I am subbing in a high school class that, since it is the last day of school for seniors, has nothing to do. Everyone is on their phones, of course.
But the guys in the class are using their phones to interact...they are showing each other stuff and laughing, etc. The girls are intently staring at their screens thumbing alone.
Not sure what to make of this, but I don't think it can be good.
Alexey Lutsenko, Kazakhstan
Tadej Pogačar, Slovenia
Juan Pedro López, Spain
Ben O'Connor, Australia
Florian Lipowitz, Germany
Jonathan Milan, Italy
Romain Bardet, France
Laurence Pithie, New Zealand
Further proof that "AI" is not really a thing (as if such proof is necessary)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 is streaming on YouTube, it's a legit stream from Shout! Factory.
YT drops ads into the stream, essentially at random, in the middle of scenes. Which is stupid and makes the stream fairly unwatchable.
MST3K was originally a cable TV show and has commercial breaks built into it -- the original bumpers are still in the show. The show also features a flashing light signal that the characters in the show recognize as "commercial sign." It literally signals some of the commercial breaks.
A twelve year old could identify the commercial break points in all 10 seasons of the show in an afternoon.
Instead, YT dropped three random commercial breaks in the middle of scenes in a half hour. As much as I love MST3K, I can't watch that. Total #enshittification. Doesn't help YT, the advertisers or Shout!
If Google had an actual AI that worked, you would think they would apply it here. Seems pretty simple, and surely other old TV shows are streaming on YT as well.
I don't give the slightest crap about Alec Baldwin, but can't help being exposed to the whole thing. Of course my sympathy goes to the family of the person killed.
But here is what amazes me.
I'm no engineer or expert, but it sure seems to me that there is no need for a real gun on a movie set. It seems to me there must be some way that guns can be modified to be unable to take any kind of live ammunition and still provide the desired effect cinematic effect.
Surely some kind of flash device can be engineered that would be harmless. Thousands of gunshots have been recorded so the sound can be foleyed. CGI could add to the effect if necessary -- it's only a thousandth of a second, how expensive can it be? If you need the sound on set for the actors to react to, some kind of electronic trigger could be linked to speakers to produce a realistic sound.
Why are the guns themselves the only thing that can't be faked?
So, it is fantastic that many people here are posting images here with extensive alt-text descriptions -- hooray for them.
However, now when I scroll through my timeline here, I often can not seen the images as the tooltip completely covers the image. Is there any way in Vivaldi to turn off those tool tips on a universal basis?
(I did post this on the forum but have had no luck with an answer so far!)
@MylesRyden
There doesn't seem to be any settings that can be disabled to hide Alt text tooltips, but as long as you don't hover over the ALT icon, they should not show up. 🤔
I am not sure why I started on this little project or if it even has any value, but hey.
I found a VHS video vault on archive.org and found that removing two thirds of the video actually made them more watchable and entertaining. So, I decided to make it permanent and actually edit them, not just skip through while watching.
This is sort of a proof of concept attempt, an anti-drug short.