You might want to have a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/unixporn/

I enjoyed it fwiw.

Good question. It is a cat and mouse game but certainly possible for YouTube to (at least) only release part Y of the video after a certain amount of time has elapsed since part X was released. And if YouTube really wanted to seamlessly glue the ads and video together, I think it would be insurmountable from an adblocker's perspective.

Have you used SponsorBlock?

Anyone have an estimate of the numbers of dolphins and sea lions currently "enlisted"? I can't find numbers anywhere.

Excellent question, because it's likely a trivial number and a program that only still exists for PR purposes.

A waste is when you throw something into a landfill. This is weaponization by an enemy of the people.

I did some back of the envelope calculations for fun. A 5-key setup would allow one-hit triggers of:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz and space, period, apostrophe, enter.

Then add a "shift" key and you add one-hit triggers of A-Z, backspace, question mark, tab, esc.

Then you could get 60 additional output values with double-tap shift and hold + key (30) and double-tap shift and release + key (30).

That's essentially 5-bit Baudot code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudot_code

This lends some support to the controversial work of Dr. John Sarno which proposes that chronic back pain (among others) is a psychosomatic condition.

My 26 second training input perhaps wasn't enough. The result sounded like someone else. Is the result some kind of merger of my voice and a native speaker's?

Similarity depends on many factors: recording quality, which language you're synthesizing in (models trained on more speakers do better), and diversity of prosody in your recording. Try recording for a bit longer and "acting out" a bit in your tone, that tends to give me interesting results :)

Worth pointing out that someone engineered a replica of the caddyshack bag, including club launcher, 5 liter beer keg with tap, working radio, telephone:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLYMhCZbO48

This article pushes the animal-centric narrative, as though hippos are somehow controlling this process. It makes more sense to think of the bacteria as the dominant players in this ecosystem and the hippos (or their intestines and feces) as just one of the channels through which they propagate.

I would think that it's a little of both, and probably a few other players that nobody really noticed yet.