Not entirely.

Whisper actually works rather well in several specific use cases, and fails spectacularly in others. You need to know this in advance:
- Whisper is roughly 90% accurate at transcription and translation
- Whisper absolutely does not know what to do with silence and will randomly inject "subtitled by (fansub group, netflix, etc)" into silence
- Whisper does not really understand singing well
- Whisper does not understand code-switching (eg switching between English and Japanese in the same context window)
- Whisper understands zero onomatopoeia, just like all ASR systems.

With that said, it is not useful or reliable for:
1. Fansubbing, especially anything adult. It can only understand words, not onomatopoeia. So when it stumbles into a scene where someone goes "ah!" it has zero context for it. The result is actually pretty silly, and often turns sex scenes in R-rated and unrated media into a series of random gibberish words that begin with the same sound. Likewise children playing and women giggling often turns it into a series of nonsense, sometimes sexually charged words.
2. Transcription of podcasts. Sorry bub, your average podcaster has a shitty microphone, and can not subtitle when multiple people are speaking over each other. Especially when people use Zoom or Discord to have a multi-party video. If you want to use it to transcribe a podcast, record each participant separately and merge the result.
3. ASR technology is often built on corpus of bad data that elevates profanity when it tries to guess words it can not understand. So it's more likely to use racist language "trigger" becomes the same word with an n, that isn't even in the audio. So your input source must be professional grade, or it's word error rate will be higher and favor profanity or racist language over other more less-often but more obvious words.

I doubt most people will use this in practice as Whisper.cpp is insanely slow without being expressly used on a 16GB nvidia GPU anyway.

This is the reason "most likely" why certain trends are up. Cancers? Likely plastic breaking down and releasing hormone-mimicing chemicals. Decreases in fertility? Same. People going gay or transgender? same. Autism? Same. At last the bogeyman to blame everything not genetic we haven't discovered a cure for.

In the grand scheme of things, the entire point of plastic was that it didn't interfere with anything, it just passed through the system harmlessly. That's what Teflon does. However the chemical used to make it stick onto metal C-8 is one of those PFAS chemicals that is one of these forever-chemicals that are causing health problems in people.

Another thing? Oh did you know that the largest source of microplastics in food comes from the actual processing pipeline? That's why chicken nuggets have the highest concentration of microplastics. Another large source? Polyester, every time you wash your clothes, you are shedding microplastics all over your environment.

Unfortunately the only way we're getting microplastics or C8 out of the environment is to find a way to reclaim them from the environment, which means that's one more thing we need to be mindful of when sending stuff to the landfill.

KF is worse than that. They actively promote domestic terrorism.

Sites like KF (LC is another one) only exist because their hosting is in fact, NOT in the US. They're usually hosted somewhere that has no US law reach because they know while they might slide under the 1A, what they post is incitement to violence and defamation which is not protected speech. The sites continue to exist the same reason why your typical piracy torrent site still exists. It's far more likely that law enforcement is actually on these sites and tracking these shitheel posters so that they can prevent assassinations of people the site hates on if they see a clear intent.

Remember, these sites, YOU, the person reading the site, are the joke. Nobody with a real job they value posts to these sites. It's all full time home security guards (euphemism for people who never leave their home)

Cloudflare has no intention of complying either, also KF was booted off cloudflare a few years back for terrorism.

These sites should just block visitors from the UK because they have no intent of complying anyway.

There doesn't need to be "4" there needs to be 5. You need evidence for 4 not being enough? See Canada.

Basically you need 2 carriers that cover 100% of every square inch of the continent, and 3 carriers that cover the greater metro areas where there would be a shortage of capacity. Those can in fact be one that covers the Pacific, one that covers the Atlantic and one that covers the Gulf and the space between the rockies and the Mississippi. Right now the only "not AT&T or Verizon" carrier is T-mobile, and NONE of them operated in Alaska until recently. Those carriers in Alaska? GCI? GCI doesn't operate outside of Alaska, so it doesn't count. US Cellular (which T-mobile acquired in 2024) was also an option before.

I don't know what Dish was going to do with having nothing to offer.

That has to be actual carriers, not VMNO's. VNMNO's add nothing to to the competitive market because they still have to buy data at the wholesale rate the real WISP charges it. There is no way to compete against the WISP itself.

And the only way to really solve this is by requiring all three (Verizon, AT&T and T-mobile) splitting in half each and putting a moratorium on any ISP mergers for 20 years. The easiest way to do that is taking the ISP's existing discount MVNO's on their own system and spinning that off into their own WISP and the matching fraction of the backhaul to service it.

I think the problem here is that it's a big franchise, and just like the Alien and Jurassic Park franchise, the studios are looking to nose dive the franchise into the ground and taking as much money out of it before rebooting it into a pale imitation of the original.

I have never seen a reboot surpass it's original. Generally the problem is that as technology has improve, the acting grade has gone down. So before the age of color film, a lot of films required thought. With the advent of color a huge visual improvement in color, lead to huge leaps in sets, but a slight degradation in acting performances. With the advent of CGI, the special effects went way up, but the acting quality started to deteriorate as acting was replaced with enormous special effects that the actors are just staring into a chroma screen void for.

The end game here is replace all of that with BS AI nonsense where there is no creativeness.

The best thing that James Cameron should do is go full satire and "go back in time" to his younger self and tell himself the plots of every movie and end with "AND IT ALL CAME TRUE"

Consider the case where you, are the sole person with access to a system and because the system has worked fine for 20 years, the company just conveniently stops paying you (See "Office Space") because they literately do not know how you fit into corporate machine.

If you were really vital to the business, less than a week would go by before something goes wrong. If systems work fine for a year before stuff goes wrong, that means you were not monitoring anything critical, so the business literately does not know what you do.

