Archive link with no paywall

http://archive.today/9e0OC

There goes my RAM

Don’t say AI slop, say AI trash instead

The car brain cannot process this.

Every person that chooses another form of transportation means one less car on the road/street/hwy for the individuals that still choose to drive in a car.

Not to mention one more empty parking space at their destination.

Faster Whisper could be a option, there is various GUI options available as well.

https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper

And if you are looking for something that you can “just install”, I recommend balabolka. The voices are natural and you can use some of the windows built in voices to make it more natural.

https://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

Make Azure natural TTS voices accessible to any SAPI 5-compatible application.

https://github.com/gexgd0419/NaturalVoiceSAPIAdapter

🍆 Am I doing this right?

Terminator Genisys

Easily solved with a government-supported “low-income families” program.

NYC has implemented congestion pricing, and its been a huge success cutting down congestion and improving transit. Not to mention the added health benefits for those living in cities, as well as making the city more walkable and enjoyable to live in.

Yes, yes it can.

Implement it in such a way that anyone driving into Toronto over a specific line/boundary pays the fee. And once again even for anyone driving into the downtown core area.

This means as long as you remain inside the toll area then you don’t pay, but once you exit and come back in then you pay the fee.

I have been trying to get fiber for a while now. The internet company tells me it’s impossible. /s

When you can be dropped off at the front door of the mall and let your self driving car circle the block multiple times empty, because paying for, or finding parking is to much of a hassle.

People are so conditioned to give way to cars in north America.

As a occasional driver it saddens me seeing a person try and wave me through a crosswalk or crossway where they clearly have the right of way.

I am more then happy to wait and give plenty of room and visibility for someone to cross safely and take their time.

Where a car is more affordable then a home

Remember when companies like Google and Facebook got slapped with fines and fees from various countries for sumerizing news in “social feeds” on their sites.

News outlets were complaining about loss of ad revenue as a result of reduced traffic to their website directly, as consumers could get news summarized on their social feed.

Facebook even in some cases blocked news links in some countries from not showing on users feeds as a result, so as to be compliant with local passed laws and not pay fees or fines.

Then news outlets complained that no one was going to their sites because links were not being shared on social platforms. The very thing they complained about in the first place.

Guess AI summarising news is somehow completely different and a completely new challenge that politicans somehow don’t understand.

I think it may be time for the public to create their own P2P mesh networks that are “disconnected” from the main internet.

Also as a self-hoster I wonder how this would effect smaller individuals that run their own blogs and websites. How would a small random person be forced to put up a ID verification on their website that they might be running on a small POS laptop?

This ID is already provided with a credit card number TBH and any other info needed to setup a ISP or cellphone plan, but there are ways around that.

One is purchasing a month to month phone plan with cash for example. Or finding open wifi networks and routing all traffic through a personal VPN or a commercial VPN.