Each of the >30 times I've hit F5 on this site in Chromium it causes a 100% reproducible, complete tab crash.
The tab fully loads and appears properly for about... 100ms or so beforehand, so I'm pretty sure it's to do with some kind of wasm interaction. I have my microphone set to "ask before accessing" so I don't think the crash is to do with audio.
FWIW, I've been experiencing periodic tab crashes for the past few weeks, and need to do a package upgrade to move up from 68.0, so this may not be interesting to anybody.
But in case someone sees this and wants to chase it down, let me know; debugging Chromium can be fun. Unfortunately Arch doesn't provide debug symbols for their builds :'( so that's a bit of a setback, but yeah.
Insufficient diskspace, to be honest (avg. 50-100MB free on /). Which is due to expensive medical issues that make it tricky for me to work.
Been a problem for a while - worked with just under 8MB free for two years on the 486 I used between 2003 and 2005.
The reason I'm doing my best to sit still until I can fix things properly is that buying small HDDs a) multiplies single points of failure beyond the many, many disks I have boxed up and hope still work, and b) increases the total capacity I'll need to _re-purchase_ when I can finally assemble a ZFS pool. Right now, I have enough 400MB and 4GB, 10GB, 60GB, etc HDDs that I need about 10TB (!!!!) of temporary capacity to sanely deduplicate everything.
Interesting tech, but on a very restricted demo it was wrong a huge number of times for me.
I'd recommend adding a note that the lamp itself will go red in response to "ok lamp", at least I think that's why it was doing that - it was a bit confusing and to see the first thing happen after saying "ok lamp, blue" having the picture of a lamp go red was not hugely encouraging initially. Perhaps add "listening for colour" or something.
If you are interested in a voice engine which will be open-sourced soon and works on Raspberry Pi 3, iOS, Android, osX and Linux, you can take a look at what we are building at Snips https://snips.ai
This is pretty much (if not completely?) all you've been posting about to HN. It's one thing to occasionally share relevant work, but using HN for promotion crosses the line into spamming. Please stop.
Coincidentally I tried the python client just earlier today and was blown away. I never even had to record my voice, I just typed two words for the wake word and it was 95% accurate in picking them up even with heavy background noise.
I am definitely going to integrate the wake word functionality into my Chrome extension that lets users control the browser via voice (https://www.lipsurf.com) so they can turn on the extension without even hitting the button.
I thought I would need to look into compiling into web assembly myself, super impressed that this too has already been done.
But their site says to email for licensing, which bodes poorly.
EDIT: License for "Porcupine" is Apache but with this:
THIS LICENSE APPLIES TO ASSETS IN THIS REPOSITORY INCLUDING DOCUMENTATION,
SOURCE CODE, BINARIES, AND RESOURCE FILES EXCEPT FOR THE OPTIMIZER TOOL, ITS
ASSOCIATED RESOURCE FILES, AND KEYWORD FILES GENERATED USING IT COLLECTIVELY
LOCATED UNDER Porcupine/tools/optimizer. THE OPTIMIZER TOOL AND KEYWORDS FILES
GENERATED USING IT ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THIS LICENSE. SPECIFICALLY THEIR USE IN
COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS WITHOUT ACQUIRING A LICENSING AGREEMENT FROM PICOVOICE IS
STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
You should look into MyCroft AI - it's an open source, privacy-conscious smart speaker company. You can buy one of their smart speakers or go the DIY route and install it on your own Raspberry Pi.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 58.0 ms ] threadThe tab fully loads and appears properly for about... 100ms or so beforehand, so I'm pretty sure it's to do with some kind of wasm interaction. I have my microphone set to "ask before accessing" so I don't think the crash is to do with audio.
FWIW, I've been experiencing periodic tab crashes for the past few weeks, and need to do a package upgrade to move up from 68.0, so this may not be interesting to anybody.
But in case someone sees this and wants to chase it down, let me know; debugging Chromium can be fun. Unfortunately Arch doesn't provide debug symbols for their builds :'( so that's a bit of a setback, but yeah.
Been a problem for a while - worked with just under 8MB free for two years on the 486 I used between 2003 and 2005.
The reason I'm doing my best to sit still until I can fix things properly is that buying small HDDs a) multiplies single points of failure beyond the many, many disks I have boxed up and hope still work, and b) increases the total capacity I'll need to _re-purchase_ when I can finally assemble a ZFS pool. Right now, I have enough 400MB and 4GB, 10GB, 60GB, etc HDDs that I need about 10TB (!!!!) of temporary capacity to sanely deduplicate everything.
I'll figure out a solution eventually.
I'd recommend adding a note that the lamp itself will go red in response to "ok lamp", at least I think that's why it was doing that - it was a bit confusing and to see the first thing happen after saying "ok lamp, blue" having the picture of a lamp go red was not hugely encouraging initially. Perhaps add "listening for colour" or something.
Take a look at this standalone demo if you like https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine/tree/master/demo/js
it should be a matter of tweaking a few parameters.
Otherwise, I am thinking it could be something related to the microphone?
All you've done here is spam the discussion, like you always do.
Great! When that happens, I'll consider it.
I am definitely going to integrate the wake word functionality into my Chrome extension that lets users control the browser via voice (https://www.lipsurf.com) so they can turn on the extension without even hitting the button.
I thought I would need to look into compiling into web assembly myself, super impressed that this too has already been done.
But their site says to email for licensing, which bodes poorly.
EDIT: License for "Porcupine" is Apache but with this:
THIS LICENSE APPLIES TO ASSETS IN THIS REPOSITORY INCLUDING DOCUMENTATION, SOURCE CODE, BINARIES, AND RESOURCE FILES EXCEPT FOR THE OPTIMIZER TOOL, ITS ASSOCIATED RESOURCE FILES, AND KEYWORD FILES GENERATED USING IT COLLECTIVELY LOCATED UNDER Porcupine/tools/optimizer. THE OPTIMIZER TOOL AND KEYWORDS FILES GENERATED USING IT ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THIS LICENSE. SPECIFICALLY THEIR USE IN COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS WITHOUT ACQUIRING A LICENSING AGREEMENT FROM PICOVOICE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.
I’d love to have Alexa/Google hone functionality but I’m not comfortable having a device made by those companies always listening in my home.
Really looking forward to when a product using Mozilla’s tech is available.