I’m sorry for this insensitive joke, but MiiTomo was too good.

#MiiTo(Mo)

They reinstated a lot of them last time.

Social media people only get paid €100 a month? I doubt that.

You have to scroll up some, it goes that far over because of the word wormhole

It’s funny, I’ve been thinking a lot about people’s acknowledgement of faults or shortcomings and choosing to ignore them, whether it’s because they agree, don’t care, or think it doesn’t matter. Or don’t agree and there’s no better alternative, or it’s the least bad alternative. I dunno.

In the public internet spaces like Facebook, discord, the others, I’ve been seeing a lot of this happening recently with Linkin Park’s new singer. Some are happy and ignorant, some know and don’t care, some know and are saddened. There is a lot of vitrol between the people who know and are saddened and the people who don’t know/don’t care. This is just one example from this week, but it happens every week to every story. It can be, probably, literally applied to anything. People’s level of information heavily biases them from their predisposed beliefs (as in, if they already have an opinion, chances are that the opinion will not change when presented with new information).

In our spaces I see it with Brave. I see it with Kagi. We all saw it with Unity en masse and something actually happened about that, but even so people are still using Unity today, albeit I would guess out of necessity, or now ignorance since time has passed (not saying ignorance here is a fault). Before then we saw it with Audacity. Can’t forget Reddit, where a significant chunk of users are now participating here instead. And… yet… Reddit still exists, nearly in full.

It’s such a crazy phenomena with how opinions are formed from emotional judgements based on the level of information they have, and due to our current state of informational sharing there are microcosms of willful ignorance. And some aren’t ignorant, it just doesn’t matter to them.

You mean cable packages, which have been on the comeback

If you were from California you probably knew he was full of shit because he duped the state out of a bullet train, promising the Hyperloop like from Futurama.

Of course the Hyperloop got voted for and nothing ever came of it because if it is possible, Elon would not be part of finding that out.

looks at subsidiaries

Well if things like Nestle aren’t…

Yup, this is why I didn’t pay for REAPER until the check for my first audiobook came through!

I’m still waiting for that check from the author, but you best believe $60 of it is going to the software that made that job possible!

Ryzen Threadripper 3000, Threadripper Pro 3000WX, Zen 2 EPYC (7002), Ryzen 3000 mobile, and Ryzen 3000/4000 APUs all were in AMD’s original plans to be patched (and still are).

So, it seems like the Ryzen 5 3600 and its like are unaffected? Since that one is not an APU?

No, the friend is saying

downloading music is legal as long as the artists have authorised use of their work and it is only played privately (not distributed).

Artists are opting in to allowing their music to be pirated, so it technically would be piracy under that law.

However if it’s privately played it may not matter

Hopefully, it was just to get the phone connected to the device so he could turn on the enhanced speech setting! Now that it’s set up I’m hoping he never needs to use it again lol

I suppose I should expect a call back in a few weeks then lol. It took me over an hour to get this one sorted out, it was really quite ridiculous. I can’t even say what specifically it was I would be “doing” wrong, it legitimately seemed like it was broken by its own design.

With getting a Sonos device connected to the app

There’s 3 facets.

1. Being “in” on the joke.

This is the meme comments, whether they are internet lore (a way to signify that you were there) or simply just in on the joke.

2. Community expectations.

Some communities are made to be in on the joke. Some communities are made to be informational and analytic. Even the latter communities will eventually have some jokes that occur, which over time will create a caste of those who are “in” on the joke.

3. Ethics and morals.

In smaller, usually hobby communities, this generally isn’t problematic. However in the wider internet, it’s not uncommon for hate to be the joke, and spreading it being “in” on the joke.

Therefore, the hivemind is not inherently bad, as it is just a nature of community expectations that are connected through shared experiences over time. But just like we’ve seen through history, this can be pretty easily manipulated and people who don’t have humanitarian beliefs in mind perpetuating that rhetoric.

In any case, to combat this, I think the community just needs to set specific expectations. GameFAQs forums would be a great example of having mostly problem-free hivemind, as video games have a specific meta-game that is developed over time and jokes from that shared experience (git gud, don’t get hit, etc). The whole point of these forums was to talk about the game, from meme (before memes) to painstaking min-maxing, and the discussions of the community would revolve around this. The rules of the forums made it pretty hard to be overtly mean or engage in discussion that wasn’t centered around the goal of the community.

