UK Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians now talk of climate ‘pragmatism’ to delay action – new study
Politicians talk about being pragmatic on climate change to avoid hard decisions.The Conversation
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475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
United States immigration authorities have arrested 475 people in a raid on a Hyundai manufacturing site in Georgia, Steve Schrank, a special agent in charge of Homeland Securities Investigations Atlanta, said at a press conference on Friday.
The Hyundai facility, located in Ellabell, Georgia -- approximately 30 miles west of Savannah -- was raided “as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into allegations of unlawful employment practices and other serious federal crimes,” according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security.
475 people taken into ICE custody at Hyundai plant in Georgia
"This operation underscores our commitment to protecting jobs for Georgians."Jon Haworth (ABC News)
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack
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Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
Trump-Appointed Judges Block Order to Shut Down “Alligator Alcatraz”
Critics slammed the move, calling the jail an environmental threat that “has been functioning as an extrajudicial site.”…Jessica Corbett (Truthout)
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California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill | Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead
California quietly guts ambitious virtual power plant bill
Bills boosting solar, batteries, EVs, and smart thermostats to rein in California’s utility costs moved ahead — but the most innovative approaches were…Canary Media
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Gun Owners of America - which sees the NRA as soft - wants to get rid of the National Firearms Act. Even children should be able to buy guys, they believe
Inside the gun absolutists’ bold plot to repeal one of America’s strongest firearms laws
Gun Owners of America, which sees the NRA as soft, has the National Firearms Act in its sights – and it’s ready for battleGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
DC Statehood: Now, More Than Ever
DC Statehood: Now, More Than Ever | The Nation
The best counter to Trump’s authoritarianism is a renewed commitment to secure full representative democracy in Washington.The Nation
The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired
Mike Cannon-Brookes, the CEO of enterprise software giant Atlassian, was one of the first users of the Arc browser. Over the last several years, he has been a prolific bug reporter and feature requester. Now he’ll own the thing: Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company, the New York-based startup that makes both Arc and the new AI-focused Dia browser. Atlassian is paying $610 million in cash for The Browser Company, and plans to run it as an independent entity.The acquisition is mostly about Dia, which launched in June. Dia is a mix of web browser and chatbot, with a built-in way to chat with your tabs but also do things across apps. Open up three spreadsheets in three tabs and Dia can move data between them; log into your Gmail and Dia can tell you what’s next on the calendar. Anything with a URL immediately becomes data available to Dia and its AI models. For a company like Atlassian, which makes a whole suite of work apps — the popular project-tracker Jira, the note-taking app Confluence, plus Trello, Loom, and more — a way to stitch them all together seems obviously compelling.
The Browser Company, maker of Arc and Dia, is being acquired
It’s a big bet on AI for Atlassian, which makes tools like Jira and Confluence, and a work-focused shift for Dia.David Pierce (The Verge)
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OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
On Thursday, Fidji Simo, OpenAI's head of applications (and former CEO of Instacart), announced the plan for workers to advertise themselves to the company's customers for new jobs. She said that while AI is going to shake up the employment market, who better to solve that problem than the people doing the shaking?"AI will be disruptive. Jobs will look different, companies will have to adapt, and all of us – from shift workers to CEOs – will have to learn how to work in new ways," she said in a blog post.
"At OpenAI, we can't eliminate that disruption. But what we can do is help more people become fluent in AI and connect them with companies that need their skills, to give people more economic opportunities."
Simo's plan is that workers should take courses in tech literacy at its OpenAI Academy and then advertise themselves on a forthcoming jobs platform. She said the company has already signed up some big names to the scheme, although maybe the choice of Walmart as an early adopter might not encourage IT admins in their future career paths.
OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart
: Move over LinkedIn, Altman's crew wants a piece of the actionIain Thomson (The Register)
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Researchers unveil RoboBallet, an AI system designed to help teams of industrial robots work together without colliding
Specialized AI for scalable and adaptive multi-robot orchestration
Led by researchers at Google DeepMind Robotics, and through a long-term collaboration with Intrinsic - we are unveiling advanced AI research that enables fully automated, collision-free coordination for multiple industrial robots performing tasks tog…www.intrinsic.ai
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute have developed a large behavior model that enables more natural movement and “emergent skills” in humanoid robots
AI-Powered Robot by Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute Takes a Key Step Towards General-Purpose Humanoids - Toyota USA Newsroom
BOSTON (Aug. 20, 2025) - Today, Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a big step forward in robotics and artificial intelligence research: demonstrating a Large Behavior Model (LBM) powering the Atlas humanoid robot.Melissa Faulner (Toyota USA Newsroom)
Huawei to yank battery energy storage systems from UK
Huawei's battery energy storage systems run out of juice in the UK
Exclusive: Sources say decision to pull products takes effect from end of 2025Paul Kunert (The Register)
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Mark Zuckerberg sues Meta - but he's not who you think
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Indiana bankruptcy lawyer Mark S Zuckerberg says his Facebook account is "constantly hacked", businesses refuse to take his bookings and he gets constant requests online for money or favours aimed at the billionaire Meta founder.Mickey Carroll (Sky News)
Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO
Mark Zuckerberg, the Lawyer, Is Suing Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO
An Indiana attorney is suing Meta for repeatedly shutting down his Facebook pagesEce Yildirim (Gizmodo)
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Clingy chatbots, AI recruiters and other new research findings
New AI research roundup: chatbots, fairness, and more - Rest of World
We reviewed the latest academic studies on AI recruiters, emotionally manipulative chatbots, fairness challenges, and how AI is reshaping jobs and society.Rina Chandran (Rest of World)
Scammers Exploit Grok AI With Video Ad Scam to Push Malware on X
Have you noticed how malicious links are now being "𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐝"?
X won't allow links in promoted posts to fight malvertising. Yet scammers love the challenge and trick X’s AI to amplify the same links that should've been blocked!
This is "𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠"
Malvertisers run “video card” promoted posts with mostly sketchy “adult” content baits (how these even pass X's review is a mystery!)
The malicious link is hidden in the tiny "𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦:" field below the video player. There is no malicious link scanning whatsoever on X! Yet, it is still barely noticeable at this spot. It is not really a good malvertising practice, just yet...
Meanwhile, these posts reach 100k to 5M+ impressions through paid promotion! 💰
Then comes the twist. Scammers turn to 𝐀𝐬𝐤 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐤!
They ask something like: "𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦?" 😏
Grok reads the promoted post and finds the “From” field, using it in its reply 👉 This time, the malicious link is fully visible, clickable, and impossible to miss. Adding to that, it is now amplified in SEO and domain reputation - after all, it was echoed by Grok on a post with millions of impressions! 🤯
So what happened?
A malicious link that X explicitly prohibits in ads (and should have blocked entirely!) suddenly appears in a post by the system-trusted Grok account, sitting under a viral promoted thread and spreading straight into millions of feeds and search results!
👉 The system meant to enforce restrictions gets bypassed, and the AI itself becomes the amplifier! 🤖
And the links? They lead through shady ad networks, monetizing clicks with “direct links” that are known to push Fake captcha scam, Info stealer malware and other shady grey-area content
Really, grok? Don’t you check your links before you “grok” them?
Head of Guardio Labs, Nati Tal, post on X/Twitter.
For people who may not know, even a small satellite (not counting starlink's disposable suitcase ones) usually takes 5-10 YEARS to even build at the very minimum. If we were to also include the development, testing, and launch; the time could easily double that.
So, what he's doing is much, much worse; he's trying to create a legacy of destruction that would take multiple generations to even get back to where we were before he got his mealy hands on everything.
Climate change turns Pakistan’s summer oases into deadly flood zones
The mountain retreats where Pakistanis go to escape the stifling summer heat have been inundated this year by floods, another product of climate change.
