 I am live. At least that's what it says. Well, good. Good for it! Good for you! Good for you! I am pretty much rarin' to go for the old... I should probably do some rewrites. Let me pull this out. How are you today? How have you been? How ya doin'? Hello, Selvyn09. Chrome has lost permission to capture your screen. Oh. Saludos. You can choose to quit Google Chrome app now or do it on your own later. Well, I kinda want to do it later. But then that would interrupt the stream. Hey, Selvyn! And anyone in the Twitch chat... Tell folks I'll be right back. See? Look, I'm back. It's almost like I never left. Alright, let's see if I can share my screen now. Okay, uh-huh. There we go. That's why that wasn't working. Okay, yay! Hey, Ryan. Good news and bad news for gaming. Market researchers... Market researcher Nuzu reports that the PC and console gaming market grew 2.6% in 2023. That's the good news. People are spending less time playing games. Nuzu estimates that hours played fell during the year and expects the number of players to decline over time as well. Average quarterly playtime decreased by 26%. Do-doot! Do-doot! Is emerging markets where PC and console gaming grew 4.7% and 4.8% respectively. Respectively. Hey, Zoe! I will not recognize you, Zoe. I mean, is 2.6% significant? Yes, it is. It's better than negative 2.6%. It's back from growth. Back from decline, basically. Where is Untitled 33? I don't need that anymore. Untitled 34, that's what I'm looking for. Hey, Payone. Let's see if we've got a different take on this. And the Washington Post. The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board concluded that Microsoft could have prevented attackers from reaching Microsoft Exchange online last year and accessing government email. The attack compromised 22 organizations affecting more than 500 people. Microsoft Account Consumer Key and Forged Tokens to access Outlook. It's still unclear how the key was taken. Joel Freak! Good to see you. So many people hanging out in the chat. The board criticized Microsoft's security culture as inadequate and recommended an overhaul. Which Microsoft is undertaken? Doot, doot, doot! Oh, shoot. I did the wrong one. I need to do this one. There we go. Can't get enough Android in your life? Oh, actually, that's not right. What should we do for GDI? Quantum. All right, that's enough of that. I think I've done all I have. The rest of it's under Sarah's direction today. In her capable hands. Meanwhile... Connection's happening in the chat. I'm just catching up. This is amazing. I hope it all works out. Job connections. You're watching this later. Not other kinds. New artwork? I don't know if that was what you were referring to, but that was actually artwork that's been up all month until now when I changed the calendar. I'm okay. I am told that we are on track with the funding for Tom's new book. 47%. So anyway, no one at Unbound is panicking yet. And I know a couple of you have had issues with Unbound's website, and I am letting them know about that as well. So hang in there. I saw your comment on YouTube. We haven't changed anything, but I'll have Joe and Roger look into it. Tom. Okay. Sometimes you just have to check. Maybe it'll be easy. Doot, doot, doot, doot. Oh, and Patreon staff took care of an issue with a patron. Yay. I'm going through email now, but I won't share my screen if that's okay. Just finished Happy New Year, and I hope you're fine. Joe, Joe Freak, I feel like you should just prioritize the new episode and then catching up. It is hilarious that you're always like several months behind. Thank you. My flight to CES went very well. Oh, cool, Ryan. I'm glad you got yours figured out. I will not be in Austin for long, Zoe, but Zoe, are you going to be in Austin? I fly in Sunday midday, and then I am there all day on Tuesday for the event, but then I fly out super early on Tuesday. Being current on editor's desks is probably super important. That's probably a good choice. I'm going to have to record one of those soon. Okay, good. I have something for you, Zoe. So I will bring it there instead of bringing it to Vegas. That way you can have it faster. You have to be driving to listen, and you don't drive on business trips. Yeah. You see, you don't listen, Joe Freak. You don't listen to podcasts on flights, which, again, sometimes I do. Honestly, I will listen to podcasts on short flights. So like when we fly to Vegas, it's like a 45-minute flight. I listen to podcasts because it's not really worth doing anything else. And I just kind of sit there and zone out and listen to podcasts. But if I'm on a flight to Korea or something, I generally don't listen to podcasts. I might listen to an audio book, but I'm usually either sleeping or watching a video. So yeah, yeah, I get you. I was, Zoe, that is correct. I was sent a box that contained something for you. In fact, this will give me a chance to use the extra camera. Let's see, can I, yeah, yeah, yeah. Off the screen. Yeah, I have to have video to make it work on long, long haul. See, it says it's sitting right by my backpack. I have it sitting right by my backpack so that I won't forget it. At least I'm less likely. Yeah, see our poll. I tell everyone that that is of reproduction. Okay. So I