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  1. Comment on Enter a Spotify song URL and get it "translated" to other music services in ~music

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    While the idea is cool, the way it does it is not perfect: it use the searches APIs in each platform. And I already know the search API for deezer is way off (not really the fault of this tool)....

    While the idea is cool, the way it does it is not perfect: it use the searches APIs in each platform.
    And I already know the search API for deezer is way off (not really the fault of this tool).

    For example this album https://open.spotify.com/album/4XdfTlDISHha9aMrxMXGGn

    For this one in particular what I would propose would not work either, but I think for older release it might be a better fallback:

    Using musicbrainz you could use the links added in each release corresponding to the one found on spotify for example: https://musicbrainz.org/release/270f378f-cc13-4c70-9615-cf50e2c7bd83.
    But it maybe depends on two unsolvable things:

    • That spotify has somewhere the musicbrainz link to the release, if not kinda screwed to be sure of finding the correct release. I think deezer has it, because of its native connection to last.fm, that also uses the musicbrainz id to link scrobble listens to artists and albums.
    • That the community on musicbrainz creating these external links for each release.
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  3. Comment on Spotify is adding direct messaging to their music streaming app in ~tech

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    It may be because of the video Benn Jordan did on what amount per stream each services pays him: https://youtu.be/QVXfcIb3OKo?si=lGXu0K90vkC2lvh4&t=867 And qobuz pays him 0.0136$ per stream...

    It may be because of the video Benn Jordan did on what amount per stream each services pays him: https://youtu.be/QVXfcIb3OKo?si=lGXu0K90vkC2lvh4&t=867

    And qobuz pays him 0.0136$ per stream instead of 0.0029$ for spotify.
    But you may use another one service in the list which pays a bit more per stream, after all deezer is still x3 more pay per stream.

    1 vote

  4. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Geopneuma - Pondus: Iglooghost coded album by an argentinian Perpetual Emotion Machine - Avalon Emerson: nice groovy house FADE / PRETTY - BLOODY: A nice bass-house track + a very surprising...

    Geopneuma - Pondus: Iglooghost coded album by an argentinian
    Perpetual Emotion Machine - Avalon Emerson: nice groovy house
    FADE / PRETTY - BLOODY: A nice bass-house track + a very surprising second track, and nice length that don't extend into boredom
    Edits Vol. 2 - latesleeper: all sorts of dark and bass heavy remix of already classic tracks. Really like the styles matching of latesleeper's tracks

  5. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Some recent favs on my bandcamp mails notifications: I'll Be Good - shmani: bass-house with high-pitched screaming vocals, instant fav Vega - Lyra Pramuk: experimental folk electronic music....

    Some recent favs on my bandcamp mails notifications:

    I'll Be Good - shmani: bass-house with high-pitched screaming vocals, instant fav
    Vega - Lyra Pramuk: experimental folk electronic music.
    Single for her main album Hymnal, which is weirdly not present in it. But I prefer the single to the album.
    ❀*🎼 🆂olstice 𝓣ales°❀°。- 103110: electronic mashups going clowy pop for some tracks, especially the first and last ones
    K1 - kmoe: some classic hyperpop / indie tracks, with Aired Out easily being a highlight.
    Maris, Fathom of Night (Shoi Miyazawa) / UZI (6MIN) (S280F EDIT): masterful remix of one of the track from Nighreign OST.
    S280F easily is the best person to remix these kind of tracks, proven by this 30min mix blending all sorts of classical and experimental musics ٳٰٰٰٰٰٰٳٰٰٰٰٰٰٳٰٰٰٰٰٰ ๎๎๎ฏ๎๎๎ฏ๎๎๎ฏ๎๎๎ฏ๎๎๎ wilt in my absence, for flowers bloom where i step.

  6. Comment on Revisiting my digital security model in ~tech

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    I don't particularly like saving the TOTP keys inside my main password manager for the hit in security, on paper like you said. But I also nearly lost access to all my TOTP keys by losing my phone...

    I don't particularly like saving the TOTP keys inside my main password manager for the hit in security, on paper like you said.
    But I also nearly lost access to all my TOTP keys by losing my phone one time, and I instantly revoked all my TOTP services with at the time the Google Authenticator which didn't support backup or transfer of keys..

