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India hails improving ties with China ahead of Narendra Modi-Xi Jinping meeting

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Social media influencer Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him

Andrew Tate sues Meta, TikTok for over $50 million for ‘deplatforming’ him

Andrew Tate said that he's moving forward with the lawsuits 'for the people everywhere who have been lied about, banned, cancelled.'

^{Katie Scott (Global News)}

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Valentine Angell

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Andrew Tate can suck my 'andy taint! I will happily fight this pedo/sex trafficker.

I'm 54, overweight, and out of shape, and I'll take this windbag out forever. Yeah, permanently.

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Echo Dot

in reply to Valentine Angell • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

He strikes me someone who would go down to the first punch. He talks far too big a game to be the genuine article

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Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality

Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic reali…

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How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe)

cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/35974793

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How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe)
How I found critical security vulnerabilities in McDonald's systems affecting millions of employees, and had to cold-call their HQ pretending to know security staff just to report them.
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How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe)

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How I Hacked McDonald's (Their Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Their Secret Sauce Recipe)

How I found critical security vulnerabilities in McDonald's systems affecting millions of employees, and had to cold-call their HQ pretending to know security staff just to report them.

^{bobdahacker.com}

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AI tech breathes life into virtual companion animals

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Revolutionary AI Tech Breathes Life into Virtual Companion Animals

Abstract We tackle animatable 3D dog reconstruction from a single image, noting the overlooked potential of animals. Particularly, we focus on dogs, emphasizing their intrinsic characteristics that co

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California Tesla drivers can pursue class action over self-driving claims, judge rules

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kameecoding

in reply to Ulrich • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Under the trump administration? I'd be rather surprised.

But Tesla already lost a case and false advertising was a huge part of that, that means AFAIK every subsequent case will be harder to defend for Tesla youtu.be/2znwoOp2rw4

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Ulrich

in reply to kameecoding • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

As much as it may feel like it, Trump hasn't been President for the last 10 years.

493 Cases of Sextortion Against Children Linked to Notorious Scam Compounds

IJM Uncovers Links Between Child Sextortion and Southeast Asia’s Scam Compounds

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How the rise of Craigslist helped fuel America’s political polarization

The Surprising Link Between Craigslist, Classified Ads, and Political Polarization

^{Stanford Graduate School of Business}

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LGBTQ bookstore to hold ‘wedding marathon’ amid SCOTUS hearing on same-sex marriage

All She Wrote Books in Massachusetts will host ceremonies on August 30 as justices decide whether to hear case to overturn gay marriage

LGBTQ bookstore to hold ‘wedding marathon’ amid SCOTUS hearing on same-sex marriage

^{Erin Keller (The Independent)}

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My petty gripe: forced software updates just make everything worse

Would we tolerate anything else that got worse over time, not as a result of normal wear and tear but because the manufacturer suddenly decided it should?

^{Patrick Lum (The Guardian)}

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stoly

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This person has no sense of security.

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UncleGrandPa

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We have decided to charge for what was previously included... Substantially changing the parameters of the established contract

Suck it

Corporations are basically just criminals now

Australia consumer watchdog fines Google for anti-competitive practices

Google admitted to engaging in anti-competitive conduct by pre-installing its search engine on certain manufacturers’ and telcos’ Android mobile phones on Monday, as the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) initiated Federal Court proceedings against Google Asia Pacific. The company agreed to pay a total penalty of $55 million.

Australia consumer watchdog fines Google for anti-competitive practices

Google admitted to engaging in anti-competitive conduct by pre-installing its search engine on certain manufacturers' and telcos' Android mobile phones on Monday, as the Australian Competition and Con...

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Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins.

Marine and Army veteran Graham Platner dives into one of the most closely watched races of 2026.

Control of the Senate could be decided in Maine. This oyster farmer is vying to unseat Susan Collins.

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Trump Administration Opens New Immigration Jail at Texas Military Base

Over the objections of several local officials, an immigration jail has opened at Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas.

Trump Administration Opens New Immigration Jail at Texas Military Base

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TX Dem Locked Inside State Capitol After Refusing to Accept GOP-Imposed Escort

Nicole Collier had refused to sign a “permission slip” to leave the chamber. Most of her Democratic colleagues complied.

TX Dem Locked Inside State Capitol After Refusing to Accept GOP-Imposed Escort

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German Court Revives Axel Springer Suit Against Adblock Plus

Germany's Federal Court of Justice revived Axel Springer's lawsuit against Adblock Plus maker Eyeo, ruling that ad-blockers may infringe copyright by altering website code. The case returns to Hamburg for reevaluation.

^{Zane Howard (WebProNews)}

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MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

There’s a stark difference in success rates between companies that purchase AI tools from vendors and those that build them internally.

^{Sheryl Estrada (Fortune)}

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"Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" lamented Rob Pike in 2000

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34919033

This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my
feelings about systems research these days. I won’t talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone’s excited about the computer industry. I may therefore present a picture somewhat darker than reality. However, I think the situation is genuinely bad and requires
action.
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob_Pike for context

title "A Field in Decline" above a graph captioned "New Operating Systems at SOSP", showing a decline from seven to two operating systems per year between 1979 to 1999

software engineer

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UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

The United Kingdom will no longer force Apple to provide backdoor access to secure user data protected by the company’s iCloud encryption service.

^{Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)}

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Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

When Taylor Swift’s releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it can be heard on the usual places, including streaming, vinyl and…cassette tape?
The cassette tape was once one of the most common ways to listen to music, overtaking vinyl in the 1980s before being surpassed by CDs. But the physical audio format has become an artifact of a bygone era, giving way to the convenience of streaming.
Or, that’s what many thought.
In 2023, 436,400 cassettes were sold in the United States, according to the most recent data available from Luminate, an entertainment data firm. Although that’s a far cry from the 440 million cassettes sold in the 1980s, it’s a sharp increase from the 80,720 cassettes sold in 2015 and a notable revival for a format that had been all but written off.
Cassettes might not be experiencing the resurgence of vinyls or even CDs, but they are making a bit of a comeback, spurred by fans wanting an intimate experience with music and nostalgia, said Charlie Kaplan, owner of online store Tapehead City.
“People just like having something you can hold and keep, especially now when everything’s just a rented file on your phone,” Kaplan told CNN.
“Tapes provide a different type of listening experience — not perfect, but that’s part of it. Flip it over, look at the art and listen all the way through. You connect with the music with more of your senses,” he said.

Taylor Swift’s new album comes on cassette. Who is buying those?

When Taylor Swift releases her new album, “Life of a Showgirl,” in October, it could be heard on its usual places, including streaming, vinyl and … cassette tape?

^{Jordan Valinsky (CNN)}

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thejml

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I definitely prefer to purchase my music on CD when possible. As someone who grew up with Cassettes, it's one tech I'm fine with being pushed into history. I'd rather have Minidiscs than cassettes.

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RheumatoidArthritis

in reply to thejml • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Shit medium that inevitably ends up pulled by a faulty mechanism and destroyed. I remember patching broken tapes with adhesive tape all the time.

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acosmichippo

in reply to thejml • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

yeah. i wonder why they aren’t binging back VHS too. because it objectively sucks compared to what we have now.

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kadu

in reply to acosmichippo • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

VHS isn't coming back because you simply can't buy a CRT and VCR. These are no longer being made, the existing ones are degrading and overpriced.

Otherwise they'd absolutely be back, a lot of videos on YouTube and TikTok are specifically longing for VHS.

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Rai

in reply to acosmichippo • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Brutalmoose is my source for excellent VHS tapes.

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yonderbarn

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Gen Z is an interesting bunch. Opting for blurry photos and bringing back JNCO jeans.

The 90's are back.

The Blurry Photos Aesthetic: How to Get It

We're helping photographers get the Blurry Photos Aesthetic easily with their modern camera. You'd be amazed at how simple it is.

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not_that_guy05

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I showed them all this stuff before and my kids thought it was lame. Their friends start to listen or wear said things and now it's cool... Kids lol nothing changes.