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New Electron Flaw Allows Backdooring Signal, 1Password, and Slack
Subverting code integrity checks to locally backdoor Signal, 1Password, Slack, and more
A vulnerability in Electron applications allows attackers to bypass code integrity checks by tampering with V8 heap snapshot files, enabling local backdoors in applications like Signal, 1Password, and Slack.Darius Houle (The Trail of Bits Blog)
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Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
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Nonfarm payrolls increased by just 22,000 for the month, lower than the 75,000 forecast, while the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%.
The report showed a marked slowdown from the July increase of 79,000, which was revised up by 6,000. Revisions also showed a net loss of 13,000 in June.
Health care again led by sectors, adding 31,000 jobs, while social assistance contributed 16,000. Wholesale trade and manufacturing both saw declines of 12,000 on the month.
Payrolls rose 22,000 in August, less than expected in further sign of hiring slowdown
Nonfarm payrolls were expected to increase by 75,000 in August while the unemployment rate edged up tp 4.3%.Jeff Cox (CNBC)
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Why Putin is winning
Why Putin is winning
Last week's summit revealed just how little leverage the US has, while Europe looks panicked, and Zelensky is painted into a cornerJennifer Kavanagh (Responsible Statecraft)
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia[^1]. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces[^2].The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power[^3]. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second[^4].
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"[^5].
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation[^4]. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications[^3].
[^1]: WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
[^2]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
[^3]: Future Tech on Instagram
[^4]: New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
[^5]: Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
“I didn’t hear the usual grinding of ice”
When a Norwegian vessel reached the North Pole this week, the scientific team made an alarming discovery.Elizaveta Vereykina (thebarentsobserver)
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DOJ plans to label trans Americans as "mentally defective" to take away their guns
Justice Department leadership is prepared to use its rule-making authority to declare transgender people as mentally ill and deprive them of their Second Amendment right to possess firearms, according to two Justice officials who shared internal discussions with CNN.
Deliberations at the highest levels of the DOJ follow the recent mass shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, an attack police say was carried out by a 23-year-old former student at the church’s school who may have been a transgender person or a de-transitioned individual. Two children were killed in the attack, and 21 others were injured.
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Amazon's strict RTO policy is costing it top tech talent, according to internal document and insiders
Amazon's strict return-to-office policy and relocation demands are hindering recruitment, affecting its ability to attract top tech talent.
Archived version: archive.is/20250904101836/busi…
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They blew up a boat far offshore, killed eleven people, and called it justice
Lives erased in the Caribbean, wrapped in a White House video and sold as victory
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Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes
For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here's how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.
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I understand the author's intent to support artists by purchasing their music on various platforms, but by using Sabnzbd to download music from Usenet, this is essentially a guide to pirate music. The only thing in this setup that isn't automated is purchasing the albums, and at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp. No, he doesn't, that's impossible; Sabnzbd is a Usenet client and nothing more.
I applaud the author for trying to be honest and support his favorite artists with legal purchases to justify his use of these apps, and it's a great setup. But let's not pretend that most people following this guide will actually legally purchase any music they download once they see how seamless and fun it is to pirate it.
And I say all of that as someone who has a similar setup with Lidarr and Sabnzbd, I am not judging anyone who chooses to pirate music. And I do purchase actual physical albums of some of the music I download so I can support my favorite artists. I just wanted to call out the author for being a bit disingenuous about his setup.
<...> at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp.
He does? I can't find that reference.
UC Berkeley’s Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed
Researchers from UC Berkeley, Ajou University, and Georgia Tech unveiled Rhagobot in 2025, a tiny aquatic robot inspired by water striders of the genus Rhagovelia1. The robot features self-deploying fan-like structures on its legs that harness surface tension for propulsion, mimicking the insects' ability to move rapidly across water surfaces2.
The 8 cm long robot weighs just 0.2 grams and uses passive fan mechanisms that unfurl in 0.01 seconds without requiring muscle power3. These fans, measuring 10 by 5 mm, enable the robot to achieve speeds of two body lengths per second and execute 90-degree turns in under half a second4.
