I use Podcast Addict too. Found it well over six years ago and never bothered to look for another.

Setup for remote access by the host is more work, ofc. Remote access on users end can be more difficult depending on how the host sets things up.

Most popular freebie approach seems to be tailscale VPN. Which requires remote users to connect through the Tailscale VPN. And for the host the free Tailscale option has a cap of 3 users. There is probably a learning curve and perhaps frustration for a low-comfort-with-tech type person.

Requires some money but I think the easiest remote user experience is Cloud Flare. This is what my brother does, so I haven’t seen it from his end, but on my end it is very easy to access as a user.

Both have so many help guides online, Tailscale or Cloud Flare.

They’re totally different servers. You have to log in to each, but you don’t have to log out of one to log in to the other.

I currently have three up in my browser, each in a browser tab, observing that my siblings and friend who self-host are all into some campy shit. I love it.

Yes

I’m curious if you can articulate the difference between being critical of how a particular technology is owned and managed versus being a Luddite?

Is environmental impact on the top of anyones list for why they don’t like ChatGPT? It’s not on mine nor on anyones I have talked to.

The two most common reasons I hear are 1) no trust in the companies hosting the tools to protect consumers and 2) rampant theft of IP to train LLM models.

The author moves away from strict environmental focus despite claims to the contrary in their intro,

This post is not about the broader climate impacts of AI beyond chatbots, or about whether AI is bad for other reasons

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Other Objections, This is all a gimmick anyway. Why not just use Google? ChatGPT doesn’t give better information

… yet doesn’t address the most common criticisms.

Worse, the author accuses anyone who pauses to think of the negatives of ChatGPT of being absurdly illogical.

Being around a lot of adults freaking out over 3 Wh feels like I’m in a dream reality. It has the logic of a bad dream. Everyone is suddenly fixating on this absurd concept or rule that you can’t get a grasp of, and scolding you for not seeing the same thing. Posting long blog posts is my attempt to get out of the weird dream reality this discourse has created.

IDK what logical fallacy this is but claiming people are “freaking out over 3Wh” is very disingenuous.

Rating as basic content: 2/10, poor and disingenuous argument

Rating as example of AI writing: 5/10, I’ve certainly seen worse AI slop

I’ll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.

I’m not holding my breath. We have a Z that insists no one in her generation wants to put up with the 24/7 availability expected from those who want to advance in our industry. Yet I received emails from her over the weekend.

They’re human, same as the rest of us, and will justify all the bad labor hygiene that older generations have.

I wish. They must pay well given the number of content creators that advertise for them.

You read multiple sources and look for the facts, not declarations of victory or failure.

Like how Milei is, by his own statements, anti-union, anti-LGBT, anti-pension, anti-abortion, anti-vaxx, pro-military/intelligence industry, pro-genocide in Palestine, and pro-unregulated crypto. All of which I don’t like personally; I’m not an anarchocapitalist. I don’t really care if one financial metric goes up or down that some will hail as “success” if the lives of so many are made significantly worse in the exchange.

My two cents.

If it’s not so terrible that you dread every day, keep it and the paycheck while you look for another job. As soon as you have a new job lined up, quit.

You seem concerned about making it easy on them, maybe help them out a few weeks to soften the blow. Don’t bother, you’re taking up their time and training resources that they could be spending on the next person who is going to replace you.

Be professional in how you quit, but don’t be a doormat. Remember this company could lay you off at any moment and the “best” company will only be professional. They aren’t your friends. Match that energy.

Meta displayed a chart showing that the “percent of time spent viewing content posted by ‘friends’ ” has declined in the past two years, from twenty-two per cent to seventeen per cent on Facebook, and from eleven per cent to seven per cent on Instagram.

Yeah. By their design. If they would allow user control over what shows up in their feed, mine would prioritize friends’ content. I’m not the one choosing to turn my feed jnto AI slop based on my alleged interest in the topic.

acknowledges the term was made to troll LGBT people

Why can’t we have a good faith conversation on this?

K, sure.

Zero.

If someone I know asks me for money, I’m at least asking them “what’s up? Everything ok?” before giving them money.

Then after that, still probably zero because I don’t have any cash in my wallet atm. So hopefully I can help in some other way, give them a lift somewhere, cover a meal, something.

I had already shifted to working from home, ordering groceries for pickup, avoiding crowds, etc. for several weeks before shutdown happened.

I too thought it would last maybe a month or two, so started a degree thinking I would have at least a semester knocked out during lockdown. Jk, I had the whole degree done before we returned to office.

Overcoming writers block or whatever you want to call it

Like writing an obit or thank you message that doesn’t sound stupid. I just need a sentence down to work from, even though it doesn’t make it to final draft.

Or I needed to come up with activities to teach 4th graders about aerodynamics for a STEM outreach thing. None of the output from LLM was usable as it was spit out but was enough for me to kickstart real ideas

It wouldn’t have been that much work to moderate before the API bullshit ripped community-built moderation tools away.

This was by design. Make moderating more difficult. Claim moderators are failing. Replace with AI that Reddit can control. Replace mods who leave from frustration with hand-selected mods who follow the company line.

Reddit purged their volunteer mod base for exactly this reason. Some company asks them to change moderation to accommodate them, reddit complies without having to deal with pesky, independent human mods who might argue against the censorship.

Mission accomplished. I liked it. Won’t be on the near-term rewatch list but it was quite enjoyable.

Goddamm is Toni Colette good at every role she takes. Down to how she moves her hands as she slices up that new ingredient for a sauce.

I will watch Mickey 17 this weekend if plans hold. I might have unreasonable expectations, so trying to temper myself before going in.