Asetru

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I once heard a cook say that cooks who use salt mills aren't cooks.

I'm really tempted to say the same thing about programmers that use llms to code.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't give anyone access to your system or forward information from your system to outsiders, so no.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

How is Spotify supposed to "handle" anything here if the rights owner tells them that this is how it works? Like, not only didn't the first rights owner give them any means to stay updated with the rights, the new rights owner didn't notify them either that any rights were transferred to them before taking them to court. The only way to properly handle this would have been to tell them to get fucked, but that's not really an alternative if we're talking about the streaming rights for Eminem. This all seems like a setup to sue them... But who am I to tell? I'm just a jerk who read an article online. You know who should decide whether or not this was a scheme to drag Spotify to court? A judge.

Oh, wait, they did. Guess it's decided, then.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

To get to it click the 3 lines or 'more', then find 'feeds' and select that

Oh, wow... I recently opened fb again and was just irritated that it didn't show any posts by my friends. Turns out they weren't inactive, fb just doesn't show them by default. What a dumb waste of a platform... I mean, what is it good for if not that? Why would I watch an endless stream of ads and clickbait?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That list issue you mentioned really confused me, so here's what's in the article about it:

The judge also noted that Spotify's agreement with Kobalt did not include a database of the songs it could, and could not, stream.

"Kobalt’s primary stated reason for that approach is that the catalogue of a large administrator like Kobalt would be routinely changing, rendering any list almost immediately out of date," she wrote.

So...

  • It's not Spotify who's behaving weirdly here but the rights holder and
  • the judge doesn't just seem to be okay with it, but this is mentioned as another thing that added to the impression that the rights holder made it deliberately hard for Spotify to properly determine if it had the rights to stream a song.
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

Another point (which is a result of not refreshing the screen) which the article misses is power consumption. I can use my reader for several weeks without recharging.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

If the leftish faction won every time, politics as a whole would shift left. So unironically, yes, vote.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Are you saying "boo" or "boo-urbon"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

At least Spotify has a built in button to just select one of their speakers, so you can use that one to bypass their shitty app.

That said, I don't think you can select multiple speakers, which kind of defeats the purpose of a multi room sound system. So yeah, I haven't uninstalled their app and get annoyed as fuck every time I have to use it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Luca sucked

What's wrong with you, stupido?