both sides of that you act for code.

If you want to secure code, you should have said that.

Because I've said that, like when I've used it to help, you know, get some code started or something like, uh,

so can we make sure that this is done in a secure manner or in a way that does not leak data or whatever?

And of course review it all. Don't just don't just blindly don't just copy and paste into you know

a situation like, no, don't do that one.

Many of these text editors ids around allow you to run whatever code you're writing

inside them or in some external console or some way,

form or fashion.

So that's one way of very quickly testing some code

that you've written yourself or copied from somewhere,

whether that be chat GPT or Stack Overflow or GitHub.

I do like chat GPT.

I've got some interesting ideas for some sites to play with.

So not to play with, but like some plugins to think of ways

to automate some workflows.

Now that you have GPT-4, I mean, I might start just paying you for access to your GPT-4 account

unless I get access to it soon.

Because, you know, if it can process a whole hour-long transcript and create show notes for that,

then we could use some gravity forms with GPT and have it automate getting the transcript

and then taking that transcript and making show notes and then creating some promotional material

and then build a plugin that would allow me to see that promotional material,

hit a button to schedule it to go out to social media.

And, you know, once you again, where I've said from multiple times, start from the end,

I want to get an automated post from my WordPress site to Instagram, and then realize, okay, well,

I need to be able to build that connection to Instagram. So it knows what account to post on.

And I need to have a list of the posts, but where am I going to get those posts from?

And when you map that out, and then you go to something like chat GPT and say, hey,

Here's where I want to start and the next step I want to get to help me build a plugin.

It gives you the details for that plugin.

And then you say, okay, now I want to add this functionality to the plugin,

rewrite it with this capability.

And then what I think is important because I discovered this and I, I'm

discovering it the more that I spend with different AI tools is some find a point

where you can pause, copy what you have, and then start over with the chat bot

Because eventually it's going to get confused.

But if you do that every so often, then you're going to build

a, to build out a better product and it's going to make you

actually be aware of what you're building.

Cause I did go down the path where it built out this cool

plug-in and then I was looking at what in the heck is this doing?

So yeah, it looked like it would do what I wanted, but I don't, I don't know about that.

That helps also refine your, your, your queries after that too, because

you've kind of gone down the long way of, you know, figuring out, getting it right where

you want it and where you can kind of refine those a little bit and get a much more detailed

answer without such a long, without such long prompts going in.

Huh.

I'm going to take some of the code that it gives me and tell it in a, or tell a different

chat bot, because we have choices that that chat bot is a WordPress plugin instructor.

And here's the code that one of your students submitted, grade it and tell me what you could

do to make this code more secure.

That's good.

See, that's what excites me.

I've seen here literally chatting with them.

I think it's because I like talking to people, but I don't like listening to people talk.

And you know, that's how it all starts.

That is what open AI figured out.

People love to talk.

They just don't want to hear what anybody else has to say.

Yup, yup.

Oh, and I don't want bullshit answers.

Like what Bard gives Mallory when she's trying it out.

Like, man, I'm glad that was not my first experience

to this chat bot technology.

Or I would have said whatever, people are better.

Oh man, you never would have got me to use it

if that way.

If Bard were where we were when I started,

like, no, I would have been done.

We would have kind of been like Clubhouse.

Yeah.

What happened to Clubhouse?

Is Clubhouse still here?

Nobody talks about it anymore,

I guess 'cause Elon keeps his mouth going.

Yeah, I don't know.

There's this other one, Auden, I think,

that was mentioned that is like a competitor to Clubhouse,

but more integrated with Mastodon.

So yeah, Doi shared it in that message that we have.

I didn't click on it Friday night.

You know what it was.

Oh, so that worked for you yesterday, huh?

Tagging you?

Oh, no, actually it did not.

Oh, okay.

I just happened to look, uh, I was like, Oh yeah, Mike was supposed to tag me.

I wonder if you didn't post a message.

Oh, he did post a message.

Oh, it wasn't that long ago.

Oh, I did not get a notification about this.

Okay.

Well, that's good to know.

