flabberghaster wrote on March 18, 2025 at 10:48 PM

Reply to comment by devtesla in if the one ring is so good how come there's no the two ring? by hollyhoppet

But they were both of them deceived! Ha ha. The fellas get it.

flabberghaster OP wrote on March 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM

Reply to comment by devtesla in Actually kind of good app idea by flabberghaster

I listen to a ton most of which have no ads, but Behind the Bastards, It Could Happen Here and Better Offline are all I heart radio and they have all kinds of fuck ass ads.

It's so funny to be listening to better offline, where the whole podcast is about how bad AI is, and every ad is about how you NEED to up your AI game to keep up in the market.

flabberghaster OP wrote on March 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM (edited on March 17, 2025 at 5:46 AM)

Reply to comment by devtesla in Actually kind of good app idea by flabberghaster

The dynamic ad thing I knew about but I didn't think of it when I made this. The "if it got big it would crater the already not great podcast ads business model and put people whose output I like out of work" did occur to me.

I feel like you could may be work around the dynamic ads issue if you were good enough with signal processing. Originally the idea was "the only good use case for an AI I can think of, is one trained to recognize ads in podcasts and skip over them" but then I tried to think how to do it without AI.

Even if you didn't use AI, you could probably do what Shazam did where it could recognize a song. The app would instead, recognize the point in the podcast where they were just about to throw to ads, and when they come back, and skip over anything in between. This would still work with tagging probably.

The podcast companies would come up with countermeasures I'm sure. And it seems quite complex. But I wouldn't have to hear about sports betting as much.

flabberghaster OP wrote on March 17, 2025 at 3:54 AM

Reply to Actually kind of good app idea by flabberghaster

copyright, trademark, no one do this without paying me

flabberghaster wrote on March 15, 2025 at 2:23 PM

Reply to Orange Juice in a wine glass by Jenheadjen

How did you enjoy your virgin screwdriver?

flabberghaster wrote on March 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM

Reply to comment by nitori in Ubuntu to replace classic coreutils and more with new Rust-based alternatives by nitori

Yeah, I really don't like the moves away from GPL type stuff to more corporate friendly software licenses.

flabberghaster wrote on March 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM

Reply to comment by devtesla in i love my job but i do not love learning AWS by twovests

100%. They bill it as "you don't have to pay a guy to run your on prem hardware for you" but you absolutely do not save money once you've scaled to the point you need a few machines.

And by that point, your software is probably so tied in to proprietary Amazon stuff that they've got you in a vice.

It's the same model as Oracle: oh we're so easy to use and friendly, and we have all these great Oracle specific features, go ahead and use them! 😊 but then they have you locked in and they can just start squeezing.