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Alonealastalovedalongthe

@Alonealastalovedalongthe@toot.cafe

he/him Improviser, actor, musician, artist, human and twitter escapee. I love poking around the dusty corners of the internet.

Check out my noise album!!
https://trenchesofhadal.bandcamp.com/releases

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Alonealastalovedalongthe, to fediverse
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How much does it roughly cost per month to run a lemmy server with around ~300 Monthly Active Users?

fraying, to random
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If you run a company that depends on users to create things, and you add a “generate AI garbage” button, you’re telling your users that you hate them and will replace them with a computer the moment that option becomes available.

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@fraying

What if new AI models were introduced as fundamentally an expression of the artists that contributed to building the data set and the engineers who structured it in a way that an AI could be trained?

Like, the AI is obviously bullshitting, but all the artists got together to make a fun bullshit machine but the artists were compensated and had agency.

What if

etherdiver, (edited ) to random
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Hey and friends of the Fediverse! If you're looking to get some authentic (i.e. non digital plugin) sounds on your music, samples or mixes, I can help. I'm offering $15 for 45 minutes of audio run thru authentic magnetic tape and back to digital. I offer reel-to-reel and 3 different cassette deck options, plus a few specialty options (VHS, 8-track, microcassette) for an extra charge. If you're interested, DM me or email iametherdiver AT gmail.

Boosts appreciated!

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@etherdiver

You ever tried making impulse responses of your system?

I mean they are static but with a bit of in-depth sampling and use of the samples in a sophisticated impulse response loader with dynamic movement between IR files, you can get some really nice sounds!

kleb, to cycling
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Tell me what bike brands you love!

#BikeBuilder is now a working prototype. But very short on data. I'm not a bike expert so hearing from you is very educational.

What are some bike parts that people who are shopping should not overlook?

If you don't have any suggestions, a boost be helpful too!

https://builder.bike

#BikeTooter #cycling #cyclist #bike #bikes #bicycle #bicycles #buildinpublic

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@kleb

Dahon folding bicycles (or at least the old ones, I bought mine used).

They are mediocre but perfectly good bicycles, I mean yes the wheels are too small, they are fairly heavy for their size and you aren't going to feel locked in at high speed like you would with a nice normal road or mountain bike.

On the other hand, they still function as a pretty good bicycle which can be folded up and put in literally any car or taken on mass transit as a carry on without anyone batting an eye.

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@kleb

The advantage of being able to use a dahon/folding bicycle as transportation somewhere with the comfort of knowing that you can get home either by bicycling, taking a bus or having someone give you a ride (without them needing a bike rack or awkwardly asking if you can shove your bicycle in their car) makes the dahon bicycle just categorically superior to normal bicycles as an actual transportation device.

They also make a great extra bicycle for visiting friends that can be stored.

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@kleb

I haven't done much maintenance on mine because it hasn't needed it really, but really the only parts on a dahon that differentiate it from a normal bicycle is the hinge (well hinges technically, the handlebar has a hinge to fold down too) and the smaller wheels.

I suppose extra brake lines and those little brake cap things where the braking mechanism grips the brake line would be useful as it is easy to get the brake lines tangled while folding if you are new to owning one.

ryanhoulihan, to random
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I sorted women's shoes in my size by popularity on Amazon and, ladies, we are in a crisis as a nation.

(Spare me the moral superiority about Amazon here on the AWS internet. I have a gift card.)

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@ryanhoulihan

wow damn I gotta buy some of those gift cards, that shit sounds like armor

lauren, to random
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As "early adopters" are no longer the focus, EV sales are falling across the U.S., for a wide variety of reasons, many of which are utterly reasonable. The push was too soon, too fast, and the existing transition mandates are now being recognized broadly as being unrealistic.

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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@karlauerbach @lauren

Wait, aren't camels really well designed though? They can do horse stuff but like... across a literal desert with no water and their eyes are custom designed to deal with brutal sandblasts from sandstorms.

If the race is across a desert, yeah I am 100% picking the camel.

Alonealastalovedalongthe, to random
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Gotta love how it is STILL a trope that social media, smartphones and technology are destroying our attention spans while simultaneously young people have mostly replaced getting their knowledge from vanishingly brief snippets of talking heads on massive news channels or radio stations with a constellation of media all the way from short tiktok videos to multi-hour youtube essays on gender or politics.

Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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Like the fuck.. some of the most successful youtube creators in terms of cultural impact regularly make 3 hour videos on shit and young people gobble it up like candy.

It is just downright absurd to say social media is destroying our attention spans at this point.

I know I have made this kind of post before but it is just becoming more and more obvious as content creators settle into niches of making multi-hour deep dives into complex topics and the trend shows no signs of stopping.

LeftistLawyer, to ai
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    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @LeftistLawyer

    I could care less about a war against AI, I want to be immersed in a society that won the class war with its ruling class.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @LeftistLawyer

    Didn't mean this as a dunk or something on your comment, the second Dune looks really good based on what people say and I think you are right to point out the interesting and prescient position of AI in Dune.

    amyfou, to random
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    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @amyfou

    Ok not asking this like a really loaded question, but in general how are the doggos treated in iditarod/sled dog racing?

