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- Comment on I prefer wet humor 4 days ago:
And water is wet, except it is not.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
Dude, you are the one obfuscating.
Qobuz and Deezer are French, Tidal was originally Norwegian, Spotify was originally Swedish and record companies are from all over the world.
If record companies make exclusive deals with platforms for some releases and pull distribution for others, then blaming the streaming services excluded is just plain fucking stupid.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
That’s not up to the streaming service but the record company.
Personally I switched from Tidal to Qobuz this year and I like it much better.
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 1 week ago:
Yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
I get banned left and right for making fun of nazis and reminding people that every day is punch a nazi day.
The nazis are such fragile snowflakes they can’t take some banter and the mods are so afraid that someone is offended that they take the side of weeping self identifying nazis that are backing murder en masse, which is apparently all okay because it’s just opinions.
- Comment on New ‘negative light’ technology hides data transfers in plain sight 1 week ago:
I think “finance” is even more obviously bullshit.
- Comment on 'Icky and heartbreaking': The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom 1 week ago:
‘Icky and heartbreaking’: The $2 per hour worker behind the OnlyFans boom
4 days ago Chris VallanceSenior technology reporter
A Philippines-based woman has described how “heartbreaking” it is to get less than $2 per hour pretending to be much better paid OnlyFans models in online chats.
The platform works by linking creators of explicit content to users, who pay a subscription to access their material and chat online.
However, while high-profile creators can earn large sums of money, the job of interacting with fans - and attempting to sell them images and videos - is often done by low-paid people, employed by third parties, such as the person the BBC spoke to.
A union representing such workers - known as “chatters” - told BBC News it was concerned about the “largely unregulated nature of this type of online work”.
OnlyFans, which generated $7.2bn (£5.3bn) revenue in 2024, declined to comment but its terms of service state that its business relationship is solely with the content creator.
‘It’s really not pleasant’
The BBC is not naming the woman it spoke to in order to protect her identity.
Employed by an agency used by the model she was pretending to be, she says she first took up this type of work to support her family during a period of lower income, earning under $2 per hour and working an 8hr shift five days a week.
She would be set targets to earn the model hundreds of dollars worth of sales of pictures and videos during her shift.
The most popular creators on the platform claim to earn millions of dollars per month.
A more recent period of chatting work with a new agency offered improved conditions and pay, though still less than $4 an hour.
She said she knew the work would involve explicit content - but even so “sexting” was unpleasant.
“It’s kind of icky when you think about it, because you’ll have to do sexting a lot of times, like, several times in an hour because, you know, you’ll be talking to several fans all at once”.
She said the people she chatted to often seemed “really nice” but were obviously lonely, making the whole process feel sad, especially as she was not the person she was pretending to be.
That dishonesty troubled her, she said,
“Technically, I’m scamming them, because I’ll be sending all those photos and videos to them, and I’m just after the sale,” she said
Indeed the use of chatters has lead to legal cases against OnlyFans and the agencies who employ them, by users and law firms who feel the practice is deceptive. So far none have succeeded.
Some fans the chatter said would ask for “really weird, kinks or fetishes” which she could generally tolerate - but not always.
“There are days where I feel like, ‘what the hell am I doing here?’ because there are days that it would really take its toll on you”.
Asked if she felt exploited, she described accepting an under two dollars an hour pay rate as “not her finest hour”.
“It’s really not pleasant, you know? You’re going to question yourself. Your morality, even, and even your conscience,” she told the BBC.
“It’s really kind of heart-breaking, especially knowing that the agency is getting way more,” she added.
The chatter also described concerns about potential legal risk in taking on the work, given relatively tough anti-pornography laws in the Philippines.
The BPO Industry Employees’ Network or BIEN is an independent union representing workers in the outsourced business process jobs in the Philippines.
Mylene Cabalona, its president, told the BBC that “while the Philippines does have relatively strict laws regarding pornography, our main concern as a union is the largely unregulated nature of this type of online work”.
This raised, she said, serious concerns about workers’ exposure to “potentially egregious or harmful content, as well as a lack of clear guidelines on safety, accountability, and worker protection”.
But there were also advantages to outsourced digital jobs, including chatting, which could, Cabalona said, allow workers to earn income from home, while supporting clients or platforms abroad.
“These jobs can also offer higher potential income compared to some local entry-level jobs and provide opportunities to develop skills in digital work,” she noted.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
One of them has spray malt added that isn’t consumed by saccharomyces and the other was pitched with brett at SG of 1.010. I want the funk to give notes and texture and not to be the dominant flavour.
My homebrewing is very much experimental and process oriented rather than purist or specific results so we’ll see and regardless it will be a learning experience.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Currently a couple of different apple based ciders in a second fermentation for residual complex sugars with brettanomyces. I’m trying out ciders with saison/farmhouse/brown beer style of funky funk without the lactic acid acid component.
