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- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
I’m surprised this wasn’t already the case, how did patreon get an exception in the first place? I don’t know anything about how apple billing with patreon works but the way this sounds is that patreon’s “Legacy Billing” somehow allows creators to get around the 30% fee that is normally standard to anything on apple, and the means to enable/disable this feature is entirely in the hands of individual creators rather than patreon or apple, weird.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 2 weeks ago:
Unsupported typically just means they wont provide (technical) support if/when it breaks.
- Comment on Man Granted Sole Custody of Toddlers Born of Rape of His Client! 3 weeks ago:
Client makes it sound like they provided the rape as a service.
“Rapist granted custody of child” is much more clear and to the point.
- Comment on Man Granted Sole Custody of Toddlers Born of Rape of His Client! 3 weeks ago:
“Client” sure seems like an odd word choice here.
- Comment on Stack Overflow in freefall: 78 percent drop in number of questions 4 weeks ago:
What are the odds the classic “expertsexchange” ends up out lasting stack exchange?
- Comment on Rockstar still hasn't offered a convincing reason for firing over 30 GTA 6 developers 4 weeks ago:
I know why, its this one really cool trick for increasing shareholder value. Give it another quarter and that line will be going up up up!
- Comment on Introducing Hypermind: A fully decentralized, P2P, high-availability solution to a problem that doesn't exist. 4 weeks ago:
This is awesome! I’m now using the swarm to control my living room lights.
- Comment on Backing up Spotify 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 2 months ago:
- Comment on Is self-hosting becoming too gatekept by power users? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 3 months 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 3 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 3 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? 4 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? 4 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 4 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? 4 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) 4 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 4 months ago:
Omg I remember when those bears tts videos where everywhere, simpler times.
- Comment on My wife wants a puppy 4 months ago:
Looks like You searched under housing
- Comment on What is a federated alternative to Wikipedia? 4 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) 5 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.
