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noodlejetski ,

or does google actually have some of its own

every phone running Google's version of Android with location enabled.

noodlejetski ,

Kagi started as an AI company. and they do a bunch of weird things otherwise, which made me stop giving them money.

https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html

1000+ Firefox for Android extensions now available – Mozilla Add-ons Community Blog ( blog.mozilla.org )

The new open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android launched in December with just over 400 extensions. Less than five months later we’ve surpassed 1,000 Firefox for Android extensions. That’s an impressive achievement by this developer community! It’s exciting to see so many developers embrace the opportunity to...

noodlejetski ,

not sure how well the first two are going to work together, given that the first one clicks through the banners to deny as many cookies as possible, while the second one blocks said banners from loading.

noodlejetski ,

no no no not that kind of babies

noodlejetski ,

whoa, did someone finally show them that Linus clip?!

noodlejetski ,

feel free to make a writeup!

What's stopping you from using Ecosia? Your searches could plant trees! ( www.ecosia.org )

Ecosia is a search engine that aggregates search results from multiple other search engines. The ad revenue from our searches funds the planting of trees worldwide. With over 200 million trees planted so far, Ecosia have learned to be fully transparent about their projects, and financials which are available right on that...

noodlejetski ,

they've added an LLM chatbot recently, so I'm sure the energy required to run the queries will offset all the trees they've planted so far in about 4 days.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year ( www.billboard.com )

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

noodlejetski , (edited )

I've ditched Spotify last year when their app has suddenly started draining battery on my phone (and also because of them being so eager to give Rogan a platform). I've switched to Deezer, but I've ran into the same issue I've had with Spotify for a while - even if I download a playlist for offline usage, it'll still try to connect to the internet, so if I was somewhere with poor reception, it'd get stuck on a spinning circle for a minute before giving up and showing me the songs I've wanted to play. I ended my Deezer subscription, rebuilt the library on my laptop, and just manually transfer files to my phone. I get instant access to my music with no delays, with music players that offer much better experience and handle shuffle and queues the way I want to, and aren't a glorified Chrome tab on desktop. and if I really like an album, I'll just straight up buy one. I listen to music a fucking lot (two years ago i was in top 0.2% of my country's Spotify users), and according to some screenshots of my Spotify Wrapped, I've played my artists songs for 1200 minutes, which translates to 300-400 plays at best (probably less than that, given that many of their songs are around 6 to 8 minutes long). given that, from what I've found online, 1000 plays gives artists 4 bucks, I could just buy two of their songs on Bandcamp and pirate the rest of their music, and they'll still get more money in a year from me.

I do miss seamless playback switching between devices, though. it was a really nice Spotify feature... when it worked, that is.

noodlejetski ,

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=apple+music+android

noodlejetski ,

thing is, it didn't do that in the past, or at least it wouldn't be that noticeable to me. but some time ago Spotify introduced a feature that would automatically add "smart" suggestions to the playlist, and it makes sense it requires network access for that. what doesn't make sense is that it still wants the connection even when I kept that feature disabled.

noodlejetski , (edited )

then I dunno, maybe require periodic (e.g. monthly) checks to verify that I've been paying for a subscription, instead of punishing me for having the nerve to try viewing my library while I'm on an elevator?

noodlejetski ,

https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/112410704497640450

noodlejetski ,

you're replying to a verbatim quote from the article.

noodlejetski ,

Tesla section on XDA forums when

Stack Overflow and OpenAI Partner ( files.mastodon.online )

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/15315562...

