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Cake day: December 20th, 2023

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  • I stopped using Spotify long ago because of their shitty business practices. Producing a product they killed support for within just a couple years without reimbursing customers and producing huge amounts of e-waste. Jacking their subscription prices twice in one year. Apparently, they also donated to Trump despite not being an American company?? That’s to say nothing of their shitty recommendation algorithm, which just plays your most played tracks over and over. Good riddance.

    For those interested, I use Tidal now. I’m satisfied with, their recommendation algo is fine and the higher quality streaming is really nice but nothing I’ve used has ever been as good as Google Play Music, I found so much good music though that service and could upload whatever I was missing. Once Tidal inevitably pisses me off, I’m going to move on to self hosting.






  • My optimism for the future is dead at this point. Even if we miraculously have a collective pivot into sustainable practices tomorrow, this train ain’t stopping in my lifetime. Maybe it’ll be better for future generations, I sincerely hope it is and I’ll keep doing what I can to ensure that. But my future is doomed to dealing with the mess that unchecked greed and exploitation has wreaked upon our world.


  • As a software engineer, definitely. Things that might have taken days writing a boilerplate framework and reading through docs to find out how to configure certain things could take hours now. Now I don’t have to spend hours learning how to use the data visualisation library in order to fix the one donut chart on my company’s site, I can ask AI to do it in minutes and make edits where needed.

    It’s certainly not perfect or infallible, it spits out garbage a lot still. But since I have a deep understanding of the stuff I’m working on, I can recognize when it’s spitting out garbage and recalibrate.