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at least with an open source os there are more paths forward.
yeah, it’s terrible. just plain none of the streaming services algorithms are any good, at all. apple has been the best i’ve found, but it’s still not very good.
the best methods by far are what i imagine theyve always been:
- talk to music nerds at your local record store if you have one. record stores are coming back in a big way in most mid-sized plus cities. if you’re too shy to talk to the people, most will have a wall with employee recommendations. but keep in mind, just talk to them, they like talking about music the way we like talking about computers. if you’re lucky they’ll sound to you the same way we sound when we talk to normies about tech, like gobblygook. hang in there.
- people. talk to other people. big bonus multiplier if they’re actually music wonks.
- college radio stations. they still have actual djs who play the music they actually like.
- go to concerts at your local venue. obviously, not cover bands lol.
- look up indie labels (i don’t mean indie music genre, i mean non-corporate) and watch their web pages for new releases. (a lot of them don’t have much of a social media presence so watch their web pages for their releases) non-corporate labels are the only ones putting out anything good at the moment.
concerts here in my area for non corporate trash bands are regularly selling out shows.
none of this should surprise anyone. these corporate labels entirely gutted their A&R departments and now tilt their heads in confusion that they have no good music.
they thought an industry that literally revolves around humans could be replaced by algorithms and then tilt their heads again wondering why people run fast and far.
what they did would be like if a lifetime wedding planner who had never coded in their life, doesn’t understand technology at all yet convinced themselves they could totally write a secure messenger app because they like talking to friends in whatsapp.
a bunch of VC class who don’t care about (or understand) music are confused why their music corporations are failing.
i keep telling them they’re free to have their own personal monarchy in their own family as long as people are free to leave and also to leave the rest of us out of it. but for some reason they don’t seem to like the idea as much then.
i’m convinced this is where much of the magic comes from.
it’s the same as why often music written and played by an group of musicians who specialize in their instrument is often so much better than the music from a solo who records each instrument themselves.
You should feel free to let one be your dictator. No one is stopping you.
If you’re looking for an argument against it: the instant you believe other people should be forced to live under a dictator if they choose not to is all the argument against it you need.
Again, no one is stopping you from living under a dictator ai. Have at it.
managers, accountants, c-suite, sales dept, shareholders, stock-must-go-up, etc...
its no secret the industry wide trash of "move fast and break things" has been the mantra far too often as opposed to "take the time to build it correctly"
for much of the industry its "ship features. now."
we regularly read here how often engineer's concerns are ignored by company salesmen and executives.
fair, just don’t cry when website owners don’t “give two shits” about your concerns.
this is quite the statement. i can think of many, many ways they are not categorically “better” … many ways.
i can think of a number of “peasants” who are categorically “better” than “elites” in many, many areas.
i mean, i think most of us here have personally met at least one or two absolute failsons who are absolute dipshits yet will always fall upwards due to who their families are.
without snark, how can we do this if these people are obsessed with:
a) move fast and break things and externalize the costs to those who have nothing to do with their company
and
b) beta testing their products on the public when the public hasn’t agreed to be beta tested on…
particularly most of the commercial models.
again, i’m sure we can all come up with a thousand “hypotheticals”, and tbh, the hypothetical parade is not something i’m interested in having. but i’ll state again, “entirely removing humans” from the situation is silly-tier thinking.
particularly as even the ceos of sota frontier producing models will each and every single one tell you to never trust their model.
“our model is smartest thing in the world…”
…next breath..
“wait, you trusted our model? that was silly of you. always double check it”
> We shouldn't use an LLM because...LLMs never improve?
the context of my response was “removing humans from the equation” is sillytier thinking.
not “We should never use LLMs”
i didn’t say this at all. did you respond to the wrong comment?
i was responding to the comment which said:
> … remove humans from the equation, then.
they can be taught where they went wrong.
if a pattern emerges they can be moved to a role more fitting for them. or removed from a project entirely.
we can judge their effectiveness from past performance.
we can put them in less important roles and gauge whether or not they should be moved up.
so, no, pretending that the correct route forward is to “remove humans from the equation” for a bot that doesn’t learn, is never held accountable, and not held to the same standard as humans is silly tier thinking.
kkr of all vultures is scary. libraries need to act quick to find alternatives and shut this firm out.
there’s a reason the mere mention of this particular private equity firm causes shivers to anyone who has heard of them.
the choice was stolen as well.
the agency was stolen as well.
otherwise we end up exactly where we are, private equity buying out a brand, obfuscating that it’s no longer the same company, slowly sucking the life out of the product and screwing the public over.
if we make them always rebrand, we would at least be more aware when purchasing.
it’s kind of funny how certain people will tell us to vote with our wallets on a product, but they intentionally obfuscate everything about the product so we can’t make informed purchases.
could you imagine if we had to “do your own research” on every single thing you purchase? just think of how many items you purchase from the grocery store alone every month. it’s unreal we allow them to get away with hiding what they’re doing.
a great example is the sibling poster who talked about the dogfood being changed and messing up their dogs stomach… just trash behavior by these companies.
> …but Stripe is a big backer for climate solutions…
his post reads pretty clearly as funding “solutions” to adapt to coming climate change rather than “how do we mitigate climate change”
this is why i’m skeptical of people who work for an economic org.
it’s like some these companies are salivating at the idea of Disaster Capitalism.
“it’s going to open up so many chances to make trillions!”
i recognize how jaded i am, but this just feels slimey “there’s much more money to be made if we exacerbate the disaster rather than slow it!”
if i’m not mistaken they might with political subjects, if so, there’s already precedent and so the tech pieces are in place.
i would be against entirely removing it, but limiting it to like 10-20% of the front page would honestly be kind of nice.
it feels like it’s been an ai sausage fest for months and months.
steam has put so much into making gaming on linux so good, one of the last pieces remaining for a ton of people to make the switch is editing.
don’t get me wrong, i run davinci on my non-rocky linux desktop and it’s almost entirely painless, but, what steam is doing with their distro of linux is incredible.
if they were to consider migrating to steamos rather than rocky, between the masses switching to linux since gaming is good enough for so many, if davinci was mostly solid, i think blackmagic could pull millions away from the adobe hell they’re stuck in on windows.
particularly since davinci’s new photo tab is fucking incredible and will so soon be a perfect replacement for lightroom.
again, i don’t think that’s hyperbolic or jaded, i think it’s much more based in reality than the opposite.
even the ones that aren’t yet, we’d be incredibly incredibly naive to think it’s not on their radar.
i think it would be significantly more far-fetched that cable companies don’t sell them access. i would be shocked if they didn’t.
does anyone know of a reputable site which rates companies by things such as trustworthiness?
are any companies at all trustworthy anymore? like literally any?
tbh im fatigued of the general public being beta testers for companies.
it apparently imports the password vaults painlessly.
i’ll check it out tonight and if it is that easy, it’ll be my new rec for people.
apparently bitwarden can import data vaults super easily from 1passwd.
guess i’ll be recommending clients to bitwarden from here.