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Online Content Is Disappearing (www.pewresearch.org)
cross-posted from: lemy.lol/post/25166889
Am I the only person that feels that retro games are better?
Less DRM, smaller filesizes, no stupid anticheat, and no always online bs. Anyone agree with me?
Beeper is now available, no waitlist! (blog.beeper.com)
Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news (www.gsmarena.com)
As apparently, this move is made to target audiobook listeners and podcast listeners, can I recommend audiobookshelf.org...
Enshittification is coming for absolutely everything (archive.is)
Work inside the machine of the music industry: How pre-saves and algorithmic marketing turn musicians into influencers (algorithmwatch.org)
Streaming platforms allow users to add upcoming tracks to their playlists, in order to listen to them as soon as they are released. While this sounds harmless, it changed the habits of independent musicians, who feel they have to adapt to yet another algorithm.
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)
But there may be more, and it’s possible that Google is attempting to spread out the bad news instead of having it hit all at once.
Faircamp setup help
Hi! I’m trying to set up faircamp which is like a bandcamp alternative. If I’m understanding correctly it’s a self-hosted static site. I’m new to all this. I’m on a mac, so I’ve installed Brew and then installed Faircamp using Terminal. It’s currently pointing to “Audio Music Apps” folder which is full of audio...
Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back. (www.nytimes.com)
Non-paywall: archive.is/mWKBz
Google confirms it just laid off around a thousand employees (www.theverge.com)
So it continues.
Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show (1ft.io)
Tens of thousands of Tesla owners have had the suspension or steering of their vehicles — even in practically brand new ones — fail in recent years. Newly obtained documents show how Tesla engineers internally called these incidents “flaws” and “failures.”...
How Big is YouTube? - Ethan Zuckerman (ethanzuckerman.com)
Human brain-like supercomputer with 228 trillion links coming in 2024 (interestingengineering.com)
downloading gmails
my gmail account is full, most of the space is emails. I tried to download them through “takeout” and it has an option that says hey let’s split this up into 2GB chunks. And you select that and it sends you one 12GB .mbox file regardless. The 12GB download keeps failing and now it says you’ve already downloaded these...
Threads Has Begun Federating Via ActivityPub (daringfireball.net)
Adam Mosseri:...
Google wants to use your photos and searches to build an AI storyteller (www.androidpolice.com)
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HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)
Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)
Windows PCs can't sleep properly, and Microsoft wants it that way (www.spacebar.news)
IBM suspends ads on X after corporate ads appeared next to pro-Nazi content (www.reuters.com)
Apple exec defends 8GB $1,599 MacBook Pro, claims it's like 16GB on a PC (www.theregister.com)
Peertube's moment might come soon
cross-posted from: feddit.de/post/5294605...
Western Digital is spinning off its flash memory business as sales decline (archive.ph)
Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent (www.ghacks.net)
From article:...
Your Sweaters Are Garbage: The quality of knitwear has cratered. Even expensive sweaters have lost their hefty, lush glory. (www.theatlantic.com)
Archive link...
Netflix Is Reportedly Planning a Price Hike After the Ongoing Hollywood Actors’ Strike Ends | Entertainment News (www.gadgets360.com)
I totally forgot how terrible a non-ad-free YouTube experience is
So I’ve been using youtube ad blockers since pretty much when ad blocker extensions were first available. Lately though I’ve been getting hit more and more with these messages that YT was sending out every 5 or so videos telling me that adblockers aren’t allowed. No problem, just gotta wait 5 seconds to x it out and then...