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- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Its actually also a media problem. For example, the largest Tiktok account of a german politician belongs to Maximilian Krah, of the far right party AFD. Just yesterday it was revealed that his personal assistant is actually a Chinese spy. Krah himself voiced a lot of pro-Chinese opinions before, like being pro annexation of Taiwan and denying the genocide on the uigyurs.
This begs the question if his Tiktok popularity is based on a non-biased algorithm or if the CCP made a deal with him, boosting his Tiktok popularity in exchange for being pro-China.
- Comment on Germany faces genocide case over Israel weapon sales 7 months ago:
Its not even ruled that Israels actions constitute a genocide. This is completely ridiculous.
- Comment on Sacré Bleu! Cheese enthusiasts are mourning the possible extinction of brie cheese 8 months ago:
Oh no. Brie won’t be white anymore, but orange, blueish or grey. It will taste exactly the same, but the color will slightly change. Guess its time to eat so much Brie that I will not want to eat it anymore any later.
- Comment on USB hubs, printers, Java, and more seemingly broken by macOS 14.4 update 8 months ago:
As someone using android/windows in private life and MacOS for work, I can confirm. As long as its Apple, it works. But as soon as you use any third party software or hardware, its completly bugged.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
Thats what I meant with ‘if security gets really low, you are willing to sacrifice a lot of freedom’
My major complaint is, that he doesnt have a plan for the time after they will eventually get out of prison.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
Talk to families of unjustified imprisoned people or to the people itself. His ‘fixing’ was done by basically imprisoning everyone, which just happened to be close to any gang member. There where even cases where a mailman was imprisoned because he just happenend to deliver a parcel during a raid.
Yes, he fixed the gang problem for now. But at a high price – the loss of a fair justice system. He imprisoned 1.2 % of the total population in just 2 years.
I know that freedom vs security is a fine balance and once security suffers significantly, you are willing to give up quiet a lot of freedom. But since he just imprisoned everyone and their relatives, its only a temporary fix – unless he wants to imprison them for life.
- Comment on Macron 8 months ago:
Did he do so?
The last I heard was, that he wasn’t ruling out sending ground troops to Ukraine – which is what UK is already doing. Mind, that ground troops aren’t soldiers per se, but mostly technical personell supporting the usage of weapons, for example repairing equipment and helping with the programming of missiles.
But to be honest, I don’t follow french politics in detail.
- Comment on Poland, France and Germany vow to make Europe stronger as fears grow over Russia and Trump 9 months ago:
While I agree with you regarding basic military, advanced technology like nuclear weapons are only sustainable for the biggest countries – and even then they are taking out a huge part of the budget.
Building up a EU arsenal of nuclear weapons would be a smart choice.
- Comment on Report: Apple is testing foldable iPhones, having the same problems as everyone else 9 months ago:
Because they don’t sell.
- Comment on AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports 9 months ago:
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Githubs Autopilot
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ChatGPT for larger coding tasks (its better at explaining what it does)
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Deepl.com/write for proofreading and better texts.
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- Comment on AI Companies Lose $190 Billion After Dismal Financial Reports 9 months ago:
Of course its a hype right now. But at the same time AI improved my daily working live in the past year so much! I can outsource a lot of annoying tasks to AI and focus on the more creative tasks and everything strategic.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Also the source is a well known source of fake news, controlled by Qatar, owned by a Palestinian. Definitely don’t trust it, until a reliable source confirms this.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
MEE is anything, but ‘reputable’. Its a Hamas outlet financed by Qatar, run by a Palestinian, with a vast history of spreading fakenews. Just read the Wikipedia entry to get a glimpse.
- Comment on Hertz Is Selling 20,000 Used EVs Due To High Repair Costs 10 months ago:
Pretty sure they are #1 due to their touchscreen focus. Its incredibly hard to operate a Tesla safely.
- Comment on ‘Front page of the internet’: how social media’s biggest user protest rocked Reddit 10 months ago:
The main thing I notice, is how shitty the app is. Thats still my main complaint.
- Comment on What Happens When Facebook Heats Your Home 11 months ago:
Germany has this concept implemented in a lot of places, too.
Ironically this results in some problems now. For example the city Salzgitter (100k inhabitants) is heated by the local steel plant – which currently transitions towards green steel. Their transition also leads to a shut down of their blast furnaces, leaving the inhabitants of Salzgitter out of heating.
No idea what their plan is to replace it, though.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Even if you are starting out thousands streams is nothing. I have a few friends who have a band. Its really small, basically everyone who listens to them knows them personally. They have 20 monthly listeners, but almost all of their songs on their own have 1.000 yearly streams – because Spotify puts them randomly into their automatically generated playlists.
Meanwhile kicking all the ‘bands’ out with less than 1000 streams allows them to pay the rest more.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Which didn’t pay a cent to artists. It was basically pirating working in a greyzone.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Even the smallest artists are making more than 1000 streams yearly. The only ones they are hurting are AI generated songs.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
Spotify takes 30 %, too. The ‘one third’ in the headline is just rounding.
And the question should be if digital markets and platforms should take 30 % or not. Because every platform does so from Steam to Apple App Store to Spotify.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 11 months ago:
With less than 1000 streams per year.
This is solely to kick out the AI generated music, which is already taking a significant share of the payout from the musicians.
This change is not against smaller artists, but for them.
- Comment on Fury at COP28 climate summit after promise to "phase out" fossil fuels is removed from draft deal 11 months ago:
Between the start of the COP and now we were able to reduce the expected warming from 3.5 to 2.5 degrees. Claiming it was a giant waste of time completely neglects the complexity of getting 200 countries on the same page.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
So the only reasonable take is, that we don’t pay enough for consuming music, right? Because you have no label taking a cut and streaming services are not profitable themselves.
- Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year 11 months ago:
Spotify made this quarter the first time a profit since it existence. So if you think artists aren’t paid enough, its either of these three:
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We pay too little for consuming music.
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The record labels take a too big share.
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Spotify is really inefficient and could pay out more if they work more efficiently.
The only thing not possible is Spotify taking all the profit since they don’t make any.
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- Comment on He did though. 11 months ago:
Something doesn’t add up here since you can’t patent anything for decades.
- Comment on Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023 11 months ago:
Who cares for individual freedom as long as it isn’t you?
- Comment on Many Popular Censorship Circumvention Tools Deleted or Archived since November 2, 2023 11 months ago:
If you watch the guys over at hexbear and lemmy.ml thats a good thing because censorship is good, because it secures societal peace. I wonder how they explain that thousands of people use these tools then.
- Comment on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row | Canary Media 11 months ago:
But this is due to the industrialization and the resulting higher energy consumption.
- Comment on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row | Canary Media 11 months ago:
Thats correct. But I also do not understand what these graphs should show me and how this conflicts with the article?
- Comment on Nothing Phone builds a blue bubble iMessage bridge while Google and Apple fight over RCS 1 year ago:
Not only someone using iMessage but at the same time not using Signal or Whatsapp? Thats the first time I’ve heard of either of these two.