How did you blur the windows/make them transparent?

Are there any downsides to opening up the server-side code too? Would it also compromise other banks’ security, since these banks need to interoperate?

Copying is not theft (1 minute)

Jailbroken Amazon Kindle Paperwhite 2 with Koreader installed. Never really bothered to take notes while reading (let alone sync them), so I’m gonna follow this thread.

I download my books from Soulseek and manage/transfer them using Calibre.

The consequences of being terminally online.

Your comment made me crave for a cuppa. I’ll make something green.

Oops, sorry. Did the Middle-European way of doing quotes with „”. They are special characters not in the English layout AFAIK. Fixing it.

Speaking about notifications, did you check out your phone’s battery conserving settings? My friends having a Samsung or Xiaomi also have this issue due to aggressive restrictions on less-used apps. You can find more info and workarounds here: https://dontkillmyapp.com

Go on there and share some of your stuff, if you want. We’ll be glad if people help keep the network alive. ;)

+1 to ListenBrainz. It’s an awesome tool for tracking your listening habits (kinda like Last.fm). Combined with Pano Scrobbler, I can create collage pics of my most listened-to artists or albums of a given time period (per week/month/year). It’s a great service and I want to donate to that project in the future, because I get so much value out of it.

Richard Stallman wrote a quick page on the shady things Spotify does (3 minute read not counting the linked articles). Although only loosely related to what you asked for. According to the info I found online, Discover Weekly should be safe from the kinds of sponsorships you talk about (the whole article takes about 8-15 minutes to read, but I quoted the important part below).

A representative for Spotify tells Vox that the user experience of Discover Weekly will not change — e.g., Nike can’t buy the playlist for the week and serve everyone a Frank Ocean song — and reiterates, “Discover Weekly is, and will remain, a powerful means of artists winning new fans.