fonix232
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- Comment on MRW people try posting things other than Dean 2 days ago:
This better not awaken something in me
- Comment on What my crap sees as I check out my handiwork 1 week ago:
Hey now, how do you know that OP isn't one of those freaks who goes in with fingers and pulls the turds out?
- Comment on Simply Bananas 1 week ago:
I don't think so, I mean, it cost $2bn just to turn the lights on at that place! And that was 1995 2 billion, not hyperinflated 2026 2 billion!
- Comment on Simply Bananas 1 week ago:
But I thought that THAT Stargate project had its own naquadah and naquadriah based generators for decades now?
- Comment on Simply Bananas 1 week ago:
But I thought the Stargate project was the US government's current big AI thing?
- Comment on The Woke Veggie Tale Leftists Won't Tell You About This One 2 weeks ago:
Yeah.
And Moses split the Gulf of California to deliver his people to the promised land... Baja California.
- Comment on Simply Bananas 2 weeks ago:
I thought that was under Cheyenne Mountain?
- Comment on I will never understand how brain rot got it's way to Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
The goal of the Fediverse is to provide access to everyone equally.
That includes the normies. The average people who don't necessarily want big brain discussions on social media but to scroll a bit, kill ten minutes on the shitter while reading feelgood stories, and like a few mainstream memes.
That's not killing the Fediverse. In fact if you want to avoid it... you can filter out these accounts. That's the beauty of it. There's no algorithm to force feed you political opinion, propaganda, agenda, one-sided news, etc. - it's all up to you.
- Comment on Innit 2 weeks ago:
Just because I walked the distance it doesn't mean I went to McD...
- Comment on Innit 2 weeks ago:
These are all distances I've walked a number of times... often drunk.
- Comment on Innit 2 weeks ago:
Funny thing is... there's 10+ McDonald's' within walking distance of Big Ben.
- Comment on Fine. _zips up, sulks_ 3 weeks ago:
These kind of fences are crap, with lots of slack - you can lean into it and leave a you shaped dent.
This also means that any movement will rattle like hell. Bounce a ball into it and it sounds like you tossed a hundred stainless steel pans from the twelfth floor.
Now imagine that noise on repeat.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 4 weeks ago:
it's 2GB, with a nearly decade old SoC.
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 4 weeks ago:
Yes it does show RAM. Look at the photo of the SoM.
Here's the spec sheet for it: https://cdn.lantronix.com/wp-content/uploads/pdf/MPB-00092-RevB-Open-Q-624A-SOM.pdf
2GB LPDDR3, integrated, so it's not a SO/DIMM module.
- Comment on Is there a reason why toilets are made out of one of the most resonating materials possible while also being made in a shape that makes a small fart sound like a damn trombone? 4 weeks ago:
But if I take a shit in the forest and the bear hears it, do I get to meet the pope?
- Comment on shipping available 4 weeks ago:
VÄSPA by IKEA
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 4 weeks ago:
It's a weird hill to die on, but at least she's dead 🤷♂️
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 4 weeks ago:
It's not even just games apparently. Any activity with friends that doesn't involve the consumption of mind altering legal substances (yes, coffee IS a mild altering substance), is apparently off the menu.
And it's not even her refusal to do these activities that's mind boggling, but the fact that she thinks it's okay to enforce it. Honey... you're free to ruin your social connections with your stubbornness, but wanting to legislate fun out of existence just makes you a cunt.
- Comment on The hill I will die on: Games are the opposite of fun, and I’d ban them for anyone over 12 | Emily Watkins 4 weeks ago:
The hill I will die on: Emily Watkins shouldn't be allowed to write. Not even a fucking post it note, let alone for a self-proclaimed news portal.
Tens, hundreds of thousands of people would have their lives immediately improved if she never held a pen, or graced a keyboard with her presence ever again.
- Comment on If I had to see it, so do you 5 weeks ago:
I thought we had the communal wank for that?
