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@noahdevkagan noahdevkagan released this 11 Aug 05:00
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v0.1.0
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  • Rhino is born: new name, icon, menu-bar rhino, and a redesigned home
    with your dictation stats.

  • Hold Fn to dictate (default), release to insert. Launch at login and
    live in the menu bar, on by default.

  • Radically simplified: removed per-app rules, the SenseVoice and Apple
    Speech engines, translation, mouse/latch/submit trigger modes, the
    indicator layout editor, and the advanced decoding knobs. One shortcut,
    two engines (Parakeet + Whisper), sane defaults.

  • Faster first dictation: the speech engine and cleanup model now load at
    launch instead of on your first recording.

  • New Rhino app icon and a rhino menu-bar icon.

  • Dictation history is on by default, stored only on this Mac; the main
    window now shows your stats (words, time saved, speed), history, and
    the dictionary.

  • Silence no longer produces text: dictating nothing (or a dead mic) now
    inserts nothing, instead of an occasional hallucinated word.

  • AI cleanup now always runs on the built-in on-device model; the Ollama
    server option and the post-record shell hook were removed.

  • All-local, provably: removed the Remote (OpenAI-compatible/Groq)
    transcription engine and remote LLM cleanup entirely — every engine and
    cleanup model now runs on your Mac. Existing remote configurations fall
    back to Whisper / the built-in cleanup model, and stored remote API keys
    are removed from the Keychain.

  • Removed the GitHub release-check ping; updates go only through the
    signed Sparkle feed, checked over HTTPS.

  • Ollama cleanup connections are now restricted to this machine
    (localhost) — remote Ollama URLs are refused.

  • New hygiene test gate: every push must transcribe end-to-end with zero
    non-localhost network connections.

  • Initial skeleton from ~/app-template.

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