HDBaseT

Born on March 26, 2026•459 Karma

1 hour ago

•on: YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos

There is plenty of artists making music analogous to 80's and 90's classics. Not to mention millions of 80's and 90's songs she's never heard.

I constantly find myself discovering new 90s Boombap, Hip Hop beats and tracks from underground artists. Unfortunately a ton of these aren't on Spotify, although they exist on YouTube in near endless capacity.

A lot of my favorite songs of all time aren't great just because they sound nice, but they are great because they have immense meaning. Alice in Chains is one of the all time greatest bands and their lyrical messaging means so much, with the passing of Layne from a drug overdose the songs have a raw, visceral feeling. Many of their songs are explaining the struggle, they are deeply personal. That is lost with AI Music.

HDBaseT•

2 hours ago

•on: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

We have more wars on-going right now than any other point in history, excluding World Wars.

I don't think we are doing very well in preventing "large scale" conflict between World Powers.

Russia v. Ukraine war has half a million deaths on the Russian side alone. Is this large scale?

HDBaseT•

2 hours ago

•on: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

Maybe not a million, although having a few million, even just in a bank account earning moderate interest (4.5% PA) is easily enough to retire forever.

HDBaseT•

2 hours ago

•on: I'm Tired of Talking to AI

TOOL concerts (minus ones at music festivals) typically restrict phone usage for this exact reason.

Maynard lets everyone record the last song and 99% of people respect the request for no phones. It's not even disrespectful for the band, or yourself, its rude to the person behind you.

HDBaseT•

3 hours ago

•on: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

Why though?

If production can reach high enough levels, why not sell overseas?

HDBaseT•

3 hours ago

•on: Valve raises Steam Deck prices

No such thing, unless you don't value privacy and being raped by technology.

HDBaseT•

4 hours ago

•on: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.

hakkoru•

3 hours ago

I always enjoyed using the power brick to warm up

HDBaseT•

22 hours ago

•on: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduct...

Agreed.

Not to mention, week on week more and more tokens are being processed via OpenRouter. [0]. The number keeps going up, with no end in sight in my opinion, if the China models continue offering cheaper inference, whilst tailing behind not too far, the line will keep going up.

[0] - https://openrouter.ai/rankings

OpenRouter is not the only "router" type AI company. More fixed providers like OpenCode and commandcode are offering subscription services on open/china models, likely consuming billions of tokens each. Who know how many tokens are being process directly against Deekseek and Kimi's APIs.

HDBaseT•

22 hours ago

•on: Xiaomi MiMo-v2.5 Series API Permanent Price Reduct...

I switch models all the time.

/model in OpenCode

There is no "moat" for me. Using the standard chat applications as a normal conversational/question has a little bit of moat as its able to cross reference existing conversations, but I disable that mostly anyways to prevent as much data retention as possible.

HDBaseT•

1 day ago

•on: Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi...

Meanwhile a lot of people don't make consistent money on the stock market.

If it was "that simple" everyone would be making money on the stock market, but its not.

satvikpendem•

20 hours ago

It is that simple, invest in broad market index funds.