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Churbleyimyam ,

Sounds like that Austrian guy who was caught having taken the covid vaccine hundreds of times.

Churbleyimyam ,

I work with print a lot too. Very interested in the imminent release of GIMP 3.0 with it's colour upgrades.

Spotify is raising the cost of Premium subscriptions, again (www.engadget.com)

Spotify is officially raising its Premium subscription rates in the US come July, following reports of the move in April. The platform is increasing its Individual plan from $11 to $12 monthly and its Duo plan from $15 to $17 monthly — the same jump as last year's $1 and $2 price hikes, respectively. However, its Family plan...

Churbleyimyam ,

Cool. I trust that extra money will be going to the artists who upload their music!

Churbleyimyam ,

Check out Jan AI. It's open source and extremely easy to install and run. I run it locally on a 2017 laptop without a dedicated GPU and it works, just takes longer to generate responses compared to something like ChatGPT.

Churbleyimyam ,

Audacity isn't open source? I thought I installed it from the Debian free repo...

Churbleyimyam ,

You should totally get on some PS forums and start bitching about its UI being 'backward and unusable' compared to GIMP :)

Churbleyimyam ,

Ah, monkey business...

Churbleyimyam ,

Even supposing I didn't care about the security implications of this, why on earth would I want this functionality? I can barely keep up with all my activities in the present moment, let alone the past. It's like a morbid and pathological unification of nostalgia and hoarding.

Churbleyimyam ,

"Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while."

Churbleyimyam ,

I'm with you. I have similar relationship with connected devices as I do with cigarettes.

I don't like being threatened by the state but banning something has a bonus effect of making it look dirty.

Churbleyimyam ,

Nice to hear some positivity, especially about school.

Churbleyimyam ,

A bit dark!

Churbleyimyam ,

When I was at school we weren't allowed to eat in class. One day we had a supply teacher who caught a kid trying to eat a sandwich. The teacher confiscated the sandwich and ate it at the front of the class.

Now imagine if it had been a phone: kid tries to use phone, teacher confiscates phone, teacher tries to root phone and bricks it in the process. "You can have this back at the end of the day."

Churbleyimyam ,

They should build Faraday cages around all schools, so they dont have to ban phones.

Churbleyimyam ,

They should have a fat radio jammer in the head teachers office.

Churbleyimyam ,

I wonder how many comments on Lemmy were written out under a desk in class.

Churbleyimyam ,

You just need to loosen off the grub screw, which is now in a data center in Ireland.

Churbleyimyam ,

They're not actually intended for washing your hands but rather for ticking the 'customer hand-washing facility available' box and providing jobs for interior designers nephews.

Churbleyimyam ,

What a surprise.

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

Churbleyimyam ,

We're all just laughing at google yeah? Nobody here is actually using google are they?

Churbleyimyam ,

You mean like with our economic system?

Churbleyimyam ,

Looks like you have to wear it for at least 15 hours a day for several months before it's effective..

Churbleyimyam ,

almost anything else

You mean photoshop right?

Churbleyimyam ,

  1. File > overwrite yourimage.jpeg

  2. Ctrl+Q

That's 2 mouse clicks and one keyboard shortcut.

You can even make number 1 keyboard shortcut if you want. How is that any more laborious than photoshop?

Churbleyimyam ,

File > overwrite

Bind it to Ctrl+s if you want.

It only saves as an xcf project if you choose save instead of overwrite.

Churbleyimyam ,

Tux Paint is feckin awesome. Not even photoshop has sound effects when you use a tool.

Churbleyimyam OP ,

I'm thinking about offering some workshops. My local authority has funds available for courses and workshops which benefit the community, aimed particularly at people on low incomes. It would be fairly basic stuff, like where to access free software, the advantages of it, some recommendations and perhaps even some introductory lessons on using software like Libreoffice, Thunderbird, KeepassXC, GIMP, F-droid, the Fossify suite etc.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

Churbleyimyam ,

And 99.99999 percent of musicians lament being humiliated and poor.

Stop releasing your music on Spotify. They depend on you for their reputation as having all the music and will give you nothing in return except ever-broadening inequality and ever-narrowing artistic culture. People have mocked boomers for claiming that music is dying but that's exactly what is happening.

Churbleyimyam ,

And Radio Free Fedi.

Churbleyimyam , (edited )

What are your thoughts around generating traction with a torrent? I have two friends who are both sitting on their albums and thinking about how best to release them. I hope to release something one day too and refuse to use the likes of spotify on principle.

Churbleyimyam ,

This is all assuming that availability is the top priority for all artists. I think spotify has shown 99.999% of artists that their model of maximum availability at all costs simply doesn't work, either in terms of contacting an audience, making any money or valuing music. It just results in the vast majority of artists being insulted and demoralised and the remainder producing music of a relentlessly narrowing artistic scope. Are you more likely to get around 3500 plays on spotify or get £1 in donations off the back of giving your music away for free? It sounds absurd and that's because it is. Most artists will get the same out having their music on spotify for a year as walking out onto the street with an acoustic guitar for half an hour on a Saturday. At least out on the street you're not propping up a capitalist giant and a tiny 'elite' of ultra commercial music producers. For me spotify and it's ilk have been the final nail in the coffin for integrity and reward in releasing music and I would encourage the 99.999% to boycott it and forge ahead with alternatives. Nothing better will emerge until then and artistic culture will continue to become more and more bleak.

