Sure, but that’s a lot of work and worry to keep all those backups going and syncd

I think it took me 15 minutes to first install SyncThing and Vorta? I literally haven’t worried about this for the last two years

Now, you’re probably an IT admin or programmer

I’m a biologist :) (though to be fair, mastering in bioinformatics, but this setup came first!)

And in the end, you have a computer hooked to your stereo, the one place I’m trying to escape the constant computing.

My stereo is a Gradiente from the 70s, no computers there. My portable player does connect to a computer to sync sometimes… but I do this when charging, so out of mind.

But… those other storage mediums can also get damaged, burn, rot, etc

Sure can. You know what else they can do? Instantly and cleanly copy their data to any other storage device, they can even do so automatically every day!

Your hard drive can be erased in many ways.

I’m willing to bet my main SSD, my backup HDD, my FLAC player’s SD card, and my laptop SSD all carrying the same file are going to be more durable than a piece of plastic.

I’m curious as to why?

Physical media scratches, rots, burns down, etc. They also require a lot of space, and you can’t have it all with you easily.

My FLAC library is got the same or better audio quality, I can backup and copy in seconds for myself or friends, I can carry everything, or just curated playlists, with the toggle of a button, and I can preserve them on any medium I find - mechanical HDs, SD cards, SSDs, etc.

Though I am very curious about vinyl…

I prefer dedicated digital players over physical media, for instance, a FLAC player with a digital library over CDs, but I’m glad to see this trend catching up. Anything that gets people building their own collections, escaping algorithms and escaping DRM/streaming is a huge win in my book.

It’s all part of the plan, create technological dependency. Why is Google so laser focused on making sure these school PCs are always Chromebooks?

Raise an entire generation that can’t write, research, calculate, synthesize, without a Chromebook. If it breaks, they buy a new one, when they grow up they rely on always having one, and so on.

with sweetened condensed milk

To be fair, it’s almost impossible to screw up condensed milk, it always tastes good.

Very likely, yes

Brazil’s Embrapa is trying to breed Robusta to have a taste profile more closely matching Arabica, whilst also resisting the heat better.

I’d worry I’ve made a silly mistake which would make me look a fool and waste their time.

AI bros have zero self awareness and shame, which is why I continue to encourage that the best tool for fighting against it is making it socially shameful.

Somebody comes along saying “Oh look at the image is just genera…” and you cut them with “looks like absolute garbage right? Yeah, I know, AI always sucks, imagine seriously enjoying that hahah, so anyway, what were you saying?”

The issue is that comment sections are disabled and video descriptions claim to be empty

So it makes the page even better?

AI writing tools — improve, summarize, translate, and more (Anthropic / OpenAI)

why though

Reminder that Google is on it’s third attempt to prevent or limit the installation of APKs outside of the Play Store, meaning they are near the point they can effectively control what apps people run.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-oYyd9fWg

Now somebody needs to post about this on Reddit, so The Verge can make an AI generated piece based on the post!

I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib

DO NOT TOUCH my precious matplotlib, I’ll HUNT DOWN any AI slop shithead damaging MY BABY

The same could be repeated verbatim for any other AI agent.

I doubt Google couldn’t easily kill Anthropic by expanding their Antigravity project.

For email you could self host if you learn a bit about warming up and deliverability, but I agree that’s the only exception where people should just use an online service.

Though for privacy, I do use the custom domain with Purelyemail as the host, but if a site is trashy enough to not allow me to use my email - then I distrust it automatically, and use a Gmail account I don’t care nor use for anything but accepting those email confirmations for account creations, or when stores force me to say an email before adding a coupon or something like that.

The issue with lies, and any good liar will tell you that, is that once you lie you need to maintain that lie forever. You keep adding new lies, new layers, new context, and this house of cards becomes more and more convoluted, large, and fragile. It takes one piece to fall for everything to come down, yet, because everything is a chain of lies, you can’t stop.

So imagine what happens when you take the most valuable GPU company and go all in on AI, creating insane investments into everything that happens to use those two letters, purposely entering into circles where one company invests into another that invests back into the same company.

You can’t get out, you’re too far deep into the web of lies. You are so deep you must convince yourself with your own lies, because you added so many and everything is so fragile that your own mind is now an obstacle.

Good fucking luck when it crashes down.