Symfonium on my phone (so also android auto and just connecting to a bluetooth speaker while I cook) and Feishin on my desktop. Still need to verify that scrobbles are propagated correctly for discoverability purposes (so far it looks like ratings in Feishin aren’t propagated to the server).

I could probably have gotten away with just mpd but figured “why not?”.

And there have been a lot of discussions over the decades over artists/“aritists” who overly sampled a song and became orders of magnitude bigger than the original artist.

Its a balancing act. Most people aren’t going to get too annoyed if someone uses generative AI to help build a backing track or a beat to go with their song.

The issue is that so much of this slop is “make a song like this” from scratch. And while there is a lot to be said about manufactured acts and the role of major labels… one of the few good things about spotify et al destroying the music industry is that it has become so much easier for smaller independent artists to get a foothold.

And all this does is add more slop to push them back out. And the difficulties with detecting slop will mean people will be a lot less likely to ever check out a smaller band when they can instead listen to whatever the latest major act that beyonce et al vouched for is.

This (moreso for youtube music, since Deezer seems to not have a lot of East Asian labels signed) is a huge part of why I’ve been building out a selfhosted Navidrome.

Obviously there is the old school way of getting music. But Bandcamp is WAY more beneficial to the artists and ebay and Half Price Books are also awesome for grabbing music.

And combine all that with musicbrainz for scrobbling and discoverability of new bands.

He is a us citizen at a time when the us is aggressively fucking over all its allies. His streamer name being “Somali” makes him an unlikely flashpoint, but 6 months means he can be ammunition for the 2026 elections without anyone actually feeling the need to do anything because he’ll be out around the time votes are being tallied.

So Korea gets to make an example without being made an example.

Six months hard labor in a country where, when his warrant was put out, more or less engaged in a nation wide manhunt to get the fucker who gave a lap dance to a statue of a child that was constructed to remember the systematic rapes the imperial japanese military commit.

I sincerely doubt he has the kind of mental or physical fortitude required to come out of that unchanged. Do I think he will be a better person for it? No. This is punitive, not rehabilitative. But I sincerely doubt he will fuck around to anywhere near this degree ever again.

Probably shift more towards trying to pull an ishowspeed and talk about how he has changed and is nothing like he used to be and blah blah blah give him money.

They never hear about it. And if they do, they assume she did something to antagonize ice and it was his fault for not “controlling his woman”.

And all the heroic men and women in The God Blessed United States Military will just talk about how this troubles them but they serve the flag, not the rapist giving them orders and that if people don’t start properly respecting them then they don’t see a reason to care.

Time to watch him rant after having five gills of meth injected into his body. Again.

Ehhhh.

Yes, there are some fairly revolutionary(-ish) chips. Those are few and far between because they tend to be hyper specialized. Inference but not training or only optimized for a very small input matrix (common for edge computing like cameras).

By and large? They really ARE “traditional” GPGPUs that are optimized to hell and back for vector operations and linear algebra. And a lot of the gains there come from multiplying their floating point performance by 2-4 (depending on if half or quarter precision). They aren’t as good for double precision as something optimized for it but basically only a very small subset of users need that. There will be no issues repurposing the hardware in these data centers.

And the rest is data movement which has always been the real problem.

It collapsed into… 4 or 5 of the most powerful companies in human history.

And that is the thing to understand. These bubbles are less about widespread collapse and more about consolidation. And it tends to be the smaller companies that suffer, not the biggies who were driving much of it to begin with.

“aren’t making a profit” gets into the mess that is book keeping and is a giant rabbit hole people actively avoid because it is just easier to get angry at stupidity rather than complex malfeasance.

But what makes something an “AI data center” outside of the branding?

The reality is that it is a shit ton of computers connected to a really fast internet connection. Preferably through a properly managed set of switches but you do you. And the reason that we still mostly use GPUs for “AI” rather than highly specialized hardware (although, nvidia DID just buy groq a few months back…) is for that reason. They might do linear algebra of quarter precision floats REALLY well but they also do linear algebra of single and double precision floats pretty well too. And the CPUs and mobos (that are mostly optimized for data movement to offload to said GPUs) are no slouches either.

