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This reminds me of Dirk Gently, the show not the books.

For me it was the way they treated the Apollo developer Christian Selig leading up to the whole API thing. Absolutely heinous.

He could go with laughing at the absolute clown rhetoric his interviewer was coming with. The cockwomble really thought that he could trip him up and get him to say something like “oh no actually I think we should be protecting criminals that rape babies, that’s perfectly fine.”

It’s nice to see a preview of what Swedish political debate will look like in a couple of months.

Should’ve been wary of it before.

Murdoch killed the British newspaper unions because he took out a loan to establish FOX in America, and he used the salaries of the workers for his British papers to pay for it.

Honestly, he should’ve been laughed out of business the moment he established the misogynistic and pedo-like page three girl.

Reminder that this in the past this kind of thing has lead to such legal persecution that both Jonathan James aged 24, and Aaron Swartz aged 26, both committed suicide because of it.

Aaron Swartz’ crime? Downloading scholarly articles from JSTOR to distribute to the public.

Now we have multi-billion dollar corporations doing these things, but several times worse, and they’re bribing politicians and running countries!

I’m personally going with elrc where available, otherwise lrc.

The E in ELRC stands for enhanced. It has karaoke-style granularity, if that’s something you care for, and can find.

Navidrome has supported lyrics for a while now, but the web client only supports embedded ones. Checked my instance and that still seems to be the case as most of my songs have lyrics as standalone files, but the client insists that there aren’t any lyrics.

With the update I’ve added this Navidrome lyrics plugin, but I’ve not really tested it yet. I’ve been using lrcget to locate and add lyrics before this update.

Lyrics work fine in other clients. On my phone I’ve been experimenting with NaviBeat, otherwise I’ve been using Amperfy.

On desktop I’ve been using Nocturne, (via flathub), but I think based on how long lyrics take to load in that, that it fetches the lyrics from somewhere other than Navidrome.

I’ve had a rubbish day, so this is exactly what I needed. Balm for the soul.

If we as humans choose environment-destroying AI over food and people… what are we even doing!?

The same thing we have been doing for so, so long at this point; choosing capital over life. Why would that suddenly change?

Doubt he has friends.

I really wish I could believe in the system as much as you do. I think I’d be happier that way.

However, all the power lies with the capital. The capital controls the narrative, which in turn leads to people voting against their interest. The capital promotes their politicians. The politicians enact politics in favour of the capital. Then ultimately, capital controls the forces.

See for example how Murdoch and Thatcher completely destroyed the newspaper unions in England during the 80s. They went from having really strong worker rights and collective power, to being completely powerless and literally shot at by police within the span of a few years, all due to processes the workers were purposely locked out of.

Restart application until it works.

Bananas.

Just because he was gay doesn’t mean he’d like Grindr. There’s very little to like about Grindr, honestly. The ads are incredibly invasive, it tracks the everliving hell out of you, and wants you to pay exorbitant prices to avoid that BS.

Exactly, it’s built on systemic violence, in that when you don’t have a job you’re rendered more or less useless to society and left to wither by the wayside. Thus it is in the individuals immediate best interest to keep working with, thus enforcing these systems.

Worrying about anything beyond the immediate is for those with means, unfortunately.

I live in Sweden. I grew up a povvo bitch, but I’ve managed to do well for myself over the years. Even so, I don’t have anything to fall back on. If I lost my job I’d luckily have unemployment, through my union and various labour rights, but that too has a limit.

I get why people wouldn’t want to fight back, which is what leads to doomerism and wishes to just burn the entire system to the ground in the hopes of building something better next time. Which I get too, I feel that all the time; improvement seems unlikely given the perpetual decline I’ve witnessed my entire life. Even so, I contact politicians, and I engage with my union.

but this part, I’m sure, will upset people

I don’t know that that’s a bad thing. If you use these models, you are complicit; you’re part of creating the “need” for these models. You don’t necessarily have a choice (because realistically losing your job and all the stuff that entails isn’t a real choice, and that’s fully part of how the system is intended to work), but you’re still complicit.

We as individuals don’t have a lot of power, because power is mostly tied to some kind of capital. That’s why working together is so important, because it’s only by working together we’ll have any real power to impact things.

I don’t think being upset is a bad thing. Recognise it, and do something about it. It could be something small like talking to colleagues about it, or contacting a union representative, or a politician. Or go big, no shame in that either.

I’ve a close friend who is Slavic, and also hates drafts, to the point that they can’t stand AC. So I can believe this!

Why are you so intent on riding big corpo cock? Do you think daddy Altman is going to praise you, call you his good girl?

You don’t actually need to play devil’s advocate, you know.

Aww, I love that. I’m not familiar with the mythology you’re referring to though.

He is a husky mix actually so his origins is from that area, but he was born in Ireland. Got him from a rescue.

Sounds very Randian.

And it will never happen because the people who control the resources also control the narrative. They promote their candidates, who change the laws in their favour, and progressively make things worse for your average person.

The system you describe is a pipe dream, and it’s a nice dream, but it’s not reflective of the world we live in today.

Do LCDs have scanlines? I thought that was a CRT thing.