I mean yes, but also no.

Yes, because it's a crypto-related business. So there is a very real possibility of a "remote" worker taking all funds of a customer and having no means of reversing it.

But also no, how bad is your screening that you don't interview prospective workers in person that are going to be that deep into your system? Hiring remote is fine as long as the job they are given is not one that reaches into critical systems. Critical systems should always be on-premises employees.

But the vast majority of day to day people jobs are sales, marketing and customer service, and these jobs are just wasting space in an office. You can not tell me that you "return to office mandate" while simultaneously having anything outsourced.

Dude should have made it so if his manager's account was disabled. It would have been obvious if it was checking for his account. Consider it a parting gift. /s

In all seriousness, kill-switches should only be created for military systems to self-destruct the device so that hardware that falls into the hands of the enemy self-destructs rather than remains operable. It makes it impractical of course in case someone loses the device.

Any other situation, kill switches aren't even necessary, if you're someone vital to the operational stability of the company, then the minute you're gone, your presence missing will be noticed as maintenance stops functioning.

He's been on "Moron" since 2008.

Occasionally he's right about something, but for the wrong reasons. Yes Solar wastes land. You know what else is a waste of land? Road. All you have to do is stick the solar panels over highways, parking lots and rooftops of buildings, and no space is then wasted. PV panels however are also not space efficient north of 40 degrees, yes they still work, but the amount of density required is higher the further north for the same amount of energy.

Wind is a bit harder to justify. The regions with the most wind power options are all along the pacific coast in the path of the jetstream. Since the jetstream moves seasonally, there is no fixed location where wind will be 100% efficient. So you are better off having wind in places that there is no water, no land to waste. Stick those wind turbines along highways crossing over mountains.

But what's the option? Nuclear? Nuclear wastes the same water you use for drinking and farming. What about Coal and Natural gas? Wastes water and contaminates it in the process.

The only "green" options that does not consume water is PV Solar and Wind. Hydro and Geothermal are much more "free" energy but they are geographically restricted. Geothermal can be built today, but unless you are piping sea water into it, you're going to consume fresh water there too.

Are there any other options? Hot Fusion is still "any time now", cold fusion is never going to be a thing.

Robin Williams adlibbed a lot of material to make the films he was in "work". Like look at Aladdin and look at Ferngully. Do you think either of these films work when the character Robin played is just an unapologetic jerk? No, they do not. Most of the "comedy relief" characters in an otherwise serious animated film are present so the audience doesn't get bored of being preached at.

Robin Williams was great to the point that he could never take off the clown mask. So It's unfortunate that he did eventually pass on his own terms, but I've run into people before that can do the same kind of rapid-fire adlibbing routine, so it's not exactly a unique skill, but it is one that you only have with experience. A lot of people can't do it, because they surround themselves with yes-men, so they never learn about anything outside their comfort zone to poke fun at.

Nope.

"Wokeness" or what was referred to as "politically correct" is not why comedies die. The reason comedies die is because right-wingers don't know how to do comedy, yet they are the ones with the purse strings. So what used to be a safe bet in the 70's and 80's about picking on nerds, women and people of color, is now completely off the table. There is no easy punching bag except right wing dildo behavior, the same people who own the paths to distribution.

So what are you supposed to do? Cull everything that might offend right-wing people, and in the process make the film so bland that it fails at the box office every time.

If you want to win at the box office, you have to remember the thing you are making is fiction, and there are no sacred cows. Piss on the left, Piss on the right, Piss on foreign countries obviously stupid populations like Americans, Piss on haughty countries like France, Piss on Asian countries like China, Japan and Korea for having a culture of incest and pedophilia, just pick your targets with the intent of poking fun at something that is provably true, rather than trying to make a target fit your narrow understanding of it.

Like the reason why a lot of comedies of the 80's get "couldn't be made today" is directly related to a culture of the time that didn't see racism and sexism as a problem. Now it is, so if you want to make those same jokes you need to cast a smaller net. Why are there more black people in jail? Cause White Law Enforcement and White Law makers keep wanting to roll the clock back to 1861. Even though time has rolled forward, instead of putting people on plantations as slaves, now they are put in jail work camps... as "workers" which are still basically slaves. Ever see a white person doing X job? A lot of that can still be leveraged as comedy now because we still see companies engaging in the same behavior as 200 years ago.

Literately any kind of racist or sexist joke could still be told now as long as you frame it as not "thing is true, because thing is thing" which is how 80's comedy worked. Now it has to be "thing is true, because situation is still true"

Yes "back to" piracy, because some content is locked behind paywalls and people have never liked the "cable" model of 100 channels with nothing to watch.

Remember cable? Remember having to buy a TV Guide or something to figure out when the thing you wanted to watch would be on sometimes in the next week?

Or if you had a satellite dish, that guide would be the the size of a paperback book.

The internet, starting with IRC and Usenet made it so you could get the thing you wanted to watch within a day of it being broadcast. This even predates the PVR systems, which have also since sh*t the bed. Try recording things on a PVR now. "blocked by the broadcaster" frequently comes up. It's basically been rendered useless. You need to capture the HDMI signal and record everything to the PC. And if you're not in the Eastern Time zone, you may as well just steal the Eastern Time zone broadcast and watch it 3 hours earlier anyway.

Then there is Anime and Films. Piracy is much higher and quality is much lower for both of these as a consequence because films were often "cammed" in the theatre, and anime was often recorded off the television broadcast, which is often OTA.

No this is a PayPal issue from the beginning as PP applies censorship with a much heavier shotgun approach than Mastercard and VISA do alone.

For example, if you even mention the thing you're selling is art, your account gets canned.