think we're doing the stable audio thing, audio generation model. So I know Scott's really into this kind of stuff. Boy, Joe would kill me if I did this on the real show. So I should probably get in the habit of doing this like this. If you haven't heard stable audio upgraded their music generation where you can type in a music prompt and it will make music for you from that text prompt. You can also upload audio. And as long as it's not copyrighted audio, it will use the uploaded audio as a prompt as well. Here's something that I made. I said guitar based tech news show intro with an upbeat tempo and no vocals. By the way, you have to say no vocals because it's going to play. There we go. It takes a long time to get going though. You don't hear it. Oh, you just see me bopping around to nothing. I had it muted. Okay. Here we go. Thank you. Can you hear it now? You should be able to hear it now. That's what was supposed to be happening when you saw me do that. So I just put guitar based tech news show intro with an upbeat tempo and no vocals. Welcome to daily tech news show. It's time for the tech news. All right. So if I were to put in a new prompt chat room, give me some ideas. What should I put in for the prompt here? I actually, while you're thinking, while you're coming up with prompt ideas, I actually took that and I put it back in and said, make the track get more upbeat faster. And it did a redo of it to try to get it. It didn't cut out the intro though, but here's what it came up with. Pretty much the same, right? It's the same thing, but I think it gets to the fast part in a fewer seconds. Gradual increase in sound, upbeat with drums says CR pole. What's style? What's style? That's a good tempo instruction. But in, you know, do we want synth pop? K-pop. Afro beats. Mood music. Drum and bass. And then I can say gradually increase in sound, upbeat with drums. Beatles. All right. Beatles inspired rock song. With gradual increase in sound, upbeat with drums. All right. It takes a while to generate this stuff. I don't know if you pay for the service. If it does it faster, I'm going to guess it does. Here it goes. It's now generating. Generating, generating, generating, generating. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Boom. Should I use one of these as the end music for GDI today? Oh, the sound service is stableaudio.com. I mean, Zoe could put the link in there for you too. But in fact, I could also do stableaudio.com slash generate. to the place that you need. Okay. Oh, here we go. All right, see our poll. Here we go. We didn't say no vocals too, so it almost sounds like it's a language. It's like they're mumbling. Can't quite make out. Yeah, it sounds more like a 90s rock band sang than it does Beatles. It's like Beatles. I did say Beatles inspired, so okay, I'm going to use that as the I'm going to use that as the input. I'm going to take that song and use it as the input and then say make this track sound more like the Beatles and less like 90s. Oh, I like that prompt sang. As soon as I'm done with this one, I'm going to get to that. I think I have time. That's a good K-pop version of the White Stripes icky thump. Yeah, Web of Magic. It doesn't sound like they were singing in Simlish. Apparently that's from all the reviews I've read. That's what you get. You get non-language language. It takes a while. I'm going to look over the news while it Spotify to raise prices. China will do something. Disney D-Day, it's an equal Martin Green on the show's unexpected final season. Disney fends off Nelson Peltz. Okay, and then Techno is one plus one ahead and build its own version of Google's magic eraser. Cable lobby vows years of litigation to avoid bands on blocking and throttling. I'll mark that for tomorrow. Maybe they'll want to talk net neutrality. California HOAs, Trump Soothes Truth Social, co-founders, Witcher, everything you need to know about Netflix, Fantasy Ambing, Microsoft share pricing details, Amazon, they're still talking about Just Walk Out from yesterday, Twitter, Files Brazil, Facebook's new full-screen video player looks like TikTok. Yep. All right, nothing worth pushing something out of the lineup. No notification today, Clinton. I did go live rather quickly, so maybe that's why. I'm also using Chrome. I don't know if that's why. Oh, I don't know when this happened, but here we go. All right, this is the taking the input of the previous sound and then making it saying, make it sound more like the Beatles and less like the 90s. Then we'll get to Sang's prompt. Okay. It's the same song. It is a little more jangly 60s-ish. It's still that very, it's still got a very garage band sound. I think that's just the quality of the music. The style is a little more Beatles-ish though. Still not very Beatles-ish. K-pop version. It may toss this out because we're being so specific about the song. Let's find out. Because I know it has a bunch of copyright protection stuff where you can't upload copyright. I couldn't upload the DTNS theme song. It was like, nope. Even though I have the copyright to it, it doesn't know that. So it's like, nope, that's copyright. You can't use that. And actually it's Creative Commons, but I wouldn't expect it to understand that. It's not