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You never actually said what the alternative is, though.
Man, I could be wrong, but I would venture to guess that the number of people using this has decreased massively. In my teens and 20s I remember religiously scanning my entire MP3 collection through Picard and also gleefully scanning disc IDs into the database. Haven't used MusicBrainz in over ten years at this point.
What is that page? It looks like a "tweet" on The Verge which just links to the actual story.
Except books are already destroyed in physical form every single day. My local library has a section near the front for free and/or extremely cheap books ($1) they are desperately trying to get rid of. My impression is that if they are untaken/unsold they will end up in a dumpster.
[Edit] Here's an article from 2003 talking about how Random House destroyed up to 25,000 books a day: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/mar/19/fiction.stephe...
Is that hyperbole or do you know of a specific "AI website" that uses 100% of your CPU?
Thank you for the clarification. Not sure if it was the author's intent but they made it sound like .name will cease to exist.
Perhaps, but there are certainly now catchphrases and words that can indicate it was written with AI i.e. load-bearing, idempotent, etc. Style and structure are in and of themselves, a fingerprint.
Does YouTube in Safari play in background/with the screen off?
But can my daughter, who has a Managed Account, use this?
For that, there's ProTube[1]. On the surface it behaves like YouTube Premium, under the hood it's just the mobile version of YouTube bundled into an iOS app. I have no idea why ads aren't served, I analyzed the network requests with Fiddler Everywhere and saw nothing nefarious.
[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/protube-block-ads-on-video/id6...
do we really need breaking news about qwen posted every single day?
to be honest, having to walk inside to use the bathroom or refill your cup of coffee seems like a nice way to stand up and get the blood flowing again + breathe some fresh air.
All of my childhood friends who bragged about being good at GH/RB only ever bragged about being good at the _games_. Never ran in to someone trying to pass it off as being able to play the guitar.
Are we comparing nuclear energy to an LLM?
If I recall correctly most forum software such as phpBB and vBulletin had an option where you could toggle between viewing a thread in nested BBS/Usenet style or the newer linear view.
Put your site behind Cloudflare, enable Bot Fight. Done.
Similar, but it was a very realistic looking photo of a woman in lingerie taking a selfie in a car.
I have used ChatGPT to generate HUNDREDS of photos and I have never once had it bring back violent or sexual content. It does, however, routinely reject certain requests due to me trying to incorporate copyrighted characters. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Why does their website seem like a clone of Anthropic's?
Every time I get in my car the Apple Music app prompts me to resubscribe with a full screen popup. Usually it tries 2-3 times before it stops.
Lately whenever I watch movies my remote stays in my hand so I can boost the volume during dialogue and turn it down during loud action scenes. I've had two different soundbars, one of them quite expensive, and it's an issue on both.
Is this real? I examined to their source code and found an exposed TypeScript RPC which indicates the following:
totalMembers: 4954
totalPledged: 5678872
averagePledge: 1146.320549
However the numbers on the website appear to be hardcoded in with very dramatically different numbers.
It's not trespassing, this individual would have had to show an ID and be on an access list to get in to my community. He either was Jason Bourne or an actual Mediacom rep. He knew my address specifically was using a ton of bandwidth and he was confirmed in my neighbors home earlier.
I'm still trying to get to the bottom of why a rep would come to my house and disconnected my internet after talking to a 15 year old that was home alone. I called Mediacom and they said speaking to minors is against their policy and doing any sort of maintenance without the account holder present is against their policy.
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skarz on Tuesday April 14, 2026 @07:59PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I have about 54TB of Internet Archive torrent backups on my home servers. I am on an unlimited gig plan with Mediacom and typically upload about 10 terabytes a month. I have been doing this for over a year and have never once gotten any sort of notification or complaint from Mediacom. Note: I live in a gated community and my daughter confirmed he was wearing a Mediacom shirt and drove a...