Congrats on your product, it looks very professional.
But...
> identifying emerging trends early and quickly creating relevant content.
This does not sound 'good' to me, this sounds like piggy-backing to generate clickbait - have i got this wrong? This sounds like a tool to make better spam.
I hear your concerns about content quality, and I appreciate the honest feedback.
Trendly AI is built for marketers, researchers, and creators who want to discover trending topics and articles to inform their content strategy — not to replace thoughtful content creation. The goal is to help users understand what their audience is currently interested in, especially across different languages and regions.
It’s not just about generating posts—many use Trendly purely for research purposes, like finding emerging articles, studying cultural shifts, or planning campaigns. The creativity and value still come from the user—Trendly is just the discovery and acceleration layer.
That said, I’m open to ideas on how we can keep it focused on responsible, high-value use cases.
Exactly - that's not the goal. Trendly helps people find what topics are actually relevant to their audience right now, rather than guessing or creating content in a vacuum. Better market intelligence should lead to more relevant content, not less
I find it weird that people don't think of the BBC as a tech company, from their work on microphones way back in the day, to launching iPlayer (before youtube, and launching on christmas day iirc) to regular live streaming of huge events in 4k (something netflix has struggled with). But yet they are never recognised for their engineering.
They've done a lot of great stuff and I've always followed their engineering-related tools and content as well! In particular they made some major contributions to media archival and analysis tools, and, yes of course, to web players. Unfortunately they haven't put as much focus on a lot of it in recent years, at least not in the tools they've opened sourced and topics they used to write about a lot
I don't think they're not recognized for it, they just don't brand themselves as it.
For as long as broadcasting has been a thing, major broadcasters were involved in pushing the technology forward. For most of it's history the American network NBC was a subsidiary of the Radio Corporation of America. But NBC's brand is not tech, they want to consumer to associate the gliz of the picture.
Ivy League schools are notorious for inflating grades to make their graduates look smarter. It seems the biggest factor for entry is money.
Before you reply, let me be very clear: Yes, very smart people do go to Yale, and yes, people go to Yale without lots of money. A few specific instances does not negate the general case.
Tell me more about this Indian 'subgroup', this 'low-skill-low-virtue underclass' that's built into your very fabric of society, ingrained in religion, that you don't like.
I think you're extrapolating further than I intended.
I used the phrases 'low-skill-low-virtue underclass', 'slice' &'subgroup' for reasons of being precise, not as dog-whistles.
'Subgroup and slice' because Canada definitely imports some elite human capital from India. Those numbers haven't changed over the last decade. It's the 2nd type of immigration that's exploded and is worth talking about.
As for your implication, I didn't call them Sikh because they aren't all or even majority Sikh. For the ones that are Sikh, their religion has very little to do with being low-skill or low-virtue. They're low skill as a matter of fact. A person doesn't chose to move to a bogus diploma-mill without basic competence in English, if they had meaningful skills. Low virtue because it involves actively abusing Canada's immigration system and closes your door to most respectful careers. It isn't endemic to the religion or the people. It is endemic to post-1980s Punjab. Now yes, being Sikh does make them more susceptible to being drawn into gangs once they're in Canada. But, there are enough non-Sikh gangs for the rest of them as well.
If your sieve preserves pebbles, then you'll get pebbles. Canada created a system that actively imports 'low-optimism, low-skill & young Indians; with no opportunities back home; low attachment to the homeland, and a propensity for using shady methods for immigration'. Smart Sikhs & Indians alike are staying back home or working in the US, where wages and opportunities are plentiful. There is ofc the aforementioned steady stream of high-skill Indians moving to Canada, but their numbers have been outstripped over the last decade.
If Canada had focused on expanding their high-skill pool while stamping some unsavory backdoor loopholes, then they could've had an excellent decade of productive immigration. Instead, they laid a red-carpet by the backdoor, added a 8 lane highway and now it's getting overwhelmed by unsavory backdoor users.
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I acknowledge that low-virtue might not be the best way to phrase it. It's just that this group is desperate for survival. They have no time or concern for integration, Canadian culture or the west's conception of civic sense. While it manifests as low-virtue optics, it is primarily about individuals who refuse to give up extractive 3rd-world-surivivalist zero-sum mentalities.
