Microsoft will escape largely unscathed from a major antitrust investigation by the European Commission that could have resulted in billion-dollar fines for the tech giant.
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FEP 7888 ([url=https://mastodon.social/@trwnh]@trwnh@mastodon.social[/url]) defines the use of [code]context[/code] to group reply-associated objects together.
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FEP 7888 (trwnh@mastodon.social) defines the use of context to group reply-associated objects together. FEP f228 (silverpill@mitra.social) defines how a context resolves to a collection of posts or activities, and how this can be used to backfill a conversational context.
This proposal aims to extend these guidelines further by codifying:
That a context declares an owner via context.attributedTo.
The situations where a context may be inherited by new objects.
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A Guardian investigation into the Alexandria facility reveals a pattern of alleged due process violations, previously unreported accounts of neglect and abuse, documented health emergencies and long stays
Despite being the somewhat crispied face of (extremely limited) unrest in Los Angeles in response to ICE activity, Waymo hasn’t suddenly decided it’s time to get snitchin’.
Despite being the somewhat crispied face of (extremely limited) unrest in Los Angeles in response to ICE activity, Waymo hasn’t suddenly decided it’s time to get snitchin’. In fac…
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Prince Harry made a surprise visit to Kyiv to support wounded service members and met with the Ukrainian prime minister, aiming to aid the country's recovery process.
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For many, many years security experts have warned that the “internet of things” (IOT) (or the myriad “smart home” devices we have scattered around our homes) was a security and privacy dumpster fire. A lot of these devices are made in China (often poorly) introducing new network attack vectors and widespread national security concerns.
For many, many years security experts have warned that the “internet of things” (IOT) (or the myriad “smart home” devices we have scattered around our homes) was a security …
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At what point do our officers refuse illegal orders? I can't imagine there's any legal wiggle-room for a blasting civilians out of the water. It'll never happen, but this seems grounds for a court martial. Well written and interesting article here:
Remember the plots of Clear and Present Danger and Sicario, where the US military is hunting narcos and it's a black bag operation because the scandal would be earth shattering? LOL, in the movies they even had to hide the funding and these fascists are gloating about it in the open.
Under US law, military personnel basically have no way to refuse an order since they themselves can't determine an order to be illegal. Only military court can do that and that can take from months to years while for all that time they will suffer real consequnces for refusing to comply with an order from their superior. Also if military court determines that order was lawful they are fucked. Also since US learned from Germany's aftermath, compyling with illegal order is an affirmative defense for them if they are accused of war crimes or other evil deeds.
There is a good video on this from a real judge advocate general (JAG): youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA
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The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists. Today they announced the brand new Apache Software Foundation branding.
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Reuters and other corporate news outlets only report Gaza's health ministry data which only counts confirmed deaths via hospitals. This is a more realistic estimate that includes missing people under the rubble and other deaths from people that weren't able to reach the hospital before being killed.
Breaking: Tyler Robinson, 22, arrested in Utah as the alleged killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Discover the latest details on this shocking incident.
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ESET Research has discovered HybridPetya, a copycat of the infamous Petya/NotPetya malware that adds the capability of compromising UEFI-based systems and weaponizing CVE‑2024‑7344 to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on outdated systems.
I was falsely accused by a once-good friend for eight months, and when I stood up for my rights, they in turn falsely accused me of harassment. My Tumblr account was banned after being mass reported by over a dozen people in one night. My Bluesky and Medium accounts were banned in the same way. Now they are targeting my personal website and AO3 account, and subjecting me to gender and race-based humiliation on Tumblr. I have submitted over 70 reports and substantial evidence to Tumblr, but have never received a response. I reached out to nearly 70 NGOs and media outlets, but not a single one responded to me. My accounts were banned one by one. I can't stand this ending—I told no lies, yet I'm constantly being pushed away. archiveofourown.org/works/6718… I don't have any other platforms left, only this document and my AI companion.