- Comment on Self-hosted fully working ST:TNG voice computer interface 5 weeks ago:
I think this topic is actually ripe for debate.
On one hand we know that Majel specifically recorded phonemes so her voice can be used for Star Trek purposes after her passing. While not a direct consent of "do whatever you want with my voice", the intent of similar purposes as OP's has been clearly present.
There's also Paramount's refusal to use her voice in new Trek, aside from a few snippets here and there (mostly Picard for the throwback value). Which kinda goes against the spirit of Trek.
On the other hand, the entire area of voice cloning is gray as fuck. It can very easily be used for nefarious purposes, yes - let that be corporate greed or fraud or propaganda. But if I make my own voice system, do I really hurt anyone by using their voice? I am not profiting off of it, I am not sharing the end result, it lives on my computer and that's it.
But, let's say I want to do the same. There's this TV show from some 20 years ago called Eureka. In it is one of the earliest representations of a smart house with an AI governor, called SARAH. SARAH is voiced by one of the recurring cast members, in fact it's an ongoing joke that the house is voiced by this guy "talking like a girl", and that he's trying to get Sarah Michelle Gellar to do the proper, final voice...
Now, the voice itself is pretty unique, but it isn't the voice of the actor, it's been heavily digitally edited. It's also a pretty unique voice but not something 99.9% of people would recognise. I make my clone from my own BR disk collection, with a set of automated and AI tools to get the right audio, clean it up, split by talker, and process all 77 episodes, manually selecting the right samples, manually tagging and labelling each; and finally, fine-tuning my own model for my own use. It will never leave my home, I won't sell or share it, and technically, with me owning the BR collection, this would fall under fair use.
Which is still quite different than, say, a corporate entity trying to sell more product by using your voice.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
As LycanGalen says, it's kind of pee, in the sense that it comes from the bladder and goes out the peehole.
But pee is strictly speaking waste filtered by the kidneys, with enough urea, ammonia and other stuff in it. And pretty much every single scientifically done testing showed trace amounts of it in squirt.
Think of it like this: you have a "well seasoned" tea mug, with thick, solidified tea residue on its walls, so solid it barely comes off even if you scrape it. You take this cup, fill it with water. Is that water now tea just because it has some marginal tea residue in it?
- Comment on Cheese. 5 weeks ago:
Cheesus
- Comment on Transformers 1 month ago:
This ain't the X-Men crossover I was hoping for...
but no complaints.
- Comment on I wish our politicians were this interesting 1 month ago:
A gay politician being in a “Christian values” party is such an oxymoron to begin with…
- Comment on Krasnov Gambit 1 month ago:
What’s zootube? Is it like, a YouTube clone specially made for cute/funny/educational animal videos?
- Comment on SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month 1 month ago:
Ah fuck, I knew I shoulda shorted it...
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
More like trying to tell him that you'll listen to his mixtape as long as he provides drugs for free
- Comment on "Censorship" ☠️ 1 month ago:
Wow. Your cognitive skills definitely need honing buddy.
First of all, no, that's not what an ad hominem is. Me calling you an idiot would be one. Do try to keep your fallacies in line.
Second... why do you think that calling someone who supports the continuation of CSAM (even if it's "just" drawn) a paedophile? Why would anyone who doesn't consume such material, support its continued creation?
This is kind of like the "not a Nazi" argument. I'm sorry but if you're doing Nazi shit, and supporting other Nazis in doing Nazi shit, you're a Nazi. Same with paedos. If you want to enable them, then you're just as bad, and thus deserve to be labelled as such. Period.
And thus, calling them out is still not an as hominem.
- Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy 1 month ago:
IMO trying to milk the end users here is the wrong move. People are unsubscribing from the licence because they're not using it and don't want to pay £170 a year for something they don't use. Which is fair.
But one could easily "tax" the other services - TV channels, radio, streaming platforms like Netflix or Spotify, pushing these companies to provide 1% of their revenue to fund the public broadcasts.
Combine that with the licensing the content abroad and you've got a plan going.