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  • TIL neo-nazis made pilgrimages to Hitler's former home, so Austria made it a police station

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  • TIL everything that was in todays newspaper. I always figured the TIL-format was mostly for things that you could've learned before, but only just learned today. Peculiar little known facts.

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  • Iḿ from 90s and like mostly 60s/70s. psychedelic & prog rock

  • ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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  • "Android fans"

  • ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users

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  • ListenBrainz is used to track your music listening habits. So you just use whatever application you are using now, and submit the listening data to LB. This page should help you find if what you're using now to play music is compatible with LB somehow. If you're on Android I think you can use the ListenBrainz official app, but personally I have no experience with it, since I only listen to music on laptop/

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  • Yes me too. I have no idea.

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  • Yes I think it is like you describe.

    Here is someone from MetaBrainz explaining why.

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  • Yes, there is not a feature for private profiles. If your listening data is a privacy concern to you it's better not to use LB.

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  • MetaBrainz is a non-profit dedicated to open-source and open-data. So if people don't like the algorithms LB has integrated, they can just build their own.

    About not delegating your brain to machines, that's a fair point, and I would encourage people to consciously choose where to use machines and where to use their brain. If you enjoy searching for music, it would be foolish to delegate it to a machine. For me personally though it's usefull, using an algorith here allows me to spend energy on other things that are equally stimulating for my brain. I particularly like LBs 'fresh releases' feature, which gives you heads up about new releases by artists that you've listened to.

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  • Fair enough, personally I don't mind using algorithms as long as they are fully transparent

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  • I agree on the social aspect lacking a bit. But who knows, ListenBrainz got better and better over the past years, perhaps with more users there will be more demand for social functionalities aswell, and perhaps they'll be implemented in the future. LB was very rudimentary when I signed up, it's nice seeing it grow and improve.

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    ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users

    listenbrainz.org /current-status/

  • Convenience is relative

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  • You're right. It's easy for me to hold this position, given that I'm without kids, without specific health problems, and live in the Netherlands where I have more than enough vacation days to spend.

    Got one thing to add, that's not contradictorary to what you're saying but I just would like to share: I think we overvalue long distance holidays. People fly to the other side of the planet, but never visit beautiful places at 100km distance from home. We mistake the possibility of going very far away, for that being more desireable than going places relatively close by, which is not necesarilly the case. In saying this I don't want to begrudge anyone and I don't mean to say it's not a legitimate thing for someone to want to see certain parts of the world some day.

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  • We need everything to be available instantly, because we need our time to be bored and watch TikTok.

    Reminds me of Yuval Noah Harari who spoke in a talk of his about how even kings back in the day, generally speaking people who get a lot of information handed to them all the time, when they needed to travel the country, they would have a week off and be detached from all the news whilst sitting in a carriage. Here we are having all the world news available to us every second of the day. No excuse not to be up to date on anything. What a comfort...

    When I travel across Europe I do so by train, and I find it to be part of the experience that the journey takes time. Last year I visited Italy, from the Netherlands, and through the train window I see the landscape floating by, the flat Netherlands, the hills in Germany, the mountains in Switzerland and then the beautiful landscapes of Italy. Due to the time it takes you get a sense for traveling, for the distance you travel. I don't mind the time, cause I'm reading a book, which is often the most enjoyable thing of my vacations anyway: I find time to read, without any distractions.

    More broadly speaking I've noticed that I've become suspicious of comfort and convenience. Nothing may take time anymore, nothing may take effort. Everything good needs to be quick and easy, available instantly all the time. But is that really better, or did we actually like having to work for something, not minding that it takes time, and weren't we more satisfied with the relief when we finished something, feeling like we spent our time well and brought something good unto ourselves. Isn't that experience more meaningful?

    You could say this is some sort of false romanticism, but i don't think it is. Obviously we got a lot of good things, and I am not saying we should get rid of every comfort or convenience in our lifes. I'm just saying the opposite isn't true either, some discomforts and disconveniences are blessings in disguise.

  • ‘Completely lost his mind’: Trump's 'deranged' letter sends shockwaves across the globe

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  • To be fair, in Europe everyone has realized the US is no longer a trustworthy ally, and steps are being taken away from depending on our old ally. But in this proces, officials won't speak their mind, because in some respects we are still vulnerable due to these dependencies. But that shouldn't obscure the fact that no one consider the US as an ally anymore, and that's not just after Greenland. Trump is single handedly destroying 80 years of collaboration and US politics is allowing him.

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  • 8 wars PLUS! So many after 8 we stopped counting and now we don't even know what the number is. Thank God that peace will still be predominant, despite Donald not feeling any obligation towards it.

  • Jensen Huang says relentless negativity around AI is hurting society and has "done a lot of damage"

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  • Read the article to see if he makes any valid point, couldn't find one.

    When 90% of the messaging is all around the end of the world and the pessimism, and I think we're scaring people from making the investments in AI that makes it safer, more functional, more productive, and more useful to society," he said.

    So, I was about to invest some money to make AI safer, to avert it's dangers, but now somebody warned me about those dangers, so now I am scared to make the investments to make it safer. That makes a lot of sense /s

    Seems to me it's not investments into AI safety you're worried about, it's the investments into the potentially dangerous service you're worried about.

  • Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance

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  • I think you're right, but the war is inspired by tech.

    China and the US are competing in the AI arms race. If they wanted to help the world forward, they would be in an AI collaboration, recognizing that AI can help us forward, but is also a risk that needs regulation. Instead they are in a race, because whoever wins can dominate the world. Whether the motivation is to dominate the world, or out of fear of being dominated by the other, suspecting that's what they want to, both will do whatever it takes to win the race. And whatever it takes is more than just pumping data and energy into the project. Millitary might can and will be used.

    International collaboration is key, AI needs not be in the hands of a company or goverment, it should be in the hands of the united nations or something similar. Sadly I don't think that will happen any time soon,

  • America Has Become a Digital Narco-State - Paul Krugman

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  • Obviously industries would, and given how under-regulated the US markets are, they can do as they please. The remarkable thing is not how industry is behaving though, it's how the US goverment is behaving, hence America has become a digital narco-state.

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  • If it turns out Hitler had some bad genes his relatives' descendants will get a bad name. This is obviously a joke, but it's actually true as well. They've all distanced themselves from the name Hitler, but surely some people know about their relation to Adolf. I guess the questions is: how bad is it when you're grandfathers half-brother or whatever his DNA is public. There is a legitimate privacy concern there, that shouldn't be too easily dismissed because 'haha hitler & privacy'.