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• Would mechs make effective tools or weapons assuming the engineering and physics worked out, or are limbed piloted vehicles really just a rule of cool thing?
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• An old clip of Soulja Boy playing Braidyoutu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What does everyone think of QSO1?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty seamless, honestly. You make an account and enter any details for the various networks (Echolink/D-star stuff etc)

• What does everyone think of QSO1?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I spot and avoid AI videos?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it were 100% local.

• Quantifying what counts as "real" ham radio
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I spot and avoid AI videos?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Disclaimer: I only speak for myself. Blindness does not respect class, creed, or culture, so every blind person will have their own opinions and experiences. In my case AI hasn’t shown much tangible benefit beyond what clever algorithms are already doing, for optical character recognition etc.

  Beyond blindness My knee-jerk reaction to AI is strongly negative simply because it’s another locus of concentrated societal power (Who else is there besides Open AI and Anthropic and maybe Groq? IIRC everyone else is just using one of those on the backend. So that’s what, three people, a few dozen if you include the other C-suite folks at each company, pulling a lot of very consequential levers) But that opinion is probably par for the course for your average Lemming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I spot and avoid AI videos?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When looking for videos to listen to in the background I always prioritize “low quality” stuff. They don’t have the perfect mic or studio setup, don’t meticulously edit out background noise, talk in a less polished manner, don’t have a background music track. Prior to the rise of AI it was because such videos were less overstimulating and felt more down to earth, now it’s because I know they’re humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I spot and avoid AI videos?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t have any recommendations you haven’t mentioned. As a blind person I listen to synthesized speech nearly all day long, so I’m pretty good at catching AI voices. I think the ones trained on IRL people have a “choppy” or “quavering” quality. I’m not an audiophile or computational linguist so I’m sure there’s a term for this I’m missing, but the overall audio has a particular tell to it.

  It’s getting harder, though. Now I listen for things like odd prosidy, stuff like odd pauses or inflections or inconsistent pronunciations. Just the other day my mom was watching some AI-generated listicle and the voiceover mispronounced the name of a city after correctly pronouncing it every time before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I need to change careers but I’m scared. If you ever did this, how did you power through and didn’t feel like a loser for wasting time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hated my current job (inbound call center agent) so hard that any anxiety about going back to school was overshadowed by relief at not having to talk nonstop 8 hours a day again.

  Unfortunately I’m at a bit of a crossroads with my current job (IT) because both Pearson and Cisco make test-taking miserable if you have a disability. My current job isn’t under threat, but I let all my certs lapse because I’m just sick and tired of their nonsense.