Which is what most of these companies are planning for. openai is, arguably, really fucking stupid. Whereas anthropic have shown decent signs of “diversifying” as it were. And nvidia… if we lived in a world where they could get enough RAM I think they would be fine. As it stands… Jensen (and a LOT of people) are kinda fucked and I expect to see a hard pivot over the next 12 months.

Because if we banned ALL generative AI tomorrow? The people who think you can’t use a computer without installing litellm first are gonna be fucked. But everyone else will just put other workloads on there and be… “fine” is a strong word but they won’t go bankrupt. And the data centers themselves will still be incredibly valuable.

Think about the dotcom bubble. We went from having all of these businesses that shot to the moon for valuation… and then it collapsed.

Amazon and Google and basically all of FAANG/MAMA beg to differ.

And basically every company still has a website and ecommerce in general is still massive.

The Dot Com bubble was brutal. But it was not a collapse of the industry. It was much more of a correction after so many companies blew up to sell services like “rate my dog” and many of the smaller ecommerce sites were absorbed by larger ones.

And that is likely what will happen with generative AI. I expect a MUCH bigger bloodbath for openai but anthropic seem to have scaled a lot better (although they also are going into their IPO with a massive data breach…). But expect most of the smaller companies to similarly get gutted.

But

Makes sense. It takes years to complete construction projects and budgets always overrun. AI is a fad for most companies trying to get into it.

Data Centers exploding… honestly have little to do with AI. No… not the way they explode in the UAE… metaphorical exploding. The reality is that data centers are GOOD money. Basically every company needs data hosting and offloading internal infrastructure is… honestly a really smart play. Same with the massive push for streaming of basically everything so that nobody owns anything and subscribe to everything. You want regional data centers and… this is how you get them.

Gun “finerprinting” is and isn’t bullshit.

The reality is that for a given configuration of a gun, you do get some rather distinct markings on a bullet. It is less “We can 100% determine this bullet was fired by this bigoted dipshit’s gun so let’s hand it to him so he can dramatically show he took the firing pin out” but you can get within a pretty high level of confidence.

Unless… the shooter cleaned their gun. Even just field stripping can often be enough. Let alone if they actually remove the firing pin and reinstall it (not even replacing).

So it is not useful if someone escaped for days and nobody could find them until they got narced on. It IS useful if you catch them on their way home and they don’t know to do this.

But also? it depends on the bullet being intact. Which, as mentioned above, is not often the case for stuff like 5.56 in soft tissue.

Friendly reminder:

You don’t know the admins of any of the lemmy instances you interact with or how likely they are to “have your back” if they get a Letter. Or if they might even report you themselves.

Not sure why I bring that up.

Especially for 5.56/.223 where one of the major selling points is the cavitation it causes in soft tissue. “cavitation” being a polite term for “makes fucking explode”.

Its why actual footage of mass shootings is so horrifying. Media (and video games that glorify it…) like to paint it as neat little holes when the reality is you have one neat little hole for the entrance wound and a giant fist sized one or larger for the exit.

And all of that does a number on the bullet itself.

Ooooh. Cloudflare Pages definitely looks like what I want.

Thanks

For no apparent reason:

Are there any good alternatives for gh-pages dor a super lazy/simple website? I’ve been meaning to actually use one of my domains for a personal website and pointing at which project is on which code repo site would be a good idea. But… I need that page to be hosted by one of them.

Sounds like it is all policy documents and training manuals (and PII of the employees at the third party who made them). So… I declare this a greyhat hack! No innocents impacted.

You vastly underestimate how much even renting time on a private jet costs.

Which makes the folk who use them on the regular (like Linus Sebastien/Tech Tips) even bigger dickheads than you can imagine.

Do we have reason to believe that much of congress flies Delta?

I know (from one of the times I got trapped at DFW on a connection) that cruz flies out of the same terminal as AA but forgot to check the flight board.

I mean… supply chain hardening has been a concern for most of the three letter agencies (and governments around the world) for years. There are very serious concerns over how basically every NIC comes out of a factory in China and what the implications of that are.

If DoD actually do have a list of vetted and hardened products, that WOULD be a very good baseline for if you care about security at all. Less so from the US government, but that can then be compared against similar lists from other countries.

And considering that basically every TLA has the same concerns, if those orgs are willing to spend their budget? DoE and the like ain’t gonna complain.