kayohtie

@kayohtie@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Noooooo⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam's Stuff - The State of Modern AI Text To Speech Systems for Screen Reader Users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart Kid⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The straights are not okay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Going to a Protest? Don't Bring Your Phone Without Doing This First⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨not now kitten⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or maybe it was just their way of uninviting you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Delighted that this is actually a painting and not some generated image.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chumbawhatthefuck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I always heard “good-a times” and “bad-a times” oops.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's nothing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Had what felt like the worst gas pain of my life. Started as indigestion feeling but slowly “resolved” down. And then resolved to the right.

  Congratulations to me I had appendicitis and caught it before it burst whee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avocado⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

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

  Not…whatever this is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft finally admits almost all major Windows 11 core features are broken⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The revolution is here.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shit post != Shitpost

  Easy mistake.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are you even old enough to remember number 1?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  9, later 12 (didn’t get to keep 9)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨economic success⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got contacted about this but my old fursona’s name apparently overlapped with some French dental surgery study facility. I had no clue when I came up with the name. Derp. X3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fedora Will Allow AI-Assisted Contributions With Proper Disclosure & Transparency⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate that this is the most accurate answer almost certainly. Maybe it’ll shame people into not submitting more often than it would’ve for people sneaking it in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New single out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just noticed the 6 trying also only has 4 strings by the time it reaches the body and approaches the bridge

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some perspective when you think YOUR life is so horrible⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not even sure this is a real photo. There’s multiple eras of clothing on display. A prompt for “old timey clothes” could potentially include the 60s on up in the mess.

  I hate that it’s so damn hard to tell sometimes what’s what. Is this real history? Is this staged for fun/selling? Or is it generated?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New single out⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t tell if good old fashioned potatochop or generative garbo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2025 USA⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait what is that photo even from?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my smart hot air fryer, every single time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s kinda cool! Most don’t do that.

  As far as differences Alec at Technology Connections has a solid video pointing it out better. It’s more about the ratios involved between fan, element size, and volume of area to cook within. The result is basically the ratio skewed absurdly in the favor of air friers over ovens, plus putting out less total heat. So stronger fan is part of the equation at least!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨my smart hot air fryer, every single time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s an air fryer, it’s always on. Otherwise that’s just a toaster oven.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A nice tall glass of OJ⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US it could be Tang instead, a powered drink mix stirred and in a pitcher, or reconstituted frozen orange juice which, like a lot of fruit in the US, is often fresher than stuff on our grocery shelves given when it’s frozen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it just me or does this look more appetizing than a watermelon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it tasted like a kiwi I’d be all over it. Ripe kiwi are amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's Not Being Anti-Abortion. It's Being Poor Choice⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “I’m pro-life”

  looks inside

  Dead