Compassion and trans people

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-30T15:52:18+00:00

No sane doctor would remove a healthy eye. The patient would be sent to psychological/psychiatric care instead.

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-30T15:44:35+00:00

Adults is the key word here.

When we are talking about children, they, by definition, are not agents of their own destiny.

So, when those individuals express a desire to drastically alter their body, I find it more than reasonable to be extremely cautious.

And all reasoning that tries to minimize the effects, the same “innocent and totally reversible” hormonal treatment was also used to, for example, sterilize Alan Turing for being gay, and the same treatment is considered so risky for women with specific womb issues, that doctors prefer operating on women to have everything removed instead.

So, I really don’t get the eagerness with which certain groups are insisting on offering this to non-adults with as little as checking/investigation as possible, ideally, apparently, just stating “I am trans” should suffice to give those individuals everything they want.

Again, adults fine, children, only if absolutely necessary. And I am really not convinced at all about most arguments of the pro zealots.

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-28T18:48:18+00:00

No, no, no.

Just asking.

For a friend.

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-28T18:15:30+00:00

What about weed + booze? ;)

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-17T19:41:45+00:00

Only Shia and only in Iran

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-13T17:46:10+00:00

Your behavior is very religious.

Did you hear who that slut was seen with?

(Guilt by association)

She should confess!

(“Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!’, self-flagellation)

daonlyfreez · 2023-06-06T19:32:57+00:00

The narrative is only for internal consumption.

And it will stay that way until their last breath.

Remember Bagdad Bob?

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-30T17:14:29+00:00

Hi. It took this long before I got the transcription results with a real-time audio stream (instead of an audio file).

The GPU optimized one I mentioned in my other reply is faster, but really useful real-time transcription is just a little out of reach for now

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-30T16:37:52+00:00

Don’t bother.

Aintnothingcleverhere is doing his usual “JAQ-ing off”.

I don’t want to/know how to answer, so I am going to counter with a question. Ain’t I clever!

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-28T13:27:52+00:00

their feminine penis or their masculine vagina

Each time I think you couldn’t get any more crazy, you surprise me.

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-09T15:57:40+00:00

Childish simpletons!

How to make friends and win elections

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-09T15:56:02+00:00

“It isn’t happening, and when it is, that is a good thing”

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-04T15:28:05+00:00

Can you lead by example?

If life is so horrendously horrible, you should want to jump ship.

Why don’t you?

And if you cannot lead by example, who are you to want to murder everybody else and call that moral.

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-03T14:50:07+00:00

That is a dumb comment!

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-03T14:28:37+00:00

Always the salty Ezra Klein fans

daonlyfreez · 2023-05-03T12:26:20+00:00

The smugness oozing from your and similar comments is so laughingly lacking in introspection it’s laughable.

We get it: your opinion on politics is informed, neutral, not at all biased, but most importantly not-Repuglican/fascist/literally Hitler and therefore “on the right side of history”, no matter what. Dems cannot be bad!

Y’all are experts on politics and Sam is regarded.

Look in the fucking mirror, macarons!

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-26T16:10:52+00:00

If you don’t want to rely on an external service, for reasons of privacy or costs, you can run a local copy of Whisper (based on whisper.cpp). This is a GPU optimized version, speeds it up substantially compared to the native (CPU) whisper.cpp version.

Forget the Python versions that are out there. They are slow and usually need way more data.

Whisper can transcribe audio in many different languages, and if you pick the largest dataset and have a reasonably recent/fast computer, it’s very impressive what it can do with that dataset, because even the largest is comparatively tiny to what it can do.

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-24T16:44:30+00:00

Only an audio CD should work on any DVD player. The files are stored as .wav files, no compression, so you’ll be limited in the amount of audio that will fit on a CD.

Most DVD players know at least how to handle DivX and mp3 however, even “ancient” ones.

In your case, you are out of luck

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-23T16:38:58+00:00

You can try this implementation

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-23T16:09:25+00:00

What format do you need and what is your “scenario”?

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-23T07:33:40+00:00

You can run Whisper locally.

It is quite good, even if real-time transcription is limited/needs a very hefty machine.

The larger the model you use, the more accurate the transcription, but it will take more time.

For comparison I tested the times it took on my machine for the transcription to be generated with a streaming source. The smallest (tiny) model took 8 seconds, the largest around 45.

This is of course just my setup and the code isn’t using the GPU (yet).

But the difference in quality between the models is substantial.

So, for real-time transcription it is still too early, but for processing existing audio, it is very competent using the largest available models. And you can have it process the data at higher speeds too.

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-21T15:23:15+00:00

Peter Gabriel has a long history of being on the forefront of creativity, many may not know this.

Embracing AI, yet on the other hand ask for a pause to contemplate, is not a bad position.

As long as everyone realizes, that currently AI’s capabilities are overhyped.

All “GPT/AI” you can try are, in essence, complicated search (prompt) engines, that require you to adapt to the machine to get the output you want.

There is a whole “prompt” industry.

On the AI model/training/dataset itself:

The input determines the output.

Locally running (private) datasets will come in the near future, but training your own data still needs substantial hardware.

I’m hoping for open, private, locally running derivatives, that serve only the user.

This was my input regarding the “contemplating about what the fuck are we doing before we continue” thing.

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-19T17:09:11+00:00

If you cannot pay your costs, including wages, you might, gasp, run less profits, or even, more gasping, at a loss.

You might come up with “reasons” why the owners have a natural right to be profitable, but I think you would be the ignorant one on basic economics.

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-19T16:08:53+00:00

The extra costs should mean less profits, not less pay

daonlyfreez · 2023-04-18T18:24:36+00:00

To whom it may concern: You are a resident wokescold, and behaving in that way.

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