So if you have a thread muted and someone tags you, you

may not get the notification or Michael didn't tag the mossy problems.

It said one mention, if you go back and read the message, almost only that worked.

Uh, just put at the mossy though.

It could be that I don't have,

oh, I wonder if that's why it didn't work.

But it said, when I typed that Demosity,

it said mention Demosity Thomas, and so I double tapped.

Oh, okay.
So I think, and it says one mention,

so I assumed it was--

It is also possible that there is a notification setting

that I don't have turned on that says,

notify me of mentions.

'Cause I may have turned it off or not turned it on

at some point, 'cause nobody's ever used them.

So I said, I don't need that on.

Nobody's mentioning me.

It's like having notification on on MasterDawn.

Like, I got a notification, it was like ivory.

And I was like, wait, what?

What is this madness going on?

Play with Mona and see if I can get it figured out.
I don't like it on the Mac.
Mona?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Now this app thing is pretty decent.

I'm gonna actually start trying to use that more

'cause I'm not really intending on keeping paying for ivory.

But then again, I don't know.

We'll see if there's something I like about one over the other.

I do know that there are more actions on the rotor

in more places in Mona than there are in ivory.

And I do believe you can customize them in Mona.

I don't know if you can't, like the order of them,

I don't know if you can in ivory.

Yeah, in Mona, yeah, I'm gonna check that

I've read that's what that's why I say I'm gonna start using mono a little bit more first kind of see what they did

their accessibility wise and then go back and look at ivory and

You know see what's different see what you know

What is there to like there and then you know where some things they could do that would make it a little bit

More efficient to use but I was shocked shocked that I had a massive dog mention it and then it said started with Michael

So I was thinking it was you know, wait a minute. Oh do it. Whoa. All right feedback

about the show. Yeah, for you, I replied to him people see for everybody. That's

impressive. I actually replied to him like you know we had a we had a little

short brief conversation on Mastodon. For you listening if you've ever thought I

should reach out to them but they don't want to hear from me we we enjoy all the

feedback because Tom explained it this way as a listener you think that

everyone submitting feedback to the podcast. As a host, you know

that no one's submitting feedback to the podcast. So your

feedback is more valuable than you think. Someone tell me that

Demasi sometimes sounds like his words mumble together. And I

think what happened is I had too much compression on Demasi's

his voice and you don't really need it.

And that was compressing it out.

So I'm, I've made a change last episode and this episode to the FX

chain that I use on Demosseus track.

And so I'm going to reach out to this person next week and say, Hey,

did you notice any difference?

But it's that type of feedback that can tell me, Oh, some people

think that's too muffled.

Cause I'm used to how I edit Demosseus voice.

So I don't really think about it too much.

Um, until we get the feedback.

Yeah.
Because, you know, maybe I need to change something

about my technique like that.

That's how we get better at doing this.

Do appreciate the feedback.

Mastodon was super cool.

I like that.

I don't have Twitter, so if you're mentioning me on Twitter,

'cause I'm still there on Twitter,

but I don't even have a Twitter app installed.

Nope.
So.
I have the Twitter app on the Mac,

but I opened it today to congratulate Steven

on his 10 year anniversary with his wife yesterday,

I think it was.

And it just was too clunky.

And apparently there's something called Twitter circles

and I can add Steven to my circle.

And I don't even know what that is,

but on the actions of that notification,

I could add Steven to my circle, mute him or block him,

but reply wasn't an option.

And I'm like, well, that's interesting.

I thought you wanted engagement.

Twitter make reply be the first thing on that notification.

So yeah, that was my extent with Twitter today.

Congratulations, Steven, for 10 years if you hear this.

Yeah, we should mention him on Mastodon.

He's on Mastodon. - We should, yeah.

I will go do that. - You should do that.
If I can find him, 'cause I'm still figuring out

how to work too. - I don't know what

Sarah

I don't see if I can find them though.

I heard a good analogy or explanation,

'cause it's not really a direct analogy,

but a good explanation of the decentralized nature

of Mastodon, right?

So, and this one made sense to me,

and I think it'll make sense to a lot of people.

