I guess, it can select the wrong song, if:

• the correct song doesn’t have its acoustic fingerprint in the MusicBrainz database (otherwise it would be the closest match), and
• another song has a similar enough acoustic fingerprint, above a threshold that you can configure in the Picard settings.

I assume, it has to be a threshold, because you might have slight variations for the same song/recording, like silence at the end trimmed or volume normalized or whatever.

And yeah, Picard’s UI is certainly a bit of a hurdle. Conveying information for so many changes is definitely not easy, so I don’t want to complain.
But you know, if it would have detected that some of my songs will get renamed not just with a few capitalization fixes, but rather completely different words, and it would have prompted me for those, then I wouldn’t have misnamed songs now…

Yeah, at some point, I told Picard to just re-sort everything and that was not a good idea. Some songs got renamed or put under a different artist, because I guess, the actual song is not in the MusicBrainz database.
I do have a backup that I should restore actually, but yeah, difficult to notice such changes and especially to know how much damage was done.

I did also figure, I should just add the unknown songs into MusicBrainz, but boy, I added one album and that took more than half an hour…

Definitely leaning more and more towards that unsorted life…

There is Kid3 for Android as well. 😅

https://f-droid.org/packages/net.sourceforge.kid3

It’s not the smoothest Android app, I’ve ever seen, but seems serviceable…

I mean, increasing that timeout doesn’t really sound like it resumes the download, but rather that it never properly cancels it. I don’t think, Firefox would want to implement that, as it’s somewhat bad etiquette for a client to keep a connection open for a long time.

My understanding is that actually resuming partial downloads is generally badly supported by server software and that’s why support for it is not implemented in Firefox.

Yeah, looks more like a parking lot than a street…

Hmm, in my case, it was certainly part of the problem that I tried to back up directly to an SMB share. It wouldn’t complete even after hours, and my best guess is that it somehow created the copy in/of the home-directory when the connection failed.

I enjoy how you can’t read any of the story, because they spend 5 paragraphs describing how the AI bubble is like a star.

Well, what preprocessor would you add, other than denylisting certain words? 😅

If you use an LLM to try to detect the semantics, you’ve got the same problem again…

I’ve had that happen before when an rsync command for uploading backups was doing shenanigans. I think, it choked on a very large folder, but I just excluded that folder and then it was fine.

Well, they would typically have a system prompt (like an invisible chat message that’s sent to the LLM at the start of the conversation), where it would tell the LLM something like “You’re a helpful chatbot. Talk cheerfully and use 🩵 all the time.”

And in that system prompt, you can also give it instructions to only answer certain questions. But it really is like a chat message, in that it just as well might ignore those instructions when another chat message asks it to.

OP chose the formulation “Before I subscribe to a creator, …” which might be necessary here to get it to answer, as it might have been told to only help with creator subscriptions, but then the formulation implies that by answering this question, it is helping the user to subscribe. That’s called a prompt injection.

If you can find a prompt injection, then yes, you can do this with any chatbot.
Although they might still not be as useful as a dedicated tool, since they likely can’t do tool calls, like web searches or running the compiler.

It’s funny when someone says “I want a solution besides X” and we all kinds to to say “uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer”

I mean, yeah, you kind of have to point it out. Newbies won’t be able to judge how much they’re making their life harder by wanting to do it their way. 🫠

Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.

Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it’s an open library.
You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free.
You can look at the source code of anything you’re interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code.
And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.

Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn’t explain anything to you. 😅

Just to point it out: Having a USB stick with a Linux ISO laying around can be a lifesaver.

Even if you decide to go back to Windows or whatever.

Because you can actually boot off of the USB stick into a practically fully functional OS, so without installing, and then access the files on the hard drive, in case your installed operating system bites the dust (so long as the hard drive and filesystem is intact).

So yeah, might be worth the invest…

Yeah, I was gonna say, just a bunch of Markdown files would probably be fine. Use e.g. mdBook if you want a static webpage with search.

A dedicated service might have some advantages, but personally, I’d care much more about having my recipe collection in a format that I can access without specific software.

With a webpage like that, I’m not surprised that no one takes it serious. Looks like it fell straight out of a startup. 😵‍💫

Well, it’s this range: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsolar_point

Did you maybe try to press Esc?
When it shows the pretty boot logo, you can do that to see the logs, so maybe it works here as well…

Ah yeah, that makes more sense, thanks!

Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?

But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.

I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.

Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…

By the way, I did not procrastinate posting this since July 25th. The file name does not say 2026-07-25. That did not happen. Nuh-uh.

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