ExtantHuman
@ExtantHuman@lemm.ee
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
I’m an android user, so not sure if it’s on iOS but I’ve used ReadEra
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
I’ve loaded epubs into the app ReadEra, which lets you read it like any other novel app or will, in real time, read it to you. It’s not the most natural of speech, but was good enough for my commute when I was in the midst of a compelling book.
- Comment on Microsoft laying off about 6,000 people, or 3% of its workforce 1 day ago:
Hey, they spent billions on their acquisition of ActiVivendiBethesdaBlizzaKing and they’re gonna Get. Their. ROI.
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 1 day ago:
I can get that for free. There are apps that will read an ebook to you already. The whole point of paying the premium on audible is the superior reading/acting. Not put up with mispronounced words, weird cadence and an inability to handle acronyms
- Comment on What was she thinking when she did this? 2 days ago:
My kid would love this
- Comment on The only way to be 2 days ago:
Please don’t. That book is so overrated.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 6 days ago:
Dude, Sounds like you were old enough to understand that almost burning down your school intentionally, multiple times, was bad. Bullies or not. I’m not sure why you’re taken aback by someone thinking a little arsonist in training isn’t a good kid.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 6 days ago:
Hopefully you’re less of a piece of shit now
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 6 days ago:
I never intentionally destroyed expensive electronics to “try to impress” anyone in real life, let alone online (although that didn’t quite exist yet).
So, yeah, I’m sure.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 6 days ago:
I don’t get it. I was never this stupid as a kid.
- Comment on Why Do Sovereign Citizens Keep Pursuing Unsuccessful Legal Defenses? 6 days ago:
They are not smart people.
That’s it.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 1 week ago:
I have many issues with the game deference to the steam monopoly… But they don’t partake in this particular abuse: taking a cut from the dev for all in game purchases. They only take a (sizeable) cut for the initial game purchase.
- Comment on Not difficult to understand 1 week ago:
Not even remotely.
- Comment on Liquid Trees 1 week ago:
Under the actual tree next to it. This is effectively just a large bench. Which also helps the air.
- Comment on YSK: Regulations don't exist because governments like them... 2 weeks ago:
And also they’re already basically Monopolies. You don’t have real options. Most food products come from like 3 mega corps who own hundreds of brands.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
Nah. They changed the game. It didn’t used to be like that. You bought a physical copy, you owned that copy. Now they’ve added some bullshit “it’s actually a lease and we can review access at any time we want, fuck consumer” language. Stop defending this nonsense.
All that anti repair garbage going in, also. And game console Companies suing you for modifying your own machine.
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
Accessing content I paid for isn’t pirating. And corporations have been working in eroding our ownership of the things we pay for years now. You can stop pretending they haven’t
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company's code was written by AI | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
This only makes sense if they are counting intellisense auto complete as “AI written”
- Comment on You never forget your first 2 weeks ago:
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 2 weeks ago:
Ghetto
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
Even buying physical media, they claim you still don’t own the content, are only leasing it. It’s all bullshit to charge more and give us less. Stop defending this practice of studying consumer rights
- Comment on DRM-Free OnlyFans Downloads See Widevine Project Nuked From GitHub 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like it’s centralized around Linus…
- Comment on Russia has lost over 950,000 soldiers since February 2022 2 weeks ago:
If only they had turned on the ones ordering their deaths instead
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
My parents weren’t even born in the 50s, no that does feel recent
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Says Social Media Is Over 2 weeks ago:
It’s not even new stuff. Last I had looked (a couple years ago) it would show me friendss posts from last week with no sign of anything new, and I knew they had posted newer things than that. It was completely unusable. I’d see the same stale old posts for days
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 2 weeks ago:
The existence of officials looking for infractions in the few rules that they do have does not mean that overall they don’t have a looser set of rules compared to head to head competitive games. Like I said before, there often isn’t even a turn order for these events. You make your number of attempts over a long period of time and then are done.
I wouldn’t call those events “play” either. No one is really having fun riding a heavy stone multiple times. They might feel accomplished afterwards. But they aren’t engaging in play. And I still say it’s not a sport. You busting out a tautological oxford definition doesn’t really help anything.
- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 3 weeks ago:
Nah. Those aren’t games. The rules are often quite loose. You’re often not even directly competing with anyone else. Like, one person acts, and later another person acts and the results are compared. Your opponent’s actions don’t affect your results. Those field events don’t even necessarily have a set order to act on… people just wander in and out making their attempts, it’s mostly them competing with themselves.
You could run a race asynchronously as well, but time constraints prevent that.
Games have action, AND reaction. They have strategy. Throw things harder isn’t a strategy. Run faster longer isn’t a strategy.
- Comment on Even the U.S. Government Says AI Requires Massive Amounts of Water 3 weeks ago:
I’ve never seen any of these articles explain what this means. How is generative AI “using up” water. When a search uses a liter or whatever of water, what is happening to this water?
Every time that happens, a little more water is burned and a little more carbon is released.
This is just nonsense that makes me think the author doesn’t know either.
Water is often used in cooling servers. But it’s contained and reused. It doesn’t go anywhere, it’s the vehicle to move heat from the servers to wherever else. All these doomsday AI articles act like water is being lost permanently due to the use of these servers. Even if the water was escaping the closed system…did no one pay attention to the water cycle unit in grade school?!
- Comment on Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company 3 weeks ago:
Was the ActiBlizz guy the one involved in all the sexual harassment?
- Comment on Nintendo seeks default judgement and $17,500 in damages from pirated game streamer who ignored court summons 3 weeks ago:
You can avoid these kind of spoilers without much difficulty.
I still don’t even know what game he was playing when he got caught.