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Ulrich

in reply to not_that_guy05 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I did all the trendy thing when I was a kid. Even made the mistake of wearing FUBU once as a white guy.

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athairmor

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

“Blurry photos”? Those are just photos with a shallow depth of field. That never went out of style.

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Blackmist

in reply to athairmor • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Became harder to do with phones though.

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Geometrinen_Gepardi

in reply to athairmor • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm fuming at this too. Pictures with some amount of bokeh is the standard look unless you're shooting landscape camera or using a telephone to snap pictures.

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Khrux

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Blurry photos is fine to make an stylistic choice. The 2019 movie The Lighthouse stylistically looked like a 1920s film, before modern music intentionally used bitcrushing, it used vinyl cracks, boomer shooters made in this decade intentionally look like 1990s Doom clones.

When a medium's shortcoming is patched by technology, it ultimately becomes an artifact of the era where it was accidental. Once a few years have passed, it becomes more synonymous with the era than the mistake.

It's not necessarily nostalgia, Gen Alpha and the younger half of Gen Z never grew up without smartphones, so they don't miss the era of poor film photography. Although every generation does this simulation of forgotten mistakes, it's particularly poignant now, where the high quality, perfectly lit, professional feeling photos convey something artificial, i.e. smartphone software emulating camera hardware, faces tuned with filters or outright AI generated content. Even if it's false imperfection, the alternative is false perfection.

Art using deliberate imperfections that were unavoidable in the past is romanticising something perceived as before commercialism, and that's admirable.

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tourist

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I burned a few CDs and put one of them in my car's CD player

It worked but I got hit with "tray error" when I tried ejecting it.

It's been stuck in there since april

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snoons

in reply to tourist • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Part of the car now.

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tourist

in reply to snoons • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

"the pre-owned volvo of tourist@lemmy.word" is not as catchy as "The Ship of Theseus"

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Empricorn

in reply to snoons • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Way she goes...

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

They are just like every other generation before them. They think anything that's 20-30 years old is ancient history and they want to 'connect' to a past they didn't live through and it also makes them feel different than their parents who are all into streaming services and gave up physical media who lived through the progression of formats from analog, to digital, to non-physical.

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elucubra

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Older dude here:

There is no advantage to listening to something on a cassette, except for the vintage brownie points.

I did the analog to digital transition, and miss nothing. There was an intermediate time, when mp3s came along, and people were lowering bitrates to absurd levels,
but digital is simply better.

All the people talking wonders about the "warmth", "tone", and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on.
Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.

The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it's smaller size and portability, but sound was worse than records.
I still have the last deck I owned, a marvel of technology of the time, a double auto-reverse TEAC deck with Dolby and Dbx noise reduction, auto azimuth, programmable, etc, which is objectively shit compared to a decent mp3 player, provided that the music is encoded in lossless, or large enough bitrate.

CDs were a massive improvement, and the pinnacle were DDD CDs, which were Digital recording, Digital mixing, and Digital mastering, meaning very little analog garbage was introduced in the process.

The objective for audio equipment is to be transparent, to not add or detract anything from the original performance.

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tankplanker

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

With CDs they were negatively impacted by the loudness war as it became much more widespread. Having to hunt around for the right recording, often the earlier ones, can be expensive. Normalisation of the recordings by streaming companies is just an awful idea as it doesn't fix the bad parts of the mix just turns everything down.

I prefer SACDs to CDs, mostly because they tended to be mastered and mixed better than the CDs of the past two decades. The surround audio mixes are mostly just gimmicky, although they are a good fit for some records, but they almost always had a two channel mix that you could pick instead. The higher frequency range is mostly pointless.

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elucubra

in reply to tankplanker • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I agree. The loudness is not what I dislike the least. Most 1st gen CDs were the work of love of sound engineers and producers, given near miraculous equipment, to produce records with unheard of quality. I own several. Dire straits Brothers in arms is one of these, a truly brilliant recording (The album itself is brilliant) The sound quality is truly astounding.

The whole thing took a downturn when they started compressing the recordings to fit FM frequencies. Why they didn’t do the compression at the FM station, and leave the uncompressed stream for us, is always been a mystery to me.

As for the range, it is generally pointless. Most people, even when young, can’t hear above 20 Khz.

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ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

All the people talking wonders about the "warmth", "tone", and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on. Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.

I moved to all-digital music-making and -listening in the 90s, and agree that a lot of the "analog" benefits are imagined or the result of misunderstandings how technology works.

But I think you're missing the point. Don't forget that noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition are all legitimate effects often intentionally applied to make music sound a certain way.

A cassette is objectively lower quality by sampling rate, reproducibility, etc, but you agree that it affects the sound. At that point, I think you have to admit that a contrary personal preference for cassette or vinyl is valid. It's not objectively "worse" because many people actually and validly find those "bugs" to be "features."

It's fine to like the digital revolution, but I'm just identifying you're making a value judgement, and others can rightly value differently.

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ubergeek

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

CDs were a massive improvement, and the pinnacle were DDD CDs, which were Digital recording, Digital mixing, and Digital mastering, meaning very little analog garbage was introduced in the process.

Very little analog garbage... Except for literally every instrument tracked in, including distortion pedals. 😀

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elucubra

in reply to ubergeek • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

That is by design. Unwanted noise is shit. A large part of the electronic pathways were noise and other unwanted signals removers

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ubergeek

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I know, I was being cheeky 😀 Cheers!

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leftzero

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it's smaller size and portability

And not being read-only.

Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

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elucubra

in reply to leftzero • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Shit! I forgot about the life -changing Need to spool with a Pencil

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azertyfun

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You've completely missed the point.

You grew up in a world where the quirks of analog formats were nothing but technical limitations to be overcome. It is true that a FLAC is literally superior in every way to a Vinyl if your value function only takes in cost, quality, and convenience.

HOWEVER Gen Z grew up in a world where music was always cheap and convenient to access. We also (mostly) grew up in a world of touchscreens and always-online gadgets and doodads. My generation's first portable music player was often the iPod touch. You know what all of that does to a person? It creates a deep craving for tactile feedback. For technology that doesn't nag with software updates, for music that can't be "unlicensed" and pulled from your library remotely, for a music player that you can touch and feel and interact with in a more meaningful way than tapping on the little square of glass that already runs our lives. For the little rituals that have been stripped away, like flipping a vinyl at the midway point or rewinding a tape.

The entire point of analog is that it's "worse". It's un-clinical, it's raw, it's tactile, it's physical. Listening to my favorite albums on vinyl is such a better experience than through the disembodied shuffle of my phone. I don't crave maximum audio fidelity or convenience because I always could have those things literally whenever I want.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to azertyfun • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

the point is feeling like it's superior when it objective isn't as some sort of form of teenage rebellion or something.

not any different in the 90s when everything was CDs and that the few 'cool' kids were still using records as a FU to 'the man'. and wearing 70s clothing styles.

It's all about making yourself feel special.

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azertyfun

in reply to TubularTittyFrog • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Well you hardly have a leg to stand on about "feeling superior" when you're out here being smug about criticizing harmless tastes.

I don't see how listening to vinyls in the privacy of my own home is considered performative, but if that's the only reasoning you're willing to entertain... Well go right ahead, I thought I made a good case for it but I guess I was wrong and I am buying vinyls for the clout.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to azertyfun • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I'm not criticizing anything. The fact you feel criticized by my comment... maybe you are doing it performatively... if only for yourself?

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elucubra

in reply to azertyfun • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

You may agree that "cost, quality, and convenience" are pretty damn desirable.

I do agree, and kind of miss, the anticipation for a record release, the listening to the radio (in my case the quality non-commercial programs, think BBC, NPR, and their equivalents) with the finger on the record button, the wonder of buying a new LP, and poring over the jacket, and the occasional included booklet, flipping through records at the store,and many other cool aspects, but I stand by the vastly increased quality and durability.

