I keep hearing about deep fakes (and fake comments). I got curious and even universities are simulating. Remember when 70,000 bots were doing the Pinocchio?

Strangely enough, XDA Forums is the last place I’ve ever commented. I rarely read comments nowadays though because they’re too funny (and obviously gamed).

Casually trusting online services is increasingly risky too given the desperate monetary incentives of generative artificial intelligence.

I heard of another static site generator. “Static sites” are not really my jam, but are economically fun. I might try templating that one.

Its motivation adds to my hunch that golang templating is generally disliked. I’m occasionally asked about go (online), but I know very little actually.

I wonder if anyone else still knows about yoyo fundamentals (embed)? I wish you all godspeed in learning the frontend (embed). My YouTube expedition is done for now.

I might be slowly turning more lucid. Things are starting to take on a repeat. I was scanning mildly old tech news feeds and time travelled to old school 2012 high school.

There was a certain Kony 2012 of worldwide acclaim around that time too (randomly tangential but true).

I’ve been thinking about scams lately. The most elusive are both scams and not scams, i.e, scamming from the “superposition” (if you will).

Scammers thrive on confusion. If large groups of people say that a scheme worked, and others the exact opposite, then something’s phishy.

What makes ponzi, miracle man, and “dead donkey” scams truly ingenious is that victims may defend the scam. Since it did work or losses were minimal, the misdirection is completely on autopilot.

They say you can’t have virality without context collapse. There are times when I stumble upon stuff online that I kind of know the behind the scenes on.

Then I remember (again) that virality is often simpler than you’d think. One only has but to master the art of continually collapsing the context. It begins where the fates align and the contexts collide.

There are a lot more speech programs on Linux now. I was a bit curious and searched through the distribution package managers recently.

• Live Captions
• Linux Voice Control
• Speech Note
• Nerd Dictation
• Sherpa Speech
• Piper
• Numen

Some use Vosk or Onnx as runtimes.

Perhaps it’s just my imagination (related). Imagine you’re shown a bag making clip on YouTube (maybe from Brazil).

You (on a whim) zip on over to the channel for more sewing, only to be slammed with US engagement politics. The commenters (English) never seemed to have gotten the context that it’s a channel in Portuguese about bags (scroll to the end). Then everything magically disappears.

Do small channels like that just get randomly hacked, hijacked, and then sacked? Interesting.

Behold the modern day YouTube experience. That one gets premium points for landing an easy 6:26 (or 27) duration summary (embed).

There used to be spelling and grammar bots roaming around. They’d read your entire blog and mail in the misspelt words. If you replied, someone would respond to demo their ultimate proof reading solution.

One of them was really bothered by referer. I pointed out once that it was intensional and that came as a shocking revelation. Those bots were replaced by the swarm intelligence. Now everyone’s grammar and spelling is perfection.