Gonna mute this thread now. That's more than enough being perceived on the internet for one day.

@serigala_tropis exactly the same for me! high five

@serigala_tropis oh thanks! Honestly surprised how many people seem interested in something for playing local music files, I thought it was just me. It's a bit lacking yet, but I reckon I'll make it available in some form when it's finished :)

@oantolin the analogy is not meant to be read as literally as that :) But if you want to be literal, I think it does fit - LLMs and breaking and entering do both give you stuff, at the cost of harms to others, and you don't have a lot of control over what that stuff is... Probably it's mostly pretty commonplace stuff. And if you keep doing it, eventually there won't be anything valuable left to steal

@Dangerous_beans probably explains why, despite being in tech, I am also poor

@viraptor I get that, but "there is no ethical consumption under capitalism" doesn't mean we should just give up

@aatch @fishidwardrobe sure, but doing that risks ceding ground and then losing an argument purely in terms of the practical value, I think. I'm not sure it helps
https://mastodon.social/@Cheeseness/116265178062547556

@Cheeseness I think you're totally right in your perception of their intent. And yeah, the end result still doesn't help anybody. If you've already ceded the ground that the ethics are irrelevant, in order to debate their practical value, inevitably you'll lose the argument on that point too. Well put!

@fn0rd that sucks. Definitely seems hard to avoid at the moment, but I hope that it won't be too long before the bubble collapses and it's a much easier proposition to find a less shitty job.

@sinvega love too put aside my ethics for convenience!