So if you think about Mastodon,

one of the confusing things about Mastodon

is that Twitter was just a service.

You went to the Twitter website,

you signed in, you had an account,

you could talk to people that were also on Twitter.

Whereas Mastodon, you start out,

and the first thing you gotta make a decision about,

regardless whether you understand it or not,

is what server you're gonna put your account on.

And from that step, it still can be a little confusing

because can I only talk to people on this server?

Kinda like the way that Discord works.

Like, do I have to be on this server

to talk to people that are here?

Or can I talk to people that are on other servers in Macedon?

So that is possible, that's how it works.

You can talk to people anywhere,

it's just you're picking a home location.

But the way this person described it

was think about email, right?

I can have Gmail, you can have Hotmail,

somebody else can have Yahoo.

As long as I have their address,

which is kind of how a Macedon username looks,

you know, my actual Macedon name is,

or username is [email protected],

which looks just like an email address.

I can email anybody else in Macedon and the Fediverse

if I have their address and they'll get it.

Doesn't matter which server they're on.

Picking a server is just like picking

which email provider do you want.

If you were making a new email account today,

would you be Gmail?

Would you do Outlook.com?

Would you do, I don't know if you can sign up

for new Yahoo accounts.

If you can, it should be banned.

But that joke is, that has carried over for a long time.

But-- - But it's not even one

of those podcasts for things where they like

keep this running gag going,

like I really don't like Yahoo.

No, it's just Yahoo.
Yeah, it's just Yahoo.
I thought about going and picking up payon.social

just to run my own Mastodon,

but I've wondered if running a Mastodon server

is overkill for one user,

because I don't want to manage other users.

So I thought about it and I mentioned it last,

well I made reference to it last week

that go to michael.yorompay.com

because that'll get you to him on Mastodon

and go to damasi.yorompay.com

because that'll get you to me on Mastodon

wherever I may happen to be.

'Cause that could be different from what it is today.

I was going to go and buy bedrock.social,

somebody already on.

And I was going to run a separate,

and I'm still probably gonna do this,

just gotta find something that fits with the business name.

I don't really want it to be super long.

BDR not social.

(laughing)

Good thing we don't livestream

'cause then I would feel compelled

to go look for it right now.

We're not livestreaming yet, so good deal.

But I was going to just run a single instance for me

through Cloud Run and see how that went

'cause I've never installed Macedon on Cloud Run,

so I wanted to see how that was gonna go

and then just have that, right?

And if that worked, and I was like, well, Mike,

do you wanna get a social domain for Pay On Media

so that you can just have yourself

in your own Macedon instance?

So at least you're kind of owning your space.

And if there becomes a situation,

I thought about this two ways.

So there's, there's marketing implications there,

like you're putting your brand out

versus somebody else's or whatever, right?

that kind of, you know, has some legitimacy to it.

It does.
But another thing that I thought about also is

on a server level control, you have the ability to say,

well, I don't like, you know,

how they communicate on that specific server.

The server administrator can block that server and say,

I don't wanna hear from those people anymore, right?

Now you as a user on a server have the ability

to use your level blocking.

But if the person, if there's something that's really

offensive or aggravating to you, and it's not such

an egregious thing that the server administrator

is gonna block them, you know, you're stuck filtering,

blocking a whole bunch of individual people.

If you're running your own server, even if it's just

for you, running your own server, you're like, you know,

really don't wanna hear from these Mercedes people.

I don't know why I'm picking on Mercedes,

'cause I didn't wanna pick on Tesla.

But I really don't wanna hear from the people

on Tesla.social, we're just gonna lean into that now.

All right.

You can go one of them and then you won't need to.
You can just block the whole, from your instance,

block the whole Tesla.social server

and therefore you no longer have to hear from those people

or see their stuff show up anywhere in the Fed averse

that you may find yourself.

Whereas you would not have that

and I'm using Tesla not because I hate Tesla

or anything like that.

It's more so because Tesla people probably are not gonna be,

They can be annoying, possibly,

but they're not gonna be malicious enough

that a server admin in most cases,

like massadont.social wouldn't probably never block

tesla.social, that's not a thing

that you really get to have.

