in a civilized nation the rich wouldn’t be allowed to advertise against taxes and healthcare and environmental change, all that is hate speech and if I were king, they’d all be rotting in prison for it 😈
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#IWatchTooMuchTV

please federate my frens :plushtodon:
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Something to add to "things you've never seen in Los Angeles before":

Fire tornadoes 😱

#ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #LAFires

"I don't condone violence, but..."

My sibling in Christ, violence is happening all around you, everyday, whether you condone it or not. You are participating in it.

The only question is "What side are you on?"

If the USA can ban TikTok, why can't Europe ban X/Twitter?

i'm not condoning violence

but i understand the inescapable result of endless abuse

more need to understand, and i fear they insist on coming to understand only the hard way

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"

- John F. Kennedy

#wildfires #palisadesfire #california #losangeles #luigimangione

Recruiters: “We’re hiring for a Senior Data Scientist! Must have at least 15 years of relevant experiences. Master’s degree required, PhD preferred. Please note that this is an ENTRY LEVEL position…”

This RAM consumption test between Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera browsers demonstrates which one consumes the least memory. Spoiler alert: Firefox won by a mile.

#firefox #chrome #edge #opera #browser #ram
https://www.slashgear.com/1753454/what-web-browser-uses-least-ram-explained/

The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.

VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.

(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)

While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.

What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.

AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.

I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.

So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.

#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility

Matt Mullenweg deactivates the accounts of several WordPress.org members, some of whom have been leading a push to create a new fork of the open-source project (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/11/matt-mullenweg-deactivates-wordpress-accounts-of-contributors-planning-a-fork/
http://mediagazer.com/250111/p3#a250111p3