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- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 6 days ago:
And their CEO thinks music is a product that costs next to nothing to make so it’s okay to screw artists over for his billionaire pay check.
Fuck Spotify. Tell everybody you know to use alternatives. Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer…
- Comment on What if LGBT adopts a white and grey striped flag to replace the rainbow? Then Florida would have to abolish crosswalks entirely. 1 week ago:
Isn’t black and white stripes they ally denominator already?
- Comment on What if this is a coma dream. 1 week ago:
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t call it dumb but maybe expecting too much from people now that convenience and hand holding is expected at all times.
*Canned laughter that fades into awkward reflective silence.*
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
It was a sarcasm.
- Comment on Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwed - Louis Rossmann 2 weeks ago:
We the people that want a finished product with distribution and a good eco system from day zero. It must be next gen hardware and be priced more than competitively.
- Comment on YSK 4get is a privacy respecting proxy search engine that can be self hosted 2 weeks ago:
I get a new banner every time I reload so it might be unrelated to the project.
But it’s been a thing with a lot of open source software the last years to have weird anime and hentai bullshit in them and asking the developers to to think twice renders a wall of horny geeks calling names.
- Comment on A look at search engines with their own indexes 2 weeks ago:
SearXNG is a meta search entirely reliant on other services.
- Comment on Why do narcissists have such fragile egos? 2 weeks ago:
Grey rocking is the best strategy to get rid of all annoying people. Do not engage, do not give them any fuel, do not give them any satisfaction. Be as boring and unexciting as you can possibly be until they lose interest in you.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 weeks ago:
Heavy Metal Parking Lot:
- Comment on Cornell's world-first 'microwave brain' computes differently 3 weeks ago:
I found some more articles that have more substance. It seems to me that it is a programmable device that is an analogue recreation of digital neural network design with the benefits of real time processing of data streams without conversion or sampling and doing it at lower power consumption that current digital technology.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/…/250814081937.htm
scienceblog.com/scientists-build-first-microwave-…
Tech news seem latch on to the words parallel and wireless because the chip operates with microwaves in a mesh¹ processing configuration but confuse what it means in this context.
¹ or “mush”, as quoted by the researches themselves
- Comment on My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse 4 weeks ago:
Security packed and system updates is one thing.
The constant reorganization of functions and apps and layouts and compatibility is a very different one.
It is a problem that the operating system is controlled by the largest apps and service company that make money from user data in various forms and keep pushing their business model in every device core operations.
And fuck fuck fuck that Google keeps trying to force Gemeni in every update. Let me keep using Google Assistant and stop making it worse by stripping out functionality or replacing shortcuts to Gemeni. Gemeni can still not do the very few things I want my voice assistant to do, namely set alarms and play music on whatever music streaming service I prefer to use.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Go on the date, have fun, spend dad’s money. When he asks, tell him it was great and she spent all night pegging you in the arse and her side dude joined in. Then ask him for more money so you can do drugs together.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 5 weeks ago:
The YouTube app on my old tablet has been breaking on ads recently. First it stopped playing and then it wouldn’t even resume. Their own app. On playing ads. No ad blockers. Fuck you I’m not paying premium.
- Comment on Outsider art implies the existence of insider art 5 weeks ago:
Well, the term “outsider art” refers to people disconnected from the art scene, artistic education or art circuits. People that produce output that may be considered artistic but often for other reasons than to produce art, like channeling and manifesting mental or emotional turmoil or trauma. This is also why it is problematic to display works by “outside artists” in art contexts because they are not necessarily produced to be seen, analysed out judged by anybody.
So yes, “insider art” is really all art and crafts that work within a tradition, any sort of context, by people that are aware of their activities as artists, regardless they are professionals or hobbyists.
I’m not sure what you’re going for here or if it is just a playful game with words.
- Comment on Trump wanted a US-made iPhone. Apple gave him a gold statue. 5 weeks ago:
It’s the other way around. Apple gave Trump a golden statue so he can kill off all their competitors. They no longer have to compete with their branding or products. It’s not smart, it’s just lazy, greedy and against any shred of decency. It’s not even capitalism, it’s plain corruption and proudly doing it in the open.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 month ago:
Gamers can be the most entitled demanding assholes. Arch users can be the most annoying arrogant and conceited people to exist online.
I wouldn’t dare imagine dealing with the unholy mix of arch gamers min-maxing social skills for inferiority complex.
I’d rather drop support too.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
Thanks! Do you know if it possible to run Qobuz headless or in a docker container or some of the sort? I did some searching but couldn’t find anything.
- Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. 1 month ago:
I’ve been on Tidal for some time but noticed that Qobuz has released a connect service that seems to work like Sp*tify Connect so that you can remote control one instance from another. Like, playing music on computer connected to amp can be controlled through the phone.
I’d appreciate if somebody using Qobuz could confirm?
- Comment on Peter Thiel Just Accidentally Made a Chilling Admission. Five Decades Ago, One Man Saw It Coming. 1 month ago:
This breed of trans humanists are simple garbage because they are not about trans humanism - they are about staying oligarchs forever.
Let them upload themselves into an iridium and unobtainum machine with nuclear fusion batteries and then we drop it into the Mariana Trench and let them watch the spectacle from inside.
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- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 1 month ago:
Idk about that case, but here all sidewalk patio tables are banned unless you get a permit, and that permit decides if there is room for pedestrians to pass the tables.
- Comment on Here's what a Brazilian restaurant owner did after city hall banned sidewalk patio tables 1 month ago:
It’s not stupid if it blocks pedestrians from using the sidewalk. I mean, imagine putting them tables all across the road for cars… I think this is a creative and good solution for everybody.
- Comment on Is it just my area or has this been an insanely humid summer? 1 month ago:
Not here in Sweden. We have warnings and drought in several areas of the country because there has been less sky water than usual.
- Comment on What's the equivalent of rose coloured glasses for always seeing something in a negative perspective? 1 month ago:
People that call themselves “realist”-glasses.
- Comment on Curiosity has not killed any Martian cats 2 months ago:
Something something misinterpretation of Schroedinger’s box.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 months ago:
There are terrible people everywhere and in particular everywhere online.
This is why I would never be bothered moderating and I am reluctant to release anything to the public of what I do for my own enjoyment. Cheers to moderators and people that post their art and comics and other stuff online.
- Comment on Tesseract is shutting down 2 months ago:
Dude, this is exactly what you are doing. You have wandered into the fediverse that welcomes everybody and you are upset that not everybody agrees with you on everything and that justifies you being a dick. You are exactly the thing you are hating on in your head canon self righteous hero narrative.
Take this moment to reflect on your first instinctual mental response. Is it “but that’s because I’m right”? Think about this and what it implies.
- Comment on Musk's AI firm deletes posts after chatbot praises Hitler 2 months ago:
White supremacist has his people skew the AI chat bot bias from factual to fit his reality tunnel and now it is a nazi bot.
Shocker, isn’t it.
- Comment on What's up with the sudden increase in AI slop? 2 months ago:
I’m thinking it’s like ads. Some people see them, read them, click the links. Others recognize by glance and filter them out without bothering to process.
Social media, and internet in general, has always been a wild mix of top notch content and bottom of the barrel garbage sharing screen estate.
