So, all posts are from the perspective of people that are really into music. Enthusiasts that care deeply about individual albums and artists.

Whereas streaming services are most likely designed to cater to casual listeners like me. I can’t remember the last time I listened to an entire album. I haven’t liked any individual artist enough to attend a live concert. I generally listen to music while I’m doing stuff as background noise.

I used to listen to the radio for that. But streaming services algorithms were a strict upgrade to that due to lack of ads and talk show hosts.

Honestly, I don’t know if I’ll be able to determine whether a given piece of music is AI generated or not by listening to it.

So I don’t think direct purchase of digital LPs could ever be viable for people like me. And I’m guessing (based on the success of streaming services) that there are a lot more people like me than there are enthusiasts. Yes, I can switch to the least bad streaming service according to Lemmy, out of solidarity (and no other reason). Remember 99% of people won’t do that.

Just adding a perspective that might be missing from this community

Someone in our new partner team has scheduled a meeting for 11am today for us to introduce ourselves to each other.

Guess how it’s going to be structured

To be fair, any app written entirely by (human) vendor companies also works like that

Ummm… maybe some more context is needed? That makes no sense

Honestly, these days I use fdroid as my primary app store. It’s been an amazing way to cut through the junk and find great apps.

It will if you explicitly ask it to. Otherwise it will either make stuff up or use some really outdated patterns.

I usually start by asking Claude code to search the Internet for current best practices of whatever framework. Then if I ask it to build something using that framework while that summary is in the context window, it’ll actually follow it

Not to derail your point, but growing up in Australia, we would mostly use kW. Like, it’s a 200kw engine instead of saying a 270hp engine.

I think it’s a jab at Postman, which is essentially curl with a GUI.

Aww man that was such a good show! I still miss it sometimes…

And some companies (like mine) just have their SDEs do the SRE job as well. Apparently it incentivizes us to write more stable code or something

I don’t think he ever said it’s his first time

Kudos to Spotify’s design language for us being able to determine what app it is from just a generic error screenshot

Also, why would you park your bike under that?

Source?

That sounds like an awful lot of work to workaround a problem that shouldn’t have existed in the first place.

And how do you de-drm them? Is there like some community calibre plug-in for it?

Making note for when I buy books in future

Where do you buy from?

That’s where time dilation will kick in

You’ve never been to rural Japan if you think they primarily use public transport.

Hell, even in the outskirts of Tokyo most people have cars and drive.

That said tho, there’s no excuse for urban city centers to not be walkable.

So far it’s helped in motivation, but not in implementation.

Turns out combatting bots is a hard problem and hobbyist admins and nonprofits have a lot less resources than their for-profit counterparts.