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  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlNon intentional peak performance
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    4 days ago

    I don’t know if it’s still a thing in the digital age, but having even just a few seconds of dead air back in the analogue broadcast days could mean that “silence detectors” all over the country would start going off and radio engineers everywhere would think there was some kind of problem with their station. So there had to be talking, music, something at pretty much all times.

    If you wanted intentional silence you could play comfort noise in the background.




  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mltoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlRoad trip tips
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    20 days ago

    Try to get a really early start so you aren’t spending the last few hours driving in darkness. If you haven’t listened to the “Shit town” podcast, it got me through a long drive once. This was on a 2012 car with no smartphone features besides basic bluetooth, but there was a pairing procedure that got audio to at least play (it was really wonky to setup, I had to look it up).

    Edit: Big Caveat to my advice on the starting early, be careful if your trip ends inside a huge metro area on a weekday, as bad timing can land you straight into some horrendous rush-hour traffic.





  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlYou are in good hands
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    1 month ago

    It looks horrific to me. Like a film prop from Cronenberg or Lynch. I think it’s the mix of mechanical motion, a material that reminds me of Jean Jacket’s stomach from Nope, and a structure like a severely prolapsed rectum. No way could I get off in this thing.


  • This is probably just because it’s DC. The rules get really muddy there. For a long time the highest elected position in DC was head of the school board, and even though ostensibly there’s “home rule” now, Congress still loves to punish the local populace by overriding anything they think scores points with their base back in Idaho. If you get convicted of a felony in DC you actually get transferred to federal prison.



  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mltoFirefox@lemmy.mlublock ai slop list?
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    2 months ago

    It’s not just tech. Gardening, DIY, cooking, and similar popular subjects have been completely destroyed by this crap. If I see an AI generated header image or thumbnail I immediately backpedal now because I assume that means the text is bullshit too.

    The example stuck in my memory now is when I was trying to read about watermelon growing times and the article said they flower a week after germination.There’s now frequently this, “oh GOD DAMN IT *close tab*” moment when you realize it’s actually total slop. Like, “oh so this article is BULLSHIT bullshit.”


  • I’m not really into audiobooks, but my mom is, and she’s lent/given me a couple. I think, for her, having a good voice actor is at least half of the experience, at least when she describes her favorite books half of her praise is for the actor.

    Having listened to her favorites I can confirm the actors are really good. They are true professionals, far beyond what AI can do. AI can do commercial voiceovers, where there is purposely a single-note, unevocative tone. How can it do a shift in emotion across a line of dialogue as a character has a revelation? Or a slow change in personality as a character goes insane? Or slightly modify their voice as an angry, drunk father finally realizes he is pushing his daughter away, or his voice cracks when he knows the treatment is hopeless, or drops his guard when he remembers his old friend he didn’t recognize? Etc. Even the pauses can communicate volumes.

    This is the emotional landscape actors excel at navigating but tech bros aren’t even aware of because of their terrible media literacy. So even if some “prompt engineer” was babysitting the AI it wouldn’t be nearly as good. Basically, just saying the words is only half the actors skill, they are great at analysis also.


  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmy.mlweird priorities
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    2 months ago

    Seems like basically every company is covering up crimes that happen on their properties, and lots of those are sex crimes. I have no data, just anecdotally it’s been almost every company I’ve ever worked for and the experience of virtually every woman I’ve known well enough to talk candidly about this shit. I’m not talking about “nice ass” comments either, I’m talking like, “blow me or you’re fired” type shit.

    Not an excuse for Ubisoft, but it’s kind of like how Covid is now endemic so we’re like “oh well”. This disease is so common we apparently don’t give a shit. There was a brief window of hope with “Me Too” but then reactionaries shut that down.




  • I’m starting to think it’s something super specific to the particular hugo theme I’m using and how it wants users to insert custom js/css to get it all baked down into the right place in the final output. I’ll keep bashing on it, thanks for your help!

    Edit: OK this is kind of hilarious considering the community I posted to, but I actually think it works fine but something about my Librewolf setup is breaking it. It works fine in Firefox and Chrome, and since I jump around between them as I work I just happened to test in Librewolf right as I made this change. Not to get too far into the weeds but I think I’m going to just go ahead with not linking cloudflare. Thanks again.


  • Thanks fixed. Interesting jerboa and the web version of lemmy are developed by the same person but using the “code” button in the web frontend only uses one backtick. That might be worth a bug report.

    I’m actually trying to get away from github also, so maybe codeberg pages instead? This is a part of the process I haven’t done enough research into, I wanted to get the static site working locally first then “shop around” for hosts.




  • Something about how hugo is cooking everything down into a /public directory is breaking the overlay images (like the next/prev arrow). I’m sure I can track it down but since I’m pretty inexperienced this will take me some time (at cursory glance all the paths seemed good, so I’m not sure why it’s broken).

    I would also prefer to host it myself so maybe I should just do this…