Blind geek, fanfiction lover (Harry Potter and MLP). Mastodon at: @[email protected].

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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Prophecy approved companion is excellent! It gave me all the feels. It’s both extremely funny, and extremely poignant as the main character learns who she is, what’s really going on, and her intended roll in it all. It’s one of the few series where the reader knows exactly what’s happening from the start, but the fact the main character being slow to catch on isn’t frustrating.









  • Personally I find myself renting GPU and running Goliath 120b. Smaller models could do what I’m doing if I spent more time optimizing my prompts. But every day I’m doing different tasks, and Goliath 120b will just handle whatever I throw at it, no matter how sloppy I am. I’ve also been playing with LLAVA and Hermes vision models to describe images to me. However, when I really need alt-text for an image I can’t see, I still find myself resorting to GPT4; the open source options just aren’t as accurate or detailed.




  • I don’t block anything. I work in accessibility, so it’s important to me to know what the experiences are like for my fellow users with disabilities. I also don’t want to recommend sites or apps that are riddled with inaccessible ads. I’d rather not give them traffic at all. Though even though I let them track me, I still get ads in a language I don’t speak for cars I can’t drive. What’re they doing with all that data?




  • A couple reasons, I think:

    1. AI dubbing: this makes it way easier for YouTube to add secondary dubbed tracks to videos in multiple languages. Based on the Google push to add AI into everything, including creating AI related OKR’s, that’s probably a primary driver. Multiple audio tracks is just needed infrastructure to add AI dubbing.

    2. Audio description: Google is fighting enough antitrust related legal battles right now. The fact that YouTube doesn’t support audio description for those of us who are blind has been an issue for a long time, and now that basically every other video streaming service supports it, I suspect they’re starting to feel increased pressure to get on board. Once again, multiple audio tracks is needed infrastructure for offering audio description.


  • Surprised nobody has mentioned my two favourites:

    • Behind The Bastards: Robert Evans (formerly of Cracked fame) talks about the worst people in history for hours.
    • Oh No Ross and Carrie: “When they make the claims we show up so you don’t have to.” Maybe start with the series on scientology, it’s some of the best work they’ve done.

    Most of the other stuff I listen to is either industry specific or fandom/hobby specific.