Per anni ti hanno detto di prendere la pillola per la pressione la sera. Un consiglio rigido, basato sulla paura di eventi cardiovascolari notturni. E se ti dicessi che un nuovo studio scientifico, il BedMed-Frail, sta ribaltando questa convinzione? La ricerca ha dimostrato che non ci sono differenze significative tra l'assunzione mattutina e quella serale, offrendo maggiore flessibilità. Questo non significa smettere di prendere il farmaco, ma rende la vita più semplice per chi deve gestirlo ogni giorno. È un promemoria che la scienza evolve, e con essa, la nostra salute.
Sapevi che accarezzare un animale può non solo farti sentire bene, ma anche abbassare la pressione e rallentare il battito cardiaco? Il legame tra esseri umani e animali non è solo affettivo, è scientificamente provato. La Pet Therapy, o Interventi Assistiti con gli Animali, sfrutta questa connessione per migliorare il benessere fisico e psicologico di tutti, dai bambini agli anziani. I benefici non sono solo per noi: funzionano solo se l’animale è parte integrante della famiglia. Scopri come l’amore reciproco diventa una vera terapia.
From sparking protests that toppled the prime minister to giving young people a platform to discuss their country's political future, social media was key to Nepal's extraordinary uprising this week.
[JS] European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams.
The European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams. These commitments will henceforth be legal
The European Commission has accepted commitments from Microsoft to address EU competition concerns relating to its popular team collaboration platform Teams. These commitments will henceforth be legal
I don't know about everyone else, but patched Spotify stopped working months ago for me so this isn't a loss for me personally, but still, fuck Spotify
YT Music is already under fire (been under it tbh), they've definitely been blocking any patches, cause YT music broke about 3 weeks ago and I still can't get it to work.
I wouldn’t expect Spotify to just let people use premium services for free. Fuck Spotify, right there with y’all on that, but this isn’t egregious or unethical behavior for them.
Use Spotify since it has a free tier, for music discovery if you like, but get FLACs and self host. I like Plex for that and it works with what I use.
Music is actually one thing I will always pay for. I use Apple Music because they pay artists more and they offer better quality. And they don’t care, if you’re on a family plan, if not all your family lives with you. I also self host because backups are nice and I can’t access Apple Music at work. I can, however, access Plex. (It’s not that Apple is blocked. It’s that Apple requires 2FA and I can’t bring my iPhone into work.) But, point is either way, self host and stream everywhere. Sucks that Plex went up; I got Lifetime for $80 years ago. (Now it’s $250.)
They also randomly delete albums and state increased playcount by AI as the reason for removal, and they also allow random dudes publishing remixes on your own artist profile, because there are no checks in place. You can just fill out the artist name in a text field and publish a song:
(She also made this meme release up top to prove how broken the system is.)
So fuck Spotify in every way you can. They don't deserve the money, since they're clearly doing nothing for the artists with it.
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Yeah, they write smaller checks than Spotify. Spotify has more subscribers. But Apple pays more per stream.
Spotify sponsors Joe Rogan, and Apple's CEO sucks up to Trump. There are no winners here with regards to politics.
Some say you can't separate music from politicians, and I suppose that's fair. I still pay for music, and if my same ten bucks a month or whatever it is now is gonna go in some small part to some bad fuckers, if more goes to the artists with one than the other, I can consider that the lesser of two evils.
Though you're not gonna hurt Apple and their Trump boot licking by not paying for their music streaming. Nah, you do that by only buying the phone you need, when you need it, not a new one every year like some people like to do. You can only hurt Spotify by not buying Spotify Premium. I like my iPhone okay, but it wasn't as big of an upgrade as the last one, and my next smartphone probably won't be an iPhone at all. Though I won't need to make that decision for another five or six years.
