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Comment on Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter in ~music
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Unofficial Linux app for music streaming service Qobuz QBZ shut down after receiving cease and desist letter
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Comment on Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin returning for ‘Sicario 3’. Padraic McKinley to direct Steven Knight’s screenplay. in ~movies
Grzmot Link ParentAlbuquerque is where Hollywood has been shooting scenes set in Mexico or the middle east for a very long time now. Though I guess usually they disguise it better.Albuquerque is where Hollywood has been shooting scenes set in Mexico or the middle east for a very long time now. Though I guess usually they disguise it better.
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentEmpathy is not something that humans are born with, or at the very least if we're born with it, we don't express it at the first stages of brain development as toddlers. There's a reason you start...Empathy is not something that humans are born with, or at the very least if we're born with it, we don't express it at the first stages of brain development as toddlers.
There's a reason you start kids with "don't do it or I will punish you", move on to "would you like it if it happened to you?" and then finally "do not do this because the other person, like you, has feelings and you will hurt them"
Vaguely like this, I think there are steps in between, psych 101 was a long time ago.
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Comment on TN governor halts executions, Christa Pike in hospital following two failed lethal injection doses after US Supreme Court overturns last-minute stay of execution, all on the same day in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentIt feels like one of those pointless "innovations" where it looks more scientific and modern to do it via an injection but it's actually more brutal because there is nobody that wants to provide...It feels like one of those pointless "innovations" where it looks more scientific and modern to do it via an injection but it's actually more brutal because there is nobody that wants to provide the expertise or resources to execute a person via lethal injection the way that it's intended, aka they just fall asleep and then their heart stops.
Hanging via long drop, which breaks the neck and is as close to instant death as we can get is the better way to do it, because the other methods that achieve the same result are more "messy" like the firing squad or the guillotine.
Obviously the best way to do capital punishment is to not do it at all.
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Comment on Online visual art communities without AI? in ~creative
Grzmot Link ParentI checked it out because of this comment and thought I had landed by accident in some of these infinite data mazes they put in for AI scrapers.I checked it out because of this comment and thought I had landed by accident in some of these infinite data mazes they put in for AI scrapers.
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Comment on Xbox: continuing our reset [update on Xbox game studio closures] in ~games
Grzmot LinkFirst, we are eliminating 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios, and the XGS management and central functions layer. The actions completed since July, inclusive of the studio divestitures, bring us roughly three-quarters of the way through previously announced restructuring.
- Activision will expand its remit to World’s Edge, as well as Rare. Activision will also be developing the next Halo title, led by a new, purpose-built team that is separate from ongoing development and plans for Call of Duty. A small team at Halo Studios will continue supporting the Halo community and games in-market.
- Bethesda will expand its remit to include Obsidian, which will continue its current projects, including Grounded, as well as the new Fallout project made in collaboration with Bethesda Game Studios.
- King will expand its remit to include Microsoft Casual Games, uniting our two global leaders in casual game design and live operations.
- Playground and Turn 10 will come together as one studio focused on the Forza and Fable franchises. These two studios have been creative and franchise partners for over a decade, and today’s changes will formally move their work into one team.
Third, an update on our studio divestitures: In August, Compulsion and Double Fine returned to management with their IP, back catalogs, and runway funding. Undead Labs has now successfully transitioned on similar terms and, with a new publisher, will release State of Decay 3 day one on Game Pass. Unfortunately, two separate agreements for Ninja Theory fell through. We will now begin consultation with employees on a proposed closure while continuing to explore other paths forward. Consultation with Arkane remains underway and is expected to continue through the end of the year.
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Xbox: continuing our reset [update on Xbox game studio closures]
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Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music
Grzmot LinkEzra Collective's new album Here because of Hope. A very good instrumental jazz album with a few surprising featurings for some excellent vocal tracks. My personal favorite from the album is the...Ezra Collective's new album Here because of Hope. A very good instrumental jazz album with a few surprising featurings for some excellent vocal tracks. My personal favorite from the album is the song Well Organised. Here's a link to the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLV8w3k2U9o
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Comment on Spotify now lets parents block kids' music from polluting their recommendations in ~music
Grzmot Link ParentI'm personally pretty happy with Qobuz. It regularly makes me discover albums I enjoy outside my comfort zone because its front page is actually interesting and not full of slop, and also...I'm personally pretty happy with Qobuz. It regularly makes me discover albums I enjoy outside my comfort zone because its front page is actually interesting and not full of slop, and also apparently curated by humans.
