dgerard

Video version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-qL88Wfk5w

I get very ranty

an old phone without a SIM and with wifi switched off

so sound is actually almost more important than the visuals, and actually more important a lot of the time. There's a reason sound is a whole job in AV ...

The USB mics are fine these days, yeah

i mean. Sometimes you just spend the fuckin' money and it solves so many problems. YMMV.

I'd do the video at 360p if I thought I could get away with it.

oops yes, it's on the other left - fixed!

yeah, better sound is the next thing. Røde make a mic specifically to plug into phones! Comes with a big fluffball outdoor-grade wind protector too.

It was a Jimmy Wales personal project, not an official WIkimedia project, and no, it didn't go anywhere

I believe in the necessity of wallet inspection, because the experts - the inspectors of wallets - tell me that wallet quality control is the future and is vital to society

a pile of people have said of Scoot using 10,000 words when 14 would do

LLMs are a development from machine learning of the sort that works, and translation was always squishy. Just a straight LLM can do surprisingly well at translation, though if I run "surprisingly well" through a translator it comes out as "impressive demo, not so great product." Tools like Google Translate are a complex array of stuff, not just one approach.

lol i can replicate this glitch for glitch

just me and the loved one ranting about tumblr being written by whacking the keyboard with dildos until some exemplary PHP falls out

that second last para is why Sam's AI metafiction is so fucking terrible