Churbleyimyam ,

Radio Free Fedi or @RFF is a community internet radio station which plays music from artists on the fediverse. From their own website at https://radiofreefedi.net/ :

radio free fedi is consent, agency and artist celebrating community radio from the fediverse. We actively and openly present contributing artists' information with the hopes that you will drop-in, discover, and then LEAVE? That's right, RFF has no interest to be an end-point for hyper focused consumption. We also do not have the resource to provide infinite custom streams and we love the community to not do soulless algorithms. We want to foster organic discovery and discourse. We want to generate support for independent artists on the platforms and methods of their choice, no judgement. Support independent and fedi artists!

I've discovered loads of awesome and unique music on it :)

Churbleyimyam ,

It fuckin is rad! I love it so much! I mostly listen to the Comfy channel but I've found some wicked stuff on the main channel too. There's usually a link so you can find them on the fedi or buy a track too.
Maybe it's because of the fediverse/freedom/generosity ethic and I'm in a biased bubble but everything on there is just so genuinely good, even if it's not normally my taste. I've had a bunch of really sweet evenings listening to it and my gf always asks what the track is when I put it on. I kinda want to volunteer for the channel tbh. Check it out and feel free to DM me with what you think! I'm spending more time on Lemmy than Mastodon these days, so I'm not seeing people mention them via hashtags as much. RFF and Pixelfed are basically the best thing about the internet right now imo :)

Churbleyimyam ,

At the end of the day, this is just yet another example of how capitalism is an extractive system. Unprotected resources are used not for the benefit of all but to increase and entrench the imbalance of assets. This is why they are so keen on DRM and copyright and why they destroy the environment and social cohesion. The thing is, people want to help each other; not for profit but because we have a natural and healthy imperative to do the most good.

There is a difference between giving someone a present and then them giving it to another person, and giving someone a present and then them selling it. One is kind and helpful and the other is disgusting and produces inequality.

If you're gonna use something for free then make the product of it free too.

An idea for the fediverse and beyond: maybe we should be setting up instances with copyleft licences for all content posted to them. I actually don't mind if you wanna use my comments to make an LLM. It could be useful. But give me (and all the other people who contributed to it) the LLM for free, like we gave it to you. And let us use it for our benefit, not just yours.

Churbleyimyam ,

I think you still have to have an account (last time I used it anyway), but you're right, there is a tier you don't have to pay any money for. It's just an email address but whatever. You can use it via their website but afaik they haven't released a free model based on the data they've scraped off us, so you can't host it on your own hardware and properly do what you want with it. I have heard though that commercial websites were/are using ChatGPT bots for customer service and you can easily use the customer service chatbots on their website to do other random stuff like writing bash scripts or making yo mama jokes.

Churbleyimyam ,

Can you explain?

Churbleyimyam ,

The size of the title on that article is insane on a monitor.

Anyway.

Companies are quick to flaunt their privacy policies, but those amount to pages upon pages of legalese that leave even professionals stumped about what exactly car companies collect and where that information might go.

Does anyone remember that report about the university researchers who studied one of these smart thermostats and concluded that you would have to sign more than a thousand legal disclaimers to properly consent to have it in your home?

Churbleyimyam , (edited )

People don't mention it much but I think it's actually the most powerful thing about Linux (and open source more broadly) that it's free to use. It doesn't matter if you're down on your luck, were born in a poor nation through no fault of your own, or are working class and getting crushed by the capitalist economy. It's a leveller and, in my view, represents power, resilience and dignity in solidarity. It's literally one of the few important things left in the world that we have like that.

Churbleyimyam ,

I totally agree! I wish I could contribute more to these things that I use, but it also (and maybe more importantly) makes me want to be more free and generous with all the things I can do. Looking at how most things are today, superficially it seems far-fetched to imagine economies of generosity but actually I think it's got a lot of power to perpetuate itself.

Churbleyimyam ,

Hoink me with your yimyam flutings.

Churbleyimyam ,

Wait until you see how people talk about closed source projects they have paid for.

Same thing, except you will owe them something.

Churbleyimyam ,

lol windows

Churbleyimyam ,

"Hey New User, shut up and come back when you've read the documentation for each component of every distro and studied how they interact with each other. I am too burned out from maintaining my rare and arcane DIY configuration to answer your stupid questions."

Churbleyimyam ,

I'm actually thinking of pranking my girlfriend some time by editing her bash aliases so that:

alias update='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && hollywood'

Churbleyimyam ,

Rather than simply give you a piece of text to read, they do it like this so that you can't scan it to figure out what is actually important and focus on that. Every moment and detail must be indulged to the full.

Proper dickhead move.

Churbleyimyam ,

No need for that tone old bean!

Churbleyimyam ,

Cool, what's your setup for push notifications? I do too but reached a stumbling block with push notifications, gave up and have been doing without them since. Not great for my phone's battery life probably...

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