If taking down other peoples' work on fake and easily abusable DMCA grounds "isn't egregious or unethical behavior", your opinion worth less than the dogshit it was written in
Okay, so aside from the fact that you're stalking me across communities for whatever reason — if I write a loophole in your employer's code, like a patch, that keeps them from having to pay you, and they like not having to pay you, I haven't done anything egregious or unethical? Or it's only egregious or unethical because it's happening to a company you don't like?
If the law doesn't apply without prejudice blindly and equally for all, what good is it? And who decides who is deserving? Some pathetic Internet stalker? So given your lack of ethics, would you then agree it would be fair to take your wages as well? Or do you draw the line between companies and people, or how much someone makes? Because we might find some common ground there. But on the surface, it appears you are the one throwing dog shit from that which is covering you.
~~if I write a loophole in your employer's code, like a patch, that keeps them from having to pay you, and they like not having to pay you, I haven't done anything egregious or unethical?~~
~~I don't really care about the ethics in the Revanced situation nor the greater adblocking scene. That's a moral question for individuals to answer. From a legal perspective, I don't agree with the removal of original code. While I don't know of a legal precedent for the digital age, the closest physical comparison I can make is to the distribution of a lock-pick or a gun. And we don't prosecute lock-pick manufacturers for selling to a thief, we prosecute the thief for breaking into someone's home with it. Exempting cases where the actual product is illegal, such as specific gun models, but as far as I am aware there is no such law against any software (yet). Even if there were, I doubt it would all under the perview of DMCA. Thus my reasoning for saying this is an abuse of DMCA and my reason for distaste towards the situation.~~
~~Bringing this back to your original comment:~~
~~I wouldn’t expect Spotify to just let people use premium services for free. Fuck Spotify, right there with y’all on that, but this isn’t egregious or unethical behavior for them.~~
~~I wouldn't expect them to either! But I also don't expect them to try and take down material they have no right to take down and I would consider that to be a bit 'egregious'.~~
Edit: You know, I should have actually done the research before commenting. Anyway, I looked further into DMCA intent and it covers some circumvention tools which may(?) apply to adblockers, although I haven't heard of that being tested in court before. Leaving my comment here since it's already federated anyway.
And yet, you posted two comments to me, on two different communities, on two different instances, completely hostile in both of them.
You should get help. I can only imagine what you're like in real life. Either you're very meek when you're not behind a keyboard, people walk all over you so you bully people online, or you're exactly the same in real life and you hurt people around you. Maybe that's not the kind of person you want to be, either way. If I'm wrong and it is, nothing I say will convince you otherwise. But on the off chance there's any decency in you, take your own advice and talk to somebody.
I think you’re letting your imagination get the better of you to protect your ego from self-reflection. All I said was your opinion was dogshit, and it remains so. No amount of fiction about me will change that
That's a good point. But the issue is, it's always going to be a moving target. Every year I could reassess the streaming services and quit the one I'm on and go with the one that best meets my needs each year. And each year it could be a different one. Ethically, that would be the superior option. But, I'm not perfect, I'm barely ideal, and I use a family plan to help justify my cost. Sure, I pay more, but I also get my wife and a couple other family members the gift of perpetual music as well.
So if every year, or every, however often, I were to reassess, and drop one service, and start another one and ask them to dump the app and get a new app and let me add them on that, all of us are losing our entire library every time we switch across. It's a lot of work. Sure, there are tools to convert your stuff over, but it's still a bit of work.
At this point it's not about who's the actual absolute best at the things that matter the most, at this point it's just which one's good enough for our needs. Also Apple is one of the few streaming services that doesn't give a hoot if your family all lives with you. We had Spotify before and at that point — this was years ago — you had to retype the address every month, and if, say, my niece mistyped it, she'd lose access to her premium benefits for a month. At one point I just sent her an email with the exact text to copy and it was fine, but like if she accidentally left a space at the end or something, if the text didn't match 100%, it was this whole thing — and of course I wasn't compensated for a family member being denied their benefit for the month. Apple does not care. You add the person and they get the benefit without ever having to physically be at that address. I just hope that doesn't change.
