bibbasa

neuro-sama

we always knew video games would be the end of the world since gamergate

i was a vocal synth nerd before i was a fedi/foss nerd. we’ve been doing ai since before the ai bubble, and i think vocal synths are a good example of ethical ai.

vocal synths are still a creative tool where you compose the music, lyrics and expression yourself, but the ai engine makes the voice more realistic sounding. you purchase “voice banks” which are effectively training data for a single voice and this voice bank comes from a “voice provider” who is a paid singer that will record samples for the vocal synth engine. a lot of voice providers request to have the voice bank “characterized” to sound different from themselves, and the vocal synth company will do so. compare KAF to KAFU CEVIO.

this is a process based entirely on consent, something openai and the rest of them lack, they just send out an army of scrapers to take anything and everything they can get their hands on, consent be damned.

actually speaking of KAF, i was excited because KAFU was coming to synth v, since i don’t have CEVIO (and don’t speak japanese). but unfortunately, KAFU SV was cancelled because the synth v ai engine made her sound too much like herself, and most likely they couldn’t modify the voice bank to sound differently enough and they cancelled it. at least, that’s the prevailing theory.

for a longer answer… i was turned off from vanilla ubuntu because the linux community in general doesn’t seem to like it and i just assumed ubuntu’s time in the sun was done.

i liked linux mint, and still use it on my old thinkpads, but it feels dated, and i had a screen which needed wayland. i stayed on fedora for a little over a year, almost two. i bounced around a little until one day i decided to just try ubuntu and haven’t felt the need to leave since. i mean, linux mint and pop are only good because ubuntu lts is good, right?

you’ll have to sync your printer with the cloud so ai can train on all of your printed documents and splice ads into your taxes

time for printer grannies to become linux

now the cloud deletes the files on your computer

i plan to do a fresh install when the official release comes in april

ended my distrohopping.

i can’t count how many times i’ve been and seen others get shamed as a lib loser for thinking voting matters. on the other hand, it turns out the right just liked fascism all along.

what’s odd is i hear this kind of thing from the left, not the right

we still doing government cheese?