Heeeyyy Fedi!!! I have a question that I *know* a bunch of you are going to be able to answer.
For the past couple decades I've wanted an electric guitar, but my ex always shot it down. So, now that I've escaped that abusive relationship, and with it nearing the holidays again, I've decided I'm going to finally get one.
Last time I played guitar was in middleschool (and some bass in highschool), so I'm starting from scratch.
My constraints: - 6 string electric guitar - under $200 - used/hand me down is great - pink would be awesome - probably right-handed (because that's what I learned on)
Does anyone have a recommendation (or better yet, an old guitar near Seattle that could use the sweet, sweet love of a new owner?)
I looked at Amazon (🤢) and found something that seems like it fits my needs, but I hate supporting them, *and* I have no idea if it's garbage or not.
Here's a quick tutorial on how to add a descriptive audio track (audio description track) to YouTube videos! Link to support article:https://support.google.c...
Grateful to have the latest legal bill paid; now focusing on housing, transportation, and upcoming legal costs. We're being given a car & will need money for insurance & repairs.
80/1500 Car fund 0/4000 Legal fund 0/6000 Safe housing fund
Really happy to see Apple now using UK audio description for shows set in the UK. Up until recently, any shows set in the UK were described by the same people who did like 99% of Apple TV Plus shows, and while those guys did an awesome job, I found it really took me out of the story to have a US Voice talent randomly popping into and otherwise completely British show lol. I'm not sure why it took them so long to do this, other services like Netflix have used UK audio description narrators for UK shows in the past, but glad to see this is finally changing.
Happy Birthday, Bob Sarnowski! Today, on his actual birthday, At 7 PM EST, HKC Radio is pleased to have Bob's Birthday jam, recorded on November 14 at his party.
Look, we can all complain about religion all we want, but the Protestant Church in the Netherlands in the city of Kampen who have been holding an uninterrupted mass for over a year to protect a family of two parents and five kids (21, 15, 11, and 4) from deportation are fucking heroes. This family has been in The Netherlands for 12 years, so these kids know nothing of the place they came from (hell, two of them were born here and have never seen their parents' home country), and deporting them would be insanely cruel.
Why the long mass, though? Well, according to Dutch law, law enforcement is not allowed to enter a church (or other house of worship) as long as a mass/service/etc. is underway. As such, members of this church take turns holding mass, and 2000 of them have been keeping this up for over a year. The family has its own little area in the church, but they can't leave the building. The kids are taught by local teachers inside the church, and the 21-year old does odd jobs in the building. So yeah, they've been inside for over a year.
Turns out this "church asylum" thing has actually been attempted over 50 times since 1978, and it's been successful at times.
I almost bought a house in Kampen a few years before meeting my now-wife and moving to Sweden. Had that not happened, and I managed to buy a house in Kampen, I would've joined this church in a heartbeat to help out.
Met hulp van 2000 vrijwilligers beschermt de protestantse gemeente in Kampen het Oezbeekse gezin tegen uitzetting. Voorgangers wisselen elkaar af om de twee uur.
When you're a kid, a race is when you're running with your friend, and whoever gets to the destination first wins, and it's fun. When you're an adult, a race is when program A sends a signal, and then program B invokes a method call on program A that program A might not be ready for yet, and all the end user knows is that something isn't working, and then you have to figure out why things aren't working and figure out what to do about it, and it's not fun.
in light of the current political climate the old joke "You know what the leading cause of pedophilia is? Sexy children" just doesn't hit the same way anymore
It seems that the vendor of NAS that tried to force people into their own rebadged Toshiba drives (they back tracked) are trying to catch up on the other vendor that has been promoting via YouTube sponsored content.... (I have heard some saying that vendor invented the NAS).
Hey @AccessOn am I missing something, or do I have to pay to get transcripts of your episodes? There's a transcript heading, but all it says is: "Are you the producer of this podcast? Add a podcast transcript → Need Audio-to-Text? Transcribe with Listen411 in Just 60 Seconds →". Clicking on the latter link brings me to a service where I can pay $0.06 per minute of audio to have it described. This feels exclusionary to me though, deaf-blind users should not have to pay for the right to consume your episodes. Living Blindfully had some of the best transcripts out there during its time, it would be incredible if whatever technology was used there could be incorporated here too.
World governments are trying to ban AI. Here's a comment I just saw that I agree with:
"Advanced AI is the most truly democratizing force the world has ever known, and that is why it is being attacked by so many privileged people (all of whom are quite happy with the status quo thank you very much). Suddenly, as a result of advanced AI, all their connections and their expensive degrees—advantages they and their kids leveraged of to cut ahead of the poor and marginalized and help themselves to the best educations and housing and medical care and food and and cushyest jobs—DO NOT MATTER ANY MORE. Any dirt poor kid with a third-hand laptop or even smartphone can learn anything, build any kind of software, make amazing films and screen them worldwide. The words the elite hate to hear more than any other are, "WE ARE DOING THIS WITHOUT YOUR PERMISSION". And they hate it most of all when it's coming from people they had convinced themselves were powerless to disturb their privilege. AI, AGI, and yes, super-intelligence, are for *us*; the people. We are not giving it up so they can leave us to die in a ditch while they sashay smugly back to their yachts and leafy retreats."
I'd like to know who wrote that comment you reposted. In other words, please cite your source.
While some critics of AI probably do fit the description in that comment, IMO the best criticisms focus on how AI actually further concentrates wealth and power, in the hands of the companies who own the AI models, as well as the companies who will use AI to replace labor (or at least try very hard to do so, whether it actually works or not).
@modulux a lo que iba es a que el gobierno de entonces lo dejó de lado, no lo defendió. No parece que se hiciera ningún contraataque desde el legislativo. Y luego lo del bochorno del poder judicial en funciones un porrón de años. Lo del reparto entre PP-PSOE...
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