@variablepulserate Is an EMP too drastic? :P
@matigo There's also the fact people are using AI-based search engines. If you weren't in their data set to begin with, good luck being found…
It’s kind of scary just how much AI-generated content there is on YouTube…and none of it is labeled as such. It’s also happening in virtual print as well. Search Engine Optimization is now giving way to AI-Engine Optimization.
Not saying AI is completely bad, but I don’t think most implementing these technologies on some scale understands what the impact of doing so will be. Meanwhile, I’m watching humanity on the whole getting dumber by the day.
Professor Ted, though we can disagree with his methods, might have had a point.
“It was once a foible confined to the Greeks to inquire into what number of rowers Ulysses had, whether the Iliad or the Odyssey was written first, whether moreover they belong to the same author, and various other matters of this stamp, which, if you keep them to yourself, in no way pleasure your secret soul, and, if you publish then, make you more of a bore than a scholar. But now this vain passion for learning useless things has assailed the Romans also.” — Seneca
“Whenever externals are more important to you than your own integrity, then be prepared to serve them the remainder of your life. Don’t hedge and agree to be their slave, then change your mind later; commit to one or the other position at once and without reserve. Choose to be either free or a slave, enlightened or a fool, a thoroughbred or a nag. Either resign yourself to a life of abuse till you die, or escape it immediately. For God’s sake, don’t put up with years of abuse, and then change your mind!” — Epictetus
@peemee I have an HDMI Splitter that I bought to hook up an old BluRay player to a TV in the “fully furnished” place I’m renting. Apparently it bypasses issues I was having with HDCP 🙄
I sometimes need to take audio clips from YouTube things…on iOS devices. So… I assembled a thing [bitbucket.org] to do exactly that.
@matigo our show (RadioNet) was actually streamed on RealMedia at one point. Sadly, by the time I got involved, we weren’t doing that. I investigated a couple of other “compressed” audio formats of the time, as I didn’t get awareness of MP3 until the Napster days.
The technology has advanced so much since then.
Between the new Mac Mini I just ordered and the Rogue Amoeba Podcast Bundle I purchased…you might say I’m investing in my craft just a little.
Wonder what 1996 me that got the name PhoneBoy from working at an actual radio station would think about building his own (albeit virtual) radio station someday…