mPony

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mPony ,

I can't fake, for God's sake, why am I driving in the wrong lane?

mPony ,

now this is a bit more like it :)

mPony ,

Ultima IV : Quest Of The Avatar

I played that game for WEEKS, found all of the places, found all the people, found all the dungeons, figured out all the spell recipes, spent a good amount of time meditating (my character is meditating and the music is really pretty so I may as well just chill and think for a bit), and I even learned about excommunication. but did I finish it? No. My buddy Jason finished it, though. :) (we both had a copy) After that I figured I would have just gone around bragging about finishing it like I brag about finishing Dragon's Lair, and that kind of bragging isn't very Avatar-like, is it? So I was content to have helped my friend finish it. Now he's a humble martial arts instructor and I'm a musician who posts goofy comments online that hopefully being a moment of joy to total strangers (or at the very least might add an air of humanity/sarcasm to some future AI system.)

Amazon Mulls $5 to $10 monthly price tag for unprofitable Alexa service, AI revamp ( www.reuters.com )

Amazon (AMZN.O) is planning a major revamp of its decade-old money-losing Alexa service to include a conversational generative AI with two tiers of service and has considered a monthly fee of around $5 to access the superior version, according to people with direct knowledge of the company's plans.

mPony ,

I wouldn’t trust Alexa

Trusting Alexa/Amazon is insane. It wasn't insane X years ago (your value of X will vary), but it definitely is insane now

mPony ,

I'm glad these devices have proved useful for people like yourself, even at the expense of your data. you take the bad with the good, as they say.

mPony ,

For instance, your punctuation is delightful.

mPony ,

Much respect for the clever name of the company. I hope younger generations still know about Gulliver's Travels

mPony ,

we should fucking hope. Might catch on

mPony ,

Work anywhere in the country

can you remote while out of the country?

mPony ,

HP’s laptops are complete and utter trash

a) yes
b) perhaps that also describes their management

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

mPony ,

you know what, yes, I love this energy and I want more of it. This is how brave people should talk to management, but it's how everyone should talk to AI hucksters.

mPony ,

People make out it is some sort of factually wrong documentary

Say what you will about stupid people, but I have to tell you this:
I've had more than a few people tell me they did not wear seat belts because "the Dukes never wore seat belts"

I am not even fucking kidding about this. It's not just about people today treating this TV show like it was a depiction of reality, it's about people at the time doing the exact same thing.

mPony ,

Aah I was wondering which day this song was going to be picked...

mPony ,

Exactly. He is well in the lead while not having a security clearance. Getting that clearance actually makes campaigning a bit more of a challenge for him. It's friggin' devious but it's working. Say what you will about polls but the wind sure looks to be blowing in a different direction these days.

mPony ,

It's only a dial tone if it comes from a land line

otherwise it's just sparkling audio lies

Who would win: every human in the world vs. every animal in the world?

I'm thinking the animals would easily defeat us, since trying to get all 8 billion+ humans to agree on a plan of attack would be a near-impossible task. By the time we'd be done trying to coordinate a plan, I figure the lions and cheetahs would have already devoured us, not to mention the larger animals like the elephants....

mPony ,

Yes, we are defeating non-human life without trying. if we were trying I imagine we could make quite a dent.

but if the animal kingdom was trying, I think that would be pretty terrifying.

mPony ,

fair point.

mPony ,

if all this shit was promo trolling

we can only hope

mPony ,

that would involve having to talk to Kevin Hart

mPony ,

they're also saying that health care will be better off privatized.

mPony ,

I'd buy you out but all I have is my 20 bucks from streaming music revenue and I'm going to spend that on beer.

mPony ,

oh jesus, GOOD beer.
how anyone can drink sub-par beer is fucking beyond me. Drinking that stuff is just self-disrespect. I mean, I get it, but, just, no.

mPony ,

we're called The Three Leonards. We do covers of pop songs in a pastiche of mid-1980's Leonard Cohen, and yes it's pretty different than music other people make today. Folks seem to like our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain quite a bit.

And yeah, we friggin' earned that beer.

mPony ,

well bud, I must admit that does sound a bit rough. I wish you well in your recovery.

mPony ,

a) Thank you :) That's super nice to see, first thing in the morning.
b) Please tell your friends
c) Which ones do you like best?

mPony ,

oh that's easy
https://www.nfb.ca/film/neighbours_voisins/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_aSowDUUaY

Trivia moment: The original version of the music video for Rest In Peace by Extreme had segments shot in a very similar fashion, but evidently it was too similar. Since they didn't have permission beforehand they had to pull that version of the video from broadcast and replace it with this version.

mPony ,

Walmart is predatory, arguably evil in their business practices. They're entrenched in North America, the damage they have inflicted is already done. In many cities they are the only game in town.

