does anyone know a (preferably command line) spotify downloader that’s a) good and b) not just a youtube music downloader that happens to be able to use spotify metadata? I’m trying to get out of spotify’s iron grip (got navidrome running and I’m already importing tracks with beets, it’s pretty dang neat), but as it turns out, I have A Lot of spotify playlists that I’d ideally like to migrate, but getting the correct audio for stuff is gonna be a nightmare if I can’t find or engineer a good solution (I can handle the playlist metadata itself, I’ll just duct tape some code together to generate that)

I have no idea how ban happy spotify is with that stuff, but I don’t mind potentially burning a spotify premium account, I could get a fresh account and a free trial for this

@tenna NOPE

@progressivejpeg thanks! seems like it doesn’t have the Polish exams, but it’s definitely still gonna come in handy

thinking of getting a ham radio license, because Why Not

@Sacchihikaru I’m 100% double timing that archival script I only recently had a chance to get back to

but also yeah I think queer online expression is gonna be extremely fucked up in the next few years, de facto and de jure prohibitions on porn, and queer people being targeted as inherently harmful in exposure.

It is gonna Be Bad and I am afraid that everything is just gonna be massively fucked

@muffinlord that is a Certified Windows Moment™

I’m running arch, and it’s currently using 10 gigs of physical memory plus 4.2 gigs of zram (backed by an additional 1.3GB of physical memory) while running a bunch of software plus compiling things in the background

@ysaie LGTM on arch

@spdx_wl yknow, there’s a copy in my steam family, I gotta try it out. it does seem like smth that’d be right up my alley

@niss yesn’t, the ![alt text](image url) markdown syntax does work on the akkoma frontend, but it doesn’t on some other instance types/frontends

@wenchcoat @muffinlord now that’s just practical

I generally do 95% of my linux related Fun Stuff in my main arch system tbh, I know that I can generally get it back to a working state (plus I got snapshots in case it’s somehow FUBAR)

I kinda wanna do linux from scratch in a VM, for Science

@FaeAlchemist I highly recommend getting a UPS (even a cheap one) if power cuts are a regular occurrence over there, it can save you from data loss AND it can often get you through short power cuts without your computer even noticing

yknow what i love? like what i really really love. fuckin.... PNEUMATIC TUBE LOGISTICS. like they're shit at bulk transport but you need something securely sent to a person within a minute, you blow it down a tube in a little capsule. that rocks. in fact, i know in england, big stores like asda have pneumatic tubes for sending money to the cash registers

yknow actually in a bunch of different industries, pneumatic tubes are still used! in factories it's convenient to have parts and tools sent direct to work areas via tube, and in many hospitals and laboratories, samples are sent for analysis in the same way

in the past they were used for a bunch of shit, mainly rapid transit of light materials like mail. across the world, mail sorting offices would have these crazy tube routers where people would work all day taking funny little capsules and sending them where they needed to go

all that being said, hyperloop is stupid. anyway enjoy these old pics of tube routers. crazy we still rely on these

everything at once (+ alternate version)

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drawn 2024-11-05

When someone tells a thirty-year veteran of Visual Basic that it’s a dead language.

ah. they’re saying the quiet part out loud now. that’s great

Microsoft has a new pitch to persuade businesses to spend money on artificial intelligence–powered services: If you use them, you won’t need as many employees.

The potential of AI to replace human workers is an old idea, but one most companies have avoided bringing up explicitly, for fear of suffering reputational harm and political attacks. But as tech companies try to overcome customer uncertainty about the value of AI, they’re becoming more direct about that possible benefit.

[…]

Typically, “these companies won’t say there’s job replacement because it looks bad for their reputation and image, and they don’t want to spark an outcry,” said Lisette Espín Noboa, a researcher at the Complexity Science Hub, a Vienna-based tech policy think tank.

In its new pitch to customers, though, Microsoft is also touting its own savings on labor costs thanks to AI. The company says that using technology from OpenAI, it built internal tools that help salespeople automatically generate customer lists and perform cold outreach, and it separately built a tool to help customer support agents send automatically generated responses to customer questions, allowing them to handle more cases.

Microsoft executives say these tools are a reason the company has maintained its sales growth rate despite laying off 10,000 people last year, and the executives have been encouraging salespeople to use that example to entice customers, according to three current sales employees.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-new-sales-pitch-for-ai-spend-less-money-on-humans

#ai

@nic postgres absolutely rocks

@apogeesys @bookofbeasts it sure sounds like potential Lawsuit Material to me