Is This Anal?

LiMux

I can’t help but feel that even bad news like this just pushes the AI hype.

No, it isn’t “intelligent” and won’t be fo centuries to come. It’s just a mirror of the internet, so course it sometimes comes up with insane bullshit. Garbage in, garbage out.

It all reminds me of the “virtual reality” hype of the '90s, which really just meant “faster graphics cards”.

I’m not savvy enough, but to me this looks like it could’ve been taken with a dedicated digital camera with a proper lens. OTOH esp. iPhones are pretty good at processing photos and making generally good decisions for you. Anyhow, not AI.

I saw that pic yesterday and my first thought was “that’s an amazing picture. The photographer had a good eye and probably also some good luck.”

Trust the online world to translate this to “only AI can be this good”.

Not a coder but I grasped enough.

Lastly, I’d like to know where the AI got the idea from. Sounds like pizza glue.

Always check twice whenever someone claims “it’s simple math”!

Yep. Certain patterns are easily recognizable even by machines. One could have a relatively simple “IHeartRadio algorithm” that should work 99% of the time (esp. with Ed Zitron who brackets the blocks with that insane guitar riff).

Hell, I could even write that with ffmpeg and a shell script.

OK I’m being arrogant now, but not wrong.

Try to strip it of all its baggage (it’s almost impossible) and the word very neutrally describes its function but conveys nothing of the horrors. Same with “remigration”.

Why do you think I meant something else?

But there’s a lot of podcasts, especially from sources like IHeartRadio, that have scads of annoying ads

And they’re so repetitive. And each block is the same length if I’m not mistaken. This could even be automated - not relying on human input - or at least half-automated.

It is the wrong tool for what you want, because it would be wasteful of resources.

I’m actually coming round to this.

I guess rsync can be told to remove removed files on the destination, too?

Then I’d just exclude the lossless file extensions, and deal with them differently.

Your git repo might get very big after some time.

I was thinking about this; probably true for the origin, but I’m sure it can be mitigated or at least minimized and maybe avoided completely for the cloning side?

That term has been spooking around elsewhere, too. I hate it, it’s such a clinical term for such a nasty thing, almost like “concentration camp”.

The mirror is for remote listening and streaming, yes.

The lossy version is for both reducing upload and download (streaming) bandwidth. On mobile broadband FLAC tends to buffer a lot.

No, the home of the collection (and its origin) is my local machine.

Please just read the whole article. It’s an easy read for the first half, and well researched. Proper journalism. And relevant not only for Canada.

Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received these emails, according to KICLEI, the group behind them, whose name mimics the international environmental network ICLEI. Screenshots of KICLEI’s internal database show the email addresses of local officials nationwide.

Sounds like they’re proudly doing it out in the open.

And on:

(…) the digital infrastructure behind KICLEI’s campaign: a custom AI chatbot designed to express fears about United Nations control using moderate, civic language — messaging that is now shaping real decisions in town halls across Canada.

chatbot instuctions

At least 14 municipal halls have received KICLEI presentations, with Thorold, Ont., already voting to withdraw from Canada’s flagship municipal net-zero scheme, Partners for Climate Protection. This month, Lethbridge, Alberta, voted to cut its governmental emissions reduction target in half. These decisions followed receipt by the town councillors of letters, presentations and reports from KICLEI members.

And on:

KICLEI (‘Kicking International Council out of Local Environmental Initiatives’) was founded in 2023 by Freedom Convoy activist Maggie Hope Braun

Why am I not surprised. And please don’t call these people activists. That’s just the skin they’re putting on. They’re grifters.

It’s the same as with AI in general: people can’t wait to let it loose on the populace, however flawed it is.

Of course immediate physical danger is more important, but AI’s dangers are very real, too.

And some people, deeming themselves realistic, say it’s almost there but I say no. The idea that machines can become actually intelligent firmly belongs in fiction. And our roads have been designed for intelligent actors for centuries, merely “improving pattern recognition” is not going to cut it.

Fuck all technobros who push this stuff like its a major revelation for humanity.

You’re not fooling me. The paint is peeling.

Would you prefer “suppress”?

Also, wouldn’t your eyes bounce right back since they’re attached with a sort of rubber band?

They’ve been doing shit like that* without AI for decades. But yeas, it’s getting worse all the time.

* censor | suppress - tomatos | tomatoes

If anybody still believed in Telegram’s trustworthiness, it should now be dispelled.

(Only kidding, there’s plenty of people who still “believe” in both Durov and Musk)