    They all seem happy AF on the starting line like they are more pumped to do this then the people lol

    fkamiah17, to USpolitics
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    At the State Department briefing this afternoon.

    CNN: "Can you give us an understanding of how many incidents of civilian casualties in Gaza you're looking into?"

    Mark Miller: "No"

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @fkamiah17

    The "this is not the right place to protest about that" energy being used to shut down conversation about Palestinians reminds me a lot of the way many people reacted to football players taking a knee for black lives matter.

    It is basically the model of a shitty large corporate customer helpline that solves most problems by telling people they are in the wrong place to actually deal with a problem and then making it so annoying to get to the "right place" that people just give up.

    GoodAaron, to random
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    Star Trek: Prodigy entered the Netflix Kids Top 10 list for two more countries this morning. Welcome aboard, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago!

    The show is still climbing everywhere — Star Trek fans, can we get the US from #6 to #1, like it is in Germany?

    video/mp4

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @GoodAaron

    Prodigy is such a good Star Trek show, it exemplifies how Star Trek isn't just another space war scifi that exists to provide heroes with an action backdrop and a Big Bad Evil to fight but a method of storytelling with its own ideology explicitly stated in a way that corporate executives can't easily smudge or erase.

    Star Trek isn't about being the most powerful space wizard, it is about the power of empathy and wearing your heart on your sleeve and Prodigy kills it on that front.

    devinprater, to random

    I might be getting a new phone tomorrow. What do y'all think I should get? I currently have an iPhone SE 2020.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @devinprater

    For what it is worth I highly recommend getting a used flagship smartphone in good condition that came out 2-3 years ago. Buying a new phone at this point feels like buying a new car, it just doesn't make sense given how little smartphone companies are doing to improve their products in a meaningful sense (i.e., not just upping numbers on a spec sheet that no one actually cares about).

    misc, to threads
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    Kinda hope helps the BlueSky and Mastodon communities resolve their petty rivalry.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @misc

    Petty rivalry? Are you seriously calling the reasons people specifically came to a non-corporate social network with actual human moderation, petty?

    Bluesky is the same old bullshit peddled by the same old people, with the same old false promises and toxic environment that caters to money not humans. There is a very good reason people hate bluesky here.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @misc

    fair enough, sorry if I misinterpreted you

    flexghost, to random
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    Some Republican women are switching parties from outrage at Ron DeSantis

    Hold up.

    I’ll translate from Republican to English:

    Desantis signed SB 1416 into law ending permanent alimony. Money is now based on the length of marriage

    So they’re not outraged for:
    Inspecting youth genitalia
    Destroying trans rights
    Human trafficking migrants
    Destroying Florida’s economy
    Attacking teachers
    Rampant insurance corruption

    No. Something happened to them, personally

    And it’s about money

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @flexghost

    What brave heroes!

    .....

    voltur, to random

    Seriously, I climbed a whole ass mountain. Who even am i?

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @voltur

    A climber of ass mountains

    penfount, to random
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    #FPQuestion of the day:
    What are your daily drivers—pens that you do most of your writing with on a daily basis? What makes them the best for daily use?
    #FountainPen

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @penfount

    The one I have settled on is a wing sung 698 like this one...

    https://www.ebay.com/itm/233166895438?hash=item3649d4794e:g:yrMAAOSwL9hZjF1o

    ....with a pilot italic nib from a metropolitan or plumix swapped in.

    You just can't beat pilot nibs.. I like my TWSBI eco which is similar but honestly I think the wing sung 698 is better with a pilot nib and is significantly cheaper.

    I have had ZERO issues with leaving the pen inked for very long periods of time without use either.

    baldur, (edited ) to random
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    “Adobe Stock creators aren’t happy with Firefly, the company’s ‘commercially safe’ gen AI tool”

    I think calling Adobe’s Firefly ‘ethical’ (which I might have done in the past) is a stretch. It’s more “legally less problematic than other models”, but that doesn’t roll off the tongue https://venturebeat.com/ai/adobe-stock-creators-arent-happy-with-firefly-the-companys-commercially-safe-gen-ai-tool/

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @baldur

    Doesn't this mean that in a sense all adobe creative software users are workers for the company? If the AI was trained off their work, aren't they providing a service to the business by uploading their images? (and, in a rapidly ever more valuable way, ensuring their images are original and human generated?)

    I am sure the law doesn't say quite the right thing about this, of course it doesn't.. I am pointing this out more in the realm of right and wrong.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @baldur sorry I used imprecise words there, I meant to say all users who upload their works to Adobe Stock not all users of photoshop in general or something.

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @baldur

    I really wonder about the claims in the article that AI generated submissions to Adobe Stock are "outcompeting" human submissions.

    That, more than anything would surely be the main headline if it were true? Adobe would have solved not just its own specific class of AI problem with stock photo generation, but solved one of the most critical problems of neural networks/machine learning in general, that they need humans to train them...

    emacsen, to emacs
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    As an Emacs user with an Emacs themed domain, it made me sad to have to post a Fediblock against emacs.ch, but after getting nowhere with the admin and multiple users (including me) being targeted for harassment, it had to be done.

    https://emacsen.net/@babka@babka.social/110577171076991820

    Alonealastalovedalongthe,
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    @galdor @emacsen

    Is this a joke?

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