I store my torrent links and bookmarks in Standard Notes. It is fully encrypted and replicates your data via Dropbox (db is encrypted so not readable to Dropbox). On my phone I can share a link from Firefox directly to Standard Notes.

Good to know. I thought windshields were designed to pop off in one piece which is why I thought it’d be a possibility.

Canisters of nitrous oxide were found in the car, according to French reports. The substance is used by recreational users as it can make people feel relaxed, light-headed or dizzy.

So? NOX doesn’t give teens the ability to flip cars into.perfectly car sized pools, nor does it justify a death sentence. They could have been sober and on a way to a party, or something. What a bullshit thing to include in the article.

Maybe through the front or back windshield, but given that the pool and car were of very similar size (diameter), I don’t think there was a way. They were dead the moment they hit the water. They just didn’t know it yet.

Humans suck.

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For large volumes of data, nothing beats shipping a large external drive (with a fast interface) from location to location.

The Pirate Bay used to be taken down fairly regularly back in the early 2000s. A number of political and legal wins changed that.

It is always, ALWAYS, a grift.

I just thought it was funny that it decided to brutalize Luke all on its own.

She got a man (Ooh)
You got a hand (Ooh)
And maybe you should stick to what you know

Also, the incest thing was all the AI. I just asked for a song about the fact that Vader never said the line “Luke, I am your father”.

I like to ask it to generate lyrics based on funny prompts. For example, I asked it to write a song from Darth Vader’s perspective about the fact that he never actually said “Luke, I am your father”. The results was just savage.

Hey Luke
I heard you kissed your sister on Hoth
I’m not mad
I’m just curious
'Cause I never kissed mine
Did you like it? Did she like it?
Do you regret it? Do you feel gross?
Did it feel weird when she kissed you?
I know that you never kissed before

She got a man (Ooh)
You got a hand (Ooh)
And maybe you should stick to what you know
Oh
You need to know\

I am your father (I am your father)
Luke
I am your father (Luke, I am your father)
No
I never said that
I never said that (No, I never said that)
No

That song was a mistake that got generated when I pasted the wrong clipboard into Suno’s Lyrics window on my phone and accidentally submitted it. It has not been processed at all. Suno has a “Remaster” feature that when you are happy with the generated song you can give it a few automated “mix and mastering” passes to generate a cleaner and more dynamic sound.

I’ve mainly used Suno to mess about so I didn’t want to pay for the upgrade.

I can see a creative use for Suno Studio where you can feed it a clip of a chord progression you recorded, have the AI generate a few extrapolations, then arrange bits and pieces of it within Suno Studio to create the basic song structure and finally export the midi to your DAW. Basically, you can use it as a fancy sketchpad.

The problem I can’t get past is the environmental impact.

Bullshit. This only applies to fully prompt generated AI music. Tracks that heavily rely on AI based tech as a part of the process are harder to catch, and tracks that only use AI for mixing and mastering are impossible to detect.

I made a track but used AI to autotune and morph my voice to that of a woman’s. It even allowed me to tweak the expressiveness of the voice. The track is 95% human made but the vocals are AI modified. I’m willing to bet that the ration of AI use in a lot of pop music and EDM is a lot higher.

PS: I make music for myself, as a hobby. I just wanted to make something to share with my friends. If you want real music, try bands like Wet Leg, IDLES, GEESE, etc who lean into making low tech music.

EDIT: Thia is an example of a song that is fully generated by AI. All that was fed to the prompt were the lyrics. The AI did everything else itself, including picking the genre. I shared it with a few people to see who’d figure out it was AI slop.

https://youtu.be/oOJ0En2u5DQ

Probably a toss up between The Next Generation (TNG) and Deep Space 9 (DS9). Do note that Star Trek series normally need about a season to find their footing. Season 1 of TNG was mid-tier but it still is a source of plenty of memes.

I think TNG is likely the better starting point. The original series (TOS) is painfully old fashioned, which could ve a good thing or bad depending on your tastes.

• Keeping Up Appearances
• Agatha Christie’s Poirot (with David Suchet)
• A&E’s Nero Wolfe
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Stargate SG-1

That’s the thing, 1080p monitors are very common…maybe the most common. If that’s your resolution, a 1080ti will take care of you just fine. If I can keep my 1080ti’s fans from dying, I will probably use that card for another 5 years.

I have two “gaming” PCs. One with a 1070ti and the other with a 1080ti. For fancy graphics games, I rely on GeForce Now.

What is the most relieving thing you’ve done for yourself?

That doesn’t involve either masturbating or going to the bathroom.

Violence against women is bad. Political violence is bad. These two are not mutually exclusive concepts.