More than likely we’ll see in/outbox functionality similar to activitypub, so the PDSes could interop with ActivityPub and individually talk to one another

This is not true.

The App view, relay, PDS, and mobile app, code is all open source. Anyone can spin up their own version if they want.

If you want a complete copy of bluesky (reflecting the bluesky post firehose) it’s prohibitively expensive, but you can spin up your own version if you want.

The only thing that’s missing is bluesky federating anything other than PDSes by default, but you can 100% go in the other direction.

A good overview is here: What bluesky is and what bluesky is not

But he went on to say: “We’re not adding any more software engineers next year because we have increased the productivity this year with Agentforce and with other AI technology that we’re using for engineering teams by more than 30% – to the point where our engineering velocity is incredible. I can’t believe what we’re achieving in engineering.”

This announcement is just advertising for agentforce (their AI) they’re likely not being serious about it.

This is already implemented on windows

Tools > Preferences > Show settings=All > Video \ Subtitles/OSD: Text rendering module [Speech synthesis for Windows]

It’s actually using whisper.cpp

From the README:

Memory usage Model Disk Mem tiny 75 MiB ~273 MB base 142 MiB ~388 MB small 466 MiB ~852 MB medium 1.5 GiB ~2.1 GB large 2.9 GiB ~3.9 GiB

Those are the model sizes

I’ve never seen a big company like bytedance give PTO for a death in the family, much less for someone’s house burning down.

Any of those companies big enough middle management can hide behind “company policy” and then off their hearts and brains.

bc

It’s a simple command line calculator! I use it all the time.