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- Comment on Backing up Spotify 6 days ago:
I dont think its a huge leap to think artists would rather you be able to buy their music once and make a $ instead of stream it from a sevice that pays them next to nothing.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 6 days ago:
They tried to fuck me on a return once and after a month of it sitting in limbo i filed and won a dispute though my card provider instead.
Matter of fact i think it was over ram too, but it was over a year ago.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 6 days ago:
Well if you genuinely care about seeing artists get paid the ones who need it most tend to make their conent available already for free on bandcamp or similar services, and have physical albums and merch you can buy.
Last night i spent $10 on 3 albums on bandcamp, those artists each made more on that single purchase then they would from thousands of streams.
Spotify making less (or more) money does not trickle down to artists on a per stream basis.
Dont be a corporate bootlicker. Say it with me now, "If buying isnt owning Piracy is not stealing. "
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 week ago:
No, its so Sony, UMG, and all the other leeches can get paid even less.
I dont feel like editing the image but imagine the guy with most of the cookies in this picture was UMG and the artists are the guy on the right.
- Comment on Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox 1 week ago:
Ive been wary if firefox since wheneved it was they decided it was okay to shove “pocket” into the browser. Along with not including a built in adblocker out of the box (from the same people who practically invented the popup blocker), i just dont see mozilla as anything other than anti monopoly insurance for google, which they obviously dont need anymore.
Mozilla as a company has just been a decade of one poor decision after another adding more bloat and doing nothing meaningful to counter chromes near monopoly.
Vivaldi isnt perfect and brave has its baggage, but at least they actually include adblocking out of the box, a feature that just about everyone wants. Sure its easy enough to install an addon to firefox for it but the fact that you even have to do that should tell you everything you need to know about who mozilla is actually working for.
- Comment on Are there any sub-$200 handhelds out there that smoothly run Game Cube games? 1 week ago:
You should be able to run wind waker and a lot of other GC titles one something like anbernic RG405V which is around $150.
You will want to avoid the cheaper H700 based handhelds, i have a cubexx and it geta about 5fps in wind waker, but i didnt really expect it to work at all.
Android based devices tend to be better for gc from what ive seen. I dont know what the best option for under $200 is at the moment but there should be several around that price that will handle GC well.
- Comment on Widespread Cloudflare outage blamed on mysterious traffic spike 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 1 month ago:
I dont find needing to knowing how to use the most common way of setting up servicss is gate keepy.
If you dont want to learn things then it probably is better to just pay someone else to handle the setup i dont think there is anything wrong with doing it that way either.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Fair point, if the majority of your browisng is social media or phone apps i dont think you are the target audicence for this.
I know google hates it because even before the manifest v3 stuff it was banned by them, its probably a not insignificant part of WHY they forced the move to manifest v3.
With how anyltics work, just like with adblocking in general its a constant cat and mouse game, and that in itself also costs the advertisers money in having to keep up with the anti-advertising methods.
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Did you know there is a browser extension that does this for you while also blocking ads from view?
- Comment on Why aren't people harassing marketers? 1 month ago:
Let me tell you about my friend adnauseam
Even better then just harassment, it actively wastes advertiser money by messing with their click-through stats. The more people that run it the less valuable advertising online in general becomes.
Also i would say to a leaser degree Adblocking in general is why people arent more active about fighting back, since they work its enough for most folks to just avoid the problem rather then confront it head on.
- Comment on Why do I need a domain to access my Funkwhale library but not SyncThing? 1 month ago:
You can use a service like duckdns.org for free to get a (sub)domain that can be used with funkwhale.
- Comment on ‘Girl, Take Your Crazy Pills!’: Antidepressants Recast as a Hot Lifestyle Accessory 2 months ago:
No paywall: archive.is/vvLd4
I wish people could take the time to link archived versions of paywalled articles instead this so sites that try to force me to remove my internet condom get the loss in traffic they deserve… Guess ill do it myself
- Comment on Pornhub should make its own VPN 2 months ago:
They actually did at one point launch [VPNHub] (www.vpnhub.com) but its no longer active.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 2 months ago:
I pay for a tidal family account and im pretty sure im the only one actually downloading music, ill probably stop paying again once it hits $20/mo for the family plan but it was mainly a means to an end to get my other family members off Spotify.
Last i checked i was around 70k songs, my collection is also all shared on funkwhale and soulseek.
