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Been seeing a survey going around fedi this morning about Discord's use of AI, but it's hosted on some other unrelated website, there's no mention of it on discord's blog and the first time I've heard of it is from mastodon, so, like, anybody got a source for this, or is this just someone playing games?

EDIT: The domain has been used by Discord in the past (see thread), which points to this survey being legit!

(I do still wonder why I heard it from Fedi rather than from Discord though)

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Last question was something like "Would you stop using discord if we added AI" and obviously I answered no but also obviously I won't stop using discord if it goes even shittier because, like, I didn't want to use discord in the first place lol, a group chat moved to it from facebook and I couldn't make a compelling case for Jabber given that discord is easier to use, shitting it all up with AI isn't gonna change the fundamentals here

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Today I've been reminded to be careful about inferring anything based on what I encounter as a research subject. I was participating in a project where a grad student was studying interactions between blind people and robots. The robots kept failing to correctly complete the tasks that I was supposed to be asking them to do. After I was finished, the researcher told me that the robots had been programmed to make those mistakes on purpose, since they are common mistakes that robots might make, and she was trying to learn about the way a blind person would react to these mistakes. I was glad that she told me this, since, until then, my take-away had been that these robots were early research prototypes that couldn't reliably perform tasks, but this wasn't exactly the right take-away.

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Is it just me or does it feel super corrupt that all of these charities are paying their "leadership" seven (7) figure salaries?

The top one is making over $5 million USD / year.

charitywatch.org/nonprofit-com…

Nonprofit Compensation Packages of $1 Million or More

Which charities compensate their executives most highly. CharityWatch's salary information is calculated using the IRS Form 990.
www.charitywatch.org

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Migration from iCloud Photos to Immich in progress :neocat_cool_fingerguns:

Things I like:

* Easy to get going and seems much faster than my experience with Nextcloud

* Seems to support both HEIC and Live Photos and even displays them nicely in the interface

* Seems able to upload the photos directly from iCloud without having to download them all (a real win when you have more than 256GB of iCloud Photos and a 256GB phone

* Machine learning & recognition seem decent

Waiting to see:

* I do seem to need to keep the app open to upload reliably — but I am uploading 32k items so I figure this is probably a one-time thing

* It seems to stop uploading after every few hundred imports and grind all 6 cores I gave it at 100% for a few min — I assume this is the ML running over recent uploads though and will also be one-time (plus the WebUI stays working during this)

(cc @neil )

Screenshot of Immich iOS app showing 32096 total assets to upload. There are 19992 remaining, and 15678 “ready for upload” but I’m not sure what the difference is there.
@Neil Brown

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Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

Link: eteknix.com/microsoft-may-have…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

#microsoft


Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11

When it comes to performance, it’s hard to find users who are completely satisfied with Windows 11. Many believe it’s filled with unnecessary features that are difficult to disable. According to a rec
Solomon Thompson (eTeknix)
#microsoft

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#Playdate accounts to follow:

("Playdate" is a quirky handheld console with a physical crank on it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playdate… )

➡️ @playdate - Official Playdate account
➡️ @UncrankdPD - Fanzine for the Playdate
➡️ @Xanialasagna - Indie dev & designer working on Playdate games
➡️ @dave - Playdate staff member & typewriter fan
➡️ @pawprints - Indie game dev making Playdate & web games

#VideoGames #IndieGames #IndieGaming


handheld game console developed by Panic

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#videogames #indiegames #playdate #indiegaming @Dave Hayden 🏊 @Pawprints Games @Playdate @Uncrank'd @Xanialasagna

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Nachdem ich Matcha Latte allgemein sehr geil finde, und im Teeladen letztens Matcha-Tee herumlag … dachte ich mir, den probierst du mal.

Stellt sich heraus: Matcha-Tee ist so gar nicht meines.

Aber hey, es ist Tee, nach guter britischer Art könnte man da noch Milch dazukippen, vielleicht wird's dann mehr Latte.

Stellt sich raus: Nope, auch das hilft nicht, ist immer noch nicht meines.

Jedenfalls … braucht jemand Matcha-Tee?

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Fellow *non*-Americans—are you using any or all of the U.S. support for Israeli wars and the Israeli genocide on Palestinians, the U.S. attack on Venezuela, the annexation threats against Greenland, or other U.S. policy decisions to move away from U.S. products and services?

(Responses are anonymous. Please reshare for reach!)

#usa #uspolitics #bigtech

  • yes (58%, 32 votes)
  • long in progress (20%, 11 votes)
  • thinking about it (14%, 8 votes)
  • no (7%, 4 votes)
55 voters. Poll end: 6 days ago

#USA #bigtech #uspolitics

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A sad death in my family

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Servers described as "Glitch Mastodon" or "Hometown Mastodon" work just like Mastodon but have additional features such as larger post sizes, rich text formatting or local-only posts.