According to Professor Je-Sung Koh from Ajou University, "Our robotic fans self-morph using nothing but water surface forces and flexible geometry, just like their biological counterparts. It is a form of mechanical intelligence refined by nature through millions of years of evolution"5.
The breakthrough came from studying the water striders' fan architecture using electron microscopy, which revealed that surface tension alone powers the fan deployment - contrary to previous assumptions about muscle activation4. This passive mechanism reduces power consumption compared to motorized alternatives, making it promising for environmental monitoring and search-and-rescue applications3.
- WebProNews - UC Berkeley's Rhagobot: Water Strider Robot Harnesses Surface Tension for Speed ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
- Future Tech on Instagram ↩︎ ↩︎
- New Atlas - Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet ↩︎ ↩︎
- Heise - Inspired by water striders: self-unfolding fans make the 'Rhagobot' agile ↩︎
Robotic water strider rows itself forward by fanning feathery feet
Although we've seen many robotic water striders over the years, scientists are still finding new aspects of the insects to replicate. Recently, for instance, researchers created a strider-bot that zips across the water's surface via fans on its feet.Ben Coxworth (New Atlas)
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SAP to invest €20B in European sovereign cloud push
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
: German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoricLindsay Clark (The Register)
Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/27075196
On Tuesday 16 September, a Guardian panel of experts will be looking to answer questions about the forces driving the pushback against a greener world.We want to hear from our readers globally as not everyone can make the live event. Send in your climate crisis questions and we will put a selection of them to our panel on the day.
Send in your questions for the Guardian’s climate assembly panel
We would like to hear your questions about the climate crisis and we will put a selection of them to our panelGuardian community team (The Guardian)
Switzerland Launches Apertus: A Public, Open-Source AI Model Built for Privacy
The Swiss have unveiled Apertus, a fully open-source, multilingual LLM built with transparency, inclusiveness, and compliance at its core.
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Unions refuse to let Labour off the hook, joining forces to demand 'Wages not Weapons'
When it comes to investment in death and destruction abroad, the money is always found, says the Wages Not Weapons campaign
Susan Collins Advanced Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity Billionaire
As her populist opponent attacks her ties to Wall Street, Rolling Stone has revealed that Maine Sen. Susan Collins got a $2 million donation from a private equity billionaire the day before making a key vote to advance Trump's Big Beautiful Bill.
Susan Collins Advanced Trump Tax Bill After Receiving $2 Million from Private Equity Billionaire
The five-term Maine senator's populist opponent has seized on her ties to Wall Street, saying: "I don't think private equity deserves more time with a senator than someone who works two jobs to get by."stephen-prager (Common Dreams)
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Texas lawsuit over cocoa “laced” with abortion drug gets even wilder
Marine accused of slipping abortion pills into his ex’s drink claims she made the whole thing up.
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in reply to pressedhams • • •You'll have to be more specific. 😀 I think it works well for organizing a music library unless there are issues with this feature that I'm unaware of. Using it to queue downloads was painful for me, so I resort to less automated ways to acquire music files.
Simply put, the *arr software concept works well for downloading movies and TV shows (Radarr and Sonarr). Music just seems to be a little more difficult and I have lots of issues with Lidarr finding music out on Usenet and trackers. I hope that's user error on my part.
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in reply to bigb • • •I think the issue they are referring to is that Lidarr's API or interface with the MusicBrainz database has been broken for a few months now, which means it's impossible to search or add new artists/releases to your Lidarr library.
And as far as I can tell, it's still down. I have been unable to use Lidarr for anything since about April, except for finding releases that I had already added to my local database.
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in reply to Pro • • •It is laziness on my part.
I want to tell the Google home to play music.
I should just get a Bluetooth speaker and do this, shouldn't I
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in reply to Pzulu • • •You need the software, but there’s nothing about that request that should require access to the Internet.
I have a LLM chatbot that controls my Home Assistant and Kodi players. It’s all done locally and the response time is under a second.
