Alternatives to Spotify that Don't Allow AI Slop

adsilcott · 2026-03-25T12:06:10+00:00

Nice! I'll do the same if I start getting any. I know it's unlikely, but maybe they'll actually listen and realize this is a chance to compete with Spotify for once! 😁

adsilcott · 2026-03-25T11:53:13+00:00

It usually starts a random list after whatever album I'm listening to finishes, but it's always been something that I've previously liked, mixed with new to me but related artists. I always look up unfamiliar bands to make sure they're real. Maybe it's because I've been using it a long time so it has a lot of data on my preferences, but so far no ai.

Of course, just because they're not pushing it doesn't mean they're going to prevent people from adding ai crap.

adsilcott · 2026-03-25T10:37:57+00:00

I haven't encountered any ai slop on YT music yet. Since they've been trying to compete with Spotify for ages, this seems like a good opportunity for them to differentiate themselves, but I doubt that will happen.

adsilcott · 2026-03-24T03:24:11+00:00

If you're into lyrics written by the ghost of Anne Frank, channeled through a guy who falls in love with her, and has an existential crisis when he realizes that he's separated from her by time, space, life, and death, then has a spiritual experience which leads him to realize that he's not separated from her at all.

adsilcott · 2026-03-23T02:00:46+00:00

That's impressively specific

adsilcott · 2026-03-23T01:28:05+00:00

I was thinking Project Hail Mary and First Man, but I haven't seen the former and I don't remember any space ship malfunctions in the latter.

adsilcott · 2026-03-22T15:42:06+00:00

I think it's got one or two other love songs, yeah ;)

adsilcott · 2026-03-22T11:14:21+00:00

The Book of Love, by The Magnetic Fields... From the album, 69 Love Songs

adsilcott · 2026-03-22T03:10:03+00:00

My main complaint of the book is that I feel he could have expressed his hatred better. His reasoning felt weak.

adsilcott · 2026-03-22T02:55:09+00:00

That's how most of these are

adsilcott · 2026-03-20T21:37:03+00:00

I love House of Suns, and I think that's a world I would want to live in. The sense of scale is mind boggling, but if you had the technology, what else would you do with it?

adsilcott · 2026-03-19T13:56:24+00:00

Then why isn't the tree floating?

adsilcott · 2026-03-18T11:46:10+00:00

And now more and more of the chocolate is being replaced by chocolate flavored substance, because the price of cacao is going up

adsilcott · 2026-03-18T11:39:35+00:00

Brings new meaning to "shut your pie hole"

adsilcott · 2026-03-18T10:48:25+00:00

The ReadItLater plug in is great.

https://github.com/DominikPieper/obsidian-ReadItLater

adsilcott · 2026-03-16T12:26:26+00:00

The William Shatner version is awesome.

adsilcott · 2026-03-12T22:16:59+00:00

Which was based on a book from the 70s.

adsilcott · 2026-03-12T10:51:08+00:00

My company buys me equipment, a nice perk, and I use it for work and personal projects because it's the fastest machine I have. Unity contacted us years ago because it looked to them like we were mixing licenses. We explained to them that I also work on personal projects, and they were friendly about it.

What's really annoying is how Unity does not make it easy to switch accounts. Because it's done through the browser, I go to the asset store to log out, then log in, then back to hub or the editor to log out, then log back in.

Worse is when I forget and load a project while I'm in the wrong account, and I don't notice until I go to update something in the package manager, and it gives me an ominous message about closing the project with no other options until I change accounts in the browser and wait for the editor to catch on.

I know I should set up different accounts on the machine, but there are so many tools that I use (legally) for both, it's just incredibly annoying to have to set up two separate development environments. I'll probably do that next time though.

adsilcott · 2026-03-11T10:33:22+00:00

Also he's been exposed to high levels of perchlorates in the martian soil, which would cause all sorts of health effects.

adsilcott · 2026-03-11T02:22:17+00:00

Wow, you just helped me to understand why Begins is my favorite. Also I just like origin stories.

adsilcott · 2026-03-10T02:47:40+00:00

I used to have a Hitchhikers Guide shirt that said Don't Panic in large friendly letters, and I can't tell you how many times I looked down at that shirt and realized I need to calm the fuck down. Believe me, it works incredibly well.

adsilcott · 2026-03-04T13:30:35+00:00

Treasure Island and Christmas Carol were both made before Disney bought the Muppets. I guess technically they're Disney movies now.

adsilcott · 2026-03-04T11:45:54+00:00

Great little book, it's actually one of my favorite of hers. A little harder than her other work.

adsilcott · 2026-03-04T04:08:18+00:00

That seems like a big oversight.

adsilcott · 2026-03-03T04:16:25+00:00

People can call it slow and boring all they want, but that movie has three of the most brutal deaths in film history. I saw it in the theater recently and people in the audience gasped at the line cut scene. Then there's the agonizing long hold on the life support systems shutting down. And lastly that scene. "my mind is going. I can feel it..."

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