JJ Wolverine @jjwolverine@computerfairi.es
Your favorite pretend wolverine.
Joined Apr 2018
american banks: "Listen, i know we talk every day, but I'm just feeling anxious about, you know, us. i think there's something you may not be telling me? Your address, your phone number... even though you've lived in the same place for 10 years and had your phone for 20... I just feel like these might have changed and you aren't telling me. Also what's your income?"
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Whisper (the AI based transcription software) is Very Good and Pretty Fast and also free and able to run locally without a ton of ridiculous work.
It generates passable subtitles very quickly. There are some errors, but they're the kind of errors you'd get from a transcription service as well.
It'll also do translations.
Based on my efforts so far, this means I can generate passable english subtitles for the media we're producing, which we can then massage in to Production Ready subtitles, with very little effort. Passable files in 5 minutes or less.
But, more impressively, I was able to get Usable subtitles, in english, for non-english-language stuff, at the same rate.
Just ... push button, get translated subtitles from audio.
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I'm continuing our increasingly expensive tradition of sourcing a 2009 to serve with our anniversary dinner. Celebrating a lucky 13 years together with @tanakiwah today! It's complex and tangy and, thanks to some careful handling, not yet turned to vinegar. Metaphors!
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furries: haha we run the internet
also furries: we will cling to furaffinity until our dying breath. may it never change and never advance. it is the ancient alter around which we pray and/or jack off.
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Let's talk about #Doordash and how it sucks, from the driver's perspective. Their app uses a bunch of tricks to help the driver get to their destination and contact the orderer along the way, but it's BRITTLE. When it works well it's fine, when it doesn't, it's AWFUL.
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Study confirms it. The floating garbage patch in the Pacific is nearly all fishing gear. It's not consumer waste.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-16529-0
Eat less fish, their populations are crashing anyway
getting a new phone now entails living through a month-long trickle of stupid popup ads sprinkled across every app and screen like "Would you like to learn more about THE CONCEPT OF TEXT MESSAGES". Like dude chill I didn't get amnesia, please let me just use my phone
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I know this has been said a zillion times but can we talk about the military/police dress code in Ghost and the Shell? Ma'am this is an OFFICE environment
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Statement on “Join The Fedi” jointhefedi.com is a website owned by known “gender critical” activist Alex Gleason. The domain name and SEO is clearly designed to appeal to individuals curious about the fediverse, and potentially take traffic from joinmastodon.org. Unfortunately, Gleason does not have the best intentions when it comes to helping the fediverse grow. Gleason formerly contributed to other fediverse projects, before being removed from doing so due both his behavior and poor code quality. This is a problematic individual, recommending problematic services.
Join The Fedi has an explicitly right-wing agenda and seems to only promote instances which either a) run the “Soapbox” front-end software created by Gleason himself or b) advertise themselves as “free speech” instances. As of right now, the site actively recommends the following instances:
- poa.st (blocked by Howlr for harassment)
- Spinster.xyz (blocked by Howlr for transphobia)
- Shitposter.club (blocked by Howlr for harassment)
- Gleasonator.com (blocked by Howlr for transphobia)
- Freespeechextremist.com (blocked by Howlr for hate speech)
In other words, Gleason is using the site to promote his own agenda rather than simply gain more users into the fediverse. This is not a site that should be recommended to new users. I would recommend using https://joinfediverse.wiki/ instead!
Thank you!
last night while camping dominic invented S'mores-but-oreos-for-the-cracker-part and this is (a) sacrilege and (b) excellent
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get you a man who looks at you the way this mannequin worships a swamp cooler
@tanaki he must have a special love for it if he's using a cooling device within a few hundred feet of a frozen mountain wasteland
Robey attempts to explain Disney's "The Little Mermaid" based only on a confusing 59 second TikTok video that he saw while drunk:
the wah's brother gave us some hydroponic machines as a gift, so we're trying out cherry tomatoes and basil. i got a time lapse of the first three weeks of the plants coming up, it is surprisingly creepy! 🌱
A furry VR Chat music video! This is pretty amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWUaQmcgBw
...besides the good song and cute video, I love the idea of VRChat as an inexpensive movie production platform.
@pepemapache @tilton omg this is amazing! I had no idea Taos was an official con sponsor.
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Your favorite pretend wolverine.
Joined Apr 2018
