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antifuchs

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

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  • This incredible banger of a bug against whisper, the OpenAI speech to text engine:

    Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th July 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Ooooh that would explain a similarly weird interaction I had on a ticket-selling website, buying a streaming ticket to a live show for the German retro game discussion podcast Stay Forever: they translated the title of the event as “Bleib für immer am Leben”, guess they named it “Stay Forever Live”? No way to know for sure, of course.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • It’s distressingly pervasive: autocorrect, speech recognition (not just in voice assistants, in accessibility tools), image correction in mobile cameras, so many things that are on by default and “helpful”

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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  • Poor rich guy, forced by the leftmost party available to support the party that is now constructing concentration camps.

  • The rise of Whatever

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  • Geordi, disgusted: being a _con_tent creator

    Geordi, interested: being a con_tent_ creator

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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  • Now I’m curious how a protected class question% speedrun of one of these interviews would look. Get the bot to ask you about your age, number of children, sexual orientation, etc

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • Fucking rude to drag lisp into this. How dare they.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 29th June 2025

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  • According to some scholars, s-risks warrant serious consideration as they are not extremely unlikely and can arise from unforeseen scenarios.

    Guys I have found a way to phrase my anxiety in a way where every single word is extremely load-bearing

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

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  • I’m sure there are plenty of true believers (there always are in startup brain land), but even true believers like spending money.

  • AI venture capital resorts to feeding the secondary market

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  • It’s the risk:benefit tradeoff always. Sure you can hold on to all your illiquid stock in a private company with transfer restrictions, but will that pay for a house or even a banana? Does it ever not. The “take a loan for liquidity until you can sell some stock” trick worked for a little bit but companies are wise to that too now, and don’t allow it.

    So people can pick between real money they can spend on stuff (or invest in a slightly less illiquid way) or being paper multimillionaires with no actual liquidity; not a hard choice imho.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd June 2025

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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  • Yeah, I grew up speaking a language that pronounces Latin closer to Italian than to English too (:

    This particular thing is actually doubly funny to me, whose first practical professional program was one that took German text with English words mixed in and used regex to transform the English terms into nonsense words that would get pronounced right by the German-only text-to-speech system. That was 2002.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th May 2025

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  • Video: The Røde NT-USB Mini is a lovely little podcast mic (2025)

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  • Rødes of unusual size? I don’t think they exist.

  • AI is not designed for you

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  • Very normal tech persona behavior, but it’s made very special by the presence of that channel on yammer of all places.