From the official stackoverflow account: We’re thrilled to announce we’re partnering with @OpenAI to bring best in class technical knowledge and the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development together! This groundbreaking partnership with OpenAI will drive our mission to empower the world to develop technology through collective knowledge.
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noodlejetski ,

https://xkcd.com/979/

noodlejetski ,

who you see as the top two

  1. Chrome, Chrome but Microsoft, Chrome but crypto and homophobic CEO, Chrome but with makeup on
  2. Firefox, Firefox but no Mozilla, Firefox but TOR, Firefox but Mullvad
noodlejetski ,

so how long until it's revealed that it's actually remotely controlled by underpaid contractors in India?

noodlejetski ,

Internet Websie Calls A Person Who Doesn't Know How To Manage Bookmarks A "Power User"

noodlejetski ,

https://files.catbox.moe/cdmwys.jpg

noodlejetski ,

yeah, it's possible. I use SwiftBackup for that purpose (closed source with internet access disabled; requires root).

noodlejetski ,

I managed to back up my chats and then restore it after flashing a custom ROM (so technically "another phone") that way. it just copies the entire app with all its settings and contents and then lets you restore it to that previous state.

noodlejetski ,

probably because they don't want to draw Spotify's attention by loudly announcing "HEY GUYS WE GIVE YOU SPOTIFY PREMIUM FEATURES FOR FREE".

noodlejetski ,

Is it good

no.

noodlejetski ,

I'm currently stuck using DuckDuckGo myself, just with the AI fluff disabled in settings. I've tried various other search engines but they're either also buying in the LLM hype, or are just Not There Yet™ (https://stract.com, for example), or both.

noodlejetski ,

number 4 will shock you!!1

noodlejetski ,

probably once it's ready.

noodlejetski ,

during the great Mastodon migration in 2022 I saw someone post how they head to unlearn scrolling past every 6th post or so on their timeline, because that's how the Twitter app was displaying the ads. I wish Microsoft the Very Bad and daydream about year of the Linux desktop, but something's telling me people will get used to ads on Windows the same way.

noodlejetski ,

I'm not aware of any research that's proven that phone are listening on conversations and serve ads based on that, just a bunch of anecdotal evidence. there has been some research a few years ago that proved the opposite, though.

noodlejetski ,

https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188

this is the most recent one I know of.

you have to admit, that in my case at least, Occam’s Razor would definitely point you in a certain direction.

it points me in the direction of you either being in the demographic currently targeted by the ad provider, or you having been shown the ad before without noticing it, and only paying attention after talking about the topic, and experiencing frequency illusion afterwards.

noodlejetski ,

Gizmodo? 2018? Yikes.

it's a summary of a paper posted here: https://recon.meddle.mobi/panoptispy/

in that same article is one from Vice, which backs up what I've been stating and assuming

do I get to say "Vice? 2018? Yikes." now?

feel free to link more up-to-date research results.

noodlejetski ,

I do have an account (and PixelDroid installed on my phone), but most of the accounts I'd follow there I've already got added to my Mastodon, so I don't check it that often.

noodlejetski ,

Plasmatube https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/plasmatube

noodlejetski ,

many ISPs over here offer a ~5-10% discount on monthly bills if you agree to have your traffic analysed for marketing purposes. the last time I signed a contract I had to explicitly opt out of that. the ISP providing internet to all of my landlord's flats offers a similar deal when signing a contract, and 1. I'm willing to bet that my landlord has opted in, and 2. I have no way of opting out of that for my flat. I think I'll stick with a VPN for the foreseeable future.

noodlejetski ,

from the ISP likely to analyze my traffic to a VPN provider who didn't provide any data after being raided by the police because they didn't store any

noodlejetski ,

it's very likely that Cory didn't have enough time to do research, visit the company's Discord, and so on.

noodlejetski ,

when it's listed as one of the company's official communication channels with the owner of the company frequently participating, then I sure as hell am going to judge the company by it.

noodlejetski ,

also why the fuck does Lego Fortnite require anticheat? it's a survival co-op, there's no competitive element, and yet from what I've read it still kicks you out when you're trying to play it on Linux.

noodlejetski ,

they're selling the 4 with degoogled OS in the US, so perhaps they'll do the same with the 5 at some point.

noodlejetski ,

which isn't GDPR-compliant. you can't force people to accept tracking if the service doesn't require it to work.

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