kicking this out. It does seem to be a processing K-pop version of the white stream sticky thump. So we'll see. Do you, any of you in warm weather climates? I know cold weather climate folks are just going to laugh at this, but any of you in warm weather climates have the situation where it's kind of chilly in the morning. So you want to wear socks, but then if you do your feet get really hot when it gets warm in the afternoon. So you either have cold feet in the morning or hot feet in the afternoon or have to like adapt and take off the socks, which I know just take off the socks. But I kind of like to not have to think about it. Ooh, that was fast. All right, let's see what happens with K-pop version of the white stripes icky thump. What did it come up with? It's just kidding. Why does this sound like the last? Oh, oh, I forgot to take out the input file. That's why it sounds like the previous one. All right, let's just generate for, I didn't generate it. You can input the previous file and I forgot to take it out. So now I got to regenerate it. Darn it. Carry on luggage only. That's why I was like, why does this sound like the last one? Oh, right, because I, I was still building it off the previous version. Let's do this again. Under desk heater. You know, I have a tiny little heater that I can get, but then it's the same thing as the socks. Might as well just take the socks off at that point, because you have to remember to do something, turn the heater on, turn the heater off. Yeah, let's see our poll for a minute there. I was like, does it only know one song? That's the only song it knows. New music and book plans from Spotify. Man, not having checked luggage is so much better. I bought some olive oil for my sister for her birthday. I am flying out there a week after her birthday. So it wouldn't be bad if I brought it to her, but I would have to check it because it's liquid because it's more than three ounces of liquid. And it would be the only thing I have to check. I don't want to check anything else. So yeah, I'm with you. Boy, flying international without checking luggage too. That's, that's, that's a move. Yeah. I, I can't go to Korea, Japan or without checking. I did go to Brussels without checking, but I was only there for four days. So if you're going for a longer time, all right, here we go. K-pop version of the White Stripes. It's cute. What do you think, Sag? The audio quality is really bad on this, isn't it? But if you look past that, it's funny. Okay, that's pretty good. I like that. Okay. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to say that sounds like twice. Give me a genre. Give me a genre of music that's not K-pop because I'm going to make it sound like the group twice. So give me a genre of music. And then after you give me a genre of music, give me a tempo. And then after you give me a tempo, I'll tell you the next thing. So give me a, give me a genre of music first. Just the audio, although you can change things. You can like add sound effects. You can do some editing. You can, you can do a few things. Heavy metal, heavy metal. All right. And then a tempo and instrumentation after, after tempo. So tempo next, Clinton's got heavy metal. And then tempo and instrumentation, like, you know, strings or brass or something like that. So what, what tempo, what tempo should we get? This is where a chat lag is, is coming in 100 beats per minute. No, that's very specific. All right. Here we go. 100 BPM heavy metal orchestra with saxophone. That sounds like twice. Ooh, yeah, sure. I'll take that, Jill. Did it really come up with that fast? No. No, it says pending. Yeah, I don't think I could play it yet. The top has a play button, but I don't think it'll play. No, I won't play because it's still a little interface quirk. It gave me the play button at the, at the top, even though down below it says it's still converting it. This will be the last one I do. Perhaps we crash their web page. No, it seems like it's working. It went from pending to converting. All right. Here we go. 100 beats per minute, heavy metal orchestra with saxophone. It sounds like twice. Morning, PC. This is not heavy metal. Maybe it's dish. Definitely not 100 beats per minute. Yeah, it's like transferring orchestra. I have been checking the weather, Clinton. And the rain has been pushing off. I don't think this sounds like twice. That's probably the best one we've done so far. All right. I'll have these ready to go. Yeah, where is the saxophone? Oh, with saxophone. Yeah, there was never any sax. I put saxophone in them. I don't hear a single sax. If you use an app that says it won't be cloudy on Eclipse Day, does that mean it won't be for you? Like, does it depend on which weather app you use, what weather you'll get? Anyway, even if it just is real dark, it'll be impressive because we are in totality. All right. Thanks everybody for hanging out. This was fun. And I am looking forward to chatting about this a little more on DTNS. We'll be talking about it in the big news block. So, but all means tune in and listen to that. Scott Johnson is going to talk about the Xbox AI chatbot and all kinds of other things. Okie dokie. Bye everybody. This is where I hit end stream. Then I hit end stream again. Bye.