Tag: Tech
#oneaday Day 742: Crash and burn
There is increasing talk of the video games industry staring down an honest-to-goodness crash -- and this time around, unlike the notorious Great Global Video Game Crash of North America from 1983, it looks very much like it could be one that will happen across the world. All this said, I feel like, at this...
Remove Background Noise from Video Without Re-encoding: An Audio-Only Approach with DeepFilterNet3
A Python CLI tool that strips background noise from any video file using ML denoisers — while copying the video stream byte-for-byte. A 6 GB 4K file processes in minutes instead of hours.
The app that wants to sound human
There's a particular moment in every AI voice interaction that breaks the spell. The assistant finishes its perfectly accurate sentence, and instead of responding naturally, it waits — silently, patiently, like a customer service machine — for you to give it the next command. The rhythm is wrong. It feels like filling out a form, not holding a conversation. Sesame AI, the startup co-founded by Oculus co-founder Brendan Iribe, has spent the last several years obsessing over that exact problem. Th...
Black Butterflies
Kupajo warns us to beware of black butterflies. Male grayling butterflies prefer to mate with darker female graylings. When caged with a female grayling and a cardboard cutout of a grayling painted black, the male will choose the cardboard cutout over the female. Beyond being an example of bro falling for an unrealistic standard of...
Pocket Computers
John Burn-Murdoch writes for Financial Times about the single unifying theory around the decline in fertility. The number of births fell first and fastest in the areas that received high-speed mobile connectivity earliest. The authors argue that smartphones have transformed how young people spend time with one another, sharply reducing in-person socialising and leading to...
The Intelligence Is Still Artificial
The opinions on AI that you find on the internet tend to fall in the extremes of the other side. Either AI is the downfall of humanity or its savior. My thoughts on the subject, as on many others, ride in the middle of the road. In my professional life, AI has been a great...
Canvas Attack
Hacktivism can sometimes be understandable. Yet it amazes me that some people would think that to attack school teachers and students is to live a meaningful and purposeful life.
Attie
I just signed up for access to Attie, a new AI-based app from Bluesky, which allows you to shape your feed on the social network using plain language. To be honest, I wasn’t that excited about the app when it was first announced. It can be hard these days to sift through the AI hype...
A Change In The Atmosphere
With the announcement on the A New Social blog that Bridgy Fed — which has been helpful in syndicating my Fediverse posts from Ghost to Bluesky — was bringing longform to the Atmosphere, I found myself wanting to play with some of the current blogging tools running on AT Proto.1 Unfortunately, even with the aid...
Attie Girl
Jay Graber from Bluesky on how the major social media platforms are dealing with AI. In her post, Graber introduces an app called Attie that helps you customize your feed. As far as I'm concerned, Graber gets the benefit of the doubt in terms of using AI more responsibly than the other social media sites. /
Ghost CLI
Ghost CEO John O'Nolan built a CLI (and MCP) for the platform. This allows a user to tweak config settings through chat instead of going through the traditional UI. O'Nolan claims it's much faster, even though he knows the UI like the back of his hand. I'm skeptical that it's that much faster. I think we can get carried away with these new technologies. I recognize this is just a little experiment, but I don't see that it would really change using the tools in a meaningful way.
AT Proto
The announcement by Brid.gy about supporting long form posts through standard.site led me down a rabbit hole of exploring services that take advantage of that capability using AT Proto: Leaflet, Pckt and Offprint.
The Decentralized Social Media Rant
From the perspective of an instance host.