Wow, I just had to help an elderly person with this at my work

This is real time and based from one image.

Deep fakes up to this point are generally not real time, and are generally trained on the source, then with different methods can be applied to the video. Say, making Kermit the Frog doing a dance as the final video, but it’s been deep faked to look like Ms. piggy.

There are tons of examples of AI that post process deep fakes. This is one of the few real time ones that you can link to a webcam, have a single photo, and you are the deepfake.

From my understanding, that hasn’t been done yet, at least not in the AI spaces I’ve been part of.

Seconding reafir, or really any audio silencing plugin.

Record silence for 5 - 8 seconds, turn on FX, set to subtract and then playback the silence with the checkbox.

You’ll see the frequency range it takes up. In some cases this can affect your source audio, for example if the clicking sound is in the same range as a higher pitched humans voice, they may become warbled or inaudible.

This can be done to take out car whooshing/air to some extent, and general background hums from line input or gain noise or fans.

Apply the color spectrum into the mix.

The color red is currently used by both “extreme” political groups in the U.S., the “extreme” leftists and the extreme conservatives. It’s red for leftists because of communism and it’s red for conservatives because of the republican party. The color has now also been co-opted by the far right and has made a comeback in the same spirit of the rise of fascism, so it’s even more charged.

Does this factor into how you dress on a daily basis? Maybe, maybe not depending on the context.

Am I dressing up as a character with a lot of red? Unless they’re political, it’s probably not a statement. Is the outfit predominantly red with patches indicating a political spectrum? Then well, it’s probably with that statement in mind. Are you in an area where the color red is affiliated with local gangs? Then you might avoid the color red entirely to prevent any accidents.

With that in mind, I still feel like weird is quite contextual. Sometimes things are weird because they are unusual. Sometimes unusual is mystical, sometimes unusual is haunting.

That’s the thing about language, English somewhat moreso than others because of its nature. Words mean things based on the words surrounding them, and the meaning of a word on its own is ethereal and faceted until it has been placed in permanence within its sentence. This does not apply to all words of course, as there are obvious examples of words that are originated intentionally to be harmful, then ones that have been turned into colloquially harmful (equally harmful of course). The current case of weird is definitely the latter due to its etymology, and looking at what I’ve seen in social spaces… is the fear that weird will become a slur because it’s being used against a person in politics, and trickle down into social insult? Because weird has always been a good and bad connotation of word. You have 2 kinds of weird uncles, you have 2 kinds of weird situations, you have 2 kinds of so many weird things because weird is weird. Sometimes it’s slimy. Sometimes it’s something beautiful, but unearthly. It is inherently a word far removed from the realm of concrete definition because, true to it’s etymology, it comes from wyrd which meant fate. This seems important as fate itself is not set in permanence until the events occur. Something is weird because you aren’t sure what to expect from it until it settles.

To me, this isn’t inherently a bad thing. It is inherently a contextual thing though. If someone comes up to me and describes themselves as weird, that isn’t very weird. It’s forthcoming about someones personality, that they may be unusual. If we then pass by someone screaming at their phone over a donut they dropped because they hated their wife (idk) and I described him as “extremely weird”, I don’t think anyone except the angry man would feel insulted, nor should they, because my comment was towards the person and the circumstances.

Similarly weirdo can be a term of endearment or more derogatory, it’s all just based on context. It’s good to broaden our vocabulary though, so definitely don’t let me stop you from shifting from using other words to describe the bizarre and vagary!

Also, this isn’t to say that weird couldn’t become a word we shouldn’t say. If one day “the weirds” start getting targeted and people being genuinely afflicted in their livelihood then, well, yeah we’re going to rethink the wording. I just am not sure that a few news outlets calling a sham politician and the last few days gestating that in the socialscape of the internet is really something we should be worrying about yet. Until then, weird will still be used by children to insult other children, it will be self ascribed by weird children and lauded by other children, and it will be used to describe unusual events both before and after they happen.

Weird is a great word for many circumstances. Do not let one circumstance define it, this one especially, not until it is so damning that it really should be brought to pasture.