I see and agree with you then. I’m glad it gets us better cheap models but more traditional innovation would definitely be preferred.

I gotta know what you mean by “copying” ai models. Same training data? Amount of training? How would you go about copying a closed-source model. I think china is just…. Making good models.

I’m not gonna pretend that I’ve watched this specific video, but ben Jordan brought flock to my attention and got me interested in talking to local gov about it

I understand this as an immediate reaction to software like this, but I have to disagree. I care about so many people… too many people. I want to keep up with them because our relationships are important to me. However, the human mind forgets stuff, even things that are important. Sure, I’ll remember someone’s birthday most of the time, but this is insurance that I won’t, it’s insurance that I won’t lose meaningful connections because I got too busy with work or passion projects.

I’m uncertain about the future of computing. However, I know that the new laws are meant to control people. They can’t control bots, and they can’t control servers, because those machines aren’t owned by individuals, they can’t be identified and linked to individual real people. Therefore the solution to me seems to be posing as an unmanned machine.

I personally use Navidrome, so everything I suggest will be based around you using that as well, however Jellyfin is probably a good option too.

Navidrome has been incredibly simple, and there are numerous great options on android for player apps. Metadata can come with the music as you get it, or you can use tools like beets or musicbrainz Picard to tag them in bulk. Navidrome has been set-and-forget for me, as I’ve set the download folder for slskd (self hosted version of soulseek) to be the library folder for Navidrome.

Seems very new given the unfinished wiki but I’m interested. I’m a bit of a weirdo and want like 9 side buttons (Minecraft lmao) so id probably need to mod heavily. Either way, this seems like roughly what i want. Thanks for sharing :333

To my knowledge movie-web was a solid and simple piracy site based on a former piracy site (can’t remember the name) that worked roughly the same way before it got shut down. Later, movie web shut down and pstream picked up where the left off. Not long after, pstream went too. All of them built off the others and the UX was really solid by the end. Better solutions exist now, though.

Good reminder for anyone concerned about not being able to find a job: literally anything can be a startup. If this guy can get 25,000 people to send him photos of their shit, you can find a way to get a 5th of that user base to give you $5 a month

Do you have tips for how to handle a relative who’s engaged with a pretty directly evil company/business practice?

I’m a proponent for purelymail if you own a domain

Also true. It is called social media, so I’m pretty okay with anything happening to any of the comments/posts I make. All the same, I do expect vaguely better behavior from moderators.

I think this will exemplify the beauty of federation. If I find out my instance mods are running all of my comments through a company’s ai model, I’ll switch instances. This is in great disparity to something like Instagram or Snapchat where every photo I post is immediately fed to ai and my only options are: be okay with it, never post, or delete Instagram.

Who up not paying a living wage

Harvard startup bros have learned anything with cultural relevance and good branding can make money, even if the service doesn’t meaningfully improve your life

LMAO

At least they’ll keep them on now 🤷‍♂️

I feel like an absolute idiot for ever being anti-laptop. I got a framework and my PC immediately became a server. One of the best investments I have ever made.

I don’t know what your experience with soulsseek has been but I’ve loved it. However, if you think the experience should be more seamless and integrated, you should program a bridge for slskd and navidrome that runs the downloaded media through MusicBrainz Picard or beets before putting it in the Navidrome library.

This made my fucking day… ffmpreg…