If you want the rituals (save the fucking chore and expense of cleaning records), CDs are a pretty nice compromise. Tactile, mainly manual, choice of playing linearly, as many artists intended, possibility of programming or shuffling, high quality, and many other choices. With records and even worse, cassettes, you are stuck with the artifacts introduced by a bad medium and bad equipment. Want "warmth"? get a decent tube amp. Better yet, build from as kit. Great experience, and if you want control over sound, buy and learn to use a proper equalizer.

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azertyfun

in reply to elucubra • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

music-library $ du -h -d 0 .
270G    .

I am not looking for a compromise. I listen to my high-quality digital library on shuffle most of the time, and am very well aware that my phone allows me to access orders of magnitude more music than even the most compact CD player.

When I do listen to my favorite albums as LPs, the clunkiness and the artifacts are part of an Experience. I can listen to exact copies of the digital masters of those songs any time I want to, but sometimes we do things BECAUSE they are not maximally optimal. Sometimes I want to take a walk alongside the river and get my feet a little bit wet even though I could have worn boots. Feel a little something, you know?

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gerryflap

in reply to elucubra • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Your view is totally fine, but I guess you're not understanding why people do this. I'm a millennial, around 30. Personally I buy CDs, I buy vinyl, and I even have some stuff on tape. I've also recently picked up film photography and among my friends it's common nowadays to bring some 2000-2010 digicams.

So why? flac is perfect, and streaming services stream whatever high-quality music you'd ever want to play. Film is expensive, and digicams are often way more shit than whatever a modern smartphone that's already in your pocket can do.

Personally I've become bored by perfection, overwhelmed by choice, and frustrated with the lack of owning anything. When I play a physical album I sit down for it, I am focused on the music. I cannot easily choose the music, I'll just have to accept the order of the album. There are way fewer choices to overwhelm me. Likewise, with film photography, it feels simpler in a way. You shoot a few images in a go, because film isn't cheap, and you'll only get to see them weeks later when the roll is developed. No pressure of the perfect shot, no insane resolution to show any imperfection. And mistakes just happen, because you cannot see what you're doing, so you just have to accept them. Digitally you can just take 20 pictures and take the best one.

So back to music. Why would one prefer vinyl or tape over CD? As a life-long CD collector, I wondered the same thing a few years ago. But when artists that I enjoy started skipping CD releases in favor of vinyl I hopped in, invested in a shit vinyl player, and didn't really get it. Sure it had a character, but it wasn't great in any way. After some more research I found out that it was probably just the vinyl player (please don't get some cheap shit for a 100 bucks with a red unbranded needle). I invested in an Audiotechnica LP70XBT, and oh boy did stuff improve. I finally get it. The sound is gorgeous, though not necessarily better or worse than CD imo. It's a bit warmer, with detailed bass but less clinical high end. And I love the whole tactile experience of it. Older vinyl definitely sounds worse than modern CD quality though.

I think it's the whole experience that people enjoy. Putting the vinyl or cassette in the player, having something move and, as if it were magic, suddenly there's music. With a slightly different character that differentiates it from the clean and clinical sound of high quality digital audio. Modern digital audio is great and definitely has its place, but at times it can feel sterile, too perfect. The crackles and warmth of vinyl, the grain and slightly off colours of photographic film, they feel like they have more personality. They stem from a time where the imperfections of the medium still kinda hid the imperfections of the artist.

(Okay this turned into quite a ramble but I hope there's something useful in there :3 )

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elucubra

in reply to gerryflap • 2 settimane fa (Ricevuto 1 settimana fa) • •

Ok, first: You do you.
Second: I'm not in possession of absolute truth.

But if I may, I'd like to share some of my experientially acquired knowledge.

On sound; I stand by my words. Why accept worse quality sound because the medium is inferior? Do whatever you want to post process, but having control. Want permanent "warmth"? Buy, or even better, build a tube amp. Pretty easy BTW. Want some sound characteristics? Get a proper equalizer and learn to use it. Want crackle? Well, really, that is something to discuss with your therapist.. BTW, what all people call warmth is just a slight bump in the 60-80 Khz range. I like many old amps, and speakers. I've actually designed and sold a few bespoke speaker systems. Some vintage Klipsch sets, with a refoaming are still astounding, but sources have gotten way better.

Regarding photography; I bought my first SLR, a Vivitar XV1 ( A Pentax K1000 copy) in the 80's. All manual, but with a built in light meter. From there I went on to a Pentax , then another, then Pentax's first autofocus, and the worlds first SLR with a pop-up flash, often derided as a gimmick, but amazingly useful, the mighty SF1, I also had a Nikon F601 with a couple of lenses and a Old school 6x6 Bellows Zeiss. I've developed quite a bit. I kind of know my stuff.

Analog photography is not superior, but different. It's absolutely true that the limited amount of film, and the cost of developing, promotes thoughtful composition, framing, and anticipation. Selecting the right film, understanding your lenses, and, crucially, undesrtanding that the most important piece of kit is the lens, 2nd the tripod, and then the body,
helps a lot in getting superior photographs. If you know what you want, understand your film, your camera, your kit, you can get results unmatchable by digital, no matter how much post-processing. What, why, how, are necessary ingredients in film photography.

That said, I would think, compose, etc the photo in my mind, and then shoot bursts, the ask for a contact sheet, and choose what I wanted for prints. No need to gamble all on the speed of your index finger. Film was the cheapest variable in the equation, except for Kodachrome, the GOAT of films. Fuji makes some very good film, but Kodachrome was beyond anything.

Kodachrome 64, and occasionally 25, how I miss you! those films demanded discipline, but the rewards were astounding.

Yes, in some respects, film is still superior to digital, ***IF ***you understand the medium, kit, process, and thinking.

A digital compact? Fine, but get one of the later ones. Advice from someone who bought and used an Olympus 1.2 Mpx fixed lens in 1999. There is NOOOO redeeming value in an early digital, except.... Yeah, NONE.

Anecdote: I recently saw a kid, floating around his friends, taking pics with an old point-and-shoot. The cringe was strong. I was thinking, "Jeez, kid! I'm all for film, but buy an actual reflex with a proper lens, they are cheap as fuck in second hand marketplaces!!

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ivanafterall ☑️

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

My son is into them. My daughter is into CDs. Both are retro cool, because they are.

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daggermoon

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

The problem is, every modern cassette deck on the market except for one by TEAC and TASCAM is fucking crap. You're pretty much stuck using vintage gear which hasn't held up too well. I had a Pioneer deck that sounded fantastic but broke. Like unfixable because they don't make the parts anymore. I have a TEAC deck from the '90s that sounds like crap now. I'm just done with it. You have plenty of good choices when buying a new turntable. Where as with cassettes you have two descent ones, and the rest are AIDS.

Edit: Also, the two descent ones are expensive.

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kadu

in reply to daggermoon • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Don't listen to "audiophiles" otherwise literally no audio equipment is ever good, and it becomes a who can spend the most money contest.

A cassette player from FiiO will sound absolutely great and work fine.

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AnyOldName3

in reply to kadu • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

A cheap record player or a cheap CD player were always better than a high-end cassette player. Cassettes were designed to be small at the expense of quality at a time when technology didn't allow things to be both small and high quality, and the constraints of the medium are well within the bounds of what most people can easily hear. Once CDs and their players became cheap, tape was entirely obsolete, and didn't have the I don't understand Nyquist Sampling Theorem or acknowledge the existence of dust excuse that vinyl had.

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kadu

in reply to AnyOldName3 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Naturally. But the comment is not comparing tape to other media, so your rant is not relevant. We are talking about tape players.

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daggermoon

in reply to kadu • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Bro it's $100 and built like a cheap toy. It's way overpriced if you want to talk about who can spend the most money. Believe it or not, i'm not some rich audiophile. I have an okay DAC and okay headphones. Also, I listen to music through my phone speakers.

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katy ✨

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

i always get them!

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ABetterTomorrow

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

This sound like some type of manipulation.

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Olhonestjim

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

There are still new albums occasionally released on 8 tracks too, and even a couple on Edison cylinders. Anachronism is collectable.