- Comment on How to manage docker compose apps? 2 months ago:
I use Dockge to manage everything.
- Comment on OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports 2 months ago:
By that logic, I could decide that movie studios have to opt out of me watching their movies for free, and if they don’t then it’s legal for me to pirate them. See how insane that sounds?
That sounds perfectly fine to me. This is now the official policy of all the serviced provided by gravitywell.xyz
- Comment on Selhosted Spotify Alternative for Closed Social Network? 3 months ago:
Funkwhale is the best option for replacing Spotify. It can be private or public and federated so you can follow users who want to share their playlists and such.
Navidrome is another good option although i don’t use it personally I hear nothing but good things.
Avoid subsonic directly but youll find funkwhale and other services support it as a protocol very well. Its just the subsonic server software itself and all of the forks seem to basically just be reinventing the same wheel over and over so they can charge for “premium” features.
- Comment on You Turn! - an app that gives you a co-op experience with a friend while emulating (my article) 3 months ago:
Is there ant way to try the app without having to use discord? I’d love to try this out but I cant do discord.
- Comment on I want to work at the Goldman Sachs 3 months ago:
Omg I remember when those bears tts videos where everywhere, simpler times.
- Comment on My wife wants a puppy 3 months ago:
Looks like You searched under housing
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 3 months ago:
I will preface this by saying I think it would be interesting to attempt but I think the end result would be disagreements of all kinds would lead to a lot of degeneration and splitting as we see with Lemmy and with how gab and parlor are in relation to mastodon and such.
There already are “forks” of wikipedia for conspiracy nuts and other sorts.
I think what could work though is similar to how some things are adding AP support that allows for following and sharing, and maybe commenting on articles, having those aspects be federated might not be so bad.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 3 months ago:
yes most chromebooks if you own them you do what you want because google knows even if they did lock them down more someone out there would be waiting with a soldering iron to figure out how to mod them into running other things. But thats not the same thing as a company that buys devices for their employees and doesnt give said employees permission to open them (without risking their job anyway). The point being, the “demand” for such systems is already mostly met, normal PC users/ gamers wouldnt actually buy a product like that, because if they did it would just be a “Console”. You couldnt force it on users because there isn’t a monopoly of PCs like there is with phones or game consoles
Actually I should have said in my original post, Game Consoles also qualify, because the PS4/5 Xbox whatever, the last 2 generations they’re literally just locked down PCs with very specific hardware.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 3 months ago:
Such pcs already exist and are used by buinesses and schools all over… Mostly chromebooks and i suppose apple also fits that criteria.
But it would be very hard to stop a determined hacker who has physical access to a device and doesnt mind voiding any warranties or user agreements.
- Comment on How OnlyFans Piracy Is Ruining the Internet for Everyone | Innocent sites are being delisted from Google because of copyright takedown requests against rampant OnlyFans piracy. 3 months ago:
Yeah but really does that even matter when the top results are just ads anyway? The problem is advertising has taken over search engines and now AI makes it even less likely people “searching” for things will even bother to click off of the search website.
DMCA takedown abuse isn’t anything new, this article seems like it was just due to 404 media having to deal with it, onlyfans is tangentially related and clearly just used in the headline for clickbait purposes… I really expected better of 404 media, The issue is a valid and increasingly worse one, it shouldnt need a clickbait headline. “DMCA Automation is ruining the internet” or something to that effect would have been a lot better.
This whole thing is also a scam on content creators, people arent pirating content by searching for it on google, they’re finding out about websites by talking to people on discord (which itself is not searchable of course) and other such services. Anyone paying for these kind of takedown services is getting taken for a ride.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 3 months ago:
Oh interesting! Thank you.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 3 months ago:
Thanks but i meant the site in the original post cheapskatesguide.org/…/debian-netinstall-waf.html
It says
403 Error
Your IP address has been blocked. This MAY be because you have made yourself look like a robot by using an unknown VPN or Tor exit node.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 3 months ago:
I just wish i could read it, it seems to block based on my IP which isn’t really a good way to identify bots.
- Comment on How to Build a Powerful Reverse Proxy Firewall for Blocking the Evil Web-Scraping Robot Hordes from Hell 3 months ago:
Well it cant be that good becauase it thinks im a bot.
Anubis works pretty well for me so far in blocking clankers.
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 months ago:
Last time i checked “states rights” didn’t mean the right to impose your laws on people or businesses running out of other states.