They do not deserve your business.

Meta is a complete dumpster fire

Nothing profound here, just need to vent: I haven't used Facebook for several years now, but I just got my 10 year old son a Meta Quest 2 and had to activate it by linking to my Facebook account. Just two days later I got a warning that the account will be locked because they detected that a child was using the Quest with an...

mPony ,

Yes, but also yes.

Giving Meta our information is bad enough.
Allowing them to take our information even when we did not give it freely is even worse.
Advertising via Meta is even worse than that, but small businesses have very little choice between Meta and Google for that.
Buying something sold by Meta is best avoided entirely.

mPony ,

team "OLD WEIRDO" reporting for duty, :)

As of the past few years, I produce pop songs performed in a pastiche of Leonard Cohen's mid-late 80's style (when he really started to sound super cool). My buddies and I call ourselves The Three Leonards. Our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain have proven very popular. They're not jazz but they're also not not jazz. The cool kids seem to like them. We've made over 20 bucks in streaming which is as close to success as you can want. Have a listen and see what madness sounds like.

As far as home studio kit goes, I run Reaper: it's just great.
Also a shout-out to ReEQ for Reaper which is free and as close to FabFilter as I need.

I have a Nektar 61-key MIDI keyboard. Just the right size. One slider on it has gone wonky but I don't use the sliders that much. I like the touchpads; they're fun.

I record vocals and acoustic instruments using a Scarlett interface and a really sweet mic from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_condenser_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg evidently from before they got bought out. I got it as a gift and it does the trick.

I have a reasonably decent multi-effects pedal from Boss that I mostly use for gigging but occasionally for studio tracking.

I did buy Diva and Kontakt and SSD and Analog Lab : they're all super handy, and are the ones I lean on the most. There are plenty of free VSTs out there to use: only when freeware/demo versions are insufficient should you consider spending money.

but yeah: OLD: check. WEIRDO: double-check.

mPony ,

it's like a no-fly list, but for food

mPony ,

yeah if you wanted to actually fight something on that kind of scale, as opposed to breaking it, you had to wait about 10 years for Foo to show up

mPony ,

something about crosshairs?

(beg pardon to the international audience, just trying to speak in terms that Americans will understand)

mPony ,

you get one choice that has shown he can be pressured with reason and public opinion
and one that wants to commit domestic crimes with impunity, that openly wants to have his political enemies killed, and that has shown he can be pressured by Russia. You know, the country that swore to defeat the US from within.

but yeah, both sides.

mPony ,

oh damn that's funny

mPony ,

does an apartment count as a platform?

mPony ,

the word "cesspit" was used elsewhere in this thread and I think it's a remarkably useful word

mPony ,

Lemmy is probably the worst social network in terms of discrimination against Windows users

a) funny
b) were you around for USENET ? it was occasionally troublesome in the same way.

mPony ,

SLIDE!

mPony ,

remember how over the past few years almost everything brand new had the word "blockchain" shoehorned into it for no good reason?

This is the same kind of thing. It's an atrocious boondoggle. There must still be a serious amount of cocaine floating around Venture Capitalist parties, because one of those boys is gonna drop 500M on this company and think they bought the dip, when in fact they, themselves, are the dip.

mPony ,

Fury Road was great because it was audacious and utterly over the top. Making a back-story prequel for Furiosa makes sense in the modern "beat the horse until it's dead" movie business. But they at least have to do a good job at it.

mPony ,

"... wait'll they get a load of me you." - The Joker - 1989

mPony ,

"Thank you for calling FASH-Mobile, how may I direct your call?"

mPony ,

I’m amazed they are allowed to own

By this point I'm surprised that they're not allowed to own people, seeing as their business model treats people as if they are property.

mPony ,

people also used to vote in their own interests

mPony ,

to add their technological and cultural distinctiveness to their own

mPony ,

kinda like Dr Reed saying "frick"

mPony ,

I CAN'T FEEL MY FACE WHEN I'M WITH YOUUUuuuuuu

mPony ,

and he'll get it too if it wasn't for you meddling kids

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