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FireWire400

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Another one of those pointless articles... Cassettes have been on the rise for a couple of years now, and for the same reasons that vinyl has been making a comeback; mainly fake nostalgia and the yearning for true ownership in form of physical media.

As a vinyl snob, listening to music on that medium isn't better. The quality is at best a little worse than what you get from a CD, it's inconvenient, bloody expensive and it takes up space.

BUT you get to actually hold the music you love in your hands and listen to it more intently, because you've made the effort of putting on a record instead of just pressing play. I like that.

Edit: just realised I just made the same points the article made... oh well. I'll just continue archiving my CD collection. Not (only) for posterity, but as a big middle finger to the RIAA.

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some_guy

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Another one of those pointless articles… Cassettes have been on the rise for a couple of years now, and for the same reasons that vinyl has been making a comeback; mainly fake nostalgia and the yearning for true ownership in form of physical media.

No. Cassettes sound like shit. They are a very lossy format. Vinyl actually sounds different in ways that people like. My vinyl collection has nothing to do with nostalgia (I grew up after CDs were on the rise). On a solid system, there's a lot more fidelity in the bass on vinyl.

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FireWire400

in reply to some_guy • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Cassettes don't sound too bad if you actually have good equipment, which most people nowadays don't (because most can't afford collector's prices for decent decks). I was born in 97, vinyl records were long dead by then. Most people who get into vinyl nowadays actually grew up with iPods (hence the term "fake nostalgia").

On a solid system, there’s a lot more fidelity in the bass on vinyl.

Eh... it's pretty much all down to mastering, but vinyl records have a limited dynamic range compared to CDs which makes the bass more pronounced maybe? Not something I've noticed but I tend to prefer clear high end and mid range anyway.

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some_guy

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Digital fidelity (sample rate) grows more granular in higher frequencies because that's easier for us to distinguish. (See the Fletcher-Munson Curve from Bell Labs: on a bell curve, we hear best at the frequency of a baby crying.) Think of stair steps that get closer and more numerous over time. That's a representation of the resolution of the sound across frequencies from low to high. I may be explaining it poorly because I moved away from audio engineering toward a different career a long time ago.

Analog has all the information that's missing in between the larger, wider steps. It's not a placebo (didn't say you called it that). It's how digital audio works.

My instance isn't allowing me to upload images for some reason. It had extended downtime the other day, so maybe that's related. Anyway, here's a link to a page with a chart that illustrates what I'm attempting to describe.

What is Sample Rate in Audio? Its Types and Impact on Sound

Sample rate is very important in determining the fidelity and quality of sound. Sample rates allow you to capture detailed audio with a true representation of the original sound.

^{contributor1 (Hollyland)}

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FireWire400

in reply to some_guy • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Thanks, it's always great to hear the details from some guy who knows his shit

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some_guy

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Also, old records (from early in the CD era) had nowhere near the fidelity of modern records. I played a modern record for my father once and he was astounded how far they've come.

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FireWire400

in reply to some_guy • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

In my experience, it's still pretty hit or miss. The smaller indie labels tend to get it right more than the big names.

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alehel

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

What does fake nostalgia mean?

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FireWire400

in reply to alehel • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I don't think it's actually a real term, but I kinda mean that it's nostalgic to people who can't really have nostalgia for it because they're too young to have experienced it being the main music format.

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alehel

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Ah. That makes sense.

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Saeveo

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I've heard it called "Borrowed nostalgia" before.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to alehel • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

it makes nostalgia for something that never existed.

there is plenty of it for say medieval history. our fantasy conception of medieval times... is mostly completely false/fake.

or take the concept of the 'noble savage' as if cavemen are morally pure being or something. complete nonsense.

And yet people believe these things are legit and real.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to FireWire400 • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I mean, most vinyl snobs I know... that's the point. It's a way to signify how 'hardcore' they are about music because they spend the money/time/space on it. That their listening inexpressive is 'more authentic and real' than me listening to spotify in my car. It's a form of conspicuous consumption.

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FarraigePlaisteaċ

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I don’t like touch screens, or screens in general. I miss Minidisc so much. It was and is the absolute best for me.

The iPod with the click wheel would be my next choice but they’re too expensive now. CD cases were cumbersome, and when lined up it’s hard to read the spines. They skip too when I’m walking.

I’d go back to cassettes again if they were released to the same standard as back in the day (Dolby NR, etc). I like handling the cases and they look better lined up on a shelf.

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Yeather

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I saw a bunch in Japan, along with Vinyl and CD, even saw some 8-track in Tower Records.

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Darleys_Brew

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Collectors? Idiots?

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Dearth

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Swift is a billionaire. She did not become a billionaire by releasing her albums in single formats. Streaming, cds, multiple collector editions in vinyl and now cassettes. Agree writes music to appeal to the most people possible and then creates as many different sources for her fans to give her money as she can.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to Dearth • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

she make her money from concerts and licensing fees. not music sales

most artists income these days comes from concerts. music sales aren't money makers anymore the way they used to be.

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nutsack

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

it's actually super common for underground music. I have a collection of new music on cassette. it costs a lot of money to press vinyl, and a lot of bands just aren't there.

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nek0d3r

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Perhaps a reason to dust off my walkman!
... if this cassette is even affordable.

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Nico198X

in reply to nek0d3r • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

properly new cassettes are usually not expensive. it's only original classics from 30-40 yrs ago that are marked up.

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nek0d3r

in reply to Nico198X • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I figure normally, yeah, but I feel like Taylor Swift playing around with a new medium probably comes with a heavy price tag.

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Nico198X

in reply to nek0d3r • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

oh maybe, i'm not actually a Swift fan. i'm just here for cassette talk. XD

i tend to get my new cassettes for around €7-€12.

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nek0d3r

in reply to Nico198X • 2 settimane fa • •

Me neither honestly, I just know she seems to have a massive following of fans that will do or pay anything that she touches lmao
But it would be cool to buy some in general. I can't remember how many times I listened to one Joan Jett tape as a kid

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Nico198X

in reply to nek0d3r • 2 settimane fa • •

word, exactly.

i tend to get them from Bandcamp on Bandcamp fridays, if you're interested.

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nek0d3r

in reply to Nico198X • 2 settimane fa • •

I am, thank you! I'll definitely be on the lookout.

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mechoman444

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

You'd be surprised.

As a matter of fact, many well known and famous artists have been releasing dbrwnd new albums on old media for years and years.

For example I have a casset of 10000 days by tool.

I'm also an idiot audiophile with a stereo that's way way too expensive for my own good. (I'm not rich but I am broke.)

I swear to God I can hear a difference and theres all kinds of warm fuzzy feelings when I put a casset in.

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NauticalNoodle

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

nostalgic audiophiles

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Nico198X

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

me. i am buying those.

fun nostalgia. it's physical, tactile, the sounds that come along with a physical cassette. and yes, the audio is imperfect, but that's part of the experience and charm.

i already have lossless digital files. this is a different experience.

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Tenkard

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I've seen various artists selling those on bandcamp, and they're often sold out

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Rose56

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Record collectors mostly and obsessed fans.
Vinyls and CDs may have done a comeback back, still are expensive.

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TubularTittyFrog

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

There is a large subset of hipster types who are notalgic for VHS, cassette, film and early digital cameras.

It's because of 'vibes'. It makes them feel different, special, more important than the 'normies' listening to stuff on Spotify, watching stuff on Netflix, or using iphones for photography. They think it's more 'authentic', 'analog', etc.

Yes, they are insufferable people to be around. I grew up with Cassettes and VHS. It sucked balls. I vastly prefer my 4K streaming and high bit rate audio. But I understand that for younger people or hipster types, the 'retro' aspect is super appealing and it makes them feel special. I have several friends like this over the years and they love to go on long rants about how superior they are for this stuff and how ignorant the Spotified masses are.

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CyanideShotInjection

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

Wait until this guy hears about a certain genre called black metal...

