welcome to the master race

i believe so, but a man can dream

this is my preference thanks.

the pharaoh

eyyyyy, shameless self-promo, but i made a community a couple days ago called !politicaloptimism@piefed.social

i’m a little nervous about bringing this up since i’m the one of the only people active there right now, but we have a “Seeking Optimism” flair for people who are concerned about things and want assurance for the most sensational narratives over what’s happening.

i’ve been hearing complaints in the vocal synth community about getting called “slop” for using vocaloid by people who don’t know what it is. we live in the worst timeline. any kind of digital processing or tools are just slop now.

remember keyboard cat? pepperidge farms remembers… 😔✊️

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.

if they like mealworms, then i bet they’ll like brainworms even more

cook bacon in water.

don’t drown it, but add just enough to render out the fat without the bacon being in direct contact with the pan, preventing sticking and burning. then once the water steams out the bacon is left to fry in its own juice, giving perfectly crispy bacon every time.

it has electrolytes

why do rich people ruin everything

go fasc lose cash

only for politicians and billionaires, etc. powerful people.

there’s a few leopardsatemyface communities out there that would be more appropriate.

!leopardsatemyface@lemmy.world !leopardsatemyface@lemmy.ca !leopardsatemyface@lemm.ee !leopardsatemyface@reddthat.com

also fafo
!fafo@lemmy.world

boys will be boys

oi, you got a loicense for that snow?

I’m good, thanks.

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