On my PC(Arch, btw) I have a global hotkey so I can hold the key to record a message and when I let go of the key it uses a local model to do speech to text and sends the result to the chatbot.
I could probably use a wake word but I’d need to mic up my house and I’d rather not do that. A bluetooth lapel mic and a single button Bluetooth “keyboard” about the size of a key switch (using an ESP32C3 microcontroller) give me the same functionality.
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in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •Start out simple and stick with a basic BitTorrent client. Figure out where you want to download from and get a torrent client configured. I use an ISP that frowns upon piracy so here's a quick overview:
If/when you want to try Lidarr, you'll be much better off knowing the basics of BitTorrent because *arr software is confusing in its own regard. Lidarr is just a tool to organize your music library folders and also automatically queue downloads. It is not a requirement to enjoy downloading music.
Usenet and soulseek are other alternatives.
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in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •The absolute basics:
Always use the VPN when searching and downloading.
There are lots of steps to make it more convenient - things like using a Virutal machine so the vpn and torrent do their thing while you do whatever else you want on your PC, or setting up a docker Servarr stack to make things more convenient, or setting up a Raspberry pi / other device as a servarr stack. But for the basics all you need is a torrent client, a VPN and a Web browser.
All the extra advanced stuff is just quality of life, like being able to leave it downloading securely 24hours a day or organising your downloads better.
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in reply to BananaTrifleViolin • • •Edit: I know that torrent clients are a well-established paradigm—and that people are resilient to change—which is probably why you downvoted me. But Debrid services are some serious game changers, so needless to say I'm disappointed in you for just blindly downvoting without even giving them a try. You have no idea what you're missing out on. 😔
If you're going to pay money to pirate, you might as well skip the VPN and qbittorrent and just get a Debrid service instead. This gets you direct downloads to any torrent at gigabit speeds, without having to wait for seeds. Debrid takes the torrent client completely out of the picture.
All you do is copy and paste the magnet link into the Debrid site, and then directly download the torrent from your browser. It's cheaper and much faster than a VPN + torrent client. And safer too because your ISP doesn't see you sharing any illegal content (seeding the files is how they get you) nor using a VPN, so you can still pirate in places where VPNs are illegal. They just see you downloading large files from the internet. And since you're not distributing anything (seeding), you're staying within the law in most jurisdictions.
The threatening letters from my ISP stopped completely after I ditched qbittorrent and switched to Debrid. More people need to know about this. It's so much better than putting up with torrent clients, dealing with DNS/IP leaks, and waiting for seeds. Just copy/paste and download.
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in reply to Psythik • • •Downvotes are for your attitude on privacy.
VPNs are not a tool for piracy, they are a tool for privacy. Everyone should have a VPN like Mullvad/Proton or use Tor/I2P if they don't want their private Internet searches uploaded to the US government to be scanned and scrutinized at will, and possibly sold and publicized, even criminalized. That goes for non Americans too.
Debrid is not a private solution. Privacy is expensive and inconvenient. Your ISP is the least of your worries. You absolutely should be paying for Debrid anonymously and using a VPN in front if you're doing anything illegal, so then what's the point? Downloading copyrighted material is illegal as well.
Not blaming you though, Debrid is being very, very disingenuous in its marketing.
real-debrid.com/privacy
"We may be required to disclose Users personal data in order to protect our legal rights or where disclosure of Users personal data's are required of us by the judicial authorities only when legal procedures are followed."
They probably get legal disclosure requests daily. You are surely on an NSA shortlist of some kind.
Real-Debrid: All-in-one solution
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in reply to PastafARRian • • •VPNs are a tool for piracy, as they don't stop a centralized entity from knowing what you do, just shift it to another one.
if you need privacy, use tor.
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in reply to BarrelAgedBoredom • • •I'm with premiumize, but there are others I guess.
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in reply to nibbler • • •The problem is those companies (premiumize, debrid, whatever) are entities that make profits from filesharing and give nothing back to artists. That's not morally defensible.
