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Makes sense, I thought it was about goons (crime) or gooning (evil goon voice “what up, boss?”, “Yes boss”).

To expand a little:

While it indeed is annoying, it did mostly go as expected, as in, law makers must always be ready for companies responding to new and more restrictive laws with malicious compliance.

The vast majority of websites don’t actually follow the rules for cookie banners or implement them in as roundabout a way as possible, making them needlessly annoying as it should always be easier and at least as fast to decline than to accept.

While this all sounds like cookie banners ultimately are a failure because of the misimplementations that companies provided in response, it does function as an eye opener for the common man and stepping stone for the EU for further laws and fines in regard to citizens’ rights to privacy.

I’m pretty sure it’s more like

Junior dev: Got all the nice addons, RGB lighting, only uses dark theme, got all the stickers, works from either a café or moms basement.

VS Senior dev: Works on company standard issue hardware, barely customizes visuals (but got a script which makes a cup of coffee on the shared machine in exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds), works in shared office, has old rolling cabinet with unknown artifacts last touched 10+ years ago.

Obviously this is an overgeneralization and not a catch-all, you might even say that it’s “programmer humor”.

AI: “Can I copy your work?”

Phil: “Just don’t make it obvious.”

AI:

Everything nowadays that attempts to give back a little autonomy or freedom to the user is called piracy.

As long as an app could theoretically be used for piracy, even if it was made to circumvent toxic behavior of users’ bought and paid for products, then it must be properly labelled as piracy and taken down.

I’ll better stop before this becomes a rant.

Well, they’re experts in the field, so they’d probably be able to detect them too.

Do you latch your sheets below your matress’ corners? They’re usually meant to fully cover the top and all sides, except for those with no elastic.

Or, perhaps the elastic has gotten too lash, so they slip out from below and ride up the sides?

I don’t have a proper solution for washing and drying, except putting them in a washing bag so they don’t eat all the other laundry.

Haven’t heard about that one, thank you for the heads-up.

First impressions:

• From top 10 artists i follow:
  • 5/10 have profile and uploaded at least one song on Bandcamp.
  • 3/10 have an account on Audius (possibility to donate).
  • 1/10 has uploaded at least one song on Audius.
• One MUST upload a profile picture to create an account.
  • About 1/3 of proposed artists during account creation have uploaded <5 songs, most seem to be remix and cover artists.
  • Didn’t figure out how to search for artists during account creation, ended up choosing 2/3 artists I’ve never heard of.
• Not immediately apparent whether I can download bought music to a lossless format.
• Not sure how to buy album or individual song at first glance.
• LOTS of remixes and covers, not so much original songs (this is both good and bad).
• Nice that you can donate arbitrary amount without buying anything, in case you already got the music from… other places…
  • I didn’t find anyplace where “$AUDIO” is explained, how much the artist receives, or what you receive if anything.

Less relevant observations:

• weird pause/play button, sometimes there’s just a loading wheel spinning where it’s supposed to be, not really functional.
• Slightly intrusive, had to disable some plugins (Javascript (obviously it’s playing music) and fingerprinting (cloudflare?)) for the site to load. Not relevant to music, but just a general observation since we’re in the piracy community.

Not much going on by now, but it probably just needs some time to grow and assimilate the likely soon-to-be-migrating Bandcamp user base. I’ll keep an eye on it, and probably revisit it once more artists have migrated to it.

But we’ll still need a proper place to support our favorite creators (where the artists actually receive some of the money). I wonder where people will migrate next.

Most foreboding quote 2024.

Depending on the definition, you’re not obscuring traffic if you’re driving 60kmh in the fastlane either, or if only you manage to get over the green light because of your tardiness, as traffic is still flowing, just very, very slow.

Either way, you’ll be slowing down traffic and get in the way of other drivers, unless you are the only person on the road.

Where do you live, OP?

In Denmark it goes in the same category as not driving when the light is green or keeping to the left on the highway.

While you seldomly see someone get fined for it, taking more than two turns in the roundabout is considered an obstruction of traffic, and therefore illegal.

Not relevant to the question, but the overuse of hearts makes it seem like they play more on feelings than on logic. Kinda feels like a cult.

Right, I thought it was a group of employees doing this over an extended period of time, might not be a fair comparison after all then.

Not that it’s a fair comparison to begin with, I just held a similar amount of annoyance toward the two.

Can’t talk for anyone else, but I put them in the same category as PETA.

They probably do a lot of good, but it feels like the good they do is outweighed by all the bad they do to get there.

Like kidnapping collared dogs from the streets to euthanize them (PETA), or fighting the (at the time) only realistic alternative to oil, giving all the rich oil sheiks a hard on and adding to the already bad global warming problem (Greenpeace).

So is cheating, yet we still have cheaters.