Churbleyimyam
@Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 4 days ago:
Can you explain?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 4 days ago:
I think you still have to have an account (last time I used it anyway), but you’re right, there is a tier you don’t have to pay any money for. It’s just an email address but whatever. You can use it via their website but afaik they haven’t released a free model based on the data they’ve scraped off us, so you can’t host it on your own hardware and properly do what you want with it. I have heard though that commercial websites were/are using ChatGPT bots for customer service and you can easily use the customer service chatbots on their website to do other random stuff like writing bash scripts or making yo mama jokes.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 days ago:
It fuckin is rad! I love it so much! I mostly listen to the Comfy channel but I’ve found some wicked stuff on the main channel too. There’s usually a link so you can find them on the fedi or buy a track too. Maybe it’s because of the fediverse/freedom/generosity ethic and I’m in a biased bubble but everything on there is just so genuinely good, even if it’s not normally my tatse. I’ve had a bunch of really sweet evenings listening to it and my gf always asks what the track is when I put it on. I kinda want to volunteer for the channel tbh. Check it out and feel free to DM me with what you think! I’m spending more time on Lemmy than Mastodon these days, so I’m not seeing people mention them via hashtags as much. RFF and Pixelfed are basically the nest thing about the internet right now imo :)
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 days ago:
Radio Free Fedi or @RFF is a community internet radio station which plays music from artists on the fediverse. From their own website at radiofreefedi.net :
radio free fedi is consent, agency and artist celebrating community radio from the fediverse. We actively and openly present contributing artists’ information with the hopes that you will drop-in, discover, and then LEAVE? That’s right, RFF has no interest to be an end-point for hyper focused consumption. We also do not have the resource to provide infinite custom streams and we love the community to not do soulless algorithms. We want to foster organic discovery and discourse. We want to generate support for independent artists on the platforms and methods of their choice, no judgement. Support independent and fedi artists!
I’ve discovered loads of awesome and unique music on it :)
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 4 days ago:
This is all assuming that availability is the top priority for all artists. I think spotify has shown 99.999% of artists that their model of maximum availability at all costs simply doesn’t work, either in terms of contacting an audience, making any money or valuing music. It just results in the vast majority of artists being insulted and demoralised and the remainder producing music of a relentlessly narrowing artistic scope. Are you more likely to get around 3500 plays on spotify or get £1 in donations off the back of giving your music away for free? It sounds absurd and that’s because it is. Most artists will get the same out having their music on spotify for a year as walking out onto the street with an acoustic guitar for half an hour on a Saturday. At least out on the street you’re not propping up a capitalist giant and a tiny ‘elite’ of ultra commercial music producers. For me spotify and it’s ilk have been the final nail in the coffin for integrity and reward in releasing music and I would encourage the 99.999% to boycott it and forge ahead with alternatives. Nothing better will emerge until then and artistic culture will continue to become more and more bleak.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 5 days ago:
What are your thoughts around generating traction with a torrent? I have two friends who are both sitting on their albums and thinking about how best to release them. I hope to release something one day too and refuse to use the likes of spotify on priciple.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 5 days ago:
And Radio Free Fedi.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 5 days ago:
And 99.99999 percent of musicians lament being humiliated and poor.
Stop releasing your music on Spotify. They depend on you for their reputation as having all the music and will give you nothing in return except ever-broadening inequality and ever-narrowing artistic culture. People have mocked boomers for claiming that music is dying but that’s exactly what is happening.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 5 days ago:
The size of the title on that article is insane on a monitor.
Anyway.
Companies are quick to flaunt their privacy policies, but those amount to pages upon pages of legalese that leave even professionals stumped about what exactly car companies collect and where that information might go.
Does anyone remember that report about the university researchers who studied one of these smart thermostats and concluded that you would have to sign more than a thousand legal disclaimers to properly consent to have it in your home?
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 5 days ago:
At the end of the day, this is just yet another example of how capitalism is an extractive system. Unprotected resources are used not for the benefit of all but to increase and entrench the imbalance of assets. This is why they are so keen on DRM and copyright and why they destroy the environment and social cohesion. The thing is, people want to help each other; not for profit but because we have a natural and healthy imperative to do the most good.
There is a difference between giving someone a present and then them giving it to another person, and giving someone a present and then them selling it. One is kind and helpful and the other is disgusting and produces inequality.
If you’re gonna use something for free then make the product of it free too.
An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don’t mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.
- Comment on If everyone had access to healthcare the net benefit of treating the mental illness and other disabilities holding them back would easily cover the cost of the healthcare itself. 1 week ago:
Thanks for reminding me about all the stuff that needs fixing on my car.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 weeks ago:
Sounds bad. I haven’t used websites on a bare browser for a few years but I hear peoples inferences about it. It’s good to boycott bad websites too.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Government dont give a shit about anything.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen any ads on them but then I’m using UBO. Seems plausible that they’re using visitor data as a revenue stream though. Sort of like how the BBC does not show us ads but sells its content internationally.
- Comment on Conservative MP Daniel Poulter defects to Labour 2 weeks ago:
Upvoted because I agree that Labour have taken the centre-right place vacated by the Tories shift towards the far right.
The last hope I have in the current Labout leadership is that they are even worse liars than we thought and will turn around and implement loads progressive policies once they have been allowed into office by the right wing press. The fact that they’ve been have loads of meeting with the finance ghouls isn’t a good sign but perhaps they’re stringing them along too. I’m probably just indulging my fantasies though.
- Comment on It is truly magic 3 weeks ago:
Thank you. This is the meme that Lemmy has needed for the last week.
- Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps 3 weeks ago:
No need for that tone old bean!
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
Cool, what’s your setup for push notifications? I do too but reached a stumbling block with push notifications, gave up and have been doing without them since. Not great for my phone’s battery life probably…
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
OK. I have no google services running but do not get amazing battery. Its probably because I have a couple of messaging apps awake in the background though. I tried self-hosting push notifications but didn’t get it working reliably.
- Comment on Which of these VPS providers would you recommend? 4 weeks ago:
*Iceland. I recommend them too.
- Comment on Which of these VPS providers would you recommend? 4 weeks ago:
It’s not on your list but 1984. Iceland based, good for privacy, runs on renewable energy. You can install YUNOhost on it and easily run the things you mentioned plus a bunch of other stuff like email.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
Where do the battery gains come from?
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing ads in the Windows 11 Start menu 4 weeks ago:
lol windows
- Comment on Things are less overwhelming in the basement 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think there’s anything as uniquely horrifying and wretched as sitting out a bad a trip.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 5 weeks ago:
That’s cool. Until now I’ve been using Qobuz for HD track downloads but will check Tidal next time they’re missing something.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 5 weeks ago:
How come several music services? Are some artists not on all of them?
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 5 weeks ago:
Just a VPS. £4/month.
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
That would be amazing!
- Comment on So sad 5 weeks ago:
Stay out of my notifications damn you!
- Comment on iPod with custom shell, new screen, 512gb SSD, and a 30 day battery 5 weeks ago:
I think you’re referring to Sony’s ‘SensMe’ function. Unfortunately I haven’t been able to use it because it relies on their proprietary software which isnt available for my OS. Would be great to have it baked into the device.