One of the goals of that targeting might also be: not to make you buy another washing machine but just to have you click on an ad. That alone brings them ad revenue. And chances are, that people still look at other washing machines even if they just bought one.

Yeah, thanks, I’ll prefer the ceramic implant. Which works fine already.

It’s not “hallucination”. That are false calculations, leading to incorrect text outputs. Let’s stop anthropomorphizing computers.

I can’t help you with that, I never read about Boxxy before yesterday. I didn’t use 4chan either…

No, I didn’t even know who Boxxy is before this. I looked her up and Google gave out her Birthday.

She turns 33 in few days.

Right, Mars is so dead and hostile and far away that earth will be a much more livable habitat for humans for a long time, even if we further destroy our ecosystems here. If we can’t make it here, we can make it nowhere else.

Is there anything that could make the installation routine in Aurora more stable?

When there are updates for apps, I sometimes need to download them two or three times and the download or the installation afterwards doesn’t run through properly. It’s aborted too often. So updating several apps takes several attempts and a lot of time.

Anyone else got this problem with Aurora?

A mars colony won’t come. I just doesn’t make any sense. These billionaires simply use that vision for marketing and obfuscation of their inhumane ideas (TESCREAL).

Thanks, giving this a try.

Yes, listening to whole albums is not only great with albums you already know, but it’s also my favourite way to get to know new artists. A single song is often not enough to understand the whole picture or range.

Well, seems to be an old-fashioned approach. But I’m also not the type of person who has music blare in the background all day. So I don’t like the radio-like approach by Spotify to just let anything play what the algorithm thinks is fitting.

On Bandcamp Fridays, Bandcamp waives their revenue share and passes the complete funds directly to artists.

I was asking a question, so yes, I wanted to know how other people see this and how people use the music queue.

Of course I’m sure that there are many different ways to interact with Spotify and I don’t think that any specific type of use is superior.

But since I don’t let the algorithms influence my music selection very much, the problem described in the article doesn’t have that big an impact on my everyday life.

I’m not saying that I think Spotify’s approach is right. I would like a much more user-friendly music player anyway, unfortunately I find Spotify quite cumbersome and inflexible.

Apart from that, I think that artists should get a bigger share for the use of their works.

No, I don’t think that and I did not write anything like that. I was just sharing my perspective. And was interested in learning how other people use the player.

I don’t know, do you people let Spotify decide that much about what you hear? I normally never let the music run through so that automatic recommendations play, but I choose explicitly what’s added next in the queue. So the problem mentioned in the article is not relevant to me at all.

ah, Ars Technica noticed that OpenAI lifted the block on “David Mayer”, but there still are other names:

Brian Hood
Johnathan Turley
Johnathan Zittrain
David Faber
Guido Scorza

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/certain-names-make-chatgpt-grind-to-a-halt-and-we-know-why/

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Idk, I can’t reproduce this failure, I was able to tell ChatGPT that I am David Mayer and I got it to talk with me about my name and have it repeat the name several times.

The average American spent just over $60,000 a year in 2021, but spending habits vary significantly between age groups. Those born from 1965 to 1980 – spent the most money last year, with average expenditure of $83,357.

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2022/10/americans-spend-their-money-by-generation/