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hackers.town: 2025-04-10 Thu 06:20
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hackers.town: 2025-04-10 Thu 09:10
Infamously standoffish Barry demanding lap time after having played with the catnip toy.
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Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High by Arctic Monkeys
hackers.town: 2025-04-10 Thu 12:11
Maybe it’s just me or my particular neurodivergence, but watching a narrated video? I hate the model-generated voices. There’s an unnaturally smoothed-out uncanny valley thing going on that actually gets me mad. “Three hours on a comcast customer support phone tree” kind of mad.
Some folks use model-generated narration because they aren’t confident in their communication skills. I get that.
But me? I prefer when English is maybe their fifth language and they’ve got an accent I need autogenerated captions and frequent pauses to follow. They pause, stutter, occasionally start crying. Gives emotional weight when communicating what was important or tricky to them.
I slam the back button so quick when I hear the phone tree voice.