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But hey to add my two cents: I think that fear is marketable, so women are over fed on paranoia.

This is the case with literally everything.

Used to hear about “no-go zones” in Stockholm in my local news a lot, areas where even the Swedish police were afraid to go in to. Then a friend of mine moved to Stockholm and started going to “the worst no-go zone” every weekend to get fresh produce. The only time he felt in danger was when he stumbled upon a drunk countryman.

That makes people fun?

Yes, talking to people about something deeper than “lol, look at this meme” is fun.

I think you should take a look at yourself before you call a generation that is experiencing the highest cost of living in modern history, boring.

WTF does one have to do with the other…? Are you suggesting that people have zero interests outside of social media because of high cost of living?

You do realise that libraries are free? That getting a used guitar will cost you all of $50? That getting a pencil and a notebook to start drawing will be, what, $5? Oh yeah, you can even get a pencil for free at an Ikea.

I don’t know if Vance has a strong enough following. Trump is effectively worshipped by MAGAts, not sure Vance is capable of taking over like that.

Hinging their entire future on the bet that their country gets an easily manipulated dictator, when said dictator is 80 years old already, would be extremely short-sighted from Google.

I could not disagree more.

Mozilla has used the most powerful cheat code in history: infinite money for free.

Google cannot let Mozilla go under or they would become an actual monopolist, triggering a lot of laws that would force them to diversifying/selling the browser.

They don’t want any of that headache so they’re pumping Mozilla full of money, making sure that they can always operate as “the other browser engine”.

The issue is that Mozilla’s management seems to be completely incapable of doing anything interesting. Instead of ensuring that Firefox is the lightest, most optimised browser on the market while also being packed full of features (or at least full-fledged add-ons, not this crap they have), they do… mostly nothing.

Their last major update was “vertical tabs”, something that Chromium-based browsers had for around a decade.

Their previous major update was integrating Pocket…

Meanwhile, PWAs still barely work, add-ons are still dependent on the website being loaded instead of working on the browser level, the whole thing still feels bulky.

Mozilla management needs to be replaced and then we might see some movement on the market.

Yeah, man, Bezos has tens of billions, if not hundreds! He could support the development of something that breaks the fundamental rules of physics EASILY!

That’s a completely different reason to not use AI.

You’re a technophile - you don’t use AI because you enjoy finding information on your own and learning. Great. That ignores the vast majority of people using AI to write emails/posts (which is not looking up information nor learning anything related to tech).

The people the article is about don’t want to use AI due to environmental reasons - the amounts of water and energy it uses for every prompt is stupid high and they don’t want to contribute to that waste.

As we all know, our intestinal trackt is (mainly) divided into 3 sections: colon, small intestine and the colon

WTF 2 COLONS

Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up?

I have honestly no clue what you mean. Could you explain?

You’re mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they’re not profitable anymore

Which is why I’m actively searching for the best possible options.

When I learned that Spotify is fleecing artists, I moved to Tidal.

Then I learned about the French Qobuz, which pays artists even more, and I switched.

I support artists on Bandcamp. I buy physical CDs and will soon fire up a vinyl collection.

I’m aware that 100% of the money I spent on art doesn’t go to the artist, but even if it’s 10%, it’s going to be 100% more than if I resorted to piracy.

Supporting piracy to show corpos the finger is the equivalent of stealing CDs from a music store, because the store price includes the store’s margin, transport costs, manufacturing costs, and only a (relatively) small percentage goes to the artists.

Why would I support local artists if an artist from abroad makes the music I love?

And, if their music is not available locally, nor they have a Bandcamp/similar account, how do I support them if not through streaming services?

I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you

That’s a very interesting take considering I’m against piracy and pro direct purchases from bands. Please, do explain how you ended up at that conclusion.

people in my tax bracket are extracted for every ounce of raw money we can generate, both now but even speculatively in the future. it really doesn’t make sense to consider theft as a taboo against corporations

This is such an “I’m 12 and a rebel” position to take…

Sure, corporate greed is a cancer, there’s zero doubt about that.

But these corporation also create jobs, make it possible for many people to survive. In terms of media streaming corpos SO MANY people/bands were allowed to have a career thanks to people just stumbling upon them.

Should they be getting paid more? Absolutely. Should the corpos handling the hardware, infrastructure, AND software be also paid? If you don’t believe that, you’re just naive or ignorant. Or both.

sopuli is a Finnish board right? my understanding is that you guys have way stronger social ethics and consumer protection, so yeah. in your world I probably would sign up for that Napster subscription again. or even better, a service actually from Finland. Bandcamp is good too

Or the French Qobuz.

here, though in the present we have far worse things to worry about than theft. being tricked into defending the feelings of billionaires is a big one. letting corporations curate our education and media is another

Be the change you want to see. Instead of going stomping feet and stealing candy, go to the store that you feel you can morally support. Hard to do IRL, but online - sky is the limit. Use European services, those that pay artists (Qobuz pays around 5 times more than Spotify to rights holders), buy directly from artists on Bandcamp, etc., etc.

Piracy is literally the worst solution here because you’re taking without giving. Any “fight the corpo!” banner here is just extreme naivete because the artist will starve MUCH quicker than the corp.

It’s still giving them SOMETHING, isn’t it?

Of course I’d prefer to buy directly from the artist (hence: Bandcamp), but that’s not the world we live in. Flat out piracy is just the worst of all the available options.

woah woah woah, chill bro goddamn

Then stop saying stupid shit like “they just cannot live without an algorithm” when talking about people who use streaming services.

I would suggest Qobuz (if available) or Tidal. Deezer’s CEO is a hard-core religious nutjob who finances anti-trans orgs and sexual conversion “therapies”.

I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them

Oh, piss off. I just want to financially support artists for making something beautiful I enjoy. Streaming is the easiest because of space constraints. I still buy the CDs of my most favourite albums, but I cannot stress enough how great it is to NOT have to rip the MP3s every time, make sure the tags are good, etc.

It’s convenient.

If you don’t like Spotify’s new ID check, kill your Spotify account and use an alternative - Tidal and Qobuz are both excellent.

~45% of men aren’t voting for the right, but they’re getting attacked for the actions of those that did. If anyone speaks up against that, they get mocked for dating to say “not all men”

Is this a US thing? Are things this fucked up over there?

The lock is there. The whole thing is encrypted.

If they somehow go through encryption, they won’t just have the EU on their arses, governments of the entire world will be after them, because they trust that this encryption system makes their data secure.

My God… All the “pro life” movements make so much more sense now! They actually don’t care about the women, they only want the children around. And worse off the children, the better for them!

But, you can’t disable Recall, that’s the point…

Well… Technically you’re correct - because the feature is not out yet.

No idea WTF you people are reading here, but for a “Technology” community, the comments here are just plain ridiculous…

Again: if they did that, the EU’s GDPR would eat them alive.