FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes 8 hours ago:
Few laughable things here:
Artists don’t get paid when you’re using Lidarr and sabnzbd lol. Dudes pirating music while trying to say how badly Spotify pays artists lol.
Your complete library is only available offline if you’re streaming locally or have already downloaded all of your music to every device you want to play it offline on. Don’t know what he means by “limited downloads” for Spotify either.
In this setup he is having data collected and tracked by last.fm, (potentially) whichever indexing services he is using for lidarr, (potentially) whichever download service he’s using for sabnzbd, and ListenBrainz (which even makes all user listen data and text public). Oh and his ISP. And cloudflare.
Hosting your own media library is awesome, just don’t try and bullshit people by pretending that you’re better than Spotify because they pay their artists poorly when you’re stealing from the artists yourself.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 6 days ago:
I appreciate the reply, and I’m not out to pick a fight either :).
I think for the foreseeable future it’s just going to be rinse and repeat of imgur, as an example. A service is created to fit a need/desire, with good intentions of being free and bloat-free, but then starts showing ads and offering paid subscriptions, and takes investor money at which point you know it’s only a matter of time before it’s where we are now with imgur. It’s just the nature of popular services unfortunately - the cost to host them is astronomical, and I am pretty sure that 99% that even a rough estimate of what people in here think it costs is probably off by a factor of 1000x or more. Hosting anything that is used by thousands of people, especially when it involves videos and pictures.
Unless there is some revolution in internet speeds/bandwidth/etc there’s just no getting around this.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 6 days ago:
The very nature of discussion boards mean that they’re always going to centralise discussion eventually, no matter how decentralised the user base is.
No one wants to have 25 different small tech communities that all post the same article, so they go to the one that has the most users. It took all of a week after the Reddit exodus for a few fediverse instances to become the clear centralised ones.
Decentralisation of user accounts is irrelevant and almost pointless when all of the discussion is centralised on one main instance. The only real way it can be decentralised in a way that matters is if every /technology (for example) essentially merge together and all instantly sync all comments and threads from all instances in real time, with automatic addition of new instances whenever they start a similar community. This brings many, many challenges though.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 6 days ago:
The same will happen with fediverse instances if they ever get big enough………
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
I’m sure you are. Just like last time. See you next week ;).
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 week ago:
The reality is that the bigger a website/service gets, the more money it costs to run. Something like imgur especially would cost absurd amounts of money to run. If it can’t be monetised then it will die. The same thing will happen to any competitors that pop up claiming to be better - it’s just the nature of business. Hosting and bandwidth and hardware and employees aren’t free.
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 week ago:
The term “social media site” is used very loosely these days. Allow comments on anything? Congrats, you’re a social media site!
- Comment on Imgur's Community Is In Full Revolt Against Its Owner 1 week ago:
I’m sure this will work this time, unlike when likely the same people did the same thing with reddit lol.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
Firstly you’re entire premise depends on there undoubtedly being a genocide, despite that not being an established fact.
Secondly, you’re basically saying any company that provides products or services to a country that anyone accuses of a genocide is complicit and helping the genocide happen? That’s ridiculous and quite frankly idiotic.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
You care enough to follow me around and reply to me apparently :)
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
So because they had something to do with it, makes no difference.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
Microsoft aren’t “aiding genocide” ffs. Some protesters feelings don’t mean they can just break whatever rules they want.
- Comment on Microsoft Word will save your files to the cloud by default 1 week ago:
Cool, basically zero chance of people losing documents that they were working on. I’m sure no one will take issue with this helpful feature.
Oh, I forgot where I am.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing off the Mobile Plans app in Windows 1 week ago:
Makes sense having it directly in the settings app. Good idea.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
They broke into the president of Microsofts office. Do you think that they shouldn’t be fired for doing that? You can’t just do whatever you want in the name of “protest”.
- Comment on Microsoft fires two more employees for participating in Palestine protests on campus 1 week ago:
Missing context: They broke into the President of Microsoft’s office. Of course they were fired lol
- Comment on Microsoft fires 2 employees after they broke into president's office 1 week ago:
How did anyone even think this was newsworthy?
- Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos 2 weeks ago:
but ultimately its putting an increased emphasis on ‘products’
Well yeah, it’s Meta. I don’t know why anyone would expect them to be doing anything less. Same with close sourcing their next models - of course that’s the end goal. That’s the end goal of every company that is making these things. They open source them and make them free until they have everyone locked in and can lock it down and start charging for it.
- Comment on Zuckerberg's Huge AI Push Is Already Crumbling Into Chaos 2 weeks ago:
The title and description and the tone of the article do not match what is actually being reported.
As the New York Times reports based on insider sources, Meta has announced internally that it will be splitting its AI division into four separate groups: one focused on research, one on so-called “superintelligence,” one on products, and another on infrastructure.
A restructure to place all their newly hired AI people, who they were paying up to a billion dollars to join, into leadership positions in more defined divisions is not “crumbling into chaos” - in fact it’s pretty much the opposite of “chaos”.
- Comment on UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push 2 weeks ago:
If you seriously think that this US government made a deal to give the UK this data you haven’t been paying attention - firstly because they don’t even have a backdoor into Apple software, and secondly because they’re firmly against foreign nations infringing on their freedom of speech.
- Comment on UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push 2 weeks ago:
Or, the most likely option - Apple isn’t going to build a backdoor which breaks encryption, and the UK trying to force a USA company to do it so they can spy on Americans isn’t going to fly with the US government.
If you build a backdoor to break encryption then you have no encryption.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
Great input, thanks for that.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
In sue what world you’re living in, but in the one where these digital id laws are being pushed in all the big western countries, the anti-Christian governments are all in power.
The USA are the only one where the extremely religious Christian’s have any real power and they’re the only country pushing back.
What exactly are you basing your argument on?
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
Another example I just saw posted about right now:
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
It’s literally neither of those lol.
Governments are doing this because they want control and they want to know all the stuff that Google and Apple etc know. It’s got nothing to do with religion or big tech lol.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
Can you not read? WEF - not JEW.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
They just do whatever they want though, because there’s no one to pull them up.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.
When they could only pay via Apple’s payment processor in-app this wasn’t an issue. Now it is.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
It’s 100% the WEF.
- Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android 3 weeks ago:
The EU should have had no ability to make Apple allow alternative app stores or have to accept alternate in-app payments. They should have no ability to force Microsoft to give new users a choice to use a competitors browser on startup. For example.
