Hello fellow Kermit, Gopher and Usenet veteran.

Canisters of nitrous oxide were found in the car, according to French reports. The substance is used by recreational users as it can make people feel relaxed, light-headed or dizzy.

So? NOX doesn’t give teens the ability to flip cars into.perfectly car sized pools, nor does it justify a death sentence. They could have been sober and on a way to a party, or something. What a bullshit thing to include in the article.

Maybe through the front or back windshield, but given that the pool and car were of very similar size (diameter), I don’t think there was a way. They were dead the moment they hit the water. They just didn’t know it yet.

Humans suck.

I work on “the grid”. There is no one reason, but I can list the main culprits I see.

• Decaying infrastructure
• Negligible investment in transport infrastructure (people tend to focus on production, as does this meme, when it isn’t the biggest issue)
• Negligible investment in data management.
• Datacenter supply infrastructure creation is being wholly subsidized by end users. When the energy company goes to the legislature and says “we need 17 billion dollars or we won’t be able to supply the city with power”, they neglect to say that the entirety of that new capacity and all of the previous excess capacity the system had, is now going to power up new datacenters. The legislature approves and the cost is rolled into the consumer’s bill, if not entirely then definitely in part.
• Significant fuckery in billing and estimation. This I cannot go into detail on but I can remind all of you that you have the right to request proof of your detailed power usage.

I thought that the Firefox container tabs functionality (which is amazing) was a computer browser feature only and not available on mobile.

enshittification

It is always, ALWAYS, a grift.

I use Proton Pass for this. It creates the alias, which can be paused when not in use, and manages the login. The free tier gives you a handful but the paid tier is unlimited. If you own/buy a domain, you can configure it to be the domain for all of your aliases. For example, you walmart login could be

walmart@curious_dolphin.net

I just thought it was funny that it decided to brutalize Luke all on its own.

She got a man (Ooh)
You got a hand (Ooh)
And maybe you should stick to what you know

Also, the incest thing was all the AI. I just asked for a song about the fact that Vader never said the line “Luke, I am your father”.

I like to ask it to generate lyrics based on funny prompts. For example, I asked it to write a song from Darth Vader’s perspective about the fact that he never actually said “Luke, I am your father”. The results was just savage.

Hey Luke
I heard you kissed your sister on Hoth
I’m not mad
I’m just curious
'Cause I never kissed mine
Did you like it? Did she like it?
Do you regret it? Do you feel gross?
Did it feel weird when she kissed you?
I know that you never kissed before

She got a man (Ooh)
You got a hand (Ooh)
And maybe you should stick to what you know
Oh
You need to know\

I am your father (I am your father)
Luke
I am your father (Luke, I am your father)
No
I never said that
I never said that (No, I never said that)
No

That song was a mistake that got generated when I pasted the wrong clipboard into Suno’s Lyrics window on my phone and accidentally submitted it. It has not been processed at all. Suno has a “Remaster” feature that when you are happy with the generated song you can give it a few automated “mix and mastering” passes to generate a cleaner and more dynamic sound.

I’ve mainly used Suno to mess about so I didn’t want to pay for the upgrade.

I can see a creative use for Suno Studio where you can feed it a clip of a chord progression you recorded, have the AI generate a few extrapolations, then arrange bits and pieces of it within Suno Studio to create the basic song structure and finally export the midi to your DAW. Basically, you can use it as a fancy sketchpad.

The problem I can’t get past is the environmental impact.

Bullshit. This only applies to fully prompt generated AI music. Tracks that heavily rely on AI based tech as a part of the process are harder to catch, and tracks that only use AI for mixing and mastering are impossible to detect.

I made a track but used AI to autotune and morph my voice to that of a woman’s. It even allowed me to tweak the expressiveness of the voice. The track is 95% human made but the vocals are AI modified. I’m willing to bet that the ration of AI use in a lot of pop music and EDM is a lot higher.

PS: I make music for myself, as a hobby. I just wanted to make something to share with my friends. If you want real music, try bands like Wet Leg, IDLES, GEESE, etc who lean into making low tech music.

EDIT: Thia is an example of a song that is fully generated by AI. All that was fed to the prompt were the lyrics. The AI did everything else itself, including picking the genre. I shared it with a few people to see who’d figure out it was AI slop.

https://youtu.be/oOJ0En2u5DQ

That’s a shame. Hopefully they add lossless someday.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2022/07/cider-is-an-open-source-apple-music-client-for-linux-desktops

So what’s the angle? The Internet is getting flooded by AI slop. AI needs fresh REAL content to train with. That’s the angle. You are there to provide frsh amd original content to feed the AI.

Violence against women is bad. Political violence is bad. These two are not mutually exclusive concepts.