The bigger problem for me personally is that my bank uses the app to verify certain transactions and there doesn't seem to be a way around that. I'm planning on moving to GrapheneOS on my daily phone soon, my solution will be to have my old iPhone run nothing but my banking apps. It sucks but privacy sometimes involves sacrifices.
Ultimately Discord is a corporate-owned social media platform, and like all corporate-owned social media platforms their best interests rarely intersect with the best interests of their users. Centralised systems like Discord always end up with a power imbalance between the users and the administrators, and if you break their rules they have it within their power to just vapourise your community without a second thought. Your organisation or community only exists for as long as you toe their line.
I mean if you want to help someone in an abusive relationship, telling them to just leave doesn't really work there either, and for a lot of the same reasons. But you can support them in other ways until they're able to do what's necessary to leave.
We probably shouldn't be using Discord but you've got to meet people where they're at. Telling someone to just drop a service when all of their connections are there is unhelpful at best.
Not the person you replied to, but I did work in the music industry for a little while. The short version is that streaming services and especially Spotify pay artists like shit. They work on a revenue share model based on the number of streams an artist gets per month so there isn't really a fixed number, but it hashes out to fractions of a cent per stream typically. Even the more "generous" services like Tidal or Apple pay just over a cent per stream on average if you're pulling in serious numbers of streams. I did the math once, and to make the minimum wage from streaming alone in my country, an artist would need to be pulling in over 600k streams per month on Spotify. Most artists will get a fraction of that. This is also assuming that the artist is entirely independent with no labels and distributors to cut in too, so the true number will be much higher for most.
If you purchase an album from an artist on Bandcamp once, that's almost certainly going to be orders of magnitude the amount they make from streaming that same album over and over again.
That works from the ISP end, but this legislation makes websites themselves accountable. Even if it was about ISPs, as you said they can't see what you're doing to stop it and there's too many use cases for VPNs to just block the protocols outright.
Defense in depth is a concept they teach you in cybersecurity 101. But that's expensive and time consuming, so you end up with shit like this.
This makes me feel a bit nauseous.
Nothing new under the sun.
Pretty much nailed why I almost exclusively play Indies these days. That and spyware that calls itself anti-cheat rarely working on my OS, thank God.
You could take care of like 90% of that just by blocking X.
You underestimate how stupid the average person is.
I saw one that sold for $300 on eBay.
The bigger problem for me personally is that my bank uses the app to verify certain transactions and there doesn't seem to be a way around that. I'm planning on moving to GrapheneOS on my daily phone soon, my solution will be to have my old iPhone run nothing but my banking apps. It sucks but privacy sometimes involves sacrifices.
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the maple leaf nation
Where musicians are slanderd by the claaaaankers
Ultimately Discord is a corporate-owned social media platform, and like all corporate-owned social media platforms their best interests rarely intersect with the best interests of their users. Centralised systems like Discord always end up with a power imbalance between the users and the administrators, and if you break their rules they have it within their power to just vapourise your community without a second thought. Your organisation or community only exists for as long as you toe their line.
I mean if you want to help someone in an abusive relationship, telling them to just leave doesn't really work there either, and for a lot of the same reasons. But you can support them in other ways until they're able to do what's necessary to leave.
Windows 10 was never good, it just looks good compared to the radioactive slag heap that is Windows 11.
Don't wanna be a Canadian diddler
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Mixed him up with his brother, the fiddler
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We probably shouldn't be using Discord but you've got to meet people where they're at. Telling someone to just drop a service when all of their connections are there is unhelpful at best.
I've been finding that there's generally more than enough comments to read right here. Much higher quality too.
Did someone vibe code too close to the sun again?
Not the person you replied to, but I did work in the music industry for a little while. The short version is that streaming services and especially Spotify pay artists like shit. They work on a revenue share model based on the number of streams an artist gets per month so there isn't really a fixed number, but it hashes out to fractions of a cent per stream typically. Even the more "generous" services like Tidal or Apple pay just over a cent per stream on average if you're pulling in serious numbers of streams. I did the math once, and to make the minimum wage from streaming alone in my country, an artist would need to be pulling in over 600k streams per month on Spotify. Most artists will get a fraction of that. This is also assuming that the artist is entirely independent with no labels and distributors to cut in too, so the true number will be much higher for most.
If you purchase an album from an artist on Bandcamp once, that's almost certainly going to be orders of magnitude the amount they make from streaming that same album over and over again.
Can also recommend the JM21. I just wish the battery life was better.
That works from the ISP end, but this legislation makes websites themselves accountable. Even if it was about ISPs, as you said they can't see what you're doing to stop it and there's too many use cases for VPNs to just block the protocols outright.
So how do they plan on figuring out if any given user behind a VPN is in Utah?