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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • I got 17 out of 20. I pegged the bezerk drawing as generated because the bottom part of the armor lacked symmetry and didn’t make any sense. I got the other three line drawings incorrect.

    I have spent WAAAAY to much of my freetime generating images and apparently have picked up an eye for the weird types of artifacts that these generators produce. The hardest one to articulate is that generated images have a very specific type of noise. Images create a very nice grainy type noise while digital images get more of the blocky jpeg artifacts and banding. Generated images get this weird hybrid of the two that isn’t consistent across the whole image.


  • Genuine question. What part of what I said makes me a sucker?

    I only have so long to live on this earth. I’m not going to expend excessive amounts of energy on things that are unlikely to have any REAL effect on my life. I don’t give a shit if they listen in on me. I talk about work as a delivery driver (not Amazon), my wife’s work as a hotel front desk help, trackmania and Baldur’s Gate. Lots of state secret stuff there for me to be worried about.

    Again as I said… find me an easy to use plug and play FOSS voice assistant system and I will throw Alexa in the trash.

    I enjoy the home I have set up and I feel relaxed when I return from a long day at work. The Alexa system has helped make that a reality.


  • I have 7 in my house. I have my lights, plant humidifier, TV, air filter, Aquarium equipment, and others all hooked up to them. You can run almost anything you need to just by using your voice.

    Getting ready to watch something on TV? “Alexa it’s movie time.” Turns on the TV and Switches the input to the Shield and opens up our go to media app. Shuts off all lights in the house except the living room. Dims those to 10% and changes them to red. Just enough light to see your snacks and the remote by. Turns off the sump filter for the Aquariums in just the living room but leaves the in tank bubble filter going for better silence. All with 4 spoken words and no need to work with multiple remotes and apps in your phone.

    That’s just one example. We have an obscene amount of routines setup for nearly ecery scenario we have run across and adding new ones is easy.

    Hell… We even have a routine where if you say “Alexa, do you know Desi naach?” It plays Naatu Naatu from every speaker in the house at full volume.

    Show me a FOSS system as plug and play, powerful, and as EASY to use as Alexa and I’ll drop Alexa in the trash tommorow and switch.





  • This is the take away that I wish more people would understand.

    Linus is (as far as we can tell from the outside) a terrible boss, should not be in charge, and has said/done egregious things.

    Some of his staff on the other hand (appear) to be fantastic talent and good people. I don’t want ill to come to them.

    Carpool critics (I’ll never call it by the new name) will always be one of my favorite things ever.

    I hope they either exorcize LMG of its demons and rebrand or move on to greener pastures. Either way I wish them well.