Perplexity's firing back assumes website owners distinguish between automated scraping and on-demand scraping.
I don't think most people make that distinction.
And that falls in line perfectly with the typical "assumption of access" all of these "AI" companies make.
Same. I'd rather be alerted because something expected didn't happen, not silence because something failed so hard it didn't even send an alert.
Idk about the others but in VRChat it's animes and furries who don't compress/resize textures and same with worlds.
At least VRC lets you define max cache size and it generally respects it.
I think the first time I saw this meme was an edit posted on Chubbyemu's channel where she says "I don't know what -emia means".
I've seen multiple emulator devs frustrated with how demanding the project itself is, but moreso toxic behavior from the lead developer towards emulator devs and users alike. Can't handle any kind of even constructive criticism worth a damn and when people understandably are frustrated by him lashing out he then turns it back around to say they're out to get him.
Agreed really, but less about the RetroArch part and more just in general with the way this person in particular is. In my mind, if you're not ready to be able to turn the project over to the community to maintain instead of yourself because you're as much of a controlling prick as this guy, then you should never make it even source-available and should just keep it private source.
I'm getting the same vibes as when I spike taxes in Sim City for Palm OS just before the year rolls over and then drop it back after.
In his defense, a LOT of emulator maintainers have this sentiment about RetroArch, so I can't fault him too much for that one in particular.
I do get the sense this is more common with emulators in general.
Weird how the chart just prioritizes other corporations and only shows true open-source or self-hosted solutions when there are no non-US options realistically. Hmm.
It does! I have my bedroom one controlled through it and even showing up as a play target for Spotify Connect. I've got my speakers I was plugging into my phone to play music before, or into a Raspi briefly, plugged into the 3.5mm jack on that one.
My kitchen one I just leave as-is. I DID modify the ESPHome firmware on each, extending to add an OLED (I think) clock display that also shows remaining time for timers in numbers. I do really like the LED ring animation for timers built-in though, it's pretty slick!
I ended up picking up two of the Home Assistant Voice PE devices and I've been fairly happy with them. I even extended their firmware so I have a clock display on each with one being my bedroom alarm clock even. But even out of the box functionality, as long as you can either run faster-whisper on Home Assistant (or another box), or don't mind their lighter device-control-only route, is totally solid.
Plus music streaming to them (with an external speaker attached via the 3.5mm jack) is pretty good!
It's satire; all of brands.town is satire.