Oh I’m four days late but yes. The YouTube downloader also downloads audio, I didn’t realize they had a separate program that only downloads audio. Weird.

What you’re looking for is OnTheSpot. Just ripped my library of a few thousand a few weeks ago, went very quickly and with full metadata.

+1 for MediaHuman, if you’re wanting a GUI. Super simple and powerful. It’s paid software but there are cracks around.

If I buy one song from one artist off bandcamp the artist earns about $1 from me, which I can then listen to thousands of times without them seeing another cent.

Personal recommendations, NPR Tiny Desk, movie and show soundtracks, Bandcamp, record stores, Library of Congress Homegrown Concerts on YouTube, looking into any bands you like and seeing what else the members have been in.

AI has been around a lot longer than LLMs. Intelligence can mean many different things.

Error 404: Costume Not Found is a classic.

The 30% cut Steam takes is quite a bit. Considering the near-monopoly it has on game distribution, that could easily mean the difference between turning a profit and not for an indie developer.

Personally their efforts towards things I support (PC handhelds, Linux gaming) and the convenience of the platform outweigh the things I dislike, but being frustrated by its problems is understandable when people don’t really have another choice.

Quality of output depends a lot on how common the code is in its training data. I would guess it’d be best at something like Python, with its wealth of teaching materials and examples out there.

You’ve never read the book in question… Because you think it’s filled with gut feelings and anecdotes… Which you know, because of gut feelings and anecdotes…

+1 for PorkBun, I’ve never had a bad experience with it.

Seems like an overreaction considering how many degrees of separation the instance has from actual pirated stuff. No pirated content is hosted on dbzer0, no direct links to pirated content either. Even if a copyright holder takes issue with the community it would seem unlikely for them to target one of hundreds of instances which federate and have it cached rather than the actual source instance itself.

That being said, I don’t know where lemmy.world’s servers are located, some places are pretty strict with piracy. Even if it’s a small chance I can see how, from the perspective of an admin, it wouldn’t be worth risking the whole instance and potential legal action.

Still seems like an extreme response to me, but hey, beauty of the fediverse and all that. I chose a small instance specifically to avoid defederations like this and I’m perfectly happy with it (thanks for hosting neo).

Enough.

I was using a nice firefighter duck named Cleo, but he was underperforming so he had to be let go. Now I have Rufus:

I was afraid a mouse wouldn’t be able to do a duck’s job, but he threatened to sue so I had to give him a shot. Glad I did, he’s proven as capable as any duck I’ve known.

I just set up an old laptop with Jellyfin - can’t recommend enough, it works great.

That’s too bad :/ I don’t use it any more so can’t say if I get it too. If it’s worth it you could check the github repo and see if it’s been reported, and report it if not. Though honestly finding another solution is probably easier.

This was my thinking too. In principle I support restrictions on the data AI can be trained on, no question - but practically speaking the only difference restricting it makes is giving whatever companies gobble up the most IP the sole ability to make legal AI art. If a decision like that was made, there would be no more stable diffusion, available to anyone and everyone for free; the only legal options would be e.g. Adobe Firefly.

Yes there is, here’s a link to the github

It really doesn’t work as a replacement for google/docs/forums. It’s another tool in your belt, though, once you get a good feel for its limitations and use cases; I think of it more like upgraded rubber duck debugging. Bad for getting specific information and fixes, but great for getting new perspectives and/or directions to research further.

I don’t know about others’ experiences, but I’ve been completely stuck on problems I only figured out how to solve with chatGPT. It’s very forgiving when I don’t know the name of something I’m trying to do or don’t know how to phrase it well, so even if the actual answer is wrong it gives me somewhere to start and clues me in to the terminology to use.

They’re about as good as you could expect from a major cloud storage provider. In theory the encryption means that Mega can’t access your files, but they’re expressly very cooperative with government agencies so don’t bet on anything you put there being entirely secure. I haven’t heard of any major problems with them though - it’s what I’ve been using for cloud storage the past few years and I haven’t had an issue. As long as files aren’t shared and therefor at risk of being reported there’s not much to worry about, though in the case of things getting reported it’s a ‘take down first, ask questions later’ type deal.

Here’s a transparency report from them (how much to trust it is up to you): https://blog.mega.io/mega-transparency-report-2021/

Wow, people here really hate bumper stickers. I think of them as a fun little bit of self expression that reminds me there are other humans in the road. I really don’t think the risk of getting your car keyed because of one is nearly as high as it’s being made out to be, and police using a bumper sticker as any sort of evidence seems pretty unlikely too. Do whatever you’re comfortable with of course, but I wouldn’t be too worried.