It’s Friday, Friday. Gotta get down on Friday.

  • Baku
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    10 months ago

    I love how one of the selling points of my phone (which was all the smart “AI” crap, one of which being the ability to transcribe a recording) completely falls apart the moment it’s not an American talking directly into the microphone… I don’t think it’s actually understood anything I’ve tried to use it for, even in person and very clear discussions. But my favourites are trying to record train announcements:

    “Now arriving at Berwick [Berrick]” > “now I’m riding ash ferric”

    "Next [unintelligible] is Narre Warren station " > “best mattresses marijuana station”

    “Berwick [Berrick]” > “Spheric”

    And bonus from Sydney: “Saint Peters” became “simp penis”

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      10 months ago

      i love that there is a train of the month

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      10 months ago

      Train announcements are pretty garbled on good days though? But yeah voice recognition is still pretty bad - struggle with it in my car. Have to try and americanise what I’m saying.

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      I always used to think “automatic transcription is hard, mistakes are inevitable” until I realised even the most noisy mumbly country-accented American speech gets transcribed basically perfectly on YouTube and other places.

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        Lol that’s my new favourite video… All mine could understand was “11” and what the lift was saying

        Here’s how that turned out:

        Speaker 1 00:02 What’s

        Speaker 2 00:04 The buttons? Hello, then, sold voice recognition technology in us the helmets. Voice

        Speaker 3 00:10 Recognition technology. And left. And swollen. Ever tried voice recognition, technology. You know, they’re going to Scottish accents.

        Speaker 2 00:21 11.

        Speaker 3 00:23 Could you please repeat that?

        Speaker 2 00:26 11. 11. 11.

        Speaker 3 00:33 Could you please repeat that?

        Speaker 2 00:36 11. This idea was us. 11.

        Speaker 3 00:50 11 minutes, i’m sorry. Could you please repeat that sign language Johnson. 11. Please speak slowly and clearly smart house. 11. I’m sorry. Could you please repeat that? 11. If you don’t understand a line go away, back, came here in country. Oh, stop talking nerves that we’re back here in country. Can you be racist? Please speak slowly and clearly. 11. 11. 11 11.

        Speaker 1 01:48 11. 11. 11.

        Speaker 2 01:59 This is a voice activated elevator please state which floor, you would like to go to in a clear and calm manner.

        Speaker 3 02:08 Was that common fit? Why is it telling people to be, calm? Because i knew they say, honesty Scottish people would be gone out for months. You have not selected a floor.

        Speaker 2 02:20 If you would like to get out of the elevator without a selecting a floor, simply say open the doors, please Please, please. Suck my money. Open the doors. Please, please authentic, please remain calm. Just wait for it to speak. You have not selected a floor. Use again.

        Speaker 1 03:07 People out of this guy just gave you a voice and i’m gonna go to latent child free. Going up.

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    I have been banned from Reddit. 1st time with my seagoon, 4th time including all reddit accounts

    apparently calling out hate speech and racist lies is now abuse

    But I am not surprised, the troll armies have been brigading on other sites to get posts and people banned

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      10 months ago

      On the r/Melbourne or a different sub? r/Melbourne is dogshit at the moment, so many trolls and right-wing nutjobs crawling all over it.

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      10 months ago

      Someone on reddit dt copied my it’s Friday, Friday message. Coincidence or lurker? Lol.

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        I saw both the Friday messages and was wondering if it was some weird coincidence or not. I actually replied to the reddit one before I saw yours.

        But now that i know THE TRUTH, my reply to the Reddit one shall be duly deleted COZ THAT’LL SHOW EM the plagiarising pricks! =)

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          10 months ago

          Thank you for your loyalty. Here’s a stamp :) if you collect 600 of those you get something for half price.

      • dumblederp
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        10 months ago

        There’s probably a bunch of lurkers who never made accounts. It’s like reading r/australia, you just can’t comment.

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          They can’t be stealing content from the little guys. But really I don’t give a shit. 😂

          I reckon there’s a few lurkers though that just don’t know how to navigate lemmy.

  • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    Finally, I can see these on Lemmy.ml again. I think the federation issues were stopping any posts from coming over. Good to have this back!

    Really enjoying the cooler weather. Unfriendly reminder that loft beds only sound like a good idea and that you’re in for a world of suck if you can’t get air circulating up there.

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    10 months ago

    Rocked my interview this morning.

    I’m gonna hate telling them I won’t be accepting the role.

    Two more interviews lined up next week. Today’s was good practice.

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        10 months ago

        Fixed term with no chance for an extension. If I take it, I’ll be looking again in 6 months time.

        The advert said 18 months, but that was incorrect.

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          That’s on them, then. They advertised 18 months, and then bait-and-switched you to 6. They can’t be surprised if that doesn’t work for you.

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            10 months ago

            I’m happy to get the interview practice though. I’ve got more interview lined up with that department so having a bit of a confidence boost goes a long way.

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    10 months ago

    So upending the sofa turned into a puppet theatre cubby house. Totally grown up we are. sockpuppet with cat

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    10 months ago

    First run in my new runners this morning. Got a pb. Felt like I was running on cushions.

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    I was at the Coles deli today and the young lass stuck the barcode to her shirt and then couldn’t get it off so I said to her with a straight face “just don’t try to walk out of here because the gates won’t open”. She then laughed so hard she really couldn’t get it off.

  • bacon
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    just had a covid booster and forgot to buy eggs. only 3 left.

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        I am definitely overdue for mine, but I just can’t face going through that again.

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          I remember the first one I ever had sucked, the next few weren’t as bad but it’s scary

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          Was there a previous booster you’re talking about or the 3 old ones from the stroll-out? I haven’t had a booster so not sure what to compare it to

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        10 months ago

        arm hurts very much but strangely no fever yet, i’ll report back if i get one

        edit: here it is: 37.7

    • CEOofmyhouse56OP
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      You should’ve pilfered from your breakfast buffet this morning.

      • bacon
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        if my fever is not too bad tomorrow i might hop on the bus to the supermarket

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    Miss Seagoon bought me some chocolate in Thailand.

    Yellow curry flavoured chocolate. It was revolting.

    Why does this even exist?

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      I can believe it.

      Someone brought in Durian chocolate into work.

      Most people didn’t know what a durian was but my parents used to eat them and they were revolting.

      People got quite the surprise when they tried to eat the chocolate.

      • Catfish
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        Chilli choc is fantastic, I’m dubious about the garlic etc for curry

  • CEOofmyhouse56OP
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    I have the best news ever! My local Coles, which is a 5 minute stagger down the road is getting one of those 10c deposit bottle thingos. I just need to borrow a trolley now and I’m laughing. Today keeps getting better and better. 👍

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      Ooh! I hope my local Coles does the same thing - for the same reason!

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    one more day, one more day to go, got next week off w00t w00t gonna do a bunch of repointing

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    Crisis averted. I found some temporary beer glasses

    Never ever give up hope.