Item 1 China banned most gacha game mechanics including randomized loot lootboxes and incentives such as daily login bonuses and "buy 5 get 50% off." Investors and representatives from the two largest Chinese game companies said this would cost them $80,000,000,000
Item 2 lawsuit that began in 2005 finally in court, involving Visa and Mastercard. A judge rejected the deal offered. V & M, in 2023, from terminal fees alone, took $60,000,000,000 to the bank.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 17:56:08 JST picofarad -
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 10:30:21 JST picofarad @colonelj @bot
having rescued a few animals in this sort of condition, it is a good feeling when they finally deprogram whatever happened to them and become part of the family. -
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 22-Jun-2024 16:29:04 JST picofarad chatgpt got it
I didn't even know it could handle images on my version, huh
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 09:41:19 JST picofarad @icedquinn i'll go demo those services by putting a few sentences in that will immediately make it obvious if they're to blame.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 09:06:39 JST picofarad @icedquinn I don't like anything AI that anyone else creates, and maybe 0.1% of stuff i've "run off" on AI is postable. This is to say i'm extremely critical of it, and most people publish garbage (i mean, anyhow, but moreso of genAI stuff).
sonauto is another one
"@thereiruinedit" on youtube et al runs his own genai stuff and the secret sauce is very strong. If it were mainstream there wouldn't be any reason for record labels.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 08:58:35 JST picofarad @icedquinn what service generates these? the services i've tried out only output like 40 seconds, and they've got weird quirky glitches. I'm wondering if the people who make/release these just run off 100 and pick the best one, the same way i do with stable diffusion
here's an example from udio
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Jun-2024 08:52:10 JST picofarad "content creators" that use dubbing/voiceover software bug me so much.
not once in my life have i ever wanted to hear a computer or robot read to me for 20+ minutes.
I am unsure what software they use as i only know of 3 TTS softwares, and the quirks that are common in those three aren't present. I'm wondering if capcut does it or there might be a paid service somewhere using something like tortoise that has been customized.
anyhow, i just watched 10 minutes of a video and i'm annoyed.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jun-2024 17:15:36 JST picofarad @PNS isn't the loophole "in order to 'work' most of the 'therapeutics' have to be done before puberty because [reasons]"?
When did the CAST thing come out, because i don't have it yet, i got sidetracked by that other huge medical report put out in the UK last month
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 13:42:36 JST picofarad @kirby this is why i set all my malware to do nothing for at least 280 seconds
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 12:09:47 JST picofarad @icedquinn there was some commentary that mixtral (with an x) may be better since it *may* have the full 32k context window and not require moving window batching.
I've never tried summarizing, but i wonder how hard it would be with this one corpus i have, maybe split it on a phone number or something and summarize each section.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 12:05:41 JST picofarad @icedquinn yes, i hope someday they release better models but for now it's have some errors and a searchable corpus or zero errors and no searchable corpus.
diarization hasn't worked for me, yet. I'm willing to try anything once, although using docker but also requiring .sh runnery is almost a non-starter.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Monday, 27-May-2024 12:02:29 JST picofarad https://github.com/transcriptionstream/transcriptionstream
hmmm, will have to see
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 04:27:11 JST picofarad @icedquinn I'd feel so bad for whoever edited it; if i edited it i'd never publish, as is evidenced by there not being any podcast episodes already.
We used to record our hour long conversations on the phone and since we did that twice a day, 4-5 days a week, we had enough content to do a podcast, but ugh, my voice.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 24-May-2024 04:23:27 JST picofarad i've kicked around the idea of doing a podcast with a friend or two. I don't like my voice much - there's a few videos with my voice in them on youtube (including ones uploaded by other people) and when i'm in "concentration" mode i repeat "ticks"; one video i am in was edited to cut out uninteresting parts, so the other person would ask me "filming?" and i'd go "yuh yuh yuh" which i learned from a marine i was friends with.
ugh.
Maybe i can record the podcast, transcribe, then TTS it?
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 19-May-2024 08:33:26 JST picofarad @sun Grand Internet Mersenne Prime Search?
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Friday, 17-May-2024 16:46:01 JST picofarad okay, but why
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 14:01:56 JST picofarad @r000t like a mastodon relay or nostr?
or, and i hesitate to ask, an x.25 packet relay, or APRS...
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 13:55:45 JST picofarad @BowsacNoodle @SK1ZM @Spingebill change it to "opulent" - weedeater is like "kleenex" - a brand name that got diluted. I'm assuming it's to avoid hiring people that used that prompt injection to trick the AI.
I also don't buy the "20 years of experience in ..." part. but i guess it's worth a shot, although why you'd want to work for a retarded company is beyond me.
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 15:41:58 JST picofarad @icedquinn I'm so far out of the loop (hrrr) i don't even know what's available, really. Glad you have jerbs
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picofarad (picofarad@noauthority.social)'s status on Tuesday, 07-May-2024 15:37:23 JST picofarad @icedquinn I had an MPC but i got it used and didn't know someone had jammed the CF card in wrong and bent a bunch of pins. I tried to take it apart but that thing is built like a tank, tons of sheetmetal.
ReCycle is a beat slicer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU_8n8k0nWs