(Also, I think Napster pays artists the most now, ironically?)
I appreciate your candour and time given to the response. The (superior) alternatives in respect to the given objectives were given as these were also concerns shared by me and at the time of my personal search they were the top contenders. Napster I recall eliminating early due to bountiful issues and subpar features, however I admit their state in 2025 is unknown to me.
At day's end, the goal of the ideal is never summited by the well-worn path of least resistance. Our thoughts whisper "at least it's better than XYZ" so that our conscience, though we know it a lie, is lightened. But I'm blathering on the piracy Lemmy so I can be ignored.
@Calirath @cerebralhawks I'm all for paying for music that is worth listening to. That's why I buy CD's. Then I own it and I can do whatever I want with it.
Except that ReVanced is not distributing anything of Spotify's (to my knowledge). By patching Spotify's app on the user device instead of providing downloads to pre-patched apps, the only thing ReVanced is providing is their own code. The reason they use a patcher system is exactly to avoid frivilous abuses of DMCA such as this. They are not infringing Spotify's copyright in any way.
I'll just refer you to what I said to the other guy. So if you see this, you should be able to click through to the thread, see what I said to the other guy, and read my reasoning there. No need to split the argument/debate into two threads.
Fair enough. I actually posted my own comment after I downvoted Arcane's due to their overly agressive and absolutist tone. It's hard to have a discussion when personal attacks are in every reply.
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It's true, you've changed my opinion! All those people upvoting the other post and not yours must be misclicking! It's a shame the brightest of us will never burn at dinner time....
As opposed to the "dunt werk on my machine" that was being replied to? To a bystander deciding to investigate Jellyfin for music themselves both points of view are useful are they not?
Hey guys, I said "MUSIC STREAMING". I use Jellyfin for video streaming and I think it's the best right now. I just don't like its GUI for music. That said, Jellyfin is a great app but it has some flaws. In my opinion, music handling is the worst part of Jellyfin.
What kind of issues are you experiencing with Jellyfin? It has worked perfectly for me, but I see the sentiment repeated many times so I guess it's not that uncommon to experience issues. I run it via Docker, mount volumes like I do with other media types, and add properly tagged music in an Artist/Album directory hierarchy. No special tweaking.
I'm not the person you were replying to, but the only issue I ever had using Jellyfin for music was that it seemed.a little finicky about matching artist/album when pulling down metadata, and I had to do more manual intervention.
The actual streaming functionality seemed perfectly fine, but I personally settled on Navidrome for music.
Do you run the files through something like MusicBrainz Picard first? I want to uniformly tag all my music anyway, so I would do that regardless of which media server I used, but it could be doing a poor job if it does not have a MusicBrainz ID associated with it?
No, I wasn't doing any pre-processing other than "properly" formatting the track name and folder structure. So I can't really blame Jellyfin, because I know that tagging is part of the best process workflow. But I've just found Navidrome seems to be a little more hands off.
Does it have a phone app that also lets you search for and add new music on the go? I'm trying to get my wife off Spot but she refuses without this ability.
Unfortunately, no. You can't add music through any apps or the web UI. To add music, you have to add files into a folder. And due to security reasons, Navidrome accesses that folder as read-only and therefore can't write anything to it.
If you are too young to have lived through the napster revolution it's very much a throwback to that kind of sharing so you get to experience p2p like it's the late 90s only with good network speeds. For an authentic experience limit your download to 56k.
It's wild to me that Soulseek persists despite being entirely mediated by a single central server. I would have thought it would have gotten the takedown long ago.
Also the fact that it doesn't swarm, only does one to one peer sharing is kind of odd to me, but I guess it actually makes some sense in that it constrains the network to being more optimal for smaller files like music and so keeps video off of the platform for the most part.
Worth noting that the Soulseek Wikipedia page lists a bunch of clients you can use, including Seeker for Android and others for all platforms including Linux
Yeah, there are a fair number of nice clients, slskd is just designed to fit into an existing automation flow, and can be accessed through a web browser (though of course you should always practice proper security and avoid exposing it to the web directly).