- Comment on They mods dont want you to know. 2 weeks ago:
I hear FidoNet whispering in modem noises.
- Comment on 'Consider a system with no DRAM' replaced by a 'recycling fiber loop': John Carmack envisages bold future to avoid AI-driven RAM crisis 2 weeks ago:
Throw in some AI and a Blockchain and you’ll get the cryptobros hooked. Then use it to store NFTs.
- Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak. 2 weeks ago:
Oh, I see. It has a built in Nintendo emulator, that’s how it works.
- Comment on Cable and movie rentals was probably the optimal amount of digital media for a functional society. Get rid of commercials and that was probably peak. 2 weeks ago:
Games on a DVD player?
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- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 3 weeks ago:
People that do shite themselves are the worst.
- Comment on I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age 3 weeks ago:
As a Texan oil baroness I feel confident with myself being known to the algorithm and it tracking my habits of dropping snakes into police stations, as is our tradition as reminder to not be treaded upon.
- Comment on LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy 3 weeks ago:
As true as my name is Brenda and my last name is also Brenda. And so is my husband, Brenda. It is a hot day in Texas America today, I’m going to grill one of our dogs for dinner. It is a republican tradition, hence the name Hot Dogs and the playful name Wieners, named after wiener dogs.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
Ok, my friend. Go outside for a walk and enjoy the weather and let that noggin have a rest from thinking so much.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
Dude, why are you telling me this? I have zero interest in your porn preferences. Are you intersted in mine? Do you need to justify that you are a good person AND enjoy porn? Please, there are not questions that I want answers to. These are questions for yourself to contemplate.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
The gooners are downvoting the dude that asked the question of why the very news about this is being downvoted.
This is a perfect example of a knee jerk reaction from the gooners.
By the way, personally I get sceptical of anyone that feels the need to clarify that they don’t watch kiddy porn. Shouldn’t that ring some kind of bell?
- Comment on Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews 3 weeks ago:
TL;dr New Samsung phone syncs 280GB of photos to OneDrive that in turn fills the laptop storage . At some point something has become corrupted with attempting to log in and change password when the laptop disk is full.
- Comment on MULTIVERSE has defederated fedinsfw.app for hosting child pornography 3 weeks ago:
Happens every time gooners are afraid their porn will be limited.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 weeks ago:
I get what you’re saying. Back then I was sysadmin and we were running NT4 just fine with remote updates and without any unapproved software and fuck me if it would be a problem that Jeanette (57) in economy would be happy to have her grandchild for desktop backdrop while crunching numbers all day long. These are the small things that make people’s lives worthwhile in the workplace. My opinion is that it’s worth it and if it is not then the company isn’t worth it.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 weeks ago:
Back 25 years ago the company I worked for was looking into changing the computers for thin clients, then powered by JAVA, aaand of course dynamic workplaces that gets reinvented every seven years or so.
In the end they decided not to because people wanted to feel that they had their desk with their computer and not a floating office limbo as daily reminder that they are replaceable labour.
But most of all, their stationary computer had a CD ROM so they could listen to their own music while working.
- Comment on Open source calculator firmware DB48X forbids CA/CO use due to age verification 4 weeks ago:
Reading the title my first thought was that they require age verification to clear memory and sum.
- Comment on What do you think of Paramount merging with Warner Bros. Discovery to create a new media company? 4 weeks ago:
I think that the top tier actors that are making statements on social media or when accepting their awards should put their money where their mouth is and work with smaller independent companies that can make this an opportunity to grow.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 4 weeks ago:
Can a reasonable person believe regardless of evidence in ghosts, in deities and gods, in folklore, in aliens, in superstition, in the importance of themselves, in their culture or nation, in their position in society and their gender roles, in mums cooking being better, in bad luck treating them unfairly, in the importance of their habits and rituals, in sticking to how they’ve always done it, in any number of irrational things that they hold close to heart?
I’d say apparently they can. People are not logic processors. People are people.
- Comment on Bcachefs creator claims his custom LLM is 'fully conscious' 4 weeks ago:
Oh boy. I was wondering the other day how Bcachefs is progressing but a casual search didn’t hit anything in the nerd news. A quick browse on the dev page didn’t really inspire looking further either. I guess this is why and that this is the end of Bcachefs then.
- Comment on User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller 4 weeks ago:
The bigger concern should be that this is how badly coded and how little concern there is about security there is with smart appliances in people’s homes.
Working as a consultant and seeing the code that runs online services made me realize how fucked up everything is and to accept that nobody knows or cares about what they are doing with other people’s integrity. AI in coding is barely making a dent in it.