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Meyerweb, 2 days ago to random

OpenAI stealing Scarlett’s voice for their new product after being told “no” is so perfectly on-brand, it’s almost painful. https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

mcc, 11 days ago to random

My ex had this rule, or sort of a philosophy I guess:

"Never feel bad about spending money on books."

And this made a lot of sense to me, at the time,

but this was before I actually realized

just how much money I am capable of spending on books

rileytestut, 1 month ago to random

Woke up to see @delta is now the #1 app in the entire App Store!! In less than 12 hours!!!

I feel like I’m dreaming 🥹

stroughtonsmith, 1 month ago to random

Here’s your AI astonishment/nightmare fuel for today:

"TL;DR: single portrait photo + speech audio = hyper-realistic talking face video with precise lip-audio sync, lifelike facial behavior, and naturalistic head movements, generated in real time.”

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/vasa-1/

video/mp4

sjvn, 1 month ago to random

GPU fans just keep getting larger and larger.

MissingThePt, 1 month ago to random

skinner am I so out of touch meme. “Am I so bad at math?” “No, it’s the calculator that is wrong.”

Tutanota, 1 month ago to microsoft

⚡ Watch out: #Microsoft joins #Google & #Facebook with its focus on ads first. ⚡

When creating a test account, #Outlook informed us of 813 data sharing partners! 🫢

Plus, the "new" Outlook app is quietly storing your data in the cloud, including your passwords.
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/outlook-shares-passwords-with-microsoft

flexghost, 1 month ago to random

Darth Brandon

lisamelton, 1 month ago to random

Two weeks ago, a build of Mastodon's Web interface removed two features which impacted me, other power users and some folks with accessibility issues.

And many of us complained 'cause, well, it kinda sucked.

But @renchap and the developers listened to us! And they didn't just back out those changes. No, they restored the functionality integrated with other new features.

So, I wanted to publicly thank them for all that hard work and landing it last week. Y'all rock! 💖

/cc @Gargron

fribbledom, 1 month ago to random

"Cryptocurrencies are everything people don’t know about computers combined with everything they don’t understand about money."

Sheril, 1 month ago to random

I laughed.

marasawr, 1 month ago to random

one of the great things about having adhd is that when motivation and focus align, your brain runs like a Ferrari on a track

but when they don’t align, your brain is still that same Ferrari, only you’re now driving over cobbles and mud with a blown valve gasket

everybody thinks they want an expensive, tempermental, gratuitously overtuned hand-built speed machine, until they have to live with one as a daily driver that sees a track maybe a few days per year

RickiTarr, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Mastodon is what happens when well-read children and compassionate thinkers grow up, and congregate in one place.

fribbledom, 2 months ago to random

My "robot" vacuum cleaner just encountered an inconveniently placed mirror and now it's so confused it mirrored and duplicated its entire map. Of course, there's no way to manually edit the map either 🤣

Gargron, 2 months ago to random

Today it’s been one year since we got married! I’m a very lucky guy 🙂

Gargron, 2 months ago to random

Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

protonmail, 2 months ago to macos

📣 Introducing the new Proton Mail #macOS and #Windows apps, including:

🌓 Light & dark mode
📆 Integrated #ProtonCalendar
🎭 Hide-my-email aliases
🔔 Dedicated app notifications
♻️ Auto-updates for the latest improvements
➕ And more

Learn more and get the new #ProtonMail desktop apps here: https://proton.me/blog/proton-mail-desktop-app

🐧 If you’re a Linux user, you can join the beta here: https://proton.me/mail/download

Access to the desktop apps is included in all Proton premium plans. Free plans come with a 14-day trial.

MissingThePt, 2 months ago to random

If you are patient enough, you can build your very own Boeing airplane out of parts that fall from the sky.

owa, 2 months ago to random

Open Letter to Tim Cook: Sabotaging Web Apps is Indefensible

🔨 Apple breaking EU Web Apps in < 7 days
😢 Many companies will be bankrupted / severely hurt
🌎 This does global damage to the web

👉 Sign Now: https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

Sheril, 2 months ago to mastodon

Mastodon may not be as big as some other social networks. And it may not have as many celebrities & "influencers."

But it sure is a nice place to engage with curious, thoughtful & interesting folks in ways that I haven't experienced elsewhere online.

Rather than a chaotic circus, #Mastodon uniquely feels like a (mostly) friendly neighborhood.

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

It is strange how many completely arbitrary and unproven numbers we live by:

10k Steps
The BMI
2000 Calories
6 inch Penises
8 Glasses of Water
8 Hours of Sleep
8 Spiders A Year

jamesthomson, 3 months ago to random

Going to rejoin Apple, work my way into the Photos team for iOS, add a top level button to rotate a photo, then quit the next day knowing I have improved the lives of billions.

nixCraft, 3 months ago to random

Malicious compliance 😂👇