desmosthenes
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world
pragmatic, multidisciplinary creative & full stack dev. I tweet & make art, dev, design, politics; play path of exile. https://marko.tech
- Comment on Google Confirms Non-ADB APK Installs Will Require Developer Registration 2 days ago:
fuck google for spyware google play services and severe integration of them into android thiugh ^^
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 4 days ago:
walk fast, carry stickers
- Comment on Big Brother just got an upgrade. Starting December, Amazon’s Ring cameras will scan and recognize faces. Don’t want to be in their database? Too bad — walk past a Ring and your face can be stored... 4 days ago:
that’d be a nope from me
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 4 days ago:
<3 graphic designers unite
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 5 days ago:
^ this
- Comment on Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update 6 days ago:
fan subs are best
- Comment on In Praise of RSS and Controlled Feeds of Information 6 days ago:
I ended up building my own ingestor and discovery (finds RSS feeds ancross the web, adds it to a queue for me to review) application with over 15k sources and always growing. I serve the content through a public front end if anyone is interested: startyparty.dev - all articles link out to their sources. all media plays in the app.
- Comment on ICEBlock Owner After Apple Removes App: ‘We Are Determined to Fight This’ 1 week ago:
on google based phones if using google services, the product is you
- Comment on Musk becomes first person to hit $500 billion net worth, Forbes list shows 1 week ago:
sycophants riding them coat tails; enablers scratching each others backs in a small circle
- Comment on Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before" 1 week ago:
they gotta make that 55b back now
- Comment on Scientists Studied the Genes of a Woman Who Lived 117 Years. Here's What They Learned 1 week ago:
“three servings of yogurt she reportedly ate every day”
- Comment on Regulating AI hastens the Antichrist, says Palantir’s Peter Thiel 1 week ago:
man’s paid for the antichrist to be president
- Comment on It's official: EA is going private. 1 week ago:
they don’t make good games anymore anyway
- Comment on Memecoins Are Coming to the Stock Market 2 weeks ago:
fall of democracy; thanks crypto ai bros
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
- www.gutenberg.org
- openlibrary.org
- www.planetebook.com
- archive.org
- www.smashwords.com
- books.google.com
- www.freetechbooks.com
- www.getfreebooks.com
- www.openculture.com/free_ebooks
- www.goodreads.com
- www.oreilly.com (trial)
- annas-archive.org
- pdfcoffee.com
- singlelogin.re
- www.ereaderiq.com/freebies/
- www.bookbub.com/ebook-deals/free-ebooks
- digilibraries.com
- www.overdrive.com
- manybooks.net
there’s so many others and of course torrents
- Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books 2 weeks ago:
calibre ftw always and forever
- Comment on Nearly 3 in 5 American workers say they're behind on retirement savings. The other two are working until they drop dead 2 weeks ago:
yup
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X calls for delay in Australia’s child social media ban citing ‘serious concerns’ about policy’s lawfulness 2 weeks ago:
same reason tich folk buy and run media and press companies
- Comment on YSK How to opt out of LinkedIn using your profile to train generative AI 2 weeks ago:
my hero
- Comment on Billy from the retro gaming YouTube channel The Game Chasers has passed away 3 weeks ago:
RIP :(
- Comment on Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
hell no
- Comment on [DISC] Berserk - Ch. 383 - Anadi-avidya 3 weeks ago:
holy shittttttt
- Comment on Farewell to the fediverse 3 weeks ago:
to be honest and frank RSS covers most case uses of content distribution; one requires pull the other push. not sure every blog really needs push and reply integration for their occasional posts to be part of a more centralized solution
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 4 weeks ago:
on spotify itself
- Comment on RFK Jr. Blames violent video games for Mass Shootings. 4 weeks ago:
it’s guns.
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 4 weeks ago:
sued into oblivion and they didn’t want to sell out the business; more like being forced into marriage with your rapist
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 4 weeks ago:
spot on
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 4 weeks ago:
it was literally the same exact business model as youtube. the big four labels were suing youtube at the same time for the same reason as grooveshark. then google bought youtube and they “settled” - grooveshark got sued into oblivion and took a dear friend from me (suicide)
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 4 weeks ago:
hard pass
- Comment on US supreme court to decide on legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs 4 weeks ago:
prediction is 6-3 whatever trump wants