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Comment on Steam Frame product page is now live in ~games
Grzmot LinkThis looks like a sick non-plus ultra VR headset but it still doesn't really solve the chicken and egg problem that the VR gaming landscape is barren as fuck. I hope it improves but by far the...This looks like a sick non-plus ultra VR headset but it still doesn't really solve the chicken and egg problem that the VR gaming landscape is barren as fuck.
I hope it improves but by far the best game is still Half Life Alyx and that's getting old as well. :/
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Comment on KOReader: custom reader software for eink devices in ~books
Grzmot Link ParentI switched my Pocketbook to Koreader after the official reader app on it stopped justifying my books, something that I care a great deal about. I haven't done anything that amounts to a trick, but...I switched my Pocketbook to Koreader after the official reader app on it stopped justifying my books, something that I care a great deal about.
I haven't done anything that amounts to a trick, but I did notice that some of the default settings aren't the greatest. I haven't quite figured out what all the typography settings mean, like there's a zoom setting that I think you should set to match the DPI of your e-reader screen. I think those settings appear when you tap the lower quarter of your screen or so.
Also tapping the progress bar at the bottom is gonna make it cycle through different info tidbits on the bottom left like how many pages are left till chapter end or how much time it estimates you're gonna need to finish, etc. It's difficult to tell what is interactable and what isn't but in Koreader nearly everything is.
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Comment on Irish, Scottish and Welsh leaders meet to plan break-up of United Kingdom in ~society
Grzmot Link ParentThat's a pretty wild take to imply that an EU member would initiate military action against what would legally still be UK territory and thus NATO territory. These aren't random congress members,...That's a pretty wild take to imply that an EU member would initiate military action against what would legally still be UK territory and thus NATO territory. These aren't random congress members, these people are actually in government.
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Comment on Zack Snyder's ‘The Last Photograph’ is getting destroyed at TIFF: “Unabashedly sh*t on every level” in ~movies
Grzmot Link ParentHe seems like an overall fine guy personally but I'm not sure why he's even getting out of his lane. The first time he tried writing a movie was Sucker Punch and that one was already very...He seems like an overall fine guy personally but I'm not sure why he's even getting out of his lane. The first time he tried writing a movie was Sucker Punch and that one was already very questionable. Then with Army of the Dead he also picked up the DP role and that was even more questionable. That movie is too long, it's ugly and it looks like a DP trying out new and whacky things (read: learning on the job) that are better suited to 50 dollar university projects than a multi-million feature film.
I think for the right project he can work, he's got a clear, consistent style that some people like and some people hate and that's fine because it's his style. He just needs to stick to his lane.
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Comment on Avatar: Seven Havens | Official trailer in ~tv
Grzmot Link ParentI was meh on the earlier trailers mostly because they focused on the super young avatar twins. I get that the ATLA was a kid's show but for what they do in that show they are extremely young even...I was meh on the earlier trailers mostly because they focused on the super young avatar twins. I get that the ATLA was a kid's show but for what they do in that show they are extremely young even for YA. I liked that Korra tried to grow up with the audience. The characters were older, the issues were more complex. I found the whole bender/non-bender issue very interesting. I think it got hampered a lot by studio interference, but S3 and S4 were very good.
So to see a return to what seem to be not even 10 year olds, though it's hard pinpoint their actual age given the artstyle, had me worried, because likely the writing would return to a more simplistic style as well. Now it's obvious that they're doing a big brother dynamic which has my hopes up, even though it's obvious from the get-go that the big reveal of the show will be that Korra wasn't evil and likely didn't cause the cataclysm.
I also really enjoyed the vibe of S1 Korra in particular, the 1920s jazz and big band soundtrack did a ton to set the mood, but even the show gave up on that with from S2 onwards, so I wasn't expecting a return to that anyhow.
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Comment on A very American invention, pushed to an extreme in ~food
Grzmot LinkFor anyone looking to read more about how the US food industry got into this sorry state, I can highly recommend the book Barons by Austin Frerick. It's a dive into various food industries. A...For anyone looking to read more about how the US food industry got into this sorry state, I can highly recommend the book Barons by Austin Frerick. It's a dive into various food industries. A company mentioned in passing in this article, JBL, is a major player there. I believe it's a PhD thesis turned into a book or something, but it's not academic (i.e. hard to read) in that sense. Plenty of citations though.
A pattern described in that book continues here in this article: industrial sized farming demolishes the environment. It's a breed of farming that follows the incentives of capitalism to specialize to it's logical and most extreme conclusion. Unfortunately what unleashed capitalism wants is not what's good for the environment. There's no grass, no flowers, just concrete lots built to be the most profitable way to make money.
