Kay Ohtie

I hate random calls but I’m also usually very time efficient with answering things, so despite my own usual aversion to calls I find work is the only place I’ll ask if I can quick demo/show something to get input. Lasts a total of 3 minutes, keeps me on-topic to my work, and takes less time than waiting for their slow typing back while I’ll be distracted in typical ADHD fashion and start trying to discover if my laptop dock can make my hand cream melt.

Wait, inherently? I created a Piper module using the “piper-speak” shortcut program but this is neat if so

A text prompt -> audio is not a transformer in the sense of what people are talking about, and you know it or just don’t care, or don’t wholly understand how these systems work under the hood as well.

What I’m referring to are neural models that take an input audio and are effectively a filter that operates as a neural network. Voice mods, instrument adapters, virtual pedals, amp models… These are all actually transformative. There is actual music and effort going into these. And that is not what Bandcamp is after; those were already in heavy use like 15 years ago.

The things that generate based on text are a transformer in the most technically correct sense but not in the sense of what is meant when people talk about transformative.

They’re fundamentally different purposes and usages. It’s not generated vocals from nothing but the lyrics; it’s someone else actually singing it and then a model transforming the sound to match an intended pre-set trained target, not generalization.

Sure, but we’re talking generative here, as is the article, and to pretend it’s referring to a tool that’s been standard in libraries and even VSTs for over a decade is either misunderstanding the article or being disingenuous on purpose.

If AIGM was like VSTs or vocaloids that’d be one thing. But it’s more like imitation of sounds, synthesizing song chunks instead of instruments and voices themselves.

The best way to think of it is something creating an audio file solely by using the Photoshop clone stamp tool across millions of source files.

The straights are not okay

Mine ended 6 months after cold turkey on Zoloft. Doctors just… Didn’t know at all, when it happened.

I was thinking I still get them from time to time but in writing this post I realized I only get shivers, not the full zap.

I used to joke that the CEO of my former employer must subscribe to some magazine called “CEO Weekly” in which they must periodically mention, in a similar “no examples of usage, just KPIs” manner, webchat. She would always forget about it promptly and then random number of weeks later bug my boss again.

I told him if they want me to come up with how they can use webchat and be their solutions designer they need to double my salary. $60k USD was not enough for being a tier 3 systems admin, a fax and telephony specialist, and figuring out their use cases for them just to check a box that says “we have it!”

Signal have published several times when they receive a request for data and their response.

Due to the mechanisms they employ, all they can actually give is if there’s an account associated with a phone number and the last time it logged in, if even that last bit. There’s some fairly detailed articles diving into how this works so well under the hood from a cryptographic standpoint, but it basically amounts to even addresses of users being able to be secret to minimize shared metadata to a bare minimum.

Also the software is entirely open-source – app and server both – and are frequently audited on this. The server never has an opportunity to receive any plain-text data to store.

The weak spot is always just having access to your device.

I was gonna say like “ok but why’s he gotta be kinda hot tho”.

I think he’s trying to do the bullshit of creating a sense that people who utilize GPT systems are somehow repressed class in some fashion. I don’t think that the term about cognitive amplification is intended to truly mean that, so much as create the sense that if you aren’t treating it like that output is equal that somehow you’re being judgmental unfairly.

Basically he doesn’t want output from those things to be graded on an equal playing field with stuff that wasn’t created that way, because he knows it fucking fails.

Will it make you even more frustrated to learn Steam has a Linux-native build of Substance Painter, but Adobe still won’t support it themselves?

Bazzite is basically that, with a foundation of Fedora Atomic instead of Arch, but otherwise it’s extremely similar, designed to be super easy. Even as a Linux nerd it was a breath of fresh air compared even to the simplicity of some other distros.

The ADHD response to stimulants the first time is cleaning your room finally.

Not…whatever this is.

Kind of a wide variety of things that varies from person to person in often absurd ways – broken in ways I’ve never seen Macs or Linux systems be, nor even Windows 10 and older.

• Explorer taking ~20-30 seconds to open a new window (fine once it’s open, until you want another window) (I’ve only suffered this on my work laptop for some reason)
• The “home” view being blank save for a weird expansion panel that’s empty – sometimes this can be solved by resetting ALL folder views in Explorer settings, other times it just stays broken after and randomly works later (I’ve repeatedly suffered this)
• Start menu being empty or not showing new additions to it, and pinning anything to start that wasn’t from right-clicking anything found in it just not pinning for ??? amounts of time (both)
• Randomly muting all audio input devices (home)

And that’s just my personal experiences. The ones I’ve seen others deal with is much weirder.

Honestly I’m buying more into the idea of how ostree distros work; Windows is like a very broken version of that anymore.

Shit post != Shitpost

Easy mistake.

It’d have to literally be a full CPU that somehow has only read access to the RAM such that it’d be a genuine feat of engineering. Either that or the whole thing is just a virtualized device, but the cooling demands for either method would exceed the threshold for passive cooling in those enclosures and require fans at that point.

Bloomberg wrote an article several years ago that was absolutely slaughtered for making up from bad sources such a chip concept except even more unbelievable because they claimed it was hidden inside the PCB itself and only like 6 or 8 pins? Absolutely absurd for anyone who understands electrical engineering or microcontrollers at all.

9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)

Truly a terrible day to have eyes

Honestly this is basically a non-gaming Bazzite using Arch as the base instead of Fedora Atomic, which is technically mutable. I’ve been trying it out and maybe I should give distrobox a whirl for some things. Overall I’ve been happy with it.