They will succeed too.

Maybe, except their games will get more and more shit, and there’s plenty of alternatives in terms of games to play.

I highly recommend reading his book, this guy is an OG media pirate

So, what are good alternatives? Anything that accepts anonymous crypto payments and doesn’t have accounts?

Very plausible that stops working in the future though so it’s good that people are getting ahead of things with more solutions

I get that AI isn’t without its problems, especially Grok with that “Mechahitler” nonsense a bit ago, but there seems to be particular vitriol here. I’m genuinely curious to know why people hate it so much here.

The internet has gotten a lot worse at nuance. People don’t know how to have a perspective other than pro or anti for controversial things, and if you’re going to think of AI as a brand with a team then the team it seems associated with is big tech fascists, a group Lemmy’s userbase will naturally regard as an enemy. Similar story as with cryptocurrency, it’s seen as a brand, and associated with all the negative things that are done with it. Technologies are seen as themselves having a moral stance.

It’s very believable, who wants to admit to having a different opinion when everyone is so angry about something?

I wonder what the ideal placement or naming of such a file would be, where are credential scrapers going to check first?

you are taking a risk either way. You are placing your trust in the dev and the few that can read code.

There is definitely a trust issue and a need for ways of conveying and building trust in smaller software projects. I think a much better solution there would be discussions about the code and how it works that aren’t hostile interrogations with foregone conclusions in pursuit of a broader anti-AI agenda. If someone just put a lot of effort into making something the details of that process should be on their mind, it should be possible to make them more accessible to people and convey that there is non-artificial understanding behind the project. Automatic hostility and suspicion makes those kinds of conversations harder and less likely.

That way a certain subset of members could just drive-by downvote without getting themselves dirty.

I think tags could be alright but only if this is not allowed, it is unreasonable to ask people to disclose something just so others can shit on them for it.

What would be better ways of doing it?

I think there might also be fingerprinting techniques that do not rely on the browser, so it’s not conclusive. Not sure why people are being so negative, people trying to ban evade Reddit should be empowered to succeed imo, fuck Reddit

So this problem should be solvable with only changes to client code then?

You could have been banned for something else too, their ban bots are really arbitrary now. Not really a way to know for sure.

Don’t know exactly how it compares but I’ve measured the electricity increase while running it, something you can run on one graphics card is around the same as a resource intensive video game.

What makes it seem that way? Doesn’t read like AI to me, not a lot of vague fluff, consists of salient points and claims backed by links to relevant sources.

Well how about this, here’s the core part of the script if you want to see how it works, without the scraping utility parts (webstuff.py etc. which is pretty trivial anyway). Main dependencies are python, curses, mpv and selenium.

I like what this project is trying to do, self hosted security cameras need to be more accessible to get people to stop using corporate spyware.

I looked at it, it’s a handful of channels representing broad genres, an hour or two in length, with commentary. That is not a substitute for a personalized music stream. It still wouldn’t be with a wider selection; I tried mixcloud for a while, it doesn’t work for me, there are no channels that give me just the music I want to hear in a wide enough variety, it’s too much work searching through them, I’d rather skip the commentary and not have to find something new every hour.

Not that I use spotify, what I ended up doing is writing my own script to scrape bandcamp and use its recommendation features to get associations between albums and assign probability weights to them for what to play next based on what I have liked and disliked. Aside from being buggy and against tos so probably can’t publish, I’m pretty happy with it. Algorithmic streaming is a much more convenient way of listening to and discovering music, and I don’t expect many people to switch away from it.

This, the main thing I want from music software is an infinite stream of background music with a personalization algorithm to select new songs I’ll probably like. Most of the suggestions people are giving don’t really work as a substitute for that.

I think that depends on them because they would have to set up some way for people to pay them