Mastodon's server software is free and open source, so programmers can tweak it to make their own versions. (Untweaked Mastodon is often called "Vanilla Mastodon".)

You can find good Glitch and Hometown servers to join or move to at:

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/glitch-mastodo…

➡️ fedi.garden/tag/hometown-masto…

#FediTips #Mastodon


Glitch Mastodon | Fedi.Garden – An easy way to join Mastodon and the Fediverse

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.garden
#Mastodon #FediTips

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Я все понимаю в том, как волшебно китайцы переодят названия товаров, но

Фигурка Yakuza протагонист Кирю Кадзума , Горо Маджима/ Like A Dragon Goro Majima action figure strong man doll (17см) Подарки для болельщиков


Заставило поржать снова. Для болельщиков.
БОЛЕЛЬЩИКОВ.

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My fellow homelabbers: which sultion would you recommend if you would like to build a Spotify like Streaming Service for youre family with music you have in a local library?
Important would be that there is an App for at least iPhone/iPad and that things like smart playlists, multiuser etc ist supported so everybody could use the same big catalog but with its own playlists, favourits etc.
If have already found three projects which could be okay: Navidrome, Funkwhale and Koel.
Any thoughts about this? Which route would you go?
#homelab #selfhosting #spotify #navidrome #funkwhale #koel @homelab @homelab_de
#funkwhale #spotify #homelab #selfhosting #navidrome #koel @Run your own homelab @Homelab Deutschland

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Sorry, I can't resist showing you one more.
"One night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson"
youtube.com/watch?v=i3jHv0GZB9…
Note, performed by one single man, Jonas Wolf, he did all the voices.
#Music #Baroque #YouTube

One Night in Bangkok but it's a 16th century chanson

If Clément Janequin (ca. 1485 - 1558) was the songwriter for Murray Head...One Night in Bangkok, words and melody in their original form by Tim Rice, Björn U...
YouTube
#youtube #music #baroque

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My mother is in the market for a new home-office PC, or will be soon. She's an accountant; she's retired now, but she still does taxes for our family and some accounting work for her church. The last time I helped her select and set up a desktop PC was in 2013. Now she uses the church's old office PC, which has a Skylake processor and a spinning hard drive (not even an SSD; I checked). So naturally, that machine's getting slow. 1/?
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Alex Hall

I ran an Intel NUC for two or three years with no problem. Nowadays, Intel has abandoned that idea, but companies like Minisforum and Beelink have run with it. I have an AMD 5600 machine on my desk right now that's about 4x4 inches, maybe 3 inches tall. I got it on sale for, I think, $279, and it came with RAM and an SSD. They probably cost more now, because of the RAM crisis, but I love tiny machines.

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I wonder how common the Eloquence phenomenon is in blind communities around the world.
That is, an old speech synthesizer made years ago and long since abandoned by its maker, which blind people tightly hold on to for one reason or another.
Two examples I'm familiar with are Neurosoft's SynTalk 1.6 in Poland, and IBM's ProTalker in Japan, and I'm curious if this happens in other places as well.
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I mean this hasn't been abandoned and isn't comparatively as old, but I know of many folks who still use this Vietnamese SAPI5 speech engine which essentially plays audio files in sequence. It was initially released in 2004 with a southern voice reading three different encodings and updated in 2009 with a northern voice according to the timestamps within the installer:
saomaicenter.org/en/smsoft/vnv…

Sao Mai VNVoice | Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)

Sao Mai VNVoice is the first usable text-to-speech engine with screen reading software on Windows for Vietnamese language.
Sao Mai Center for the Blind (SMCB)

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Please CW child abuse!

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#childabuse #EpsteinFiles #epstein #socialskills
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No sleep. I'm busy implementing proper chunking into the SoftVoice-Say program, of course. What else? Codex sucked at it, it did a half-assed job. So now I'm manually writing up patching section prompts to GPT-5.2 Pro instead, because it'll actually build it, unlike Codex which prefers to make minor changes in the file and do one single task from many. That's the downside of Codex. Think of it more like a code review friend who can do quick repo scanning and read context if you tell it what files and where. However, Codex won't write you a new feature in your program from scratch, regular GPT is still way better for that.

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This is a survey all #Discord users need to fill out {edit - seems they closed it within a day?}. Discord wants to know if we want AI to run the app. It'd be using data from pictures, conversations, voice notes, live streams, art, 'learning' from us in the app if they don't get strong enough pushback.

Let them know how you feel before they ruin that app for everyone as well.

It's an [assumed - see replies] official survey and it doesn't even take 5 mins. Please boost and share in your servers too.
discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe…
#genAI #AIslop #AI #gaming #streaming #streamer #noToAI #gamer #gamers #womenWhoGame #resist

#gaming #discord #AI #streaming #Gamer #streamer #genai #notoai #aislop #resist #gamers #womenwhogame
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