No they are not the average person doesn’t care one bit. Most don’t even know about all this stuff happening which is why companies do it. Online there is a stink but in the real world nobody cares. Look at Netflix and password sharing it did not have the drop.off of subscribers that online would have you believe.
No they aren’t. This is an article written to pander to a specific bubble of people. Unfortunately a dwindling minority
If it’s commercially viable to pander to them, it can’t be that much of a dwindling minority
Its viable to write an article about anything theyre dirt cheap to produce. Its less viable to create products for this audience.
I’m in this audience so I’m always looking out for the products that do try and meet these values. They always seem to fail. They spent ages designing and bringing the product to market and then sell like 100 or less units. When the major players release a version thats slightly less shit it has no difference in sales because their consumer audience doesnt think or care about the issue.
Thank you.
“Our continued existence as a publication relies on people being able to freely access information, and there’s a burgeoning movement to actually make people aware of something they’ve been too arsed to bother with for decades. Wrote an artic-”
“Paywall it.”
“On it, boss.”
It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?
…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.
maybe they should take a class from the 14 yr old influencers keeping the lights on with socials, follows and clicks.
…Those “14 year olds” make money with ads, if not by being straight-up product shills. And social media takes most of the cut.
Also, that’s quite different than sustaining a whole journalism business. There is of course social media centric journalism, and Wired does plenty of that too.
Social media isn’t a sustainable model. Yes, there are people that have success in that model, but those people have to sacrifice a lot, especially in the content quality, to acheive that success. Many media companies have already tried it, but the content they produce ends up dissolving into mostly clickbait, because they would fail otherwise.
Fuck whoever downvoted you. You’re doing great bro. Keep it up.
While I haven’t seen the DDOS attack in their code for a while now, once you have done something like this (tampering with captures) the trust is just gone.
Assuming the commenter created the archive (probably not) they should’ve used a better service. Maybe Ghostarchive.
Didn’t know about this! Thanks for the info. I didn’t create the archive, just went there and saw that someone else already had. But I’ll check out Ghostarchive for future links.
trust me, people are not pissed enough. noone cares about these topics around me.
It keeps coming up in my circle once in a while. Usually people complaining about subscriptions. That’s your in.
Yup. Doesn’t feel widely popular yet but I think it will increase especially thanks to Sony discontinuing physical releases. My family luckily is getting there too.
Yeah, it’s the small groups on the edges of these techs that can see it for what it is. Most people are too far removed and refuse to see what world these technologies are creating around us, the prison walls being built.
I think that most people don’t want to tinker. They also hate choice paralysis. Buying the subscription or leasing the car is an easier decision than committing the money to own the thing.
I do feel the more and more pervasive all of these subscription models become the more compelling data hoarding becomes. The main problem being as it gets worse, storage prices keep climbing. Physical media is cool and all but collecting DVD, Blu-ray, books and CDs or any combination of the 4 quickly becomes a physical space issue. Collecting all of this media digitally and keep it all on HDD space is a much more attractive solution. Give you ‘physical’ forever access and doesn’t take up so much space.
Give you ‘physical’ forever access and doesn’t take up so much space.
Some of us figured this out 20 years ago and never turned back. (I figured it out about the time that I realized I had more music in my mp3 collection than the college radio station I volunteered at in 2000.)
My Cinemageddon account turned 18 earlier this year.
I’m evolving a “music player” system which basically consists of a fleet of individual players, each with a full copy of the music library because, even at today’s storage prices, why not? Storage for 10,000 songs at higher fidelity than a brand new LP vinyl album costs less (adjusted for inflation) than an album of 8 songs did back in the 1980s, and only 2 of those 8 songs were usually any good…
So, have a music player in every bedroom, living room, family room, kitchen, car, patio - turn them on when you want, synchronize them when you want - split off and listen to your own playlist when you want - and every player contains a synchronized backup of all the music so you can just drive off with one, go completely off-grid and never interrupt the playlist. The only network traffic is from your phone interface to choose your playlist or synchronize with players nearby - or across the planet.
This does sound very attractive. I’ve been trying to get a few family members of of Amazon Alexa’s and this is one of the biggest arguments they give me against it. I’d be curious to hear how far your evolution has come with this. I do have a rather large collection of music mostly from the olden days of piracy but would be interested in some doing some ‘updating’ to the library and the possibility of getting some family further away from Amazon.
So, the music player rename migration is done - I don’t think too much broke in the process.
The source repo is here: https://github.com/MangoCats/Lempi
In theory, it speaks for itself. In practice, this has been an evolving project and I believe my current automatic song end finder for fade outs is not as good as a previous generation that I built most of my collection with. You can edit each passage’s lead in / lead out points separately and it’s not a half bad editor, but it’s still clumsy and very time consuming.
If I were introducing this to a new music collection, I’d fire up an LLM agent, have it read the project documentation, tell it where the player (Pi) is on the network (give it ssh key access, and have the music files in-place on the Pi for it to find), and tell it to go through the database induction / setup process. That may take most of 24 hours on a collection with ~10,000 songs…
Once it’s setup, you should be able to define the kind of music you want to hear at particular times of day by choosing 5 to 8 representative songs, the “Program Director” will then queue up similar songs automatically and play them through.
I’ve just barely got the “multi-room” setup going, it has several rough edges, but once it gets synced up it appears to be working pretty well.
If you like to play with LLMs for coding, this is an interesting project to try them on. I find it’s right about at the threshold of what a model like Claude Opus 5 can handle / make forward progress with. If anything about how it’s working bothers you, feel free to ask your LLM to smooth those rough edges in ways that make sense to you, you can at least maintain your own branch and maybe we can merge together a “best of both” situation someday.