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RedEye FlightControl

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

There are a number of collectors and enthusiasts who enjoy alternative types of media. It was an experience listening to music on tape and hearing the hiss of the tape. It has a different sound to it, sort of like vinyl.

If there's money to be made, they'll find ways to get it. If that means selling tapes, they'll sell tapes again. Records are still back in style and being mass produced again.

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madsen

in reply to yonderbarn • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I don't subscribe to any streaming services. I have vinyls and tapes. If I want to listen to music on the go, I use my walkman with music I've recorded from vinyl or, in very rare cases, YouTube.

My 9 year-old has a walkman too and it's the greatest thing ever. She doesn't have a smartphone, but the walkman enables her to listen to her own mixtape when we're traveling. She loves it.

Actually, I've seen quite a few people with feature phones around lately, a walkman would be perfect for them for the same reason.

Also, making mixtapes is still as great as it was back then. A playlist is not the same, not by a long shot. I made one for my little sister recently and it was all kinds of fun to make sure both sides were filled, that the mood and energy was cohesive, that it was tracks I genuinely believed she would enjoy but also tracks that I knew she wouldn't seek out on her own. (Fuck algorithms for recommending music — they won't challenge you or surprise you.)

Edit: Also, releasing on cassette isn't even that new this time around. For instance, all of Mac Miller's stuff has been available on cassette for at least a few years. Like, check out HHV's listing of cassettes: hhv.de/en/records/catalog/filt… and imusic.dk/exposure/8138/kasset… has a surprising number of metal albums on cassette.

Kassettebånd med musik - Find din yndlings genre lige her

Find nostalgien frem, mens musikken flyder ud af højttaleren! Hos iMusic finder du et kæmpe sortiment af kassettebånd inden for alle genrer - Se udvalget!

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NewNewAugustEast

in reply to madsen • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

How is it any different than making a playlist? You said a long shot, that's not true.

I am not talking about Spotify, I never use it, but unless you are talking about the level of effort to make the tape, then what's the difference?

Records are bulky, heavy, and horribly environmentally bad. Cassettes aren't as bad but are really inconvenient.

I got rid of all of those years ago and I am so glad I did.

I still have a music collection, I don't use streaming services though. And no no CDs either.

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madsen

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You have no time constraints when making a playlist. It doesn't have to fit neatly into 2x 30 or 45 minutes. And because it has to fit into that time constraint, it affects the choice of tracks and their placement into the aforementioned flow. Including a track like Herbie Hancock's Chameleon has a huge impact on a mixtape, but on a playlist it's just another song.

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NewNewAugustEast

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So make artificial limits on your playlist then.

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We’re scared of nuclear war. But it will never happen. The real danger? Hypersonic missiles — and no one’s talking about it.

For decades, we’ve lived under the shadow of nuclear war. The narrative is clear: one spark, one miscalculation, and humanity could vanish.

But here’s the truth: nuclear weapons are the most successful deterrent in history. Their very existence makes their use irrational. No leader will press the button knowing it means national — and species-level — suicide.

So why are we so obsessed with a war that will never happen?

Meanwhile, hypersonic and ballistic missiles are already being deployed and used — in Ukraine, in the Middle East, in Asia. They’re fast, precise, hard to intercept, and crucially: not seen as “existential.”

That’s the danger.

Because they don’t threaten total annihilation, they lower the threshold for war. A strike with a hypersonic missile isn’t “nuclear Armageddon” — it’s “a proportional response.”

But each use normalizes high-speed, high-precision warfare. Each escalation feels manageable — until it isn’t.

We’re not heading for a nuclear war. We’re sleepwalking into a new kind of war — fast, uncontrollable, and already here.

We explore this paradox in the latest episode of the podcast "The Italian Uncut": “Why Hypersonics are More Dangerous Than Nukes”

#geopolitics

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How to obtain standards - ISO, AS

The world runs on standards that define everything. Unfortunately these standards are proprietary which is highly inconvenient.

Where would one obtain standards namely international standards (ISO) and Australian standards (AS). Some can be found on the internet archive but a majority cannot. I believe some libraries let you download some version with all sorts of drm but that's not something I want to deal with.

How hard can it be to get a pdf that defined how literally everything in the world works.

EDIT: I have checked Library Genesis it has some but not all.

#piracy

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crapwittyname

in reply to muntedcrocodile • 3 settimane fa • •

It's worth asking your local library. My library card gives me read-only access to every ISO standard I've ever needed.

There's also the Estonian standards institute which offers the same standards for much much cheaper.

EVS standard evs.ee | en

Estonian standardisation organisation – buy standards (EVS, EN, ISO, IEC), take part in trainings or participate in standardisation committees.

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melsaskca

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Are standards still a thing? My shrimp is radioactive and they are building vehicles too big for the roads, to mention only a few.

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'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court

'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court * TorrentFreak

Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany's top court.

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From Book Bans to Internet Bans: Wyoming Lets Parents Control the Whole State’s Access to The Internet

If you've read about the sudden appearance of age verification across the internet in the UK and thought it would never happen in the U.S., take note: many politicians want the same or even more strict laws.

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wildbus8979

in reply to Zen_Shinobi • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

I2P

free and open source project building an anonymous network

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Zen_Shinobi

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Not modern, but yeah forgot about that one ;)

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European leaders mobilize on Ukraine’s security guarantees ahead of potential Putin-Zelensky-Trump summit

European leaders mobilize on Ukraine’s security guarantees... #Ukraine, #russia, #war, #US, #USA, #EU, #europe #

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European leaders mobilize on Ukraine’s security guarantees ahead of potential Putin-Zelensky-Trump summit

Editor's note: This item has been updated to reflect additional developments on security guarantees from U.S. officials.

^{Alexandra Brzozowski (The Kyiv Independent)}

#russia #USA #us #eu #europe #war #Ukraine

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China’s Biotech Is Cheaper and Faster

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BrikoX

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@cm0002@piefed.world please add the required [Opinion] prefix.

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Google CIO Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic” | Ruth Porat called for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/26297841

I'll note that the article as originally published contains a typo; Ruth Porat is the CIO at Google, not the CEO.

Google Head Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic”

Google CEO praised Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for slamming the “climate extremist agenda” and sayings data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear.

^{The Lever}

#technology

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N0t_5ure

in reply to Avid Amoeba • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

"Don't be evil." Lol.

informal motto of Google

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elucubra

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~~Don't~~ be evil

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TheTetrapod

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~~Don't~~ be evil 😈

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some_guy

in reply to Avid Amoeba • 3 settimane fa (Ricevuto 2 settimane fa) • •

If I had a cloning machine, I'd make many Luigis.

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Google executive Ruth Porat calls Trump admin’s climate denialism “fantastic” and calls for data centers to be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/34912703

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/26297841

I'll note that the article as originally published contains a typo; Ruth Porat is the CIO at Google, not the CEO.

Google Head Calls Trump Admin’s Climate Denialism “Fantastic”

Google CEO praised Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for slamming the “climate extremist agenda” and sayings data centers should be powered by coal, gas, and nuclear.

^{The Lever}

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How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator

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How China Went From Clean Energy Copycat to Global Innovator

A surge in high quality research and patent applications has cemented China’s dominance in the industry.

^{Max Bearak (The New York Times)}

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German court overturns previous ruling that ad blocking isn't piracy

sorry for butchering the article title, I've edited my post to try and reflect the intention of article

'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court * TorrentFreak

Legal action by publisher Axel Springer, which aims to outlaw ad blocking on copyright grounds, has been revived by Germany's top court.

^{Andy Maxwell (TF Publishing)}

#piracy

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BlueMagma

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In other news: sunglasses are now prohibited in public transport, they were found to modify the perception of ads, modifying the intellectual property of ad maker in public places, the impact was a reduced market values of ad space in public transit which would have forced the city to increase the ticket price.

Stay tuned for news on those disgusting blinker pirate: those people blink twice more often than normal people which makes them see only half as many ads, police forces has invested millions in brand new blinking frequency detector, in order to more easily catch those dangerous criminals.

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DeathByBigSad

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Yes officer, this blind man right here is commiting the heinous crime of not to watching my ad.

