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@catraxx @uastronomer @ErikUden
To roughly quote something here: We are not gonna build real standards while there is so much incentive to monetise walled gardens. And now the automated hallucinators are supposed to fill that gap.
I think this was from this episode of factually, but could not find the timestamp, apparently, there is no search bar for transcripts: https://youtube.com/watch?v=wAUTbQ4rPI4.
@catraxx @uastronomer @ErikUden I mean, I kind of saw the appeal a few years ago of google duplex (this was before LLMs and likely a fake demo), as a socially awkward person. No awkward phone calls to book an appointment or the like.
That was past me, and wrong.
Now this just shows how inept we are at building compatible systems, we have to make the inefficient plagiarism machines somehow make systems compatible, instead of proper interfaces (1/2).
@catraxx @uastronomer @ErikUden the latter. GibberLink is just a different mode. Both sides use ElevenLabs to synthesize speech, until they “call a function” to switch to ggwave (data over sound protocol) after asserting compatibility on both sides.
The data exchanged is still just text, they are just more efficient in transmitting and parsing it (also cheaper than TTS and transcription).
This is really just like fax or dial-up, not alien language.
@Erpel I… I might have already done so out of protest. I think I need to clean my screen more often. 
@Erpel careful, your post might do more harm than good.
Also: You’re not the boss of me! And I know where my phone screen has been…
(seriously, I have never considered it before, and now it is a distinct possibility)
On my way to to send my mail-in ballot (german elections, go vote if applicable!), I encountered this random city #Fox, which just came out of one alley, noticed me, considered for a moment (like 2m distance), luckily I considered faster and had my camera ready. It carefully crossed the street, dug for and found something in the snow ... (1/2)
#City #Wildlife #UrbanPhotography #Berlin #Photography #TimelineCleanser
"C'mere, lemme hug ya!"