Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

At a bar and I just watched an extremely-white old-guy band redneckify "No Woman No Cry" and... wait... yep, that's a little blood pooled in my ear.

@Theraviranjankr That's complete fanboy nonsense. Reusable launch craft have been around for decades. Including, most famously, the space shuttle program, which was initially designed two years before Musk was even born.

@alecui Eh, a mammal's a mammal. 🤷 I know at least one person who looks pretty squirrelly, lol 😃

@alecui ...don't squirrels already do that by default?

Considering making a search engine specifically designed to penalize SEO... Could be fun.

@w7voa In other words, "we fucked up, and now we're doubling down by giving our most important users the boot"

@cgervasi I'm sure the voice was very convincing. It's the content of the voice that matters. How embarrassing would it be if your mom confused you for a group of scammers who never met you? She should know you well enough to be able to verify you're real even against a convincing fake.

@olives Patreon isn't a government entity, so I can't see how that precedent would apply...

@mentallyalex On one hand, yes, absolutely, that would be cool.

On the other hand, I'm not sure I want to hear my uncle call my cousin NoobPwnr69 at the Thanksgiving table...

@mimsical I'm an independent SE, so I can't speak to the hiring part, but I've definitely noticed a boost to productivity when using these tools, especially in new languages/environments.

That said, though, it does require experience to call out the bullshit, so I do have concerns that its use would reinforce poor patterns and habits for less experienced developers. Low-level coders may have the most to gain from the tech, but they're also the most likely to lose.

@mentallyalex Lol, it is pronounced the American way, with a hard s.

What is the "titanic event that's hurting people" you alluded to? If that's not too probing a question. I'm a little out of the loop at the moment.

@mentallyalex ???

@ThinkingSapien That game was so disappointing... Every bit of story *and* gameplay felt so disparate from the rest. None of the story actually drew me in, and that should be the main draw of such a setting! Also, I just really hated the voicework of the main character, so that didn't help.

Watching a breathless #news segment about a mom who got on the news about how she was scammed for money by someone who used #AI to simulate her daughter's voice.

What a tremendous self-own it is to get on the news and announce that you can't recognize your own daughter. I can't imagine how shitty that makes the daughter feel.