    But since then I created my TOTP "app" by creating my own encrypted storage and storing the keys themselves as files that I can backup and transfer everywhere.
    Like I would with the KeePassXC file that I backup in a different place and transfer everywhere.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on Passkey vs smart use of passwords in ~tech

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    All of these points made me want to uses them now, so excellent overview of what is achieved security wise via passkeys. But I remembered 2 issues in the KeePassXC repository on github: [Passkeys]...

    All of these points made me want to uses them now, so excellent overview of what is achieved security wise via passkeys.

    But I remembered 2 issues in the KeePassXC repository on github:

    Which to be fair are 2 points that probably was needed to be discussed, not for the problems they seems to represent for some people in the PassKey Initiative, but more importantly for these points:

    You are identifying yourself to relying parties, and you have a passkey provider that is known to not be spec compliant.
    (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406#issuecomment-1994239918)

    AAGUIDs for synced passkey providers are currently only designed to be used for UX in RP account management screens, but nothing is stopping an RP from using it for other restrictions.
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    see above. Once certification and attestation goes live, there will be a minimum functional and security bar for providers.
    (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406#issuecomment-1994313373)

    The FIDO spec does not take a position on whether an authenticator is acceptable to an RP or not. RPs are free to make risk based decisions about the suitability of an authenticator. This is outlined in the MDS specifications.

    RPs can and will make decisions about authenticator suitability based on the available evidence - or lack thereof. This is not an issue with KeePassXC, rather a business decision to be made by RPs.
    (https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10406#issuecomment-1998897632)

    So there seems to have a real risk of having the passkeys we setup be "revoked" or refused at any unknown moment when a website decide that a certain passkey provider is not "secure" enough for their taste.

    This seems rather dangerous to begin to use them now :/

    7 votes

  8. Comment on The 100 best movies of the 2020s (so far) in ~movies

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    For having seen The Brutalist in theater I kinda understand why many people would think this is a masterpiece, it has all the form and decorum of excellent films. But its all wasted on delivering...

    For having seen The Brutalist in theater I kinda understand why many people would think this is a masterpiece, it has all the form and decorum of excellent films.
    But its all wasted on delivering so few interesting emotional moments or ideas especially to justify its length.

    5 votes

  9. Comment on The 100 best movies of the 2020s (so far) in ~movies

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    This is again a list that tries to please everyone, and ends up pleasing no one. So much of this list is filled with vibed choices which don't really hold up to their own analysis. Maybe I...

    This is again a list that tries to please everyone, and ends up pleasing no one.

    So much of this list is filled with vibed choices which don't really hold up to their own analysis.
    Maybe I shouldn't be this hard, as I've seen only 25 of them, but putting Top Gun Maverick in the top 10, including Megalopolis or The Brutalist at all, and also include the usual Everything All At Once, Titane, The Substance, and The Green Knight, just does not reflect on good choices overall, but I don't doubt there still is some goodness to be had.
    The list has at least given me a confirmation to see some of my backlog.

    8 votes

  10. Comment on What is the best way to discover and listen to music? in ~music

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    To even go further into pure laziness, Bandcamp has the best feature of all: You can follow users, and have an email sent to you every 2-3 days of all the new purchases of these users. If you add...

    To even go further into pure laziness, Bandcamp has the best feature of all:
    You can follow users, and have an email sent to you every 2-3 days of all the new purchases of these users.

    If you add to this that you can follow artist's page or better a label's page and you receive each new releases of them as an email, and you have the perfect system to consistently have a lot of new music to listen to without doing any searching (except for the first browsing time to follow some artists' and labels' pages to begin the virtuous circle).

  11. Comment on Xbox's new hardware plans begin with a gaming handheld in 2025 in ~games

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    Actually I think it's near to it but not yet adequate for its display. For the two games I would have hoped to have a good experience with: Trackmania 2020 and Elden Ring, its not near a good...

    Actually I think it's near to it but not yet adequate for its display.

    For the two games I would have hoped to have a good experience with: Trackmania 2020 and Elden Ring, its not near a good experience.
    At 40 fps for Elden Ring its really not a good experience when used to the game at 60 fps on desktop.
    And for Trackmania, it's either you want good game feel with Immediate CPU/GPU Synchronization settings activated but the screen is a pixelated mush, or its visually okay but at 30 fps and a delayed synchronization so the game feels less responsive to your actions.
    Either way not a pleasant experience.

    I maybe expect a bit much for a portable experience, but I wholly regret my Steamdeck purchase after just using it like I wanted to :/

    With the new lineup of AMD's APU, I would hope for a steamdeck refresh hoping to at least have a good experience for these two games

    2 votes