Had never heard of ReVanced before this looks amazing. I was just browsing their list of patches and there are some really great ones. Def gonna start using this. So thanks for sharing the link
I keep hearing about revanced, but I never end up checking it out because there's always another option. I used to use Invidious for everything, then I used Newpipe for everything, and now I use Grayjay for everything. I have faith that if Revanced goes down, there will be another Revanced in days.
The name comes from the original tweak called YouTube Vanced after it got shut down. Vanced is Advanced without the Ad, which I thought was super clever.
The function I love is the thumbnail one, because I can't stand a lot of thumbnails on YouTube. Even my favourite channels have to do the stupid faces and the arrows for the algorithm. The patch changes it back to the frame in the midpoint of the video.
If you have a YTM subscription, it does not make sense to play in Outer tune. Any YTM Streaming client streams in 128 kbps whilst YTM Premium streams at 256 kbps when set at High.
One can download songs at 256 kbps though if they have YTM Premium via yt-dlp using setcookiesoption. This is useful if someone has large custom playlists where searching via Soulseek is a chore.
Yeah; that's not much time, and I'm not a lawyer, but this seems a complicated legal question. I just assumed any tool that circumvents any sort of digital lock would be hosting in countries that DGAF about US laws. Even better if they have a .onion address to avoid any network blocking attempts, like z-library.
Go into your Spotify settings and request data. You'll be able to download all the info from your account including playlists. That's your first step. Now find your files. Go from there
So if I’m not mistaken the route I took was to import my Spotify library to Lidarr > Let it freely torrent/download in the background (this can take a long time especially if what you’re torrenting isn’t very popular!) > setup the Spotify Import plugin for Jellyfin and let that automatically make your playlist an such however, in my experience this worked well for maybe 40% of my playlists (roughly 800 rap songs + 200 rock/metal) and the rest I downloaded with ytdlp and manually added in to my library, which sucked because it was so tedious but once I got it done I never had to do it again.
I got about 15k songs in my library all together but only listen to my playlists.
I'm on the path to better systems than this, but as I'm too time poor, I gotta go with apps, and I just thought you might like to know I had as many songs in my Spotify Playlists and ported them over to Qobuz in seconds, if you want something quick for now. Qobuz talks you through it.
Revanced is actually open source, but it only has a set of patches for specific apps, while lucky patcher contains generalized patches and is a bit more focused on piracy
I believe that was an electron app for the PC. There was a flatpak available as recently as a month ago. I remember seeing it when I was looking for good music players. not sure how well it works.
And to top it off, YT Music stopped working for me, and has done the same for many others on some accounts (the revanced team thinks it's a/b testing from google).
I guess it's time to update my local music collection.
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in reply to BrikoX • • •At what point do our officers refuse illegal orders? I can't imagine there's any legal wiggle-room for a blasting civilians out of the water. It'll never happen, but this seems grounds for a court martial. Well written and interesting article here:
bbc.com/news/articles/cdjzw3gp…
Remember the plots of Clear and Present Danger and Sicario, where the US military is hunting narcos and it's a black bag operation because the scandal would be earth shattering? LOL, in the movies they even had to hide the funding and these fascists are gloating about it in the open.
US strike on 'Venezuela drug boat': What do we know, and was it legal?
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in reply to shalafi • • •Under US law, military personnel basically have no way to refuse an order since they themselves can't determine an order to be illegal. Only military court can do that and that can take from months to years while for all that time they will suffer real consequnces for refusing to comply with an order from their superior. Also if military court determines that order was lawful they are fucked.
Also since US learned from Germany's aftermath, compyling with illegal order is an affirmative defense for them if they are accused of war crimes or other evil deeds.
There is a good video on this from a real judge advocate general (JAG): youtu.be/TwPLqGkYnBA
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