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I don't deny musicians their share of wealth, but most musicians who do get wealthy off their art, do so through a mix of releasing music and touring (mostly the latter these days). I just wish DP had toured a little more to get that sweet dough rather than selling LEGO figures years after disbanding but maybe that's just me being sour for being too young to be able to have seen them live.

And I wouldn't call RAM a cash grab album, their goal was to make an album with great musicians they looked up to, and I think they succeeded. You don't make a cash grab album being famous already and collaborating with industry veterans like Nile Rodgers and Giorgio Moroder.

RAM Drumless Edition, the Fortnite stunt, now this... It's sad to see Daft Punk™ trying to get every last dime out of that brand name, even after splitting up. They used to reinvest a lot of their early profits into new music, videos, etc., but now it just seems like a sad cash grab. Hope they got some good real estate on the French Riviera out of it at least, it leaves a bad taste on their whole catalogue to me.

calling LLMs "The Future" does not address the concerns they state in that discussion

this is an interesting suggestion. it's incredible how little the creators and benefactors of the slop factories have been made accountable for the mess they unleashed onto open source communities.

anthropic at least gives 6 months claude max pro to oss maintainers, but to me that seems like a drop in the ocean compared to the negative impact their product has on these peoples' lives.

for what purpose? qgis is already free to use, unlike Adobe's CS

It's true that simple data conversion is now more easily performed using vibe coded scripts. But the real value of QGIS lies in it enabling managing data large complex projects (infrastructure, urban/environmental planning, etc.).

I remember when I first read about the plans to fill up the Hambach Pit near Cologne, one of Europe's largest open coal mines, until I realized I will be dead by the time it's filled up. I call it the Rhineland's Grand Canyon for a reason, it's huge.

I was sure I couldn't be the only one curious to push LLMs to their limits. Though these days it's much tougher, mostly impossible to get them to react in unforeseen ways to horrendous scenarios.

I just ordered a couple hundred "stop the slop" stickers to stick onto obviously AI generated posters, ads etc in public, I doubt anthropic is genuinely interested in my opinion

Obvious rage bait aside, this is exactly what the author of the book presented in the article cautions against:

> The Neanderthal genome, he warns, remains ‘something of a Rorschach test onto which people project ideas and assumptions about ancestry and what it means to be human – or differently human’.

Maybe read an article before commenting on it.

Just tag POI, they get stale so quickly. Everybody wants to tag the roads, but the real gap in many places is stale POI, or missing tags like opening hours. You'll get much less attention from these gatekeepers there too