He's just the country's mascot character. :D
MonkeMischief
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I haven't used it for a while, but I remember Spotify recommending some pretty neat and niche stuff. It just really depends what you feed it to begin with.
If you start with "Popular top 40 corporate-bred pop artist of the month", it will swiftly taylor the algorithm to more of the same, and once it's got an idea it mostly goes one direction and it's really difficult to get it to recommend other styles that aren't Harry.
Fun puns and anecdotal evidence aside: Spotify sucks especially because of how it pays artists next to nothing.
I personally skim Freegal from my local library, Bandcamp on Fridays, and buy MP3s from 7 Digital if I want to support the artist. (I don't know 7 Digital's revenue take, but I at least get to own the music forever, and in FLAC if I want!)
algos won't show me Swedish power metal
Any algorithm that won't let someone discover Sabaton, is a defective algorithm.
No idea about today, but Pandora used to be cool for this in the "Music Genome Project" days.
Ha, cool! I need to give them a more thorough listen.
I wonder who else's first exposure to them was that incredible "Urban Ninja" video that was really popular when YouTube was cool...20 years ago 😨
Oh wow thanks for the heads up!
It's always such a bummer to see open source codebases close off. :(
I'll definitely keep an eye on Gaggimate!
Gotchu Bro/Sister:
Wife's already got Fellowship of the Ring Extended (of COURSE) ultraHD in the player.
I'll pop us some popcorn, and gladly point out all the fun trivia, like how when Aragorn kicks the helmet in Two Towers it was so legit because the actor ACTUALLY BROKE HIS TOE.
Why did I mention Two Towers when Fellowship is in the player? Heh. . .you didn't think we were stopping after Fellowship, did you?
The doors are already locked and planned bathroom / snack retrieval breaks are posted on the wall.
Whaaaaaat this is what keeps me addicted to Lemmy. This looks like a fun project.
Found a sweet HackaDay about it if anybody's interested :)
https://hackaday.com/2022/11/20/homebrew-espresso-maker-modding-with-gaggiuino/
Also that's the only way we're saturating that 2Gb bandwidth LOL.
We definitely need to be loud about counter-education campaigns against this.
Pushing the masses and the corporate status quo is a Herculean task, but even things as simple as retro computing and electronics / maker clubs and endeavors like Archive.org keep that spirit alive.
Heck, "The Indie Web" is even making a resurgence, many times in pure opposition to what the web has become. Things like this make me hopeful!
Yeah, the world is overrun with dragons right now. It sucks.
But I suppose it's about one's perspective as to the point of life: Is the ideal life one of ease and leisure or of purpose?
We can choose to spite the dragons by voluntarily going extinct, or we can pass down the very best of ourselves and be good examples to raise dragon slayers to take up the mantle, whilst learning from our missteps.
I choose a perspective of hope and responsibility to humanity.
Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to overcome a difficult one. --Bruce Lee
There's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for. --Samwise Gamgee
He must've thought none of them looked enough like his daughter to bother with.
--The Chosen One