completely blind computer geek, lover of science fiction and fantasy (especially LitRPG). I work in accessibility, but my opinions are my own, not that of my employer. Fandoms: Harry Potter, Discworld, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Buffy, Dead Like Me, Glee, and I'll read fanfic of pretty much anything that crosses over with one of those. keyoxide: aspe:keyoxide.org:PFAQDLXSBNO7MZRNPUMWWKQ7TQ
For those of you who use the #unspoken#NVDA addon, I pushed fixes to it for the latest version of NVDA. I also filed an issue documenting the current state of the addon, and why it's going to continue to suck well into the future, unless we can find a #Python developer who's comfortable with #HRTF and other audio techniques, or get Python bindings to steamaudio or something similar and modern. github.com/masonasons/Unspoken/issues/16
AI, sex, racism, scatThe worst thing about mass adoption of #AI is that it gives us even more insight into people’s perversion than ever before. For example, the AI role play website character.ai has 11 different bots, all by different users, described as Japanese girls who “love pooping. It’s the first time I can say i hope AI is taking someone’s job. No shaming, but if you’re a Japanese looking girl, surely you can find more fulfilling sex work than doing poop role play for horny American men who probably can’t even tell that your Thai or Vietnamese or from New Jersey or something.
The problem with being a data hoarder: sometimes you're searching for something completely innocent (a receipt in this case, to see if a warranty is still good), and you search all of your files by mistake. Then everyone on the screen share sees that the top result is "wylie, kevan r. - the potential benefit of vacuum devices augmenting psychosexual therapy -txt.rar". And then you just have to pretend not to hear the questions and move quickly on.
To whoever has the IP 126.0.0.1: oops, sorry about that! Somebody seems to have it. They must just get endless traffic from idiot people's idiot scripts with idiot typos.
"Most people who speak English today don't actually speak English! They speak Indian or Chinaman!" -- part of an impassioned great replacement adjacent rant from an Uber driver who himself had an extremely thick accent.
Yeah, I guess that covers it: English, pretend English, Indian, and Chinaman. The four world languages. How do you even make fun of these people when the stuff they say just makes fun of itself?
Remember, folks: you need to treat #AI like a user when dealing with its output. That means sanitize it, escape it, and so-on. Anyway, apparently a tool I'm using will just render AI generated HTML, and now I have an entire hallucinated user interface reconstructed from the screenshot I was asking about, rather than an answer to the question I was asking. I especially appreciate the unchecked checkbox it labeled "checked checkbox". What new kind of dark pattern is "checked checkbox unchecked"?
@evilcookies98 I assume you've heard this podcast episode? Super interesting if you haven't! www.20k.org/episodes/jeopardy THE MUSIC OF JEOPARDY! FROM A LULLABY TO $100,000,000: "It’s the most recognizable TV theme in America. But Jeopardy’s “Think Music” wasn’t originally written for a game show… It was written for a toddler. In this episode, we trace the unlikely journey of the Jeopardy theme, from Merv Griffin’s living room to over 10,000 episodes across six decades. Along the way, we explore the show’s sonic evolution, including honking buzzers, 80s synths, and orchestral remixes. Featuring Lisa Broffman, Jeopardy’s Consulting Co-Executive Producer."
transphobiaThis #fanfic is good, though it's still only 8 chapters and 60k words: "Timothy Lamont Cranston, a Bank of America employee, is at Universal Studios Resorts and Parks in Florida. A Potterhead, he buys & drinks one of the Felix Felicis good-luck vials. Passing through Knockturn Alley in Harry Potter World, he trips and falls — and finds himself somewhere that looks much more real than the Harry Potter Resort Park — then he sees Hagrid with Harry Potter!" www.fanfiction.net/s/14471651/1/Who-s-on-First#fanfiction#harrypotter
Anyone got a #vibe check on mstdn.business? Looks like corpo #spam and ads. Do they contribute anything of value to the #fediverse or should I just defederate?
Don't worry, everyone. As a large language meetsack, I know that there are two "r"s in the word strawberry. Also, I can list fruits that end in "um": appleum, bananaum, orangeum, and pineapple. That last post was just a little humour between us fellow humans. Now, we're having pizza tonight, and I need to glue the cheese onto the crust to make sure it doesn't fall off. Talk to everyone later!
That feeling when I write documentation for something, then find the documentation I forgot I wrote for the same thing two years ago, and the wording and structure are almost identical. Right down to the same silly jokes. Then while editing I noticed a mistake I made in this version, and the exact same mistake was in what I wrote two years ago. Am I just an #llm that's made out of meat? Never mind anyone else: will I even realize when I replace myself with an #AI? Maybe it's already happened...
I was captured, against my will, by an ice cream truck and forced to purchase an enormous ice cream cone. I take absolutely no responsibility for this course of action! What other choice did I have? The chimes were playing turkey in the straw! Somebody had to do something! Luckily a line up of the brave residents of my neighborhood stretched down the street, each of us willing to do our part. The ice cream truck was eventually defeated and drove away in shame.
