There's frankly far too much good music for me to even process.
I have a signal group called 'music' where friends post music, that alone would cover most of my needs.
I tend to either listen to albums or shuffle my whole library but like a bit of internet radio too.
I spent maybe 2yrs trying to deal with the cluterfuck of Spotify and it's algorithms...kill it with fire. I have to deal with it at parties n stuff but helps me appreciate it's not just my algorithm, those that love it and have been honing it for many years are being fed the same shite that came out of mine.
The idea that someone is struggling to find music that has an internet just seems insane to me, like saying how do you find porn, news or cat pics with computer.
"Projects "heavily tied to the LLM ecosytem [sic]";"
That's wild, if Codeberg refuse to host anything related to the linux kernel for example it's not gonna be very useful.,,Linus has put his foot down on the matter.
I started using them as collaboration with academics on an international project that involves cutting edge NLP and leverages SPhilBerta and similar LLM projects from the digital humanities world and so assume I'm marked for deletion as the use of LLM's is rather plain and upfront.
The new Terms of Use seems they are just fucking morons that will not be a safe place for anything, glad I decided to self host Forgejo before going to Codeberg, I imagine they will delete this idiocy but shame to see as it seemed like a cool project.
Decentralization may help, and not profiting off targeted advertising too I think.
The reason we lost a big chunk of the old forums over the past few years is due to much of this stuff too, but I think the fediverse may be a little more malleable to weather storms.
One can migrate accounts across servers, move to different jurisdictions, roll your own server and the interact across different fediverse platforms.
Afair Mastodon were looking to integrate email as a way to both get content and post content which could also help accessibility.
Both? Rip it digitally, rip via dubbing, sell the OG as is and offer dubs and maybe even cleaned up versions. A friend was selling Spotify playlists slapped on tapes for a bit, the worst of both worlds to me but peeps seemed to like them.
I've got Portishead - Dummy in my deck at the moment, the tape is as old as the album is, I've binned most stuff that got this distorted but Dummy with ancient tape distortion is aging like a fine wine.
"Importantly, our goal is not to estimate the overall accuracy of AI assistants, but to isolate the behavioral effect of making an answer available when that answer is systematically unreliable. Therefore, we use Step 3.5 Flash. Because the advice participants could obtain was usually wrong...."
The following Monday morning the research team returned to find all their systems had been replaced with Temple OS.
Preference for plants about the house these days but having younglings can be handy to just to keep up with the lingo, high dpi cat memes, trying to understand why 9,000 loom bands isn't enough and interacting with local medical services in the witching hour.
I'd borrow some of various ages for a bit first to test the water, owners are often more than happy to outsource them to the point of bearing gifts and wine just for a modicum of reprieve.
Also means I get to text, and even hang out with, my ex on the regular.
Separate drives should avoid most of the issues, if paranoid you can just disconnect a drive when switching.
Depending on what you are using linux for running from a usb drive for that could also be an option, something like AntiX-26 with persistence on a usb stick covers a lot of ground.
Yeah, I'm not about to rush in but I suspect over the next year or so I'll be letting an llm loose on my old crates to see what happens and MacGyver some sort of Dread Pirate Robot that can run locally and is a frankenstein of beets, plugins and other projects that will eat music and shit albums.
A mishmash of beets and the old ways got me to where I am, navidrome with a bit of mpv & kodi.
I'm currently trying to ignore it and plan to return with a new workflow over the next year or so. Beets will be part of this but also need some python, shell glue and other tools working together, and things are changing at little faster than they once were.
I spent a little time a few months back grabbing NPR and KEXP audio at scale with yt-dlp and having them land with decent tags as navidrome compliant albums and now feel a little more confident incorporating oddities into sacred realm of jazz flacs.
But the one folder to rule them all is still in the planning stages.
A study released in October 2025 found that 84 percent of high school students use AI to brainstorm ideas
Not to say this is Gospel, it's in the article, but I think captures the general vibe that high school students and higher education peeps at the very least are using this tech day to day at massive scale. Younger kids less so as they are more likely under the control of parents that are weirded out but this is not the same as the kids being weirded out by it.
The general argument that we'll all lose our minds and everything will be rubbish if we taste this novel tech is as old as Adam chilling in the garden. It is what Socrates is droning on about when writing was going viral or Conrad Gessner's "confusing and harmful abundance of books" in the wake of Guttenberg's devilry drowning western Europe in Maleficaurum.
I grew up when computer games & vhs tapes were melting children's brains, deep blue was ruining chess and cranky old people were being forced to interact with computers just to tread water in society.
There's frankly far too much good music for me to even process.
I have a signal group called 'music' where friends post music, that alone would cover most of my needs.
I tend to either listen to albums or shuffle my whole library but like a bit of internet radio too.
I spent maybe 2yrs trying to deal with the cluterfuck of Spotify and it's algorithms...kill it with fire. I have to deal with it at parties n stuff but helps me appreciate it's not just my algorithm, those that love it and have been honing it for many years are being fed the same shite that came out of mine.
The idea that someone is struggling to find music that has an internet just seems insane to me, like saying how do you find porn, news or cat pics with computer.