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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.Coding since 1998..NET Foundation member. C# fan https://d.sb/Mastodon: @dan@d.sb

  • Lily Allen Makes More Money from OnlyFans Than Spotify

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  • If you have anything like a 9-5, you're probably getting around 10-20%.

    My wife works as an associate attorney (a lawyer that's not a partner, meaning they don't own the company they work for) and I think she makes maybe 1/4 of what the company bills clients for her time. Of course, some of the money would go towards things like property taxes for the office, bills, etc.

    And that's not as bad as someone working in big tech who may make a decent salary (senior developer at Google or Meta is around $270k/year salary plus $300k/year stock) but the company may make hundreds of millions of dollars per year from your work.

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  • USB in the car and plexamp everywhere else.

    Why not Plexamp in the car too? If you don't have great mobile data, in Plexamp you can download playlists for offline playing.

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  • napster

    what

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  • Buy CDs, rip them to FLAC, and self-host something like Plex + Plexamp. Plexamp is a very nice app, but I'm sure there's others.

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  • tough luck if a song gets pulled because of legal disputes or whatever.

    This is the thing I hated about Google Play Music. I had some playlists where half of the songs were missing due to various issues between Google and the music labels.

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  • I'd recommend ripping MP3 tracks

    This is how you end up with a library of very low quality tracks. YouTube's compression isn't great.

    Yes, the artist gets nothing, but the more important thing is the services stealing from the artists don't get anything either.

    Why do you feel that YouTube is different to those other services? Does YouTube pay more per view than Spotify pays per listen?

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  • lot of people using their own domains for their handles. They are not hosting their own instances

    This is something the AT Protocol does well. Your identity is portable and can be separate from the instance you use.

    In theory, you can move to a different instance but keep your handle the same. There's no way to do that with ActivityPub. If you move to a new Lemmy or Mastodon server, you have to change your username to one at the instance's domain.

  • Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts

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  • Same with Amazon. You think nobody else tried to make an online store in the 90s? Lol.

    Fun fact: the first online store still exists. It's Pizza Hut. They launched an experiment for online ordering in 1994. The first company to ever sell a product on the web.

  • Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts

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  • The dot com crash was because tech companies were massively overvalued and didn't have a proper business plan or profit. I definitely see some similarities with the AI bubble, especially with the large unprofitable companies like OpenAI. OpenAI isn't estimated to become profitable until 2029, and there's a lot of unknowns between now and then (e.g. maybe they'll be forced to license content they use for training).

  • TikTok owner ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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  • That's definitely true!

  • TikTok owner ByteDance sacks intern for sabotaging AI project

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  • Yeah, same at the company I work at - interns are paid and have benefits, including housing provided by the company.

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  • interns are there to learn. They’re not supposed to do work that would otherwise be assigned to a paid employee,

    Which industry do you work in? In "big tech", it's very common for interns to work on regular projects that full-time employees would otherwise work on. Usually a senior-ish FTE would determine the best project, write a project plan, scope it, define milestones and deliverables, etc, and the intern would just work on the actual implementation.

    I'm a senior software engineer on my team, and when it's intern season, we usually find things in our backlog that we haven't had time to implement and that would be interesting for an intern to work on, and spec them out.

    Edit: Also, interns are always paid. Generally the large companies don't do unpaid internships.

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  • “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

    Isn't that the same thing? It doesn't matter if you raise prices on demand or lower them, the outcome is the same - different pricing at different times.

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  • Good idea to send donations to the syncthing-fork devs to keep it alive though.

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  • In that case, could the syncthing-fork app be renamed to syncthing, now that it'll probably be the main Android app for Syncthing?

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  • mostly a wrapper around their proprietary library

    I'm not familiar with exactly what Bitwarden are doing, but Nvidia are doing something similar to what you described with their Linux GPU drivers. They launched new open-source drivers (not nouveau) for Turing (GTX 16 and RTX 20 series) and newer GPUs. What they're actually doing is moving more and more functionality out of the drivers into the closed-source firmware, reducing the amount of code they need to open source. Maybe that's okay? I'm not sure how I feel about it.

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  • Open source software doesn't have a reason to lock you in like proprietary software does :)

    More and more proprietary SaaS systems are allowing data exports now, to comply with laws like the GDPR "right to know". Say what you want about Google and Facebook, but they were the first big companies to start allowing data to be exported before there was any law requiring it - Facebook in 2010 and Google in 2011.

  • Server dealer keeps hitting at Elon Musk for $61 million bill — Wiwynn sues X for unpaid IT infrastructure products

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  • Forums are social media, especially so for sites like Reddit and Lemmy where the subforums are community-created.

    Wikipedia:

    Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.

    Merriam-Webster:

    forms of electronic communication (such as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)

    Britannica:

    forms of electronic communication (such as Web sites) through which people create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, etc.