[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They have recently changed that. Lossless is now part of the basic plan

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 140 points 1 month ago

Friendly reminder that Tidal costs the same, has a bigger catalog, does not pester you with podcasts, has lossless quality audio and it includes lyrics

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 39 points 3 months ago

Ok. So journalistically, the key points to get across here are:

  • Tidal is changing its subscriptions plans
  • They are now cheaper
  • That's pretty unique since literally everyone else on the planet is increasing prices, not lowering them

How would you have reported the news? Would you have done something differently?

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[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 45 points 3 months ago

GUYS, IT'S HAPPENING

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 42 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's not that simple. Porn is a huge risk for a company, especially if it's user-generated content. You have to police access against underage kids who want to watch that content, and also have an enormous team devoted to immediately take down CSAM.

Lots of payment processors and advertisers do not want to associate themselves with porn because there are too many PR risks. Ask Pornhub how difficult it is to be a porn company on the internet, they've had lots of thorny problems. Or look at Reddit and how it's handling porn content before the IPO: they can't outright ban it or they'll lose users (e.g. Tumblr, another great example of what I'm talking about), so they are trying to hide it as much as possible.

Basically trying to monetize porn is not worth the headache. Last but not least, because there is so much free porn around. Risking so much to gain a few users that could go somewhere else in a whim is REALLY not worth it

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Yes, it looks like a dumb question, but hear me out.

I've recently discovered that, for babies, it's normal to sleep in sleeping bags. They can either look like this (not great, with the arms out) or... - prepare for what you're about to see - like this.

Now - how awesome must that feel? Naturally, my fist instinct was to look up sleeping bags like that for grownups. Unfortunately, they apparently do not exist. I can only find the usual sleeping bags that are used for camping etc., which are all made of that horrible, plasticky, noisy material.

So my question is twofold: do "home sleeping bags" for adults exist? And, if not, WHY?

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 50 points 6 months ago

THANK YOU. This behavior has been bothering me since it was introduced but I thought there was no solution

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 129 points 7 months ago

Friendly reminder: Mozilla studied 25 car brands and NONE of them passed the privacy test. Mozilla even said that cars are "privacy nightmares".

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 44 points 9 months ago

Then read the article and not just the headline. There are various examples of why that's happening.

There’s a canning recipe that’s been allowed to stay up despite the potential to make people sick. A moderator with zero 3D-printing experience joined as a “joke” to replace a mod whose expertise included identifying functional gun printing recipes. A new home automation moderator insists expert knowledge is unnecessary in a subreddit where bad advice can lead to electrocution or compromised cybersecurity.

Your examples are just funny, but when (good) journalists write "could", it means that they have analyzed something and they are predicting its outcome based on the data they have collected. It's not like they're just making stuff up

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submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by ominouslemon@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

I'm a longtime This Week in Tech listener and I've realized that downloading the new episode every Monday morning has become a habit I could never imagine quitting.

As I was thinking about that, I've started wondering which other tech podcasts are people listening to, and if that's second nature for them, too.

So, what's your favorite technology podcast? (And why should I start listening to it? I would love some recommendations!)

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 125 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Speaking more than one language. Being from Switzerland, we're required to study 2 languages (+ our native one) at school. So it's not infrequent to encounter swiss people who speak 4+ languages

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ominouslemon@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

I've been using AdGuard's DNS resolver on my Android phone for a couple of months, and I'm pretty satisfied with it.

The idea is that it filters out ad networks at the DNS level, so there is no need to root the phone (nor to install any app). You just put dns.adguard-dns.com in your "private DNS" settings and that's it.

Recently, though, I've seen a couple of people around here mentioning how Adguard is not trustworthy, or "kinda shady". What's your take on them? Their privacy policy seems OK to me, but I'd be interested to know more about them.

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 77 points 10 months ago

Cool, but the article is from July 24th

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 73 points 10 months ago

I know you're kinda joking, but I think there is some truth to that. I think he made the decision because he could not manage the whole thing alone, and the workplace environment Madison described could well be caused by general stress and mismanagement

[-] ominouslemon@lemm.ee 104 points 10 months ago

What the Archive did may as well be illegal, but the fact that the record labels did not even bother to send them a Cease & desist letter, instead suing directly for 400$M, tells you everything you need to know about the record industry

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