Sorry to be that guy, but this sounds like a cybersecurity nightmare. While everybody was busy to come up with schemes that make absolutely sure that only trusted sources can update a system to avoid having malicious players push their code to users, this one just takes any rando’s pile of whatever and injects it straight into the system’s core? Like, that doesn’t sound like a good idea.

How is Spotify supposed to “handle” anything here if the rights owner tells them that this is how it works? Like, not only didn’t the first rights owner give them any means to stay updated with the rights, the new rights owner didn’t notify them either that any rights were transferred to them before taking them to court. The only way to properly handle this would have been to tell them to get fucked, but that’s not really an alternative if we’re talking about the streaming rights for Eminem. This all seems like a setup to sue them… But who am I to tell? I’m just a jerk who read an article online. You know who should decide whether or not this was a scheme to drag Spotify to court? A judge.

Oh, wait, they did. Guess it’s decided, then.

To get to it click the 3 lines or ‘more’, then find ‘feeds’ and select that

Oh, wow… I recently opened fb again and was just irritated that it didn’t show any posts by my friends. Turns out they weren’t inactive, fb just doesn’t show them by default. What a dumb waste of a platform… I mean, what is it good for if not that? Why would I watch an endless stream of ads and clickbait?

That list issue you mentioned really confused me, so here’s what’s in the article about it:

The judge also noted that Spotify’s agreement with Kobalt did not include a database of the songs it could, and could not, stream.

“Kobalt’s primary stated reason for that approach is that the catalogue of a large administrator like Kobalt would be routinely changing, rendering any list almost immediately out of date,” she wrote.

So…

• It’s not Spotify who’s behaving weirdly here but the rights holder and
• the judge doesn’t just seem to be okay with it, but this is mentioned as another thing that added to the impression that the rights holder made it deliberately hard for Spotify to properly determine if it had the rights to stream a song.

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Here’s my prognosis on how this will turn out…

System: 🚨

Humans: 🤷

Another point (which is a result of not refreshing the screen) which the article misses is power consumption. I can use my reader for several weeks without recharging.

If the leftish faction won every time, politics as a whole would shift left. So unironically, yes, vote.

What if I like both?

And could I register as a member of a sub-belief? Like, I’m a true believer of the unified collective of the Borg?

As somebody who likes Tetris but essentially had no idea about PuyoPuyo until I came across that comment, that was a brilliant yet depressing read. I’m currently busy with life but wishlisted some PuyoPuyo games for this winter, just because that article outlined such an interesting game. It’s kind of hard to find something for current platforms in Europe though…

At least Spotify has a built in button to just select one of their speakers, so you can use that one to bypass their shitty app.

That said, I don’t think you can select multiple speakers, which kind of defeats the purpose of a multi room sound system. So yeah, I haven’t uninstalled their app and get annoyed as fuck every time I have to use it.

Threema. It’s e2e encrypted, comes with essentially everything a modern messenger needs and doesn’t require you to sign up with your phone numbers.

You were smoking at 15?

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Yeah, that was quite sexy.

I specifically googled this and the results did not help.

What?

During WW2, due to the food shortage, Germans did this using the carbon from coal… The process is old and known.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margarine#Coal_butter

Let’s see if the process can be made more efficient this time. Allegedly, the product was virtually indistinguishable from butter.

Luca sucked

What’s wrong with you, stupido?

It’s amazing

It sometimes makes up things

https://xkcd.com/481/

I like how you lecture the company that produced 5 of the 10 best selling consoles of all time on how they have no idea about what their customers want.

That’s a brilliant idea! If we’re that innovative again next week, somebody might even suggest adding a second screen to the foldable console.