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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

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  • The newest part, which is Spotify refusing to payout what small artists are owed if they don't hit a certain streaming threshold, is 100% on Spotify.

    For alternatives, Tidal allegedly pays better and at least doesn't do this. Qobuz is not owned by any big tech company.

    • Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

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    • Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski

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  • I did, I cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal because of this, and noted the reason in my exit survey.

    • Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.

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  • uBlock-Origin on Firefox.

    • Bill Gates feels Generative AI has plateaued, says GPT-5 will not be any better

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  • ChatGPT doesn't learn like that though, does it? I thought it was "static" with its training data.

    • Share your favorite christmas albums

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    • Chicago 25
    • Trevor Gordon Hall - Let Your Heart Be Light
    • Tommy Emmanuel - Christmas Memories

    • Making an image with generative AI uses as much energy as charging your phone

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  • It's probably a net savings over a digital artist creating images given the speed. Just powering your monitor for so much longer is going to take more power.

    • What's some easy recipes that only use non-perishables?

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  • Basically anything but make it with frozen vegetables, and vacuum seal your meat and put it in the freezer?

    • Goldman Sachs analyst used inside information for profit, London court told

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  • He used an account in his brother's name? How did they expect to get away with this? You need some degrees of separation here, c'mon.

    • Commons committee calls for federal registry of breast implants

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  • I think making this mandatory with the option to opt out rather than the reverse maybe crosses a privacy line.

    Is it really that different with a medical procedure? You're signing informed consent forms regardless - it's just a matter of if it says "decline" next to the check box as opposed to "opt-in."

    • Candy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids as young as 5 in Ghana

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  • So these children are driven to work due to poverty right? So isn't the answer to try to address that rather than to say "stop using cocoa harvested by child labor?" Like I'm totally pro-non-child-labor-cocoa, but wouldn't the kids just get other jobs then?

    • Is there a good, paid gps app? I mean for driving and walking? Google Maps etc is getting worse by the day

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  • Since you're talking about city travel, do you care about traffic? That has been my main issue with any alternatives.

    • Osmand: solid overall, you do need to buy Osmand+ in the play store if you need Android Auto functionality though (the f-droid version does not work with AA). But no traffic data so you'll get the best route if there was no traffic. Another quirk is that you need to download the region you're navigating in - you can view maps online but can't navigate without the downloaded maps. And downloads are large chunks - it is by country or state/province so you're likely using a lot of storage that you don't need.
    • OrganicMaps: a cleaner interface than Osmand while using the same map data. No Android Auto support. It still needs to download maps but can auto download as you go and uses smaller chunks so you can download more locally.
    • MapFactor: one of the early offline options on Android before Google Maps offered the option to download. It has traffic data but I've found routing to be mediocre. It's also subscription based rather than a purchase.

    • Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please?

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  • Yes. This usage originated well before reddit. "Car porn", "gun porn," "disaster porn."

    • Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please?

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  • EarthPorn is typically exclusive of animal pictures though from what I've seen.

    • Could we not bring that to Lemmy, please?

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  • It's not exactly comedy. What do you want us to call Earth porn? ”Reallyprettypicturesofearthbutwithoutanyhumancreations"?

    • ethinically ambigaus

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  • It's tricky because the data itself is going to be biased here. Think about it - even the video game is specifically called "Spider-Man Miles Morales" while the one with Peter Parker is just called "Spider-Man."

    Katniss is actually a good example. I was not aware of the details, but the books apparently describe her as having "olive skin". The problem though is that if you image search her all you get is Jennifer Lawrence.

    That said, Homer is yellow.

    • ethinically ambigaus

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  • If a request is for a generic person, sure. But when the request is for a specific character, not really.

    Like make one of the undefined arms black.

    • What are some of your, "If I like this, what else might I like" questions?

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  • Have you tried venturing more towards the metal side like...

    • Lacuna Coil
    • After Forever
    • A Sound of Thunder (probably more rock)
    • Arch Enemy
    • Epica
    • Unleash the Archers

    • Why Bother With uBlock Being Blocked In Chrome? Now Is The Best Time To Switch To Firefox

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  • Not Firefox's fault at all. Just a website not following web standards.

    • Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family

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  • While this is kind of messed up, I have never heard of this feature and don't have any friends on Plex but when I checked my privacy settings they were already set to Private. Additionally the menu says it will automatically revert to private every two years. So it seems like people had to manually share their activity with their friends for this to be an issue.