Just for privacy reasons?
I can decouple the traffic fingerprinting of some sites, like amazon, youtube, reddit, etc.
And because I have a squid proxy router through the vpn set up via a couple of docker containers, I have a firefox container to always send the traffic over the proxy which allows me to easily search for stuff outside and inside the vpn.

Aside from that I also use the proxy to send requests in scripts over the vpn so my real IP doesn’t get rate limited.
And what VPNs are actually for: looking for geo-blocked content.

I’d say it’s one thing and better to be tracked only at account level than to be tracked at traffic level.

So you know only your history in the site can be used as opposed to any other form of fingerprinting the sites might use at browser, cookies, or ip level.

Not sure what’d you consider lightweight, I’ve been using https://github.com/jhj0517/Whisper-WebUI with fast whisper.
The GPU integration has never worked well for me, but the CPU one works wonders.
You’ll have to check if the models offer good results for those languages.

IIRC they mentioned is next to impossible without actually processing the video and guessing when then ad stops on your client (since the ads will change per user, so it can’t be done on a server for all users)

Yes, most podcasts are hosted outside of your podcast player and distributed via RSS (even if this is Spotify which already hosts music).
So when a service has the podcast it means it lists the response from the RSS feed, but usually they just copy the text data, including the URL where the actual audio is stored.
This audio is served by whatever other service the creator of the podcast uses, which means you’re a free user to that service even if you pay for Spotify, which means the wonderful benefit of ads.

And these are ads you can’t block since they’re included in the audio stream (yay! /s).
Podverse (the player I use) mentions this as an issue when creating clips of the podcasts because they can’t know how much the timestamp has been offset by those ads, so your clip probably only sounds good to you.

Well, seems they already had the vaping sensors implemented and they’re just announcing the notifications implementation… How hard is to just build am android app that displays a list and a popup?

You have to configure the space bar to allow a long-press to give you a popup menu to select another language. Currently there’s no way to have multiple languages with the same layout, it’s annoying but you can work with it.

Well, it’s just a TS project with a very simple Dockerrile, you can just bun install && bun run prod.
The rest of the dependencies aren’t included in the docker image.

My unpopular opinion is I like ads, some are well thought, funny, and memorable.
Ads in videogames which allow you to have a small boost are also amazing, I don’t have to spend money, just leave my phone for 30~60 seconds and I get a bit of premium currency while supporting the devs.

The annoying/worrisome part is all the tracking the ads have, and the ones which are very invasive which take half of the screen.
If we could go back to TV ads where everyone watches the ads without individual targeting, and with current technology to protect against hacking, and getting them in sensible places to not hide the content I would place and exception in my ublock and pihole for them.