Filesharing itself is perfectly morally defensible, and in fact sharing culture is good for society (including artists).
So while they might be convenient, they also shouldn't exist in the first place. Parasitic companies shouldn't be rewarded for their patristic behaviour.
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in reply to axx • • •and without using any of those proxy services, the lawyers get rich on my money, not the artists either
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in reply to superglue • • •The thing that flipped it for me was realizing the Spotify algorithm isn't actually about discovering new music, it's about driving profit. Idealism aside, what that tactically means for music discovery is the recommendations are based primarily around what they want to play, and then secondarily around what you might like.
It means that you're only discovering a subset of music you might like that is profitable to Spotify and their big record label partners.
After realizing that, the Spotify algorithm lost a lot of interest for me. Now I use SomaFM to discover new music. They do curated music channels in a bunch of different genres, and I find that the DJs have a similar taste to mine, so I hear a good amount of new music I'm into.
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in reply to superglue • • •No, you don't need that. You want it because it's convenient and we live in a consumerist society where everything "needs" to be "frictionless". Intentionally clicking on an artist's bandcamp page to listen to a recommendation is fine. It's a lot easier than mail order or taking the bus to the record store to buy a copy.
I get what you're saying, but we need to question the parameters of the challenges more often.
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in reply to axx • • •You don't need those either. You can learn to play an instrument, enjoy music on the Sunday mass, or wait until the local troubadour visits your place.
It's just easier with the record store.
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in reply to axx • • •Just went through this with both kids... The word "need" always implies a goal. "I need x (to do y)". Without context, the goal is generally either survival, or more often, comfort: "I need a drink." "I need a break."
When you're speaking in the context of doing something, as superglue was, that becomes the implied goal. "I need those recommendations to automatically populate (in order for my wife to be comfortable using this)" is a perfectly valid use of the word "need".
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in reply to Soup • • •Sure I can see that.
My wife and I have 3 small children, full time jobs, and no daycare. I can definitely say our life is not frictionless. I dont think there is anything wrong with wanting some things to be easy, and I dont blame her for not wanting to switch when I dont have something better.
Soup
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in reply to orenj • • •sheogorath
in reply to muhyb • • •If you're just looking at the popular stuff it's going to be shit. My library is filled with artists with just couple thousands of listens per month and it's the shit (to me).
Nowadays everyone can make music and it'll mean more stuff to filter through but there'll be more gems to discover.
muhyb
in reply to sheogorath • • •Are they popular because people actually like them, I wonder. Because some of them are really really bad, they're far from being art.
But yes, every age has their own gems to discover.
TheMinister
in reply to muhyb • • •Well I dunno your tastes, but some newer music that isn’t shit (I’m an album listener myself, so I judge by the whole album):
Black MIDI - Hellfire
Adult Jazz - Gist Is
Billy Woods - all three of his newest (one is under “Armand Hammer”, called “we buy diabetic test strips”, the other is “maps,” probably the most widely accessible, and the newest is Golliwog)
Shellac - To All Trains
Fiona Apple - Fetch the Boltcutters
KNOWER - KNOWER Forever
Those few albums span some genres and should cover a lot of tastes. I can add some more if you’re interested, those were just off the top of my head
muhyb
in reply to TheMinister • • •It seems we have quite different tastes but appreciated the effort. I listened the half of the first song for first 3, Shellac's music is really good (listened 3 songs) but not fond of the soloist or the lyrics. I listen Fiona Apple time to time but I always find her covers much better than her own songs, so there is that. KNOWER seems fun, I don't prefer to listen swearing in songs, but they are fun. Actually I'd like to hear more, especially if you know something similar to what I like in your repertoire. ❤
Not gonna share full albums here but gotta share what I like, I'll try to be broad as possible. All of them I like to listen as a whole album.