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Comment on [SOLVED] Hunting for a movie in ~movies
Grzmot Link ParentI didn't participate in this treasure hunt but this gave me warm fuzzy feelings! Have fun!I didn't participate in this treasure hunt but this gave me warm fuzzy feelings! Have fun!
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Comment on Saner macOS keybindings with skhd-zig in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentNot disagreeing with you, just offering context: they do somewhere at the start. They needed a new laptop and their mother offered them her old macbook air. They're using it do not refuse a gift...The writer doesn't ever tell us why they are using it in the first place.
Not disagreeing with you, just offering context: they do somewhere at the start. They needed a new laptop and their mother offered them her old macbook air. They're using it do not refuse a gift and also I suppose so it doesn't feel wasted, even though they could just sell it.
I use macOS at work and Linux at home and while there's some stuff I don't like about mac, I'm mostly fine with it. I just swapped CTRL and CMD via the settings and the only other remaining issue is that some of the special characters like brackets are mapped to different keys in macOS for some reason. It's minor.
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Comment on EU packaging regulations land another blow to an already precarious tabletop industry in ~games.tabletop
Grzmot Link ParentAFAIK the current state is that you have to: have a representative in every single country you want to ship that is liable for your packaging pay the fees that every single country imposes to ship...AFAIK the current state is that you have to:
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have a representative in every single country you want to ship that is liable for your packaging
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pay the fees that every single country imposes to ship to that country.
This is a major barrier to the free movement of goods principle that is a founding pillar of the EU. There are also zero exemptions to this law. Most of these laws establish minimums precisely so that tiny and small businesses sending a few packages don't have their entire profits eaten up by the fact that they want to ship to the whole EU, which is again, one of the major pillars of the EU. Even the GDPR has these as far as I understand.
If the PPWR harmonized packaging laws in the EU and created a single spot for businesses to receive representation and certification for the whole of the EU/Schengen zone then it would be a whole different story.
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Comment on Webcomic of the author's experience in an abusive school that was a part of the Troubled Teens Industry in ~life
Grzmot Link ParentThank you for posting this awesome webcomic! I was glued to my screen and read all 100 chapters in the span of 4 days. It was horrible to read while he was in it, and afterwards it was still...Thank you for posting this awesome webcomic! I was glued to my screen and read all 100 chapters in the span of 4 days. It was horrible to read while he was in it, and afterwards it was still gut-wrenching to see Joe's long road the recovery. Especially the multiple shroom trips. Holy shit bro who the fuck pops shrooms and just drives across the continent... I was hoping at any point for him to try and go clean but he just never did. I'm happy it ended well for Joe, what an ordeal. I felt a lot of relief in the last chapters, and it was funny to come across explanations for some annoying things about the comic I noted earlier. I disliked the completely random detours a lot of the chapters took and it was endearing to read how he did it to not be bored of working on it.
There's also some wonderful pieces of art in this comic, the typesetting course really paid off for Joe. The moments when someone screams and the words just go all over the screen or spiral are harrowing and effective moments where intense emotions are conveyed. It's wild that like the first 40ish episodes were drawn on a fucking laptop track pad of all things.
I watched the Paris Hilton documentary about Provo Canyon when it came out and was shocked, I think it was a major blow to the troubled teen industry given that it benefits from secrecy. You send the child you failed to raise there and receive a compliant, broken young adult back that is barely functioning, but they're so terrified they'll obey anything so mission accomplished I guess.
Sorry for the necro, but I just wanted to appreciate you personally for introducing me to a piece of media that touched me significantly.
Users emailed Qobuz customer support and received the following response:
This happened around 2 weeks ago, I only learned it now. Obviously the question is if this frontline customer rep is just spitballing (they often are) or if this information is genuine. I'm also not in the music industry but one can expect that those streaming contracts with the labels will be draconian. However if it's true that using an unoffical app means that Qobuz has no idea what got streamed when, leaving me to conclude that they count their streams client-side. That sounds like a really bad thing to do. The only other alternative is that there is something specific in their label contracts which disallows third party applications using the Qobuz API.
From the developer's statement it seems like the behind the scenes conversation was cordial and Qobuz is a tiny company that was likely aware of the project before they had to act on it. It sucks because I like Qobuz in principle, but I'm tired of subscribing to services legally and being a second class citizen on Linux. QBZ was really good in that regard. The last release of the app still works but I guess eventually it will break.