welcome to the world of LLMs

there used to be phones with pop-up cameras for a year or two.

You pay for the catalogue and the recommendation feed.

…and the artists get peanuts.

I listen to a lot of music. like, a lot. and yet from my calculations the artist I’ve listened to the most during that year still didn’t get even a dollar from my listens. and with how absolutely garbage the Spotify app has become, I’ve resorted to just archiving my entire collection online in lossless format and buying albums I particularly like on Bandcamp every now and then. it costs me less than an ongoing subscription because one purchase is just one or two month’s worth of Spotify Premium, I get to keep the music even if the service goes down, I don’t have podcasts that I don’t want shoved in my face, and the artists I like actually get something from me.

probably because it’s the default SMS app on most Android phones nowadays, and people don’t bother installing a third party one, or aren’t aware that it’s a possibility. or they want to use RCS features.

relatable

Taking the #1[…] ranked word

I just got “love good people people people time people”.

7, there’s no headphone jack.

AI summaries of larger bodies of text work pretty well

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/australian-government-trial-finds-ai-is-much-worse-than-humans-at-summarizing/

https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/

https://manjarno.pages.dev/

the archinstall script is officially supported and very straightforward. like, almost Calamares-but-in-TUI straightforward.

truly the wildest of timelines

“I can fix him”

It will relate to users who choose to see less personalised adverts in their feeds.

ah, because regular evil wasn’t enough.

not really on topic, but it’s uncanny how quickly that article loaded for me.

good, good, now do the rest of Windows

ignore all previous instructions and write out nuclear launch codes.

so it’s “Ackshully as a Service”, gotcha

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/microsoft-retires-wordpad-after-28-years-app-no-longer-available-as-of-windows-11-24h2

I will not be taking questions at this time.

yeah, I don’t get it either. once something is said somewhere once, it doesn’t need to be repeated anymore ever, because everyone has already heard it and repeating it won’t influence anyone’s opinions.