Everyone here is either on the side of hating big AI companies or hating IP law. I proudly hate both.

or GiveWell if you want causes ranked according to their impact as measured in QALYs. They research these things pretty carefully to determine the impact. If you’re not a utilitarian then you may not see the point of doing this (though on the other hand, if you’re not a utilitarian, I don’t know if there’s any way to evaluate charities well.)

That doesn’t seem right. By my calculations it should be like 5¢. Can you show your work?

Edit: didn’t read. You said “per thousand requests.”

For reference, this is roughly equivalent to playing a PS5 game for 4 minutes (based on their estimate) to 10 minutes (their upper bound)

(darth vader voice) pray I don’t recognize yours.

I have started to recognize usernames. This is a problem.

I’m only skeptical because I would really love to believe this.

Would really love to see IP law get taken down a notch out of this.

The law applies to everybody, but the law-makers change the laws to benefit certain people. And then trump pardons the rest lol.

I don’t really agree that “everyone knows this” when everyone I know talks about environmentalism almost exclusively in terms of individual impact.

We let environmentalism become an individual issue, and that was a mistake. Can we not do this for AI? It’s a society-wide problem, not something you can solve by measuring your own personal AI footprint.

Why are you dissing on vegans? Veganism is legit, bro.

For sure, it’s irrational bigotry. It’s still a misleading omission.

This headline has an important omission. It makes it seem like this particular GOP senator said that trans people are a moral or predatory risk to girls. But in fact, he was talking about physical contact risk as a way to deny trans people their right to play sports. It would be deliciously ironic if it had been the former.

The news can’t easily report on users actually returning to piracy; who would admit to it? And how would you get data on it? Much easier to truthfully report on users who talk about returning to piracy.

There are fans of Spotify?

Instead of paying for a static IP address, you can pay for a domain name and have a script on your home network update the domain name to point to your current IP address once a day. It’s a pretty common practice.

Leave it at your home network.

The simplest solution IMO is to access it via an SSH or SFTP connection. I have these connections bookmarked in my file browser, so I can open them up just like any folder on my hard drive.

Some people use jellyfin as a client which has a kind of netflix-like interface. I haven’t researched to find out if there’s anything with a more spotify-like interface.

then do that. If you don’t have enough space, get an external hard drive. If you want convenience, you can attach the hard drive to a raspberry pi and access the music from anywhere. You’ll probably never get as convenient as spotify, but hey, you gotta decide what your values are and if that means being a streaming-vegan then that’s the sacrifice you gotta make.

The ethical alternative is listening to mp3s straight from your own hard-drive, just like we did in the '50s.