noodlejetski
@noodlejetski@lemm.ee
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 14 hours ago:
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 15 hours ago:
I’ve ditched Spotify last year when their app suddenly has started draining battery on my phone (and also because of them being so eager to give Rogan a platform). I’ve switched to Deezer, but I’ve ran into the same issue I’ve had with Spotify for a while - even if I download a playlist for offline usage, it’ll still try to connect to the internet, so if I was somewhere with poor reception, it’d get stuck on a spinning circle for a minute before giving up and showing me the songs I’ve wanted to play. I ended my Deezer subscription, rebuilt the library on my laptop, and just manually transfer files to my phone. I get instant access to my music with no delays, with music players that offer much better experience and aren’t a glorified Chrome tab on desktop, and if I really like an album, I’ll just straight up buy one. I listen to music a fucking lot (two years ago i was in top 0.2% of my country’s Spotify users), and according to some screenshots of my Spotify Wrapped, I’ve played my artists songs for 1200 minutes, which translates to 300-400 plays at best. given that, from what I’ve found online, 1000 plays gives artists 4 bucks, I could just buy two of their songs on Bandcamp and pirated the rest of their music, and they’ll still get more money in a year from me.
- Comment on Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose 3 days ago:
you’re replying to a verbatim quote from the article.
- Comment on Elon Musk reveals Tesla software-locked cheapest Model Y, offers 40-60 more miles of range 3 days ago:
Tesla section on XDA forums when
- Comment on Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner 3 days ago:
- Comment on Autonomous excavator constructs dry stone wall 4 days ago:
so how long until it’s revealed that it’s actually remotely controlled by underpaid contractors in India?
- Comment on Hey there gamers 5 days ago:
you’ll either get there, or to the Boston Molasses Disaster, so you’ll learn something cool either way.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
probably because they don’t want to draw Spotify’s attention by loudly announcing “HEY GUYS WE GIVE YOU SPOTIFY PREMIUM FEATURES FOR FREE”.
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 week ago:
during the great Mastodon migration in 2022 I saw someone post how they head to unlearn scrolling past every 6th post or so on their timeline, because that’s how the Twitter app was displaying the ads. I wish Microsoft the Very Bad and daydream about year of the Linux desktop, but something’s telling me people will get used to ads on Windows the same way.
- Comment on HOT SINGLE DINOS IN YOUR AREA 1 week ago:
oh my
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 week ago:
Gizmodo? 2018? Yikes.
it’s a summary of a paper posted here: recon.meddle.mobi/panoptispy/
in that same article is one from Vice, which backs up what I’ve been stating and assuming
do I get to say “Vice? 2018? Yikes.” now?
feel free to link more up-to-date research results.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 week ago:
gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-t…
this is the most recent one I know of.
you have to admit, that in my case at least, Occam’s Razor would definitely point you in a certain direction.
it points me in the direction of you either being in the demographic currently targeted by the ad provider, or you having been shown the ad before without noticing it, and only paying attention after talking about the topic, and experiencing frequency illusion afterwards.
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 1 week ago:
I’m not aware of any research that’s proven that phone are listening on conversations and serve ads based on that, just a bunch of anecdotal evidence. there has been some research a few years ago that proved the opposite, though.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 1 week ago:
I do have an account (and PixelDroid installed on my phone), but most of the accounts I’d follow there I’ve already got added to my Mastodon, so I don’t check it that often.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
it’s so good it sometimes even offers other people’s suggestions
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
it varies per keyboard. you can install third party keyboard apps that offer different dictionaries and autocorrect capabilities.
- Comment on Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time? 1 week ago:
No, because words that use repetition of the same series of letters requires a delay between each letter input
only if you were typing letter by letter instead of using the built-in dictionary.
- Comment on Are there any innovative platforms in the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
where’s the Fediverse part?
- Comment on Beansitive 1 week ago:
man, someone should just put that in the title
- Comment on Zuckerberg says Meta's Llama 3 is really good but no chatbot is sophisticated enough to be an 'existential' threat — yet 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Expanding Materialious to other platforms 3 weeks ago:
I used ProxiTok just yesterday, and it loaded the video fine.
- Comment on European court rules drug lord Pablo Escobar's name cannot be trademarked 3 weeks ago:
brb, opening a portapotty chain
- Comment on Professor meow meow 3 weeks ago:
Find and replace
a feature typewriters used in 1975 were famous for
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know about Starbucks or Big Organic Veggie, but Fairphone publishes annual reports on sustainability and life quality of their workers.
- Comment on Fairbuds are Fairphone’s proof that we really could make better tiny gadgets 4 weeks ago:
Overpriced.
their entire premise is making sure that people on the supply chain of their device are compensated adequately (hence the “Fair” in the name), which is why their products are more expensive than you’re used to.
- Comment on What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) 4 weeks ago:
I guess it’s regional or something? I had the entire article show up.
- Comment on What web services do you subscribe to? 4 weeks ago:
Mullvad, Bitwarden, Tuta.
- Comment on Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser 5 weeks ago:
If you think of LLMs as a thing to replace search bars
I don’t.
- Comment on Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks 1 month ago:
good.