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Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not

https://www.wired.com/story/tech-executives-new-york-zohran-mamdani/

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The Terminal Demise Of Consumer Electronics Through Subscription Services

Open any consumer electronics catalog from around the 1980s to the early 2000s and you are overwhelmed by a smörgåsbord of devices, covering any audio-visual and similar entertainment and hobby nee…

^Hackaday

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Helge Schneider – „The Klimperclown“ (2025)

Alles richtig gemacht! Was soll ich sonst schreiben, über den Geburtstagsfilm, den der SWR dem größten Mülheimer Genie der Gegenwart im Auftrag der ARD hat widmen lassen? Angesichts der Unmöglichkeit der gestellten Aufgabe, haben sie dort glücklicherweise kollektiv entschieden, den Künstler das Werk doch lieber selbst anfertigen zu lassen, bevor die Sendeanstalt sich der Peinlichkeit einer weiteren öffentlich-rechtlichen Hagiographie die dann doch nicht mehr als ein Recycling alter Talkshows und Sketche geworden wäre. (ARD, Neu!)

Helge Schneider - "The Klimperclown" (2025)

Alles richtig gemacht! Was soll ich sonst schreiben, über den Geburtstagsfilm, den der SWR dem größten Mülheimer Genie der Gegenwart im Auftrag der ARD hat widmen lassen? Angesichts der Unmöglichkeit der gestellten Aufgabe, haben sie dort glücklicher…

^NexxtPress

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New shiny toy

It's not particularly new (except to me) or that shiny... but I got a new gfx card today. I bought it mainly for the nv remove background functionality and because it will be much faster at other tasks too! I am only about 5 years behind the times at least, rather than the 10 I normally am....

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Materiali pragmatici (corsi, tutorial, etc.) per imparare a fare il reporting per il CSRD?

Provo a chiedere qui dove probabilmente molti di voi sono interessati all'argomento.
Siete a conoscenza di buone risorse, in Italiano o in Inglese, per imparare a riportare dati non finanziari secondo la direttiva UE CSRD per il reporting non-finanziario (incluso ambientale) in ambito EEA?

Sono alla ricerca di corsi, tutorial e altri materiali VERAMENTE informativi.
Cercando online ho solo trovato una pletora di articoli scritti con ChatGPT che non vanno a parare da nessuna parte.

#Ambiente

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Technos Media: Your Gateway to Innovation and Insights

Technos Media is dedicated to bringing you the latest advancements in technology, science, and business. Our platform offers a rich blend of news, reviews, in-depth analyses, and opinion pieces, covering a broad spectrum of topics. We’re committed to keeping you updated on the latest technological wonders, as well as groundbreaking scientific and medical discoveries. Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable editorial team strives to make complex developments accessible and engaging for our readers. Based in the vibrant heart of New York City, we operate at the center of digital media innovation, with a diverse group of skilled editors and writers from the US, Europe, and Asia. Our team works tirelessly to provide timely and insightful content, shaping our understanding of technology, science, and health developments worldwide.

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Nearly 90% of videogame developers use AI agents, Google study shows

https://www.reuters.com/business/nearly-90-videogame-developers-use-ai-agents-google-study-shows-2025-08-18/

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Sturgist

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Did the study show if they use it by choice, or as a requirement for continuing employment enforced by the C suite?

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"Google study shows"

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Nekutime internacia IJK en Indonezio

Dum la ĵusa IJK en Indonezio multaj kongresanoj manifestaciis kontraŭ ”genocido en Palestino” kaj alvokis al TEJO aliĝi al la kondamno. Oni anoncis, ke la sekva IJK okazos en Katalunio. La eksigita prezidanto sensukcese provis refoje iĝi komitatano. La komitato eĉ ne donis al li parolrajton dum la kunsido. Multaj eŭropanoj spertis stomakproblemojn kaj oni ofte aŭdis la anglan, Tyron Surmon rakontas en sia raporto.

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General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

I'm away from my desk for the next few days and so I'll likely be posting more open ended discussion questions. Recently I've been thinking more about the decline of forums of yesteryear and how hosting a forum has always been rather niche. That got me

I'm away from my desk for the next few days and so I'll likely be posting more open ended discussion questions.

Recently I've been thinking more about the decline of forums of yesteryear and how hosting a forum has always been rather niche.

That got me thinking about how one of Reddit's "killer features" was that just anybody could create a subreddit. The same could be said about Facebook groups as well.

You don't get that with forums, only the admin can create categories/forums, and by extension that usually limited the rise of general interest boards, and more towards niche topic-focused boards. It also meant that basically every board had a "general discussion" board or "random" board.

Would there be interest in NodeBB supporting something like this... Basically, the ability for anyone to set up a category and instantly moderate it, and build your own sub community inside a community? Does this ruin the magic of forums?

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the esoteric programmer

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I mean sure, I would recommend that option be off by default with a way to turn on in the configuration file, but otherwise it sounds like a great idea. Btw, why does your post appear with a content warning which is identical to the post text?

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club NodeBB publishes the ActivityStreams "Article" type, which Mastodon current doesn't have good support for.

One way around it is to send summary with the full text... but then some other software thinks it's an uber long content warning. There's no winning :sweat_smile:

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silverpill

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I think this should be reported to GoToSocial devs, because they can use name as content warning for Article objects.

Maybe there is already issue for that, but I couldn't find it

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

gotosocial

Fast, fun, small ActivityPub server.

^Codeberg.org

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

silverpill@mitra.social esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club It got closed 😅

codeberg.org/superseriousbusin…

[bug] `as:summary` is used as content warning descriptor for object types other than `as:Note`

### Describe the bug with a clear and concise description of what the bug is. * Mastodon in the short-to-medium term is considering broader support for non-`Note` object types, as part of [FEP-b2b8](https://w3id.

^Codeberg.org

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the esoteric programmer

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

yeah, so apparently you're using it wrong? activity pub is confusing indeed, but yeah, summary should probably include just the title

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club respectfully there is no other way to get an Article object ingested by Mastodon without being munged without shoving it all into summary.

Summary should contain a truncation probably, but other than that it's GtS that is "doing it wrong".

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the esoteric programmer

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

if we weren't constrained by what mastodon does or it implemented the article activity type properly, would this still be done the same way? yeah, I suppose technically gts is wrong for not implementing the mastodon behaviour as well because it's nonstandard, same as they mandate authorised fetch like functionality for everything that federates with gts, but yet they support some other nonstandard things themselves, which exist only because mastodon does it this way, so they're kinda inconsistent there. I wish more servers would implement the client-server part of the activity pub protocol for example, but that too is blocked because everyone making clients for the fedi targets the mastodon API from what I know, so yeah, sad indeed.
Btw, other threadiverse platforms, like lemmy and py-fed, don't have this issue on my end, where I could follow them because they support authorised fetch that is. I wonder how do they do it? or...hmm, maybe they don't work properly on mastodon while they do on gts?

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club I'm sorry I got a bit salty about it.

Basically if Mastodon were not in the equation we would send an Article with a name and no summary at all. Threadiverse implementations handle that perfectly already.

GtS actually did implement the Mastodon behaviour! Content warnings were their thing (afaik), done by adopting summary as the CW. GtS followed suit but applied this to all objects, not just notes. So in this case GtS went a bit further is all.

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the esoteric programmer

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

ahh, gotcha. And what would happen now if you didn't include summary at all?

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club Mastodon would show the title and URL, and the content would be excised out.

Which I suppose is so fine insofar that sometimes long form content is best read on the originating site, but end users want their content read natively on Mastodon 🙂

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the esoteric programmer

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

and gts would do the same, right?

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

esoteric_programmer@social.stealthy.club actually I'm not sure how GtS would handle it!

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Jupiter Rowland

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@julian So in other words, if an Article-type object has a summary, Mastodon discards the title, shows the summary and links to the original, and if it doesn't have a summary, Mastodon shows the title and links to the original?

