mPony

@mPony@kbin.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there so many cracked software spam posts in the last few days?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they seemed to be leaking in from one particular instance I was subbed to. I unsubbed from that instance before coffee this morning and now I can't even remember which one it was, so I'm seeing fewer of them, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That nice lady is in the Beacon 23 show.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought the mood was that everything should be monopolized by the super rich.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  23 skidoo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s ironic bot army exposed⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  well the artwork undeniably is.
  but the point stands: obvious Xitter bot army is obvious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Did you realize that we live in a reality where SciHub is illegal, and OpenAI is not?"⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what's this? an anti-corporate message that sneers at cable TV companies??? CANCEL THAT SHOW!!!

  that show was so amazingly prescient: the theme of the first episode was how advertising literally kills its viewers and the news covers things up. No wonder they didn't get renewed. ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  allow me to rebut:
  It feels like in most cases Apple is saying "I can do whatever the fuck I want and you won't remember a goddamn thing", like the lovely lady in that movie Memento.

  Apple had a new phone out, they pushed a software update to slow down the old phones, and didn't tell anyone they did it: end of story. I remember the very day this happened, no word of a lie. For it to take this goddamn long to actually be financially accountable for doing this is a crime unto itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Use Social Media as an Artist Without Destroying Your Soul - StayGrounded.online⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I'd read this article before Social Media destroyed my soul. Oh well.

  and hey, seeing as the soulless need music now more than ever: go listen to my band's second album! https://songwhip.com/thethreeleonards Even if your soul has also been lost to Social Media I'm sure there will be something you enjoy.

  See? Only a soulless artist would plug their art this shamelessly. :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With AI scraping everything, would it make sense to add copyright notices to comments on the fediverse? CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Deed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This reminds me of the posts people used to make on FaceBook where they'd post a paragraph of text specifically denying FB/Meta the right to do anything with their personal data. It's well-intentioned, but it may not persuade a bot to ignore what you write.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it changes things if you've ever wanted to become a new anchor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  pour one out for the kids in the back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, I use the headphone jack on my phone.

  I can't abide the idea of paying extra money for a separate device to plug in headphones to use a phone. That's like forcing people to buy a straw to drink their coffee because they're not allowed to drink it from a cup anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What Improvements Would You Like To See In Free/Libre, Open Source Music Software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  well, as far as "proprietary vs free" software needs, there are very few free vocal tuning ("Auto-tune") VSTs out there. It turns out fixing vocals is pretty important to all kinds of production, it's not just for turning vocalists into robotic auditory paste.

  Tuners are just super useful tools to begin with. The math behind recognizing pitch is, evidently, rather tricky. (I have more than one guitar tuner that will take about a half-second to decide that my E string is tuned a little bit low.) So the first step would be writing a pitch detector and getting it to work on a guitar, and a bass guitar, and then a voice.

  Once you've got an algorithm for pitch detection working, then you'd need to get it to respond VERY quickly (which would take some next-level cleverness to do.) After that you'd have it analyze an input signal to graph what frequency the signal is at, and then choose which notes those frequencies correspond to. Those notes could probably be stored as MIDI data. By this point you've already achieved a "sing your own MIDI notes" VST, which I've already seen people asking for.

  Lastly you'd need editable parameters for each note (or group of notes) to describe how to adjust the pitch from the detected frequency to the desired frequency. One parameter is how quickly it changes the note (which gives that characteristic "robotic" feel that is just pervasive in pop music these days.)

  I think this could be a fantastically useful plug-in; it'd certainly be nice to have a useful free alternative for people who can't afford hundreds of dollars of software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess it's the Always-On DRM that's the issue. Best get rid of that entirely, or force developers to disclose IN LARGE PRINT if a game has it, like they did with parental warning stickers in the late 1980's. And I mean FORCE, as in "you can't be on Steam/whatever because you have unnecessary DRM"

  I can still play World Of Goo any time I damn well choose because I paid for it and I own it and the developers were probably not inherently evil humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could electronic mail undermine conventional post? – archive, 1 December 1983⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  did 1983 predict the rise of "catalog shopping"? because I sure didn't :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Paperclips should hold pieces of paper together. Everything else is Out Of Spec

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  now imagine robo-Ted-Cruz telling you everything you want to hear, even using some of the words you've typed in online discussions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I get to have delightful discussions with my family members when I have these same concerns. All before breakfast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Politicians Would Like to Speak With You Now - Politicians are using AI doppelgängers to reach voters. It’s a trend that’s about to explode.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. Just wait for the first story of "I had a conversation with [politician name] on the phone yesterday. They knew everything about me, and we talked about all these things I'm interested in." or "[Politician name] called me yesterday and said these horrible things about my relatives and mentioned them all by name. I'm never voting for them again!" Welcome to the wild west, yet again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A software company called Threads says Meta tried to buy its domain and kicked it off Facebook⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  "That'll be one billion quid, please."

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, maybe there are thousands of people out there who just like watching Vtube streams, with cash to burn, in this day and age. Or, maybe someone's using livestream donations to launder money.

  Does either one make more sense? I think both are true, and the latter is far more probable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg: Actually, Threads Is Great, Approaching 100M Monthly Active Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  well, why would people who use Fediverse options talk about using those options on non-Fediverse platforms? Other than the occasional "hey I use Mastodon and it's great." Not the kind of thing you'd talk about all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  YouRubes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify re-invented the radio⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  hey now I make 10 bucks a year from streaming royalties. I can almost buy a fancy coffee with a shot of booze for that. Oh the life of an indie music artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did paid podcasts become a thing?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  if George Carlin was still alive he'd do a stand-up special about this titled "Everyone Is A Whore" or something equally subtle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  @BolexForSoup can you recommend a good quality Upscaler ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So Far, AI Is a Money Pit That Isn't Paying Off⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  can you recommend a good quality Upscaler?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cabal of 'gay furry hackers' claims over 3,000 files stolen in NATO website breach⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  THEY HAD ONE JOB

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  remember how many years ago most news sites morphed into At least one DT story a day sites?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Has Turned Into an Monopolistic Shithole Littered With Pay-to-Play Ads, FTC Lawsuit Solemnly Argues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  but you should buy stuff from Smorkyaplorb Megasystems because they give the best kickbacks