The absurd waste of resources VMs bring… LXC and Docker a godsend in that regard.

Are VMs really simpler? I’d say no.

This goes for most LLM things. The time it takes to get the word calculator to write a letter would have been easily used to just write the damn letter.

I’d rather troubleshoot for days than try to reboot or check cables.

Of course there was! The UN is well-known for their mandatory terrorist-hideout-bunkers in every school, office and carpark.

Since I saw the first downvotes: /s, people!

I’m annoyed that we’re going crazy because computers manage to spew out bullshit that vaguely sounds like the bullshit humans spew out, yet is somehow even less intelligent. At the same time, people think, this empty yapping is more accurate and totally a miracle, while all it really shows is that computers are good at patterns and language and information follow patterns - go figure.

I’m annoyed that Silicon Valley tech evangelists get away with breaking every law they fucking want, once again in the creation of those tools.

Yet, I’m neither worried about the ecological impact nor about the impact on the workforce. Yes, jobs will shift, but that was clear as day since I was a kid. I don’t even necessarily think “AI” will be the huge game changer it’s made up to be.

When they run out of training data (which is fueled by slave labor, because of fucking course it is) or AIs start ingesting too many AI-generated texts, the models we have today just collapse, disintegrating into a blabbering mess.

It’s really not that exciting. Quite the opposite. The rush for AI in everything is absolutely bonkers, since those LLMs are just stupid as fuck and not suited for any sort of productive performance they get hyped up to achieve.

From what I learned over the years: AI isn’t likely to destroy income for entry-level artists. They destroy the quagmires those artists got stuck in. The artists this will replace first and foremost are those creating elevator music, unassuming PowerPoint presentation backgrounds, Stock photos of coffee mugs. All those things where you really don’t need anything specific and don’t really want to think about anything.

Now look how much is being paid for those artworks by the customers on Shutterstock and the like. Almost nothing. Now imagine what Shutterstock pays their artists. Fuck all is what. Artists might get a shred of credit here and there, a few pennies, and that’s that. The market AI is “disrupting” as they say, is a self-exploitative freelancing hellhole. Most of those artists cannot live off their work, and to be frank: Their work isn’t worth enough to most people to pay them the money they’d need to live.

Yet, while they chase the carrot dangling in front of them, dreaming of fame and collecting enough notoriety through that work to one day do their real art, instead of interchangeable throwaway-stuff made to fit into any situation at once, Corporations continue to bleed them dry, not allowing any progress for them whatsoever. Or do you know who made the last image of a coffee mug you saw in some advert?

The artists who manage to make a living (digital and analog) are those who manage to cultivate a following. Be that through Patreon, art exhibitions, whatever. Those artists will continue to make a living because people want them to do exactly what they do, not an imitation of it. They will continue to get commissioned because ´people want their specific style and ideas.

So in reality, it doesn’t really destroy artists, it replaces one corpo-hellhole (freelancing artist) with another (freelancing AI trainer/prompter/etc)

I have personally worked on a project where we replaced several older nodes in datacenters with only one modern one. That used more power than two older nodes combined, but since we were shutting down 15-20, we saved a lot of power. Not every replacement is 1:1, most aren’t.

And once you have found your specific collection of plugins that happen not to put the exact features you need behind a paywall but others, you ain’t touching those either.

Yeah, I think the author misses the point in regard to power consumption. Companies will not buy loads of these and use them in addition to existing hardware. They will buy these to get rid of current hardware. It’s not clear (yet) if that will increase, decrease or not affect power consumption.

Plexamp, Lidarr, Lidarr extended, Tailscale. Done.

Yeah. Never thought I’d see the day when Tidal was cheaper than crappy Spotify.

I’ve fallen victim to a false friend there, haven’t I?

(A Photomontage in German is a forged picture in general). So, let me fix this:

This is almost certainly photoshopped.

This is almost certainly a montage

That’s a really weird take. Like… what even is the difference supposed to be?

This sounds more like “everything should be as it was back when <insert arbitrary point in time here>! When there were still Webpages, and we were frolicking about the internet! Until the fire nation attacked Web apps took over!”

Well, Google will probably optimize their shit for their own privacy invasion sniffing tool browser twice as hard as for Firefox and such

But how will people know your container is official besides all the hints on your website?

Am I allowed to fake it so I’m finally first at something?

Plex does a rather comprehensive analysis of audio (if you have Plex pass that is) and is then able to do some really cool stuff regarding playlists and such. One of those things is a mode where it keeps injecting songs that have the same vibe as the current song until you switch it off again at which point it’ll just go on with the playlist. It dies that surprisingly well.

Works for local audio on a Plex server capable of doing the analysis (no ARM support ATM) and for Tidal.