Haven’t hasn’t it been shown that people who pirate heavily actually spend more on media overall than those who do not?

Agreed. 1/10 of the posts were from friends for me, and half of those friends posts were from one chronic Facebook acquaintance that I should unfriend.

I went through and unfriended a couple of hundred people that I need not be friends with on the platform anymore recently, and I’ve got to say I was impressed with how little my real friends actually post to Facebook. It wasn’t uncommon to see someone’s last post to be well before 2020 on there, over half a decade ago.

It leads me to believe that the concept of pushing out a comment to the Facebook news feed died a long time ago for the average millennial. People still probably comment in groups, but have set up privacy filters that prevent them from being shown publicly. Stories get used more, but it’s maybe 5-10 people posting the lions share of them.

Is music piracy is still a major thing these days? I’ve not even considered it for years, because every music streaming platform has all the music, it seems.

Movie and TV show piracy must be so much more rampant because of the fragmentation creating inconvenience to consumers.

Genuinely I think the right answer is to have something really loud and off-putting for them (especially her) and an air horn perfectly fits the bill.

Insanity hey. Goes to show you can very easily be wealthy but not smart.

P in that case Nicole’s DMs are the Lemmy women’s sub.

Insane pricing

Sam Bankman Fried pardon incoming.

I’ve added a note that this is true.

The part of my brain responsible for my previously irrational distrust of Telegram is feeling so vindicated right now.

Exactly. Introducing vulnerabilities to everyone means that foreign powers will be able to use it to spy on EU citizens as well. Fucking bananas.

Unshakable

I watched this a couple of weeks ago. It’s good to be reminded that it’s okay to be imperfect at online privacy.

TOR is basically incognito mode for me now and I think that’s my personal best use of it.

Yeah, what the hell is this video subject. I honestly thought this stuff was common sense.

I mean, I’ve heard criticisms about literally every form of digital musical storefront… I don’t know what criticism there would be for Bandcamp that Spotify doesn’t do worse for musicians. Music availability notwithstanding.

On Wikipedia it says Epic Games bought them in 2022, then in 2023 Songtradr bought Bandcamp off Epic. Songtradr then fired half of Bandcamp staff.

Eh… they’re still doing Bandcamp Fridays this year where they take no commission. I just had a look and this year it’s:

May 2nd

August 1st

September 5th

October 3rd

December 5th

Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.

Maybe you have other information that I’m not aware of, but this article gives what looks to me a balanced review of whether Andy Yen supports Trump or not:

https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-deeper-analysis-and-surprising-findings-aed4fee4305e

It’s not a cut and dry pro-MAGA situation.

Can’t wait for all of the dark patterns to flood the UI/UX

Yeah, I don’t believe that Mozilla could afford to lose that funding.