Romain Dillet

@romaindillet
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Former Senior Reporter at TechCrunch. I live in Paris.
Personal sitehttps://romaindillet.com
@nitot alors c’est dans l’Ain mais sinon ce livre correspond pas mal à la description ? https://www.payot-rivages.fr/payot/livre/ces-gens-l%C3%A0-9782228939737
@Sarahp such a great table for feature images :)
Twenty streets of Paris before and after in one minute
@HenriVerdier félicitations Henri 🤗
@panzerprime love Wispr Flow (on iOS) and VoiceInk (on macOS). You can even switch from English to French and it’s super smooth 🤌
I want the Halt and Catch Fire people to remake Pirates of Silicon Valley
In the Future All Food Will Be Cooked in a Microwave, and if You Can’t Deal With That Then You Need to Get Out of the Kitchen

Update 8/8/2025 – I wrote this the day before a certain post by a popular developer services company. I’ve seen some comments this is a rebuttal – it wasn’t meant to be! But…

Random Thoughts

This is both hilarious and I think informative.

https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2025/07/22/the-sound-of-silence/

The Sound of Silence

A GitHub Issue on OpenAI’s Whisper, which is a good speech-recognition and transcription model with support for a large number of languages. A lot of people use it. The issue: Complete silence is always hallucinated as “ترجمة نانسي قنقر” in Arabic which translates as “Translation by Nancy Qunqar” In the comments, people note that this class of error has been known for a while and there are equivalents or counterparts in other languages:

Imagine paying $300 a year for email and it gets acquired by a glorified keylogger.

New website I had to make. Hopefully I got the SSL part right. 🐥

https://nolearnings.com/

No Learnings