Almost every single deployment has failed lmao

https://github.com/netgoat-xyz/netgoat/deployments

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Oh my god they’re committing their .env with their “DiamondKey” (different from their API_STREAM_KEY) and they’ve committed TWO .exe files named agent.exe and agent.exe~. They’re also looking for strategic partnerships who should reach out via Discord(???) and Gmail. Their quickstart includes only two things: a link to unpublished docs and the sentence “We recommend datalix for cheap and highly avaliable [sic] vps’ses [sic]” (no closing punctuation like a period, despite that being common throughout the readme). You can tell very obviously which parts were written by the person behind this project and which were generated by an LLM.

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Their 1.0.1-alpha.1 - Syncronizing [sic] versioning - Minor Changes commit rewrites like the entire project??? Very obviously an ai slop project by some teenager who had an idea far beyond their skill level and decided to use ai instead of building up their skills over several years and changing the scope of their project to be a building block towards their idea that helps them develop the knowledge they would actually need to develop a project like this. They’ll realize at some point that they’re in over their head and that fancy code generators don’t magically fix that; I’d be surprised if this project is still being worked on by the end of the year.

I use Symfonium to play my Jellyfin library, and Jellyfin has a plugin for ListenBrainz integration. So depending on your setup, there already is integration!

It’s a scrobbling service. You send your listening data to it so that you can see your listening habits and share them with other people (your top songs, which countries the artists you listen to are from, etc.). It’s just interesting data that some people like to collect, but if you only throw on your mp3s and don’t care about that, then you probably won’t find much use in setting it up.

Edit: to clarify what “listening data” means here, it just means the metadata of the music you play. Song name, artist, album. Nothing fancy. I think it also supports marking songs as favorites.

I use Koito as a selfhosted version of this. I use the ListenBrainz plugin to send my Jellyfin listening data to Koito, which has a setting to forward that data to ListenBrainz so I can have a backup and contribute to the ListenBrainz project. It’s pretty cool!

To be clear, there are some benefits to provisioning enterprise devices in a tightly controlled cloud environment, but we’ve all seen ideas with “some benefits” get shot down by managers and CEOs who “don’t get why anyone would want that” so I’m not keen on giving Microsoft too much credit.

At least for Enterprise where the real money is, “???” seems to be https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/windows-365-enterprise

This isn’t some grand plan 5d chess. The people running these companies are dumb as hell and lucky. They get convinced from one silicon valley thought leader’s blog post that ai and electron are the future and then direct the entire company in that direction thinking they’re a great leader who will be remembered for pushing the company in a novel direction at just the right time. They attend a talk by a different thought leader who talks about a future of ai cloud computers that anyone can access from anywhere with more computational power than could ever fit into the shitty laptop they’re accessing it from, then they go to the board meeting the next day with their bright new idea to do cloud personal desktops.

These companies are entirely responding to (nonsensical) market forces and the whims of high ranking individuals within their ranks. It’s painful and ridiculous.

These things have so much fucking sugar in them it’s actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don’t think I was able to even finish the thing. It’s insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I’ve seen the brand and I genuinely don’t know how anyone drinks this stuff.

That character is called a thorn and is pronounced as a “th” sound. It’s from Old English and fell out of use iirc, but some people like to use it