Is This Anal?

LiMux

I can’t help but feel that even bad news like this just pushes the AI hype.

No, it isn’t “intelligent” and won’t be fo centuries to come. It’s just a mirror of the internet, so course it sometimes comes up with insane bullshit. Garbage in, garbage out.

It all reminds me of the “virtual reality” hype of the '90s, which really just meant “faster graphics cards”.

Yep. Certain patterns are easily recognizable even by machines. One could have a relatively simple “IHeartRadio algorithm” that should work 99% of the time (esp. with Ed Zitron who brackets the blocks with that insane guitar riff).

Hell, I could even write that with ffmpeg and a shell script.

OK I’m being arrogant now, but not wrong.

But there’s a lot of podcasts, especially from sources like IHeartRadio, that have scads of annoying ads

And they’re so repetitive. And each block is the same length if I’m not mistaken. This could even be automated - not relying on human input - or at least half-automated.

xonsh or python with sh.py.

Very interesting!

And thanks for the coding tips. It seems git is not the best option here because it keeps a full history of all files in their fullness - a gigantic waste of space in the case of a media collection.

I am now thinking more rsync minus lossless formats, then deal with lossless formats separately.

so it’s not exactly a mirror, right?

Correct!

Your workflow is actually something I thought of but the duplication of all lossy files would be a bit too much and replacing them with symlinks would not work with git afaik.

Please just read the whole article. It’s an easy read for the first half, and well researched. Proper journalism. And relevant not only for Canada.

Thousands of councillors in more than 500 municipalities have received these emails, according to KICLEI, the group behind them, whose name mimics the international environmental network ICLEI. Screenshots of KICLEI’s internal database show the email addresses of local officials nationwide.

Sounds like they’re proudly doing it out in the open.

And on:

(…) the digital infrastructure behind KICLEI’s campaign: a custom AI chatbot designed to express fears about United Nations control using moderate, civic language — messaging that is now shaping real decisions in town halls across Canada.

chatbot instuctions

At least 14 municipal halls have received KICLEI presentations, with Thorold, Ont., already voting to withdraw from Canada’s flagship municipal net-zero scheme, Partners for Climate Protection. This month, Lethbridge, Alberta, voted to cut its governmental emissions reduction target in half. These decisions followed receipt by the town councillors of letters, presentations and reports from KICLEI members.

And on:

KICLEI (‘Kicking International Council out of Local Environmental Initiatives’) was founded in 2023 by Freedom Convoy activist Maggie Hope Braun

Why am I not surprised. And please don’t call these people activists. That’s just the skin they’re putting on. They’re grifters.

Would you prefer “suppress”?

Also, wouldn’t your eyes bounce right back since they’re attached with a sort of rubber band?

They’ve been doing shit like that* without AI for decades. But yeas, it’s getting worse all the time.

* censor | suppress - tomatos | tomatoes

If anybody still believed in Telegram’s trustworthiness, it should now be dispelled.

(Only kidding, there’s plenty of people who still “believe” in both Durov and Musk)

“Unauthorized Bread”

Fuck Peter Thiel with a rusty spade. Him and his technonazi ilk.

And I’m not “just” angry. They actively pursue this bullshit, Skynet, Citicorp, like a Bond movie villain. They try to build their neoliberal cities in the desert only to find out that there’s already people living there and now they have to deal with these pesky authorities, and courts, and whatnot.

Those pesky “We have updated our privacy policy” emails. And “by ignoring this message you have signaled consent” (paraphrasing).

Google is clearly experimenting with baking ads into the delivered video streams, YT Premium members get served different endpoints already in preparation.

Enshittification is guaranteed even for the paid tier.

Maybe there’ll be silver, gold and platinum memberships next. How long til you realize you’ve been had?

Sort of hard to exist without interacting with Google at all

I explicitely did not claim that.

And as the other guy said, you don’t need a G account to watch youtube.

The article makes a point about a certain type of workplace vampirism - which also finds its way into the finished product - but also points out that there are different types of complexity and they aren’t all “bad”. It’s a little confusing to read imho.

But I get the point. I am by no means an IT person but I just took over a blog theme and I’m apalled by the minified CSS framework the whole thing relies on. Looking at the margins for some divs, they are defined and overridden 4 times before their final value, and only the 5th time could have been avoided had the original developer known a little more about the framework they were apparently eager to use.

Yeah fuck Google. Delete all Google accounts before it’s too late. Plenty of alternatives exist and you can still benefit from their rankings and whatnot, if your business depends on that.

How did you copy it?

Are you sure you have all the data?

In any case, you can tell mpv to target chapters individually (it doesn’t do dvd menus);

mpv dvd://[number] --dvd-device=/path/to/my/rip

Where [number] is the number of the title/chapter.

All your requirements are a given, except for wanting to do things in Python.