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New comment by grokys in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

grokys — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:26:08 +0000

Not a valid comparison, I feel. I may be hindsight, but rap and electronic music came from vibrant underground scenes and to many critics and music fans of the time was seen as at least interesting and at best ground breaking.

AI music on the other hand comes not from the underground, but from corporations. You'll be hard pushed to find any critics or music connoisseurs singing its praises.

New comment by grokys in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

grokys — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:20:41 +0000

I hope you're trolling.

New comment by grokys in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

grokys — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:19:55 +0000

That is awful, sorry. You need to clean your ears.

New comment by grokys in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

grokys — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:19:05 +0000

I think that you're probably right here - it's the granularity. We'll probably see that improving as things move along and hopefully get something interesting out of it at some point. Quite frankly the alternative is too depressing to think about.

New comment by grokys in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

grokys — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:17:47 +0000

I do wonder why AI music is so lame. Every previous technological advancement in music produced amazing new sounds and styles but AI music seems to just be emulating lowest common denominator pop sludge. Where's the Bruce Haack or Kraftwerk of AI? Surely there's a previously unimaginable sound palette out there that we could be pulling from. Why is it all so BAD?

New comment by grokys in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

grokys — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:41:20 +0000

That is indeed the point I was making.

New comment by grokys in "The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy"

grokys — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:37:11 +0000

My issue with AI-generated OSS contributions is:

If an AI improves developer productivity so much, why would maintainers of an OSS project want unknown contributors to sit in between the maintainer and the LLM? They'd be typing these queries into Claude Code themselves. To quote my colleague:

> We do not need a middleman to talk to AI models. We are not bottlenecked by coding.

New comment by grokys in "Volunteers turn a fan's recordings of 10K concerts into an online treasure trove"

grokys — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:48:24 +0000

This. GP is just old. I'm 51 one now and almost everyone I know seems to think the same thing. Unless you work at it, music later in life will never evoke the same emotions as those from when you were in your late teens/early 20s. Thing is though, it's really not true and if you work at it you realise pretty quickly that music today is just as good as it was at any time in the last 50 years (though I will concede that we'll probably never get the highs of the late 60s and early 70s ever again - if you were a teenager then, ok. Music now is definitely better than in the 80s though dude).

New comment by grokys in "Avalonia 12 – Ready for What's Next"

grokys — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:47:47 +0000

We're very aware that we need to balance our need to make money with the need to make Avalonia accessible for everyone. For this reason, for 12.0 we've made our VS Code extension totally free to use with no account needed and no usage restrictions.

New comment by grokys in "Git Rebase for the Terrified"

grokys — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:59:23 +0000

Does it support submodules yet? That was the thing that stopped me using it last time I checked.

New comment by grokys in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

grokys — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:06:02 +0000

Lol, I never in a million years expected my project to get 100 users never mind the tens of thousands it now has. Sometimes others make the decision for you ;) it's still your baby though.

New comment by grokys in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

grokys — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:33:16 +0000

>Or maybe ask yourself why are you doing open source in the first place?

I, like everyone started work on OSS because it's fun. The problem comes when your project gets popular - either you try to make it your job or you abandon the project, because at a certain point it becomes like an unpaid job with really demanding customers.

New comment by grokys in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

grokys — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:02:14 +0000

I also made a horrible life decision in starting a company around developer tools, and I agree. Taking one of the comments from the PR:

> It's insane to blame everybody else for not being able to create a viable business model from an OSS project. Everybody who is using Tailwind is actually SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is reporting bugs properly is SUPPORTING Tailwind. Everybody who is collaborating and PRs changes is SUPPORTING Tailwind.

> Tailwind grew a lot due to community acceptance and support, and collaborations.

> The only person to blame here is the CEO/Main maintainer of Tailwind. They've made bad decisions, hired coders without knowing how to make enough money to pay them.

> If you want to monetize a free service, you either know what you do or you make mistakes and lose what you've built. It was always a risk; we are not at fault.

> @adamwathan I respect you for everything you've done, but you need to take a few breaths, take a walk, think, sleep, and come back, ask apologize of the community, and start working on solutions/crisis management.

And you always know that when you open the GH profile of people saying such things, you'll see an empty timeline. This particular user has a single repository which he's committed to a handful of times over the last year and has setup a GitHub sponsorship for it.

I try to remind myself that these types of people are a (loud) minority but it's absolutely soul destroying.

New comment by grokys in "Brexit reduced UK GDP by 6-8%, investments by 12-18% [pdf]"

grokys — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:01:09 +0000

Racism has increased, yes. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3vg33nje4o

New comment by grokys in "The End of Sierra as We Knew It, Part 1: The Acquisition"

grokys — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:15:27 +0000

A lesson for the ages: that cultured (or not) rich person over there isn't any more intelligent or prescient than your neighbour or colleague, and most certainly no more than your partner. They just have more money.

New comment by grokys in "The Wright brothers invented the airplane, right? Not if you're in Brazil"

grokys — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:40:58 +0000

At least Leibniz is still famous for the biscuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz-Keks

New comment by grokys in "Gnome Files: A detailed UI examination"

grokys — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 08:46:37 +0000

It's also impossible for a new user of macOS to show hidden files without an online search. Iirc it's a non documented (in the UI) keyboard shortcut. Very discoverable.

New comment by grokys in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

grokys — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:36:00 +0000

Not by Microsoft, but Avalonia has a commercial fork of WPF which runs on Linux and macOS:

https://avaloniaui.net/xpf

New comment by grokys in "Ask HN: Where should I incoporate my business"

grokys — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 17:34:26 +0000

I'd recommend not incorporating in Estonia if you're going to need a bank account. They're not easy to get.

10 Years of Avalonia

grokys — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:53:44 +0000

Article URL: https://avaloniaui.net/Blog/10-years-of-avalonia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38529314

Points: 2

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