altkey (he\him)

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No recues in two years since I booted it the first time. Shit's smooth on different hardware without any fiddling. Windows taught me good to be a bit more cautious and curious, so with a system that doesn't explicitly fight me or wants to do thing behind my back, I feel way safer than before. Like, I started to regularly seek new updates via yay, it's something you don't hear from a windows boy. Minus one year on Mint that borked itself on update a couple of times, I had no previous Linux expirience.

I thought so too. KDEnlive a solid base that is used by many FOSS youtubers akin to Veronica Explains. It's capable of things up to rotoscoping/chromakey deletion, it also closely resembles how most video editors work, except maybe for trendy node-based tinkering in effects - that would be covered in full by Blender/Godot further down the line. Example project: make a short explanatory vid about one of the tools already learned.

Their faith is also incompatible with regular military service, I knew a couple of JWs who got obligatory low tier jobs instead. I think that too is a compelling reason why they got under duress today. I'd need a big leap of hope to assume there was any concern about JWs being ghoulish in the first place, rather than more obvious and pragmatic reasons.

on Ramaria flava · c/mycology · 5 pts · 3d

Forest pasta! Is it how people got the idea to invent the mass produced one? Next, you'd say there is a fungi shaped like an alphabet soup that inspired people to use letters.

CONSIDERING SOUND: Well, we are of completely different modes of listening, but I'm of opinion it hurts your bottom line too and puts music into stasis. LLMs are specifically disallowed of going out of their's way to deliver something risky (potentially bad) and they lack intention, e.g. they won't produce the next trend setter. In the world, where LLMs came in the 90s, you won't hear wob-wob dubstep sounds going mainstream because it took experimentations to arrive there in the 00s and influence pop music going onward. And the pioneers of wobbing were a part of their scene as a natural biosphere, and we can't predict how it would go if all it's pop sector would be replaced - like with killing the species we find annoying in our world without understanding their role and interconnection with other species. We can't reliably say if e.g. Aphex Twin would have favourable enough conditions to appear, if there is no scene of other artists in place, no club culture he can troll.

And, on the other hand, if right after release of his Druqs, every AI could've started to mimick his style in the volumes well above what the real scene can produce, would he be able to establish his career as an artist?

The way the music industry works right now sucks ass, we can talk about it until dawn, but what I want to focus on, just in the music department, that this equation have functioned in some way, and LLM music puts it onto it's head. Maybe it's even for good, but what I hate about it, is that we tell ourselves "AI is here and is there to be", absolving ourselves of any need to analyze what we collectively put into this world just 5 years ago, and we don't even know how it would affect certain industries, and our own use of them, especially if bubble pops - what can happen to AI music then? No idea. We can replace 50% of pop music with it right now, but we don't even now if it would be availiable in 2030s. We just go with it.

CONSIDERING LYRICS: I do suspect there's also cognitive damage to factor in, at least from being exposed to said lyrics, with random rambling establishing fake logic connections from one side, to teaching awkward pronounciation and wrecked grammatics from the other, and also just echoing but not conveying the training material brain gets from listening to diverse works of spoken poetry. For non-english listeners english-first LLMs would teach them the google translate version of their language, depraved of succint niche words, nuanced usage, context-aware translation and with a mutilated sentence structure uncommon in their native language. I've watched a youtube essay about M&Ms where every second time autotranlsator called them Eminem, that's hell of a brainrot, lol. Also, all native lyrical traditions go out of the window as well, eradicating them and doing mini-imperialism-like standartization. This happens at the will of a few american-based corporations, the likes of Meta that fueled conflict in Myanmar by not having anyone capable of speaking burmese and thus hosting the flow of genocidal rhetorics on their platform. These are not bodies I would trust in influencing the world of spoken word internationally.

Ah, and while we are at it, music generated by AI is policed by the same corpos. It means they can censor words they don't like, e.g. you won't usually hear Bob Vylan alike songs produced by them, or anything critical of Altman&co, but at the same time their control mechanisms are predictably shit, so the next hymn for KKK would be eventually fished out of it with enough effort as we saw with reddit's cowards clownworld flewing under regex radar for a long time.

FINAL POV: I won't argue with you why you shouldn't as an end-consumer listen to LLM gen music as it's provided to you, but I myself has a lot of concerns about the impact of that new invention that makes me stick with alternatives.

on Anon orders food · c/greentext · 4 pts · 4d

Or half a mile if you have a couple junctions with red lights ahead, like around the block. Anon could've been living in a flat over said pizza joint for all we know. Or they are just a liar, who also have a crush on delivery driver, so they order pizza to see them again.

With opening the flavors and smells, it also signals if it's already spoiled. The basic test I do to long forgoten fridge food is heating it up, and if it's too old it starts to stink accordingly. If it's consumed cold, it would heat up in your mouth or later and that'd become a problem.

More ADHD than Autism.

Due to not doing my homework and not remembering many physics and geometry theorems, I ended up regularly reverse engineering them to fit given values to given answers. My scores were a random spread of numbers, depending on the test and my capabilities at the moment. I am a bit sad that I stay dull in that department when I read news about EVs, space, et cetera, because it always feels I could've mastered it but just never had enough attention (could I, in that system, me?!). I'm thankful to lemmings explaining things and correcting me in threads under posts, I'm not sure I would remeber these facts but I'm feeling pure joy digesting them.

on School made us believe · c/memes · 1 pts · 4d

The watermark was iStock printing going all over the face photo. It could mean two things: either I was a real celebrity, or. I didn't want to explore what this "or" could've ment, so I smiled in all of my 32 trying to come off as at least a niche celebrity.