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  • Why would they do that, they know he's on the list.

  • Republican Joins With Dems on Constitutional Amendment to Give Congress Power to Reject Trump Pardons

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  • Trying is a piece of shit, but literally every president does a ton of obvious quid pro quo pardons. Most pardons are bullshit.

  • This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good

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  • I think part of it is that Reddit has gotten so bad that even casual users are noticing that it's basically indistinguishable from any other corporate social media.

  • Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software

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  • They are suggesting that going to open source solutions won't result in new industry in their countries (i.e. that Google won't be opening offices and data centers and such there).

    It's a pretty bogus statement anyways, but it's not COMPLETELY senseless.

  • Leaving spotify, offline music options?

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  • I think a couple of the Android MP3 player apps offer library syncing with PC music library managers. I think that Gone Mad Music Player will sync with MusicBee over Wi-Fi.

    Personally, I wound up just loading files directly to a DAP because it's just easier with the amount of music I'm loading at any given time.

    What I do is download an album, pass it through music brainz picard to fix the tags, drop the files to my DAP, and then backup the files to my NAC. Pretty simple really.

  • Oklahoma bill could make aiding an undocumented immigrant a felony

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  • Hilariously, this would seem to make it a felony to employ an undocumented immigrant. Funny tell the farmers, factory owners, roofing companies, general contractors, etc. etc.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • Don't forget that they fork over millions of dollars to Joe Rogan while they are doing it.

  • Spotify says its best developers haven't written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

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  • I've tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I think it depends on your source.

    If we are talking about a downloaded good high bit rate MP3 and a FLAC, then yeah, I can't hear a difference.

    For streaming, I CAN hear a difference between the default spotify stream and my locally stored lossless files. That difference might come down to how they are mastered or whatever spotify does to the files, but whatever it is the difference is pretty perceptible to me and I don't have especially sensitive ears.

  • In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud

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  • I buy headphone cables based on how nice the cable feels, if it transmits noise when it rubs against stuff, and how well the connectors fit into the devices I am using.

    My favorite is when people get picky about cabling for digital transfer. The ones and zeroes either get there or they don't, nothing in-between. They work or they don't.

    I think the best thing to do is to assess your ability to hear difference. I can absolutely hear the difference between my Bluetooth earbuds and a decent wired IEM, so I use wired headphones for listening to music. I CANNOT hear a significant qualitative difference between the $25 Chinese IEMs that I use and more expensive options that I have tried, so I use the cheap ones.

    To be sure, there ARE perceptible differences between wired headphones, but those are more a matter of EQ and personal preference. I can achieve my maximum perceivable level of quality with pretty inexpensive hardware. It doesn't mean that other people cannot, that isn't my problem.

  • The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.

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  • I think the biggest mistake that the current administration is making (at least in terms of domestic commerce) is the complete failure to understand that consumer protections are NOT altruistic services given away to people. They are devices intended to increase consumer confidence and therefore consumer spending. A properly regulated market means that customers are confident that they will be given fair terms and will get what they have paid for. If you erode those protections the result is that consumers spend less.

    The governments role in a capitalist nation is to serve as a guarantor of the integrity of transactions within its jurisdiction. If it abdicates that responsibility people will curtail their spending commensurate with their perception of increased risk. In short, people stop buying shit when they view those purchases as risky.

    Since Trump and his cohort have never actually engaged in LEGITIGIMATE business they view these regulations exclusively as impediments when the reality is that they greatly benefit corporations in a consumer driven economy.

  • Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam'

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  • You think climate change is tinted to the United States? Have you looked at a map recently?

  • Homeland Security Department poised to shut down as Congress leaves with no deal

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  • There the problem with turning every agency into partisan bullshit, it suddenly becomes pretty easy to just defund them because they weren't benefiting you anyways.

  • Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

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  • It was a NEST camera from Google, which is only a meaningful distinction because it means they ALL do this shit.

  • 64GB of DDR5 RAM now costs more than a MacBook Air - memory prices have surged 300% in just six months

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  • They aren't really making a ton of games that justify a costly upgrade anyways.

  • Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’

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  • Yep. Your data is stolen and it's never going to be used in a way that benefits you unless you're really fucking important.

  • Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell footage

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  • They are desperate to make it look like the google cameras aren't recording and saving data 24/7 regardless of whether you have an account or not.

  • 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives

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  • Sure, except that Discord was accessible when these were set up. There is nothing stopping Reddit from doing the exact same thing next year.

  • How Did the FBI Get Nancy Guthrie's Nest Doorbell Footage?

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  • The FBI didn't do shit. Google is recording from these devices whether you have a subscription or not. They just didn't want to surrender the footage right away because they don't want their customers to know this. It has the fucking NEST watermark in the corner FFS. This wasn't forensically assembled footage, its just video from the normal operation of the camera that is constantly snooping on all of us.