RE: Disclosure: Ai, Open-Source, and Linux | Separating Ourselves From The Clanker-Lovers
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I don't think I've seen the opposite in place where someone is up front about using AI. There are many things where it's clear that AI is being used though, and it's not deceptive.
There's a lot of videos where the voice is synthesized via AI, and the words themselves are written by AI.
I could go into AI and say 'write a video narration all about Ubuntu's history', and then put that into a speech synthesis. And then perhaps just download other people's footage and edit it all together. It could be more efficient, but it's not something I really want to make.
But I also know that being able to get videos out consistently and quickly is favored by Youtube algorithm so in theory that would be a way to earn money making content. The incentives are always there.
Also with the driver issue you mentioned:
I'm using the Noveau/Gallium open driver right now because I'm on an outdated system, and I put off updates forever. I did a big update, and found I couldn't log into my desktop.
Uninstalled Nvidia driver and I can log in again with the open ones.
But I also have experienced the random lock ups with the open driver.
I'm hoping I've got it figured out now, and the next time I install them it will let me log in. I removed some packages that had some weird possible ties to Nvidia, but I'm trying to finish this video before I get back to breaking things.
With Radeon/AMD the main/official driver is the open-source one.
There is a podcast I've listened to about 3d printing where they say at the start that the audio is generated by AI. Some of those do sound fairly natural, but not quite human. I guess recording a real person is likely to take longer as it will probably need editing. All my content is from my own brain. I did use a few AI images on stuff, but I generally avoid that. I see some people mention when they do that.
I want my PC to be stable and it is now. There are limits to how much I will mess around with Linux, but I did eventually manage to sort out a Microsoft package so I could use @hivesql. That took a while.
Yeah I think a lot of those tech instructional channels use it to get around the language barriers.
The hardest part of making my videos is talking into the camera, hands down.
It's the part I dread the most too, but that's partially because I do it on the 2nd computer in the studio and every time I do it there's a whole process.
It also matters which camera I use.
But second hardest is simply recording the dialogue itself because it can come across too flat or like reading which I often am doing.
There's a long-running joke that having a British accent is a major positive for doing dialogue because so many Brits have major gaming channels etc.
And the sound of your voice is definitely a factor in the appeal of content like mine.
In the video I'm working on right now I used a website that lets you generate Keanu Reeves voice, but just so he can say "SystemD". Because I've edited in some humor based around the movie A Scanner Darkly which revolves around a drug called Substance D.
But doing it all these times, and realizing when it's not good enough is how I've gotten better. And everything else has improved with effort too. My thumbnails, my graphics etc. But I can edit and design more on a whim when I feel like it vs recording where I'm stopping everything to record.
What is HiveSQL for exactly?
I've done web dev before, and so I've managed MySQL or MariaDB and other SQL databases. Do you host your own Hive blockchain node? Is there a reward or payout of some kind for doing it?
And you mentioned figuring out Microsoft packages so does that mean you're needing to use Wine to run it on Linux? I'd think anything SQL-like would have a native Linux package.