Its "traditional" behaviour since ca. 2017 was that it either showed the title and the link or, in the absence of a title, only the link with zero context, and when there was a summary, it used the summary as a content warning.

I'm still not sure whether Mastodon is limited by all interfaces available for it only being geared towards old-school plain-text microblogging and incapable of handling fully formatted HTML content, or rather by the devs' stubborn unwillingness to let anything in that's too much not old-school plain-text microblogging.

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julian

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

jupiter_rowland@hub.netzgemeinde.eu Mastodon shows the title, summary, and adds a link.

It's as good as it'll get and quite a ways from where it used to be.

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informapirata

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Re: General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability

This is an excellent idea, as demonstrated by the fact that many self-created communities (≈categories) on Lemmy have achieved significant global success. However, Lemmy's implementation is unsatisfactory and needs to be adjusted. I am the administrator of a Lemmy instance as well as a NodeBB instance, and I must admit that at the height of Lemmy's development, we never allowed autonomous community creation. This was due to some issues that arose with mastodon when homonymous communities and users existed. It was also because it was impossible to implement an approval process or ensure that the quality of the communities met the instance's standards. For this reason, the process for creating communities by users consisted of a request from the registered user and a creation reserved for administrators.

What I would like to see in NodeBB is the ability to create communities, but keep them in a sort of "limbo," a "section" where new communities remain until they reach acceptable quality levels for the instance's standards.

This is in addition to the entire user credit system, which I imagine could also be set up to achieve a suitable score for building a community.

Perhaps I'm asking too much, but NodeBB's development has been so impressive so far that I wouldn't be surprised if you could implement a feature like this.

Zarlock via Ambiente - Sostenibilità e giustizia climatica

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L'anguilla che si annida nel dirupo e mostra i denti per assomigliare a un vecchio lupo - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri

Pareidolia è l’umana condizione psicologica, presente in ogni singolo rappresentante della specie, che induce gli osservatori di uno spazio vuoto ad individuare in esso la forma riconoscibile di un volto.

^{Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)}

#Ambiente

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Swollen battery

I found an old iPhone in a drawer this morning with other old iPhones (some of which can be salvaged) and this one was so swollen that it popped the screen off. Definitely a fire hazard I hadn’t thought of as much.

Definitely recycle any lithium battery showing signs of swelling as they have a risk of exploding I think.

lithiplus.com/post/understandi…

Old iPhone with swollen battery, not safe for use obviously

Understanding the Dangers of Lithium Batteries: Risks, Causes, and Safe Handling

Explore the hidden dangers of lithium batteries, including thermal runaway, electrical and thermal overloads, and mechanical damage. Learn essential safety practices for storage and handling.

^{Lithi+ (LithiPlus)}

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Thoughts on HOPE_16

I’m on the train back to Montreal from New York, where I attended HOPE_16 over the weekend. I wanted to capture some thoughts while they were fresh, even though they might not be fully formed. HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a technology and informatio

I’m on the train back to Montreal from New York, where I attended HOPE_16 over the weekend. I wanted to capture some thoughts while they were fresh, even though they might not be fully formed.

HOPE (Hackers On Planet Earth) is a technology and information security conference sponsored by 2600 Magazine. The SWF had two points of presence at the event this year: I gave an hour-long talk about the Fediverse which was streamed live. We also hosted the Fediverse Village, which turned out to be mostly a booth in the non-profits area of the vendors floor.

We had people streaming by all day long Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I had thought the Village was going to be more like a hang-out room, so I was caught off guard on prep, but I put out all the ActivityPub and Social Web Foundation stickers I had, covers for the ActivityPub book, and a stack of CoSocial.ca stickers to boot. But there was a definite stone soup aspect to the village area: people brought by schwag for Fediverse software like WriteFreely, instances like GardenState.social and Masto.nyc, and projects like DWeb.

I’d hoped to have more structured discussions, including a meetup for Fediverse governance and a hackathon. But it turned out to be a lot more loosey-goosey than I expected, and most of the weekend was spent talking to other Fediverse fans, and helping people who came up to the booth to ask about the Fediverse.

I think I expected because of the level of technical expertise that was shown at the event that we’d be speaking to only true believers. But there were many people there who hadn’t heard of the Fediverse, and who were excited to try it out. One thing that struck me that was an advantage for these people over commercial social networks was the option to get out from under the “real names” policies of many platforms. It’s hard to remember that the alternative to the Fediverse that most people are familiar with are services that require a real-looking legal name to be used, and force you to send a scan of a government ID if they’re at all suspicious.

The other thing that struck me was how many people came to the booth saying that they’d registered for a Mastodon account at some point, and were really excited to get it reactivated, but forgot which server it was on and didn’t want to register for another. I think that’s a real pain point for a lot of people — and one we should do better at solving.

I plan to come back to HOPE next year. I’d love to have more schwag for Fediverse software, services, and platforms. I’d like to have a way to get people signed up and onboarded for the Fediverse right at the table. And I’d like to have some more formal get-together events. There are spaces to meet at HOPE if you know how to set it up — I’m going to try to use them better next time.

Thanks to everyone who came to the Fediverse Village, my talk, or just talked to me around the HOPE event. I was energised by the people and the technology that was happening, and I look forward to engaging again.

Into the Fediverse HOPE_16

One third of Americans say that social media has negatively impacted their mental health. Almost two thirds say that social media has been bad for democracy. But the majority of us still use social media on a daily basis.

^{schedule.hope.net}

#fediverse #hackers #hope #2600 #hope16

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julian

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Re: Thoughts on HOPE_16

evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org HOPE was a little too close to FediCon timing wise but perhaps next year?

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Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!

Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia […]

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Sonolus gioconlus musicante super figo ganzo clonante tutti gli altri e afancul!!!

Stasera, per puro caso dell’espressione della consueta disperazione, il catgaming ha preso una piega inaspettata, ma graditissima. Infatti, mi era venuto un po’ a caso in mente di cercare se esistesse qualcosa tipo un server privato per VOEZ, che è quel giochino musicale che ho sul tablet per marcire con lo spirito mentre tengo tuttavia la mente e le manine allenate… e ho trovato decisamente di molto meglio; classica “cercavo rame e ho trovato oro” situazione. 😳👍
Per chi non lo avesse presente, non c’è molto da dire… è di circa 10 anni fa, ed è bellino: tutta l’estetica è di quel pulito-sognante stile anime, le canzoni sono varie pazzerelle (niente roba normie che va dallo zzz al bleh, insomma), ed è in generale uno dei pochi che mi piace. Ha anche una versione per Switch che, a differenza di quella mobile, costa un tot di base ma poi non ha acquisti in-app, ha tutto già sbloccato di suo, e funziona offline… ma, ovviamente, se sono a casa voglio usare il tablet da 10 pollici anziché il merdoso di Nintendo, e se sono in giro non voglio portarmi un secondo rettangolo di 6 pollici + bordi enormi oltre al telefono, per cui lasciamo stare. 🥱
Non so se ho allora trovato davvero cosa cercavo, perché dalle pareti del web mi sono spuntati diversi APK MOD, che non ho (ancora?) provato… ma ho trovato 1 cosa più pazza: un giochino di ritmo chiamato Sonolus, fatto per essere modulare, avendo un motore di base che può essere esteso con delle API per ricreare virtualmente qualunque rhythm game al di sopra di questa singola infrastruttura comune… oh, tanta roba in teoria. E nella pratica, che consiste in un APK di appena ~100 MB, il miraggio si conferma realtà: questo pezzo di pseudo-software, aggiunto l’URL del server che fornisce i dati per far comportare il gioco come un clone di VOEZ, è effettivamente tanto gustoso quanto pareva da lontano!!! 😻
La cosa bella di questo, quindi, è che non solo ho a (quasi) tutti gli effetti VOEZ ma con tutte le sue canzoni aggratis (+ custom, credo, senza necessitare di APK strani)… ma ho praticamente VOEZ che funziona senza Google Play Services, anziché freezarsi all’avvio senza spiegazioni, quindi posso tornare ad averlo pure sullo Ximifonino… e questo è davvero l’inizio della megafine, cazzo che bello. La fregatura sta nel fatto che ad ogni fine canzone esce una pubblicità, e gli acquisti in-app in realtà ci sono sotto forma di abbonamenti per togliere le pubblicità, o personalizzazioni del profilo online… roba di cui se ne fa a meno (anche perché le pubblicità ~~basta bloccarle a livello di OS, ma~~ finché sono solo statiche e non video sono accettabili, non danno fastidio). 🤗
Non ho ancora provato i vari motori di gioco disponibili a parte il clone di VOEZ, perché sono una marea… e quello, a dire il vero, comunque non è una ricreazione perfetta: sul look ci siamo, e anche sull’hear, ma sul feel non tanto, visto che la gestione degli input è parecchio più severa, e il margine di errore è abbastanza più basso da far si che, una canzone che sul VOEZ originale riesco tranquillamente a fare a difficoltà massima, qui mi esce un mezzo schifo persino a livello intermedio (e il video qui fa ampia mostra dei miei problemi di skill, in questo senso)… però, visti i vantaggi, dovrò abituarmici; quantomeno, se non sul tablet, per giocarci sul telefono, dove l’alternativa sarebbe il niente. 🔥

