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Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by imawakegnxoxo »

ClassyJacket wrote: post #15
ramon156 wrote: post #9

I spent too much time on TikTok, because I got confused how a "bop" spotter even worked.

Yes, I'm quite upset about the repurposing of "bop" to be offensive, it was a good word and I liked its old meaning. For anyone who doesn't know, 'bop' to gen Z is a derogatory term for a sexually active woman, it basically means 'slut'. Redefining existing words is something that really irritates me, particularly when it's used to attack women.

Blitzkrieg.... Hoes?

I've spent a few more minutes than I should have trying to work this out. The only way I can figure this is it's related to the head movement? Still not sure. I sure do have very little love for this generation though

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by defrost »

Dibby053 wrote: post #17
defrost wrote: post #12

Nice idea - it'd be interesting to do some stats on matching accuracy, eg: September 29, 2024 6:53 PM La Banda Del Carro Rojo Los Tigres del Norte links to the captured street noise that matched .. and I (perhaps others can) cannot hear the asserted "match" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Wjz9L0UOhE but bonus points for picking up that Virreinato de Nueva España vibe.

You can faintly hear the accordion near the end of the recording. I don't like that it shares the recordings though. It doesn't add much value and it's a privacy violation, even if it's legal.

Good effort if that's what it is (I confess, I haven't looped back to check).

Sharing for people to check is useful to bed something in, I'm not fond of the "privacy violation" but I grew up in small communities .. if you said anything within earshot in a public area it went around town faster than 10 gigabit fibre, and that was before WWW, before even TCP or the IP it sat on.

Accessible storage and replay forever is a whole level up, but these are the days in which face recognition is being rolled out to giant billboards that can display different images to different positions and track several moving pedtrasians with targeted ads based on their preferences.

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by stavros »

imawakegnxoxo wrote: post #21
ClassyJacket wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I'm quite upset about the repurposing of "bop" to be offensive, it was a good word and I liked its old meaning. For anyone who doesn't know, 'bop' to gen Z is a derogatory term for a sexually active woman, it basically means 'slut'. Redefining existing words is something that really irritates me, particularly when it's used to attack women.

Blitzkrieg.... Hoes? I've spent a few more minutes than I should have trying to work this out. The only way I can figure this is it's related to the head movement? Still not sure. I sure do have very little love for this generation though

Having heard some Gen Z terms before, it's probably some initials, like "big old pussy" or something like that.

Re: Bop Spotter

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Post by xnorswap »

nusl wrote: post #11

This is really cool. Imagine a map of this across a city, being able to see what different areas tend to listen to. I imagine you'd find some surprising and not-so-surprising things.

Then you'd get someone taking the trouble to correlate music and times, to capture someone moving across the city on the map.

Then you'd get profiling to potentially pick out who in particular moved across the city and the exact time of path of their movement.

While this is a nice idea on a local scale, when scaled up it has horrendous privacy implications.

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