I just love this machine built by Peter Sunde (Pirate Bay. It copies a file to /dev/null and tracks how much it costs the music industry 😂https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/this-season-a-notorious-pirate-gives-the-music-industry-an-expensive-gift/

Just look how much this little machine is costing the music industry! https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/12/this-season-a-notorious-pirate-gives-the-music-industry-an-expensive-gift/

Time to spread the news that X is rebranding to xvideos

If you want to go one step further, isolate/sandbox your media player, browser and torrenting apps in firejail.

Success! I mean I just found the comment funny. You need at least one sarcastic comment in a thread where everyone is super serious, more might be a bit too much.

As a collectice we really have to pull together to solve things like this, but it’s often a problem of gaining traction, chicken-and-egg. I mean if everyone using Lemmy decides to switch over from Spotify to something else it will hardly make a dent, but it we could enable mass mobilization through offering free migration to a service undercutting Spotify we might make a dent, but even this is not ideal because it’s centralisation again.

We need an effective mechanism to give big organization’s flak. One (somewhat impractical) technical solution might be to build a wrapper around all these platforms and then choose to play music through whomever is more aligned with the right goal(s), such as customer satisfaction and fair artist payouts.

The idea of a DAO type organization comes to mind where our collective moral beliefs can be codified

This is super neat

Most underrated comment 😂

Yeah, I meant this more generally.

I’ve been with a very frugal start-up for many years and it’s amazing what a small team can get done compared to larger companies.

I think the fact that Twitter is able to run with so much fewer staff probably points to how bloated they were.

I think Twitter’s stock price was a huge bubble waiting to burst anyway.

Maybe things will turn around if we give X some time. I’m against platforms like what Musk is building with X, I don’t like their stickiness and the fact that the walls between functions are blurred and data can consequently flow between them. They become monopolies; they begin to regulate and discriminate against their users however they see fit and ultimately leave you with little real choice.

There’s a lot of drama around him, and some because of his own stupidity and pot stirring, but maybe the world could do with more like him.

Though he may not be self-made in the sense of lifting himself out of poverty into success. He does work pretty damn hard to forward his companies and the goals he sets, so that’s admirable.

Surely a big reason he gets so much flak is because he enjoys being in the public eye, unlike Bezos, for example.

Public figures like Musk draw an annoying and undeserved amout of attention, though. I mean there’s so much else happening in the world more worthy of our time, but that doesn’t generate ad-revenue now does it?

Go look at the Stanford article https://news.stanford.edu/2023/06/16/cooking-gas-stoves-emits-benzene-2/