Assurdo che NON lagghi sullo Xiaomi con tanto di registrazione schermo attiva, ma, purtroppo, ha anche dei difetti… tipo che il core non è open-source — ma tutto ciò che ci gira attorno, inclusi i plugin che clonano i vari giochini, pare proprio di si — e che l’APK ha librerie solo per ARMv7 e ARMv8, niente x86+64 — ma poteva andare molto peggio: poteva essere solo ARM 64 bit; e invece, con doppie lib + supporto ad Android Nougat, si installa anche sul telefono di un pesce palla (non ironicamente). C’è anche per iOS, ~~ma di quello non ce ne fotte~~; dispiace non ci sia una build Windows e/o HTML5, piuttosto, ma il gioco è appena alla v1.0.0, quindi sarà questione di tempo. Per me, già il fatto che il gioco parta senza connessione Internet e faccia tranquillamente giocare i livelli salvati, è sufficiente a godere… 👾
Sonolus: memos.octt.eu.org/m/N6Tjx58WZN…
Sonolus VOEZ: memos.octt.eu.org/m/ZUmx6p2trC… (devo ancora capire, per mia pace mentale, come hostare un mio clone del server con tutti i dati, che nella repo git non ci sono… però top.)
#game #gaming #mobile #music #rhythm #VOEZ

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Sonolus, Next Generation Rhythm Game: + https://sonolus.com + https://wiki.sonolus.com + https://github.com/Sonolus + https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.FosFenes.Sonolus + https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sonolus/id1637055220
^Memos

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Google is watching

Swinging the spotlight, for a moment, from politics to big tech. I upgraded my mother-in-law's internet service recently. As part of that upgrade, I installed a new wifi access point with better security.

^{Mike Olson (Not a Tech Bro)}

#technology

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Come cambio da LMDE a Mint "vanilla"?

Scusate la domanda da newbie, spero di non evocare l'odio che hanno avuto nei miei confronti alcuni membri di lemmy.ml, ma sono molto nuovo come utente stabile su Linux.

Al mio primo approccio, a Maggio, mi è stato consigliato di installare non Linux Mint, bensì LMDE per prendere le distanze da Ubuntu etc.

Ora vedo che nel mio caso specifico ho alcune ragioni per non essere su Debian:
1) sono un utente molto nuovo e mi piacerebbe essere su una distro per la quale posso ottenere nei forum il miglior e più numeroso supporto possibile da parte della comunità
2) da quello che ho capito su LMDE lavorano molte meno persone che su Linux Mint
3) ho visto alcuni video su Debian 13 e ho capito che non fa parte della filosofia della distro inserire il supporto più recente per l'hardware, soprattutto Nvidia, e io ho un computer costruito per il gaming e con il quale mi piacerebbe continuare a giocare e a fare altre cose con la GPU etc.

Per questi motivi vorrei passare a Linux Mint, ma vorrei farlo nel modo più indolore possibile.

La mia situazione dischi è la seguente:

::: spoiler Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00B (scsi) (usato solo per i dati)

Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 17,4kB 134MB 134MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

2 135MB 1000GB 1000GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
:::

::: spoiler Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi) (dove risiede quel che rimane di Windows, per ora)
Disk /dev/sdb: 512GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 1049kB 106MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition boot, esp

2 106MB 123MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres

3 645MB 511GB 511GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata

4 511GB 512GB 793MB ntfs hidden, diag
:::

::: spoiler Model: ATA CT480BX200SSD1 (scsi) (disco su cui tengo i giochi, che vorrei dedicare totalmente al Linux Gaming ora)
Disk /dev/sdc: 480GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B

Partition Table: msdos

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags

1 1049kB 215GB 215GB primary ntfs

3 215GB 479GB 264GB primary ext4

2 479GB 480GB 555MB primary ntfs msftres
:::

::: spoiler Model: Samsung SSD 990 PRO with Heatsink 1TB (nvme) (il mio SSD nuovo su cui vorrei tenere Linux)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 1000GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: gpt

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags

1 2097kB 302MB 300MB fat32 primary boot, esp

2 303MB 1327MB 1024MB ext4 primary

3 1328MB 1000GB 999GB primary
:::

::: spoiler altre partizioni di cui riconosco solo la prima come quella criptata che risiede sull'SSD di cui sopra
Error: /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: unrecognised disk label

Model: Linux device-mapper (crypt) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde: 999GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: unknown

Disk Flags:

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-root: 964GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 964GB 964GB ext4

Model: Linux device-mapper (linear) (dm)

Disk /dev/mapper/lvmlmde-swap: 33,5GB

Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B

Partition Table: loop

Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Flags

1 0,00B 33,5GB 33,5GB linux-swap(v1)
:::

La mia home è sulla stessa partizione del root, cosa che credo di aver capito non sia stata proprio una furbata, ma non so come mettere solo la home su un'altra partizione durante l'installazione.

Mi potete aiutare a capire il modo migliore di passare da LMDE6 a Mint "vanilla" mantenendo il più possibile?

La mia home al momento occupa meno di 40 GB, quindi potrei salvarne i contenuti sul disco per il gaming per adesso, ma non so se è una buona idea.

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Alberto

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Devi reinstallare perché la base dei pacchetti è diversa. Il lavoro è più semplice se hai la /home separata

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fabriziob

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Ottimo! Mi potete spiegare come si fa questa cosa della home separata?

Cioè, io potrei creare una partizione sullo stesso disco o su un altro e copiarci dentro i contenuti di home, ma come faccio a configurare il sistema per puntare lì?

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Fabrizio

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modificando il file fstab in /etc.
Qui c'è la documentazione, vale per tutte le distribuzioni non solo per arch.
wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fstab

Fai una partizione o colleghi un altro disco, e inserisci il file system in fstab.

fstab - ArchWiki

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Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵

in reply to fabriziob • 3 settimane fa • •

Io utilizzo semplicemente Deja-dup.
Backup prima (su una memoria esterna)-> Ripristina dopo.
Funziona perfettamente senza sbattimenti

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Sembra essere l'applicazione di default per i backup in Ubuntu.
Questo significa che lo stesso si può fare con Timeshift?

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Marco Pagot 🇮🇹🔛🇯🇵

in reply to fabriziob • 3 settimane fa • •

Si, proprio quella, di default su Gnome. Non ho mai utilizzato Timeshift quindi non so dirti le differenze.

Un accorgimento importante, non modificare il nome utente nelle diverse istallazioni altrimenti la home ti creerà parecchi problemi. (Questo vale anche per la /home separata).

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Grazie mille per le dritte!

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Alberto

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Sulla stessa scia, crea gli utenti con lo stesso ordine, affinché abbiano lo stesso uid (se hai più di un utente).

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Sì, giusto, è un'altra ottima idea. Da fare prima della reinstallazione.

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