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- Comment on xkcd #2952: Routine Maintenance 1 day ago:
Uhm, it’s hosted at xkcd and op put in the link, too. It absolutely is.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
Spotify isn’t the only service currently.
Like I said in my op: it’s good service for the consumer. It might not be if enshittification ensues.
But compared to video streaming, it’s awesome.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
I was referring to the sharding that happened with video streaming services. It used to be Netflix had mostly everything, in the start, similar to Spotify. Now there are services per publisher that contain their own catalogues.
Fuck. That.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
I’m not familiar with the free tier, but if you don’t pay anything, I think ads are fine.
Paying and seeing ads is wrong on the other hand.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
You’d be correct
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
Not sure what the relevance of this comment was, considering what I said
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
Not sure about the ads? If you mean when the app notifies you about live gigs etc. then yeah, that’s shittification. Luckily it doesn’t happen on my desk or car, but I wish it didn’t sometimes appear on my phone. That’s the one thing that might push me to add music to my video streaming arr stack.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
None of these have good app support compared to Spotify, sadly. Not supported by my car, nor my Linux desktop, or home speakers.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
I mean, Spotify is a great service for the consumer. One reasonable monthly fee for most of the music in the world.
If a similar video streaming service existed for 40€/month, I’d pay for it in a heartbeat.
We’re all aware of the issues it created for the artists, and I’d be willing to double the fee if that money directly went to the artists, but this is where the capitalist model fails, as that won’t maximize the profits for shareholders.
If we ever come up with a way to fix the underlying greed models that come with publicly traded companies, that would be great.
As it stands, it is what it is, but I’m glad we have this, instead of a “different Spotify per music publisher”.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
The PS5, and yeah still unreleased, but already driving prototypes out in the wild. They are using the companys tech mentioned in the article and hopefully we’ll see widespread adoption after testing.
I’m usually sceptic, but for once these new battery inventions are actually already implemented, and not just on paper or in a lab.
- Comment on Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants 1 month ago:
Polestar has already equipped vehicles with this tech.
- Comment on Bitwarden has launched a new authenticator app 1 month ago:
I’m in the same boat. I’m a paid Bitwarden user but I’d like to keep 2fa and passwords separated.
If no alternative soon, i’ll just bite the bullet and put everything in bitwarden (except itself, ofc)
- Comment on UK has worst rate of child alcohol consumption in world, report finds 2 months ago:
I’d bet on the French, or Finnish
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 2 months ago:
This place has enough autistic people who only see black and white. Luckily it’s not a game and the points don’t matter. 😄
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 2 months ago:
There’s a system over at Nova Discord where we reply to polls about the new features, we’re basically guinea pigs trying out stuff Branch is going to push out via their deals with OEMs. That’s how I’ve understood it.
There is no bytes being sent out with the beta, and replying in Discord is voluntary, obviously.
- Comment on PSA: Nova Launcher has been owned by analytics company Branch since 2022 2 months ago:
Making guesses when you don’t have any actual information makes you look like a fool.
- Comment on Australian prime minister labels Elon Musk ‘an arrogant billionaire who thinks he is above the law’ 2 months ago:
While I dislike Elon as much as anyone, having one country dictate what content is ok for ALL countries is an insane notion on itself.
Some of us can still remember Australia banning small breasts in porn, but at least they didn’t order every service to remove those globally “just because”.
- Comment on Clone a transit pass to my phone 2 months ago:
In theory, NFC cloning: getsafeandsound.com/blog/rfid-cloning/
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You could have read what the article was about, though.
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
I guess I’ll go the GDPR route in this case
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 4 months ago:
So what’s the best way to scrub your reddit comments and posts?
- Comment on Tekken 8 players divided as devs add “Tekken Shop” with microtransactions 4 months ago:
Adding shit to a game with a patch, post purchase, doesn’t require you to partake. While I hate MTX as much as anyone, you aren’t required to buy anything. Sure, this is enshittification, but you can avoid that buy buying games that aren’t “always online”.
- Comment on He tried his best, just couldn't succeed 4 months ago:
Pick a better instance
- Comment on Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode disclaimer to admit it is tracking users 5 months ago:
private browsing term appears in desktop and Android. Apple also uses the term.
- Comment on YouTube demonetizes public domain 'Steamboat Willie' video after copyright claim 5 months ago:
Could you elaborate as to why you feel that a mainstream platform should exist which doesn’t care if the content uploaded to it is stolen?
I get DMCA trolling, and that fucking sucks, but copyrights are important for the artists and creators trying to make a living from making content.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 5 months ago:
Point: regardless of the HOW it was made, the process of figuring if it infringes on something is the same. It’s still not always easy and due to the shittyness of current IP laws, even long time professional artists sometimes make mistakes.
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 5 months ago:
If only there was some way to find out prior to selling stuff as if you made it. If only. Darn it!
- Comment on Japan determines copyright doesn't apply to LLM/ML training data 5 months ago:
The same way you can tell if you repainted a Banksy yourself. If you don’t realize, and monetize, then you are liable for a copyright lawsuit regardless of the wat you created the piece in question.
- Comment on Microsoft keeps shooting itself in the foot with Edge 5 months ago:
The whole “article” was downright crap.
- Comment on Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net. 6 months ago:
Generally, yes. Perhaps unpopularly, I don’t need to decide about suddenly having meta content in Lemmy. I expect that’s not ever gonna happen.