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- Comment on just like nonna used to make 5 days ago:
I don’t think nonna craves a heart attack
- Comment on Dying Light 1 week ago:
I’m currently raising children in life pods to put them into the ripcore scanner to convert their brains into subcores to advance my mech army.
- Comment on Dying Light 1 week ago:
Dying Light 1 is the best one anyways - DL2 was a big step down and DL:TB was fine, but wasn’t able to really “connect” to DL1 either. DL1 just had everything - great combat, great parcour, creepy nights with an actual INCENTIVE to go out (to kill bolters) - I honestly don’t know why they are unable to replicate that success.
To answer the question - Rimworld and Project Zomboid. As always.
- Comment on They can't keep getting away with this 1 week ago:
Tankies when they develop an alcohol addiction:
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Solid reason, but bad execution.
- Comment on Do you preorder games? 1 week ago:
I usually do if a game interests me. There’s no real downside compared to buying at release.
- Comment on The crossover you've been waiting for 1 week ago:
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
The day newbie homecooks discover the power of onion and garlic is a big one for their cooking.
The next step is onion, carrot and celery.
- Comment on US intelligence say Putin wants Ukraine, Baltics, Poland, and more. Trump’s team says Russia wants peace 2 weeks ago:
But but but the NATOOOOOOO they are the evil ones ;(((((( Russia is just defending themselves from the evil war machine that is NATOOOOOOOOO. ;(((
- Comment on Self-Host Weekly #150: Watchtower No More 2 weeks ago:
Congrats to all the execs, you’ve completely ruined the tech industry.
No - I think they made it (involuntary) better by forcing people into looking into self hosting and taking control over their own infrastructure.
- Comment on Thanks, Google. Very cool. 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Spotify got one aswell, and on my girlfriends phone, her default photo app provided her with a rewind that showed her certain topics she seems to enjoy photos of, in her case “cats” (containing plenty of images of my dog).
- Comment on NSW police unlawfully arrested and choked man then tried to delete footage, watchdog finds 2 weeks ago:
Most civilized countries do have such a law. I would expect Australia to have one as well.
- Comment on Word. 2 weeks ago:
The only thing why this is still the case is because microsoft is bundling everything in a single subscription and is also providing you with software that automatically keeps everything updated.
The software is shit, but companies using the entire ecosystem probably save money. Sadly.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 weeks ago:
So what, then I can still dislike the company lmao. What’s the point of hating something in advance?
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 2 weeks ago:
Yeah because why like a company that has released banger after banger after banger.
- Comment on How do you manage your home server configuration? 2 weeks ago:
Terraform and Puppet. Not very simple to get into, but extremely powerful and reliable.
- Comment on How do you healthcheck your containers? 2 weeks ago:
How do you notify yourself about the status of a container?
I usually notice if a container or application is down because that usually results in something in my house not working.
Is there a “quick” way to know if a container has healthcheck as a feature.
Check the documentation
Does healthcheck feature simply depend on the developer of each app, or the person building the container?
If the developer adds a healthcheck feature, you should use that. If there is none, you can always build one yourself. If it’s a web app, a simple HTTP request does the trick, just validate the returned HTML - if the status code is 200 and the output contains a certain string, it seems to be up. If it’s not a web app, like a database, a simple
SELECT 1on the database could tell you if it’s reachable or not.Is it better to simply monitor the http(s) request to each service? (I believe this in my case would make Caddy a single point of failure for this kind of monitor).
If you only run a bunch of web services that you use on demand, monitoring the HTTP requests to each service is more than enough. Caddy being a single point of failure is not a problem because your caddy being dead still results in the service being unusable. And you will immediately know if caddy died or the service behind it because the error message looks different. If the upstream is dead, caddy returns a 502, if caddy is dead, you’ll get a “Connection timed out”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
if anybody could access a technology that helps them by magically destroying lives in another country far away, would you say the same thing?
Might be cruel to say it, but that’s called “progress”. The world needs to continue to evolve - latching to old jobs seems silly. We got rid off of blacksmiths because we don’t have the need anymore. Europe once had a huge horse stable industry spanning the entirety of central and western europe. We don’t have that anymore either, because we now have cars. We also don’t have any telegraph operators or switchboard operators (necessary for long distance communication back then), elevator operators or laundry washwomen - these jobs have all been made obsolete by technical advancements.
“It would be silly to ignore it as it makes things easier for me” seems quite short-sighted to me.
I think quite the opposite - it’s the long-sighted better option. Progress is never good for those negatively affected in the short term, but we can’t keep jobs around that aren’t really necessary anymore just for the sake of those people having a job.
And in this particular case, there’s not even any loss involved. They used their voice to train an AI, it was explicity part of the contract and they got paid for it. I honestly do not see the problem.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Don’t tell me they HAD to use genAI instead of paying those voice actors for reshoot to begin with.
The didn’t have to, but it certainly makes it easier. And I find it silly to not use a technology that makes something easier if you have it available. That’s like a farmer plowing his field by hand instead of using a tractor.
But the base of this model is to be capable of understanding how any voice works in order to copy how a specific voice work.
First of all, we had Text-To-Speech way before any kind of generative AI. In germany, we had speech synthesized announcements on railway stations for like 15 years at least. Like this here: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AuIkJ_UGltI. We also had vocaloids for decades now. So it’s wrong to assume we had no idea how voices work before AI.
Second, I get your stance on “I’m not using AI because somewhere up the chain it was developed by morally ambiguous ways”, but I don’t think that makes anything better. You should rate the current use-case, not something that happened earlier in the production chain. AI in itself is not bad. If used properly, it’s an incredibly helpful tool. There’s other and much better hills to die on imo.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Watkins, speaking to PCGamesN, elaborated that the text-to-speech always starts with a voice actor: “It’s part of their contract that we use it [AI] for this purpose, and that allows us to do things like our ping system, where it’s capable of saying every single item name, every single location name, and compass directions. That’s how we can get that without needing to have someone come in every time we create a new item for the game.”
So no, they are not “stealing” voices. Their contracts explicity states that they are training the model. So they are getting paid, which in conclusion rules out “stealing”.
Also, from your video:
But to my understanding
Rarely ever good if a sentence starts with “To my understanding”
the AI tools Embark uses to then synthesize the rest of the performance come from models that are trained on millions of other voice actors that have been stolen from in the way that all generative AI models steal from artists.
No, that’s the whole point of models that are trained on a single voice - you do NOT use other voice actors because that would completely muddy the voice. The models are trained on a singular voice to mimic that person perfectly. Using other voices is like asking someone to cook a potato soup for you and then you toss in tomato and paprika.
- Comment on Ms Rachel forced to hire security over Zionist threats 3 weeks ago:
Hitler was at least sorta right
Reading this kind of batshit takes outside of /pol/ is insane lmao.
- Comment on Oh yes daddy credit please 3 weeks ago:
Not paying a financial institution might be the worst advice you could give. That’s like not paying the mafia.
- Comment on Actual theft 3 weeks ago:
“In the twilight of bourgeois decadence, even the most trivial ornaments of culture shall be seized by the ruling class, for in late capitalism the elites will weaponize every spectacle - yes, even the egirls - to distract the proletariat from its chains.”
- Karl Marx
- Comment on idk abbout this one discord 3 weeks ago:
One of the few use cases where I see AI being great.
