I did something similar with Russian music broadcasts Muzprosvet and FM Dostoevsky.

Here: https://radar.lv

These were cult broadcasts for the new music, each with its own flavor.

Later, more broadcasts were uploaded to the website.

Now, 95% downloads are bots.

Still, chezch broadcasts Seance with ambient music is still uploaded.

If you like to discover music, welcome. Its in Russian, but easily translated by Google etc.

Meh, too pop. Hildur Guðnadóttir!

It was by many, and it was decided to be too hard. Nobody is ready to do that.

I wonder if LLMs will evolve to allow ordering such things by request. Surely this is a a dream of many, manufacturing things same as we are vibe coding apps.

This is probably not near, but maybe in 10-20 years?

They are often from residential IP.there are even businesses that allow you renting such IPs

I have small website with archive of older radio broadcasts mostly in Russian. Lately, 90% of traffic comes from USA ;)

Previously it was like 5%.

URL is http://radar.lv btw

Thanks God i can serve up to a terabyte per month of traffic easily, otherwise it would be a catastrophe. I am not against bot scraping, but I worry about stability for meat visitors.

So, I think of enabling payments for website visits cloudflare recently developed.

I also have the problem of old technology like the mentioned site. While my personal blog uses static generator, archive website uses ancient Drupal version, which has no security patches for many years already.

I guess when cheap Chinese model was very close to SoTA models

... and now another one when a (not so cheap tbh) Chinese model matched OpenAI GPT Sol and Anthropic Fable/GPT 4.8 (some scores below, some scores above) ...

Oh and exceeded Google's best internal model capability enough to have them cancel the next Gemini release. Probably. But I'm 95% certain that's exactly what happened. This is the first time I really fear for the future of Google, because OpenAI matched or exceeded the experience of Google search ... and now a Chinese company matched OpenAI ... followed by Google failing to catch up. That really made me take pause.

It indicates the the "secret sauce" of OpenAI and Anthropic is ... nothing, really. Or none of it matters, except access to the hardware needed for 1.5 trillion parameter models, which Chinese firms now have as well. It means there is no "AI takeoff" where other firms can't match OpenAI/Anthropic models. And Google, inventors of transformers just missed the takeoff. There's more secret sauce, but clearly a great engineering firm can find it in less than 3 months.

The fact that this Chinese model has similar cost to OpenAI and ballpark cost compared to Anthropic while we can be quite sure they're minimizing the cost (that's what China is doing everywhere else) also raises questions about the true cost of serving comparable models and with that about the future profitability of OpenAI and Anthropic.

I'm using such pad as a second gamepad when I need one :) It is actually not too bad, if combined with a multikey mouse

That is one of the reasons why desktop Linux conquest is slow. Linux people won't approve such kludges, which means broken applications and back compatibility. I am not sure which strategy is correct, but I certainly have a compassion for users who just want their pc to work, and not search for library versions or manuals how to compile code in a new system.

I sometimes feel like Hal changing a lightbulb[1] when I'm trying to install an app on Linux, either I don't have the correct distro, I need to enter km long command line to add some repository to apt, I need to download 346 packages from I don't know where to the build the app, and finally find out that it's not what I wanted.

Yes, I know that's how Linux works and I know all the advantages of that, but when you see now that many install are just 'curl mywebsite.com/install.sh | bash', you start to wonder which is a "good" solution.

1. https://youtu.be/AbSehcT19u0

This happened in Switzerland with cash.