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  1. 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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    Their customer support has been saying this for years. I doubt its anything more than a jira ticket at the very bottom of the priority list.

    We are actively working on releasing an official Linux application as soon as possible.

    Their customer support has been saying this for years. I doubt its anything more than a jira ticket at the very bottom of the priority list.

    3 votes

  2. Comment on Amazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friends in ~tech

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    Interestingly, that page is completely different on my amazon.de account. My amazon US account has some stuff on me, though nothing thats not exceedingly obvious from my purchase history. However,...

    Interestingly, that page is completely different on my amazon.de account. My amazon US account has some stuff on me, though nothing thats not exceedingly obvious from my purchase history. However, my amazon.de account just prompts me to manually enter my preferences, doesnt do any inference at all.

    4 votes

  3. Comment on What's your line? in ~life

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    Dishonest industries, Offensive weapons. I had this line tested about a month ago. I work as a development consultant, and I've done defense projects in the past. However, this one was an...

    Dishonest industries, Offensive weapons.

    I had this line tested about a month ago. I work as a development consultant, and I've done defense projects in the past. However, this one was an Augmented Reality CQB military and police training program. My previous defense projects were in communication and logistics, something I am fine doing for the German military. (would be a different story with the US military, to be clear). Thankfully, my manager asked up front if I was ethically OK with the assignment, as they do for every defense contract. I told them Id need a day or 2 to think about it. Well, I thought about it and decided that, with defense, I would be OK doing anything non-combat, and might even be OK working on defensive combat systems, systems that cannot or are impractical to use against civillians. (For example, an anti-air system can only really be used against aircraft that come within range, and the pilots of such aircraft are certainly soldiers.) However, I would never work on anything anti-personnel. No artillery, no infantry weapons, etc. I know my line is... more in favor of the defense industry than some, but I do feel like a defensive millitary is needed in this day and age.

    As far as dishonest industries, I patently refuse to work on AdTech or anything else in that vein.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on A list of independent internet forums in ~tech

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    Im on there, but its a distinctly different purpose than tildes. I can post cool technical stuff I have done on both of them, as well as interesting technical articles I found, but I cant really...

    Im on there, but its a distinctly different purpose than tildes. I can post cool technical stuff I have done on both of them, as well as interesting technical articles I found, but I cant really post about my personal life there. I didnt post this article over there, for example, because it was more about dealing with loss than it was about the technical aspect. I dont post anything about mental health, with the possible future exception of workplace burnout. Lobsters is for technical discussion and more recently discussion around the culture of tech. Its not a place to build a support network or talk about our personal lives and problems, really.

    4 votes

  5. Comment on Introducing Xbox backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    To me this implies that they are also modifying the games in some way.

    We are also adding new features to make your gaming experience better than ever.

    To me this implies that they are also modifying the games in some way.

    3 votes

  6. Comment on Introducing Xbox backward compatibility on PC in ~games

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    So not blanket backwards compatability, just ports.

    So not blanket backwards compatability, just ports.

    11 votes

  7. Comment on AI companies are buying tons of old books because they're free of AI slop in ~books

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    Honestly, more expensive than buying the books will be the process of scanning them.

    Honestly, more expensive than buying the books will be the process of scanning them.

    8 votes

  8. Comment on The Clacks Overhead, a hidden memorial in ~life

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    I just realized its not indicated anywhere, but I am the author of this article. He was a close friend of mine, and Ive had this article written since 2 weeks after he passed but waited for things...

    I just realized its not indicated anywhere, but I am the author of this article. He was a close friend of mine, and Ive had this article written since 2 weeks after he passed but waited for things to hurt less before I uploaded it to my site.

    9 votes

  10. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    If no one else claims it, Ill take VTOL VR off your hands. I dont have a VR headset yet (hopefully the steam frame is reasonable, otherwise VTOL on linux is just a pain), but I do have a friend...

    If no one else claims it, Ill take VTOL VR off your hands. I dont have a VR headset yet (hopefully the steam frame is reasonable, otherwise VTOL on linux is just a pain), but I do have a friend who loves co-op flight sims and would be estatic if I was able to join him in it.

    1 vote

  11. Comment on Tildes Game Giveaway: June 2026 in ~games

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    Ill gladly take warpips, decenders, and shotgun king. Im not much one for sports, but I do enjoy watching the fencing events at the olympics. If it counts as a sporting event, I do really love...

    Ill gladly take warpips, decenders, and shotgun king.

    Im not much one for sports, but I do enjoy watching the fencing events at the olympics. If it counts as a sporting event, I do really love robotics competitions, Ive been both a student and a mentor in FIRST robotics.

    1 vote

  12. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games

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    Imma have to rework so many things to take advantage of the circuit network splitting!

    Imma have to rework so many things to take advantage of the circuit network splitting!

    3 votes

  13. Comment on When is a bird a ‘birb’? An extremely important guide. in ~enviro

  15. Comment on What's a game you're dying to play that doesn't exist? in ~games

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    For #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.

    For #1, have you had a look at NEBULOUS: Fleet Command? They recently added a campaign mode and campaign editor.

    1 vote

  16. Comment on Tildes Survey #8: What is your favorite video game? (Results) in ~talk

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    Also factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water....

    Also factorio for me. This might be hyperbole just a little bit, but I think factorio is near-perfect. Its polish and QOL features blow pretty much every other game out there out of the water. When im designing something in factorio, sometimes it feels less like playing a game and more like coding in my heavily customized neovim setup, in that building is just streamlined that much. I follow FFF's religiously in my RSS reader, and am working on getting the speedrunning achievements now.

    2 votes

  17. Comment on Bureaucracy is eating the world in ~society

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    Im not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it....

    Im not sure how much I agree with this article, but I think I agree that while the individual regulations make sense in isolation, their sum adds up a lot, and only larger players can afford it. Im torn on how valuable small buisnesses are for their own sake, though, and suspicious of giving them exceptions, as in my experience they can be just as underhanded as big ones. However, Im curious to see what others who might be better informed think of this.

    BTW, the author has a vendetta against people allowing untrusted javascript in the browser. The tab name will change if you tab away without disabling JS.

    Meta: Should this go in ~society or ~finance?

    10 votes

  19. Can't post URLs with CJK chars in them?

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    Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to...

    Hey, Im trying to share a post from マリウス.com, but clicking the submit button just returns an error that the link is not a valid URL. Ive also tried percent encoding to %E3%83%9E%E3%83%AA%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9.com, with the same results. I assume this is not intentional @Deimos?

    EDIT: It looks like punycoding it to xn--gckvb8fzb.com works.

    11 votes

  20. Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games

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    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    Oh, Ive played through all the zachtronics games as well, yah. actually 100%ed a few of them.

    1 vote