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- 陳美齡 - 珍珠淚
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- فرید فرجاد ـ گل سنگم
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- ELUVEITIE - Lvgvs
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- やなわらばー - 赤い実
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- Thalia - Piel Morena
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- Kazım Koyuncu - Mohevis Kalo
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- YouTube
www.youtube.comzarkanian
in reply to muhyb • • •muhyb
in reply to zarkanian • • •Ech
in reply to Pro • • •*It's no longer running*
Friendly alert that it's currently Bandcamp Friday - one full day that the site gives 100% of purchases to the artists. It's a good way to support small artists and build up a personal collection.
Psythik
in reply to Ech • • •Ech
in reply to Psythik • • •Eranziel
in reply to Ech • • •It's certainly lower than the 20-30% game distribution platforms take.
I can pretty much guarantee the server & staff costs are more than 1% of sticker price, especially since BC includes streaming services.
FiskFisk33
in reply to Ech • • •Encrypt-Keeper
in reply to Psythik • • •Server costs? I mean for a media serving website at this scale you need the servers, storage, people to run the servers, people to development the website, fix bugs, keep on top of security. If you had a very talented team that was very lean, and each member of which can wear multiple hats to reduce headcount, you’re talking $400-$600,000 a year just in salaries. Thats before you consider taxes, benefits, etc.
Do you think bandcamp is run by like one guy renting bargain bin shared cpu servers from AWS?
Soup
in reply to Encrypt-Keeper • • •Chaotic Entropy
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in reply to Ech • • •bandcampunited | Instagram | Linktree
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in reply to thetrekkersparky • • •thetrekkersparky
in reply to Bucky • • •Here's the link to the docker I used. There are a few others on github, but this one seemed like it was the most actively updated.
github.com/sirjmann92/nicotine…
I liked slskd perfectly fine once I got it going, but I couldn't get my partner to use it as she was used to nicotine and didn't like the new interface. Once the Docker was set up in Portainer there was very little additional configuration and the rest was inside the nicotine webui app.
GitHub - sirjmann92/nicotineplus-proper: Nicotine+ as a WebUI in a Docker container
GitHubzarkanian
in reply to thetrekkersparky • • •TigerAce
in reply to Bucky • • •I thought Lidarr is for music. Sonarr is for series.
Downloading music illegally avoids giving money to the bad companies but the artists still need to get paid. They can't work for free. They deserve our money. So please share music, but also support the artists. Through bandcamp for example.
Bucky
in reply to TigerAce • • •TigerAce
in reply to Bucky • • •Bucky
in reply to TigerAce • • •Well. I mean soulseek lists the quality of the file and you can set that so you don't download poor quality. I wouldn't worry about it. I;ve never had a problem with soulseek either with the app or with slskd. I have spotify and apple music so I'm, you know, doing the bare minimum to suport artists. I have a lot of live music and rare music that spotify simply will never have.
I stopped slskd because of the duplicates and also because I was worried it would run me out of space because I have a lot of artist in my library.
ProfessorScience
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in reply to Pro • • •Griffus
in reply to Pro • • •I simply just installed Metrolist on my phone.
100 % piracy robbing musicians, but more importantly, robbing Google while circumventing Spotify altogether.
lemonaz
in reply to Pro • • •I know the main topic is ditching Spotify, but on the secondary topic of screwing over Spotify...
I realized that you can "pirate" Spotify (i.e. listen indefinitely as if you had a paid account) if you have uBlock Origin on Edge. No setup needed, it just works. Most likely any Chromium-like browser will work.
Unfortunately, I haven't got it to work with Zen browser which is Firefox based so I'm not sure if all Firefox based browsers are affected. The workaround I have for now is just have Edge open with Spotify in the background, and control it from the Spotify interface on Zen. Never download the app, they control that fully.
Funnily enough, I also got ad-free Spotify play on Amazon Echo when I was controlling it from Edge, though I never tried with Zen because I don't use Echo anymore.
PS: For audiophiles this is probably not gonna fly, as you don't have access to the highest bit rates iirc.
axx
in reply to lemonaz • • •GitHub - abba23/spotify-adblock: Adblocker for Spotify
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