If you have references or sources I'd love to go through them.
I'm an Indian who has lived in Canada for a decade now, and I haven't seen or heard much about Indian immigration specifically for joining gangs or anything like that.
If anything there's more evidence that Canada's immigration crisis is a result of ridiculous barriers for high skilled workers if they don't have a degree from a North American university. Countless tales of medical professionals having to redo certifications because Canada doesn't accept their pre-existing education.
Canada tries to hide it in official statistics, but it still peeks through. Despite being a model minority in every other nation, ethnic-Indians have the 2nd highest crime rate by race in Canada[2]. Gang violence is primarily intra-race, and the over-representation of ethnic-Indian in homicide victims points its prevalence [3].
Canada's Indo-Canadian crime are limited to ethnic-neighborhoods and townships. Irishmen & italians on the west-coast would have been blissfully unaware of their respective mafias on the east coast. Similarly, unless you live in these neighborhoods, you won't notice it one bit.
Those statistics don't seem to prove what you're claiming. At all.
Even if we go with your premise (which in itself makes a whole bunch of assumptions), South Asian homicide victim rate per 100,000 people is comparable to the total rate (and for some years significantly lower):
2019: 1.77 vs 1.84 total
2020: 1.21 vs 2.01 total
2021: 1.69 vs 2.09 total
2022: 2.35 vs 2.27 total
2023: 1.38 vs 1.94 total
So even if your argument was valid (in inference, which I'm absolutely not convinced about), the data doesn't even back it, so it is at the very least unsound.
Did you confuse Indians with Southeast Asian by any chance? That group has a little higher rate of homicide victimhood, though only marginal. SE Asian people include Vietnamese, Cambodian, Thai, Indonesian, Malay, Philippine etc nationals, not Indian/Pakistani/Sri Lankan.
A bunch of states ought to get split into multiple because it would result in a better mapping of state governments to economic and cultural lines and result in better representation for all parties on the state level.
Of course it will never happen for a multitude of reasons
IMO, remove the cap on the house of representatives and go back to the original method in the constitution (1/30k).
And then if you and ~30k other citizens all agree to sign for a specific representative then they're in the house but you can't vote for a different guy in the normal election.
You'd generally have to have the urban areas be one state, and everything else another. But those areas still have large numbers of people aligned with the other party, so those people will be even more disenfranchised.
And if a county "flips" parties in one election, do you then move it between state lines?
I've used this specific tool to help me reverse engineer the private API of an Android App.
The thing is, depending on how hardened the app is, you'll have to play with Android to allow this interception, mostly because of certificate pinning. Also I remember something about apps not using the system wide trusted certificates you install (IIRC).
I remember using a rooted device with LineageOS, and downloading the APK and modifying it with a tool so the self signed certificate for the mitm proxy works with it.
The mitm proxy docs have some links to tools that can do that [0] and you could also use an Android emulator if you don't have an extra phone to mess with it [1]
A MITM proxy isn't specific to any app, it's a forward proxy for your outgoing network connection. In case of an Android app you'd need to run mitmproxy on a machine in your network and setup the connection as proxy in your Android's network settings. Then you'd need follow http://mitm.it to install mitmproxys root certificate on the Android device (to trust the connection with TLS) and off you go.
Yes, this. The Frida tools method to remove cert pinning is the only method that has worked for me. The mitmproxy docs for android (as referred to by another commenter) didn't work for any apps I tried.
If the original author (steelph0enix) is reading this, i just want to counter, the post of nisten and say: I liked your blogpost, i thought it was as concise as it needed to be - i have made notes from it and linked back to it from my notes, Thank you.
I'm looking down the comments, but not really seeing much about what this actually is, by my very quick look, it's a front end for f5-tts with a yt-dlp and whisper?
We can't just keep saying "Don't be the dropbox guy" as a comeback to criticism of new technology. Anyone who uses that phrase should have to place a bet in a prediction market that only pays out if the product they're talking about succeeds. Blindly supporting stuff out of a sort of "Pascal's Wager against looking foolish later" should have some cost if you're wrong.
I completely agree with you. This is just a web front-end, and there's nothing new about it. However, it's very easy. It's not easy to create something like this.
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