You're welcome and no problem, I went looking for it because I wanted those tips too ha.
SnotFlickerman
https://programming.dev/post/47150919
The original thread with advice given to OP, in case anyone else is also looking for similar suggestions.
Also bandcamp gives you high quality DRM FLAC files (or really whatever audio filetype you want) and those files are yours to keep, forever. You can also stream stuff you've bought through the bandcamp website. They also still do bandcamp fridays where 100% of the sale goes to the artist. Next bandcamp friday is May 1st.
Another option is direct-from-artist sales if they have their own website and store. Do vinyls still come with codes for an mp3 copy? I remember my vinyl for The Mean Jeans - Are You Serious? had a code and a link to download an mp3 copy of the album.
I got into music piracy back in the day because it used to be that record companies paid artists badly so I spent money on concerts and merch, now Spotify pays artists badly for the record companies. Anyway, if used at all piracy is best used to find artists you really love and then spend your money on legitimately purchasing their music.
Same thing happened with music.
It doesn't mean AAA will go away, just like big stadium packing artists like Taylor Swift never went away. They just accounted for less of the industry's total profits than they used to.
More of people's disposable money is spent on a wider variety of music and games, often opting for more "indie" and cheaper versions of both. It's a good thing, honestly, for people's tastes to be more diversified and unique.
This just in: People like being told what they want to hear. More at 11.
Most transparent administration! /s
Yeah, having the real people behind it hidden is basically the norm for Trump admin.
It seems like it's only crappy on mobile, no isues on desktop here.
...and about 82 messages per conversation. Also, at least half of all the messages are from the user to the AI, and the other half are from the AI to the user, meaning around 41 messages from the user per conversation.
It's a bit funny that it's completely at odds with how they describe their goals (emphasis mine):
I am thereallo, a web developer who makes things look pretty and work smoothly >w< been building stuff since 2020, mostly frontend but i can do fullstack too! i use react, next.js, and tailwind css because they just work, and motion for animations that don't feel plastic. i prototype in figma, steal components from shadcn/ui when i'm lazy, and deploy to vercel or cloudflare depending on the vibe~ i used to reverse engineer games (genshin leaks era lol) but now i just make websites that don't suck. i know typescript, python, go, and dabbled in rust and lua. my goal is making ui that feels human such as smooth feedback, clear buttons, keyboard accessible, no confusing bs. mobile first always! outside coding i listen to vocaloid and play project sekai, which definitely influences my color choices uwu. oh and i care way too much about bundle sizes and performance. currently learning native ios/android development. hmu on discord or github if u wanna chat! ♡
Huge Study
*Looks inside
this latest study examined the chat logs of 19 real users of chatbots — primarily OpenAI’s ChatGPT — who reported experiencing psychological harm as a result of their chatbot use.
Pretty small sample size despite being a large dataset that they pulled from, its still the dataset of just 19 people.
AI sucks in a lot of ways sure, but this feels like fud.
It also needs to factor in a threat models. Maybe this is important for governments or giant conglomerates, but an average hacker isn't going to have their hands on a quantum computing rig to just use. Until its use becomes widespread on a consumer level it will be mostly used by corporations and governments. I think it will be a while before a criminal organization has one, but maybe I am wrong.
I know this might seem like a strange answer, but.... IRC channels on private torrent trackers. Many of the people on these sites actively have large and complex setups running. There often is a lot of talk about hardware for servers and networking in those IRC channels. Or at least there is on the trackers I am on.
I know that's not necessarily a helpful answer to anyone not already in the private torrent tracker community, since its often quite a task to get involved if you aren't already. However, it's one that I have had great success with, personally. To anyone who already is on a private torrent tracker, if you haven't checked out the IRC, give it a shot and see.
Oh and don't forget you can self-host The Lounge for a self-hosted web-based IRC client.