Daniel writes guides on how to use the internet, explainers on how modern technology works, and the occasional smartwatch or e-reader review. He especially likes deep diving into niche topics that ...

YouTube videos are an amazing source of knowledge. But they’re often long, and trying to find a specific shred of info within an hour-long video isn’t exactly a great use of your time. Google will ...

Did you know that instead of watching a YouTube video, you can read it? That sounds extremely counter-productive in the age of video-everything, but there’s a semi-hidden transcript function on ...

I’ve been experimenting with different automations and command line utilities to handle audio and video transcripts lately. In particular, I’ve been working with Simon Willison’s LLM command line ...

Some of the world’s largest tech companies trained their AI models on a dataset that included transcripts of more than 173,000 YouTube videos without permission, a new investigation from Proof News ...

As I teased yesterday in my story about processing video transcripts on the Mac using Simon Willison’s llm CLI, I wanted to write about the shortcut that actually generates those raw video transcripts ...