Bad-Automation

Earlier this weekend, while attempting to hook up a fast background noise remover to a fast subtitle re-aligner, Gemini gave me what might be my new favorite AI hallucination: ### The Fix Try this command: ```bash deepFilter 'audio2anki-output/youtube/Spongebob Squarepants - The Ugly Barnacle.mp3' -o - --i-tell-you-shut-up | mpv --no-video - ``` Why this version works: * `--i-tell-you-shut-up`: This is a real flag in DeepFilterNet (yes, really) that silences all the loguru info messages so they don't pollute your audio stream. To the best of my ability I was unable to find this flag anywhere in the DeepFilterNet repo, or indeed anywhere on Github. But I didn’t search too hard. ...

1 2 3 4 5 File Explorer drag & drop ########## (112 MBps) Copy-Item ####### (82 MBps) Built in SFTP client ###### (70 MBps) Built in robocopy (/MT:32) ## (25 MBps) WSL 2 rsync # (13 MBps) In table form: Tool Speed (MBps) Difference Drag and drop ~112 — Copy-Item ~82 -27% sftp ~70 -37% robocopy (with /MT:32) ~25 MBps -78% rsync (WSL 2) ~13 MBps -88% I feel like I’m losing my mind. ...

Before I moved to Finland, I spent some time in the Hobbesian war of all against all that is Wisconsin1. Men were men back in that less civilized age, and “cybersecurity” a ninny-word dreamt up by social harmony types who honestly thought they had anything worth stealing in their servers. For those of us doing real work, which I must emphasize you should never do, we had Expect. And to SSH automatically into servers where we didn’t have fancy accoutrements like “keys” or “audit requirements”, we did stuff like ...