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Sergio

@ Sergio @piefed.social

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  • Docs used to be cool as hell

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  • 1619:

    • learned their trade on corpses stolen from graveyards
    • collaborates with alchemists and exorcists
    • pay what you can, takes 10 minutes to either cure you or kill you

    2019:

    • might be able to see you 10 months from now in a virtual visit
    • "your insurance probably won't cover that!"

  • I finally paused on Charlie's "Bar Eroticism" chart to try and decipher what the hell is going on

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  • Yeah I think the y-axis is: "a thing that adds to the bar erotisizm" and x-axis is: "amount that the thing adds".

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    [Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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  • My suggestion is to add a line to the sidebar saying that AI-generated music is discouraged here.

    Thinking through some scenarios:

    1. going to one of those GenAI music sites and giving the prompt: "make a song about ..." and posting the results here.
    2. taking a human-made song (without GenAI) and using GenAI to make a music video
    3. using GenAI to make an image for a human-made song (e.g. as an album cover)
    4. a human authoring a song using tools that involve LLMs (or other types of deep neural networks), e.g. filters, noise reduction plugins, etc.

    There's a separate consideration: a) is it obvious to the listener/viewer that GenAI was used or b) not.

    Now my personal beliefs are: for case 4, those sorts of tools were used before and the new algorithms work better; GenAI adds ethical problems but the musician may not even know what algorithm is being used. For cases 2 and 3 I look down on them but I can see why a talented musician might use them, though I'd think they were wrong to do so and I might comment negatively about it.

    Case 1 is the problematic one, right? Especially if it's not obvious that the musician is not real. For that reason in my posts I try to find some evidence that the musician is human and have recently been posting links to that evidence, and there've been a couple songs I didn't post bc I didn't find that evidence. But I don't think everybody should be required to investigate in that way.

    Also, I don't believe that being pro-GenAI is an evil in the same way that bigotry (such as sexism, homophobia, racism, etc) is. But I will (probably?) downvote it and call it out if I see it. That's why, if others agree, I believe there should be a post discouraging it but not a prohibition.

    DISCLAIMER: if the situation changes, e.g. we start getting spammed with numerous GenAI songs, then reconsider.

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    [Meta] should there be a formal policy on generative AI in this community?

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  • I think a lot of the backlash is due to: 1) most/all of the LLMs were built with data that was taken without permission, 2) the GenAI companies are pushing "AI" as a solution where it's not needed 3) the negative environmental impact, 4) the dangers of the AI economic "bubble" (bonus: driving up RAM and SSD prices). For more info see !fuck_ai@lemmy.world and !sneerclub@awful.systems.

  • [Video] A Guide to the Many Accents of Steven Seagal

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  • ikr if he was "in on the joke" it would be kinda cool. but thing is, he's just clueless.

    nice video, I knew he had voice-overs, but usually I'm only playing his movies as background noise so I don't pay enough attention to know when someone else is doing it.

  • Tired of work and it's only Monday? Try this!

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  • Or: "Real straight shooter! Upper management written all over him!"

  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • Piefed's "Scheduling" feature is really awesome. Over the weekend I scheduled daily posts to !gothindustrial@lemmy.world for the month of March. A meme every Monday, a comic every Thursday, and song links all the other days.

  • Goth❌Industrial @lemmy.world
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    Artists get more money bc Bandcamp doesn't take its cut (March 6th, 2026)

  • I Changed A Car Battery

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  • No doubt. I guess I'm just saying: add some safety criteria into the mix. Maybe as a subset of usability.

  • The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model -- "An alien race called Falshi uses the creation of civilizations and the Fermi Paradox as a means of accumulating and collecting valuable resources."

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  • Neat idea. Tho I wonder if there's any value to reading the story, or if it was enough to just read the summary.

  • I Changed A Car Battery

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  • I hear ya, but... I believe there are a lot of safety features in modern cars that aren't really in the "nice to use and maintain" category. e.g. I think cars are built to "crumple" in a way that keeps the human alive.

  • Face the panel

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  • I believe that's a parliament, not a panel.

  • Geneticists reveal an unexpected pattern in prehistoric hookups between humans and Neanderthals | CNN

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  • Now, geneticists at the University of Pennsylvania say they have a better understanding of the nature of those prehistoric hookups, suggesting the trysts were mostly between male Neanderthals and female humans.

  • Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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  • Because his decision may have averted a retaliatory nuclear strike, Petrov is often credited as having "saved the world".

  • Weekly thread - how is everyone doing with their communities?

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  • "percentage of all MAUs" is interesting, never thought of that metric before.

    as you point out, MAUs cover a lot of ground: posts that get a lot of upvotes, posts that get a lot of discussion, lots different people making posts, and combinations of all these. Different communities are gonna want different things here.

  • Peer review my foot

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  • Yeah I'm like 95% sure this is a joke, and "Chelm institute" is a satirical reference.

    Unfortunately I can't pay the $100+ for the journal articles to figure out if that's true or not.

  • Why is Lemmy so damn small??

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  • I guess we're just a little defensive about our new home -- please don't take it personally.

  • Who to follow on mastodon?

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  • Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77

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  • To put it in stark terms, Flashback is the novel in which I share the psychological and real-world reality (if not any details of the actual experience) of the day I came home from college early in my freshman year to discover that both of my parents had been diagnosed with cancer and would soon die. And it will also share the dawning perception of a nineteen-year-old -- after my parents' slow and hard deaths that year only six months apart, and after hospital and funeral expenses were paid -- that my younger brother (still in high school) and I, the remnants of what had been a fairly happy family, were flat broke, jobless, and seemingly without a viable future. None of my story of this is in Flashback, per se, yet it's all there behind the book. The emotions are there.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20110806051551/http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message.htm

  • What are some hugely important music albums?

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    Sergio @piefed.social

    Dominierte, by Equitant

    equitant.bandcamp.com /track/dominierte
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    Sergio @piefed.social

    Crept Into Your Thoughts, by Speed Injektion

    speedinjektion.bandcamp.com /track/crept-into-your-thoughts
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    Violet Grey, by Chalice Sect

    chalicesect.bandcamp.com /track/violet-grey
  • B Movie Bonanza @lemmy.world
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    Hercules (1983) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

  • Juggalos @lemmy.world
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    Shaggy 2 Dope and Violent J in "Death Racers" (2008)

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    Writhe and Shine - Just Can't Win (comic, fan edit)

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    Escombros, by Cenizas

    cenizaspostpunk.bandcamp.com /track/escombros
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    Whispers, by SMFORMA

    smforma.bandcamp.com /track/whispers
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    Sergio @piefed.social
    meme

    Only 250 days until Halloween!

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    The font is Garfield Sans rule

  • Vampires @lemmy.zip
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    So, how was YOUR weekend?

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    Ya No sé Quién Soy, by Vacíos Cuerpos

    vacioscuerpos.bandcamp.com /track/ya-no-s-qui-n-soy
  • B Movie Bonanza @lemmy.world
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    Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!

  • Comic Strips @lemmy.world
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    Writhe and Shine - Dangerous on the Dance Floor (fan edit)

  • Goth❌Industrial @lemmy.world
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    Writhe and Shine - Baby Bats vs Elder Goths (comic,fan edit)

  • Goth❌Industrial @lemmy.world
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    Cut Stitch Scar, by CocoRosie

    cocorosiemusic.bandcamp.com /track/cut-stitch-scar
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    Some Unknown Person will be the 1000th Subscriber to this Group. (meme)

  • B Movie Bonanza @lemmy.world
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    4-D Man (1959) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!