LesserAbe

@LesserAbe@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the suggestion. I did check with them, unfortunately it didn’t work, I think because our window wasn’t in their line of sight. Guy said he’d talked to other people in my building before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh good to know. We moved before the date on that document though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US | Two guys hated using Comcast, so they built their own fiber ISP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  God bless em.

  Fiber of course is preferable, but requires a lot of knowledge and up front investment to lay. In Philadelphia there’s a WISP - wireless internet service provider - that has their equipment up on a tower and can service a particular neighborhood: phillywisper.net

  I was ready to use them but our apartment building had made a fucking exclusive agreement with Comcast. If we lived in a normal house at that same address we could have got FIOS or PhillyWisper.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even mass produced things require skill and sophistication. Pop music is more like a mass produced iphone than a mass produced frisbee.

  Sure the lyrics aren’t saying something important or the singer isn’t the same person as the songwriter, but a lot of hours went into it. The average person on the street could not create a comparable song to what you hear on the radio without significant effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not exactly slop if the pigs eat it is it /s

  I get what you’re saying, if people don’t detect ai music it must not be so bad. But in the original usage of slop, pigs don’t care, but humans wouldn’t eat the food. Same here, just because some people don’t mind doesn’t mean others can’t easily discern the difference

  You could also make the argument that pigs would prefer better food if it was an option, but they have no choice, they’re only given access to slop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half a million Spotify users are unknowingly grooving to an AI-generated band⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get not liking it, and there are some real clunkers, but I think you’re dramatically underestimating the amount of craft and expertise that goes into some pop music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers achieve first successful communication between dreaming individuals⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you think the business founder has in mind when they say this revolutionary? Like what regular use could this be put to?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices from his companies over Apple's ChatGPT integrations⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  He understands, he’s trying to introduce fear about a competitor.

• Watched "20 Days in Mariopol" tonight: about an AP team of journalists trapped in the Ukrainian city while it was besieged by Russians20daysinmariupol.com ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Here's what a random person on the internet thought of Lords Of The Realm 2⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for sharing. Have you played games in the Civ series? If so your description makes them sound similar, would you agree? I’ve been poking around other “4X” games, but don’t have the best laptop so while I’d love to play more recent games they don’t all pan out. Civ V works but Civ VI won’t, for example. I’m also using steam on Ubuntu so I’d guess that might contribute to the issues.