Which means if you're on massadont.social

and you don't like to tesla people and how they behave,

you will have to block all the @tesla.social people

one by one.

So I thought about it from that aspect though.

And I'll just ask it and tap the button.

Well, I got distracted by going to namecheap.com

to look at domain names because this might be something

we do, I'm not sure, I don't know, we'll see.

'Cause I have some interesting ideas.

Run a Mastodon server off this Raspberry Pi

that's not doing anything right now.

Ah.
And then you can keep it local

and then it doesn't cost anything.

I mean, you already have Cloud Run running off of that,

but you know, options, sir, options.

Options, yeah.

I'm gonna set up one of my raspberry pods

and start playing with Docker.

Start playing with what?
Docker.
Oh, no.

Sweet, that'll be fun.

Do not email Mastodon Post,

mention me or whatever about running

any kind of Docker situation for you.

That will not become a business feature

of bedrock innovations.

And I will not freelance outside of the company

to do so either.

I'm just purely interested in Docker

because a lot of the little--

I wanna do it for testing.
For testing purposes, because it seems like

it would be a good testing environment for things

without having to spin up a whole lot of the stuff

that I have to now.

And secondarily, a lot of the open source projects

that I would probably love to just throw up on a raspberry,

throw on a raspberry pie, throw up on a Linux server,

like they're just giving you Docker instructions.

And I really don't have time to figure out how to,

you know, convert what they've done with a Docker container

into a web server with NGINX and MySQL,

'cause I just don't wanna do it.

So stay tuned.
Docker on the Raspberry Pi, we'll see how that goes.

It's funny, Mike still goes to Namecheap and most times I go to Cloud DNS to search for domains first.

Only because I have a Namecheap account. How much is that domain at Cloud DNS and .social?

They don't have sales like Cloud Namecheap. I still sometimes go to Cloud.

So I pay the 30 bucks then for the first year and every year after that.

So what I have done is I have gone and bought because the prices, like the prices are right

right there together for normal, I'll register it with name cheap

to get that cheaper first year.

That cheaper first year. And then if I end up like,

I don't really need to keep this, like I don't want to use it for anything.

If I end up not using it for anything or putting it out there in any sort of

way, and I can just let it go. But if I do,

then I'll transfer it over to cloud DNS before the year's up and then just pay

for it that way. Cause I'll be paying the same thing after that anyway.

So there's a domain hack.

I wish, I wish,

you know, I really wish that Cloudflare,

among other things I wish they would do,

I really wish that Cloudflare would just register domains

and not force me to have to keep them on their DNS.

Because they charge you flat rate.

Just because cloud DNS is so much easier

to manipulate too.

Cloud DNS is easier for me to manipulate.

They have some record types.

They have some record types that Cloudflare doesn't have.

And I get my own custom name servers,

which makes me look fancy.

So, damasi.yourownpay.com.

To get to Damasi, I'm asked it on so you can mention him

and he'll get notified from Ivory.

Michael.yourownpay.com, because I haven't bought

payon.social as of right now.

But I'm really thinking that might be the path I go down.

So stay tuned and come back next week and find out.

He's breaking the whole concept.

You can always go to michael.yourownpay.com

'cause that'll always take you to wherever he is.

Whether he buys payon.social and does anything with it

or not, it'll still work.

You'll go to wherever he is on Macedon.

That's the beauty of the fed-of verse.

I can't really believe I'm saying that.

Check out unmute presents to hear more Demasi.

He's been kind of taking over the show a little bit.

We'll see how much he sticks around.

Appreciate all that he's been doing

to help with some security stuff and Mac Whisper.

And I think that's all I have.

Demasi, what about you?

Go ahead and close it out.

Well, that is it.

Thank you for listening.

Always remember you can send feedback to feedback.

Wait, no.

TW at your own payback.
I was about to say, "[email protected]."

I don't know who's show I was doing.

You were gonna send feedback to [email protected],

which eventually we'd get that too, so.

No, I was about to say, "[email protected]."

I was like, "Wait, that doesn't work, I don't think."

(laughing)

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