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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

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • It's $3/month more than Spotify, and you get both music and videos. That doesn't seem that bad to me? Tidal is probably a better deal though, since it's cheaper and all plans come with lossless (FLAC).

    I've been using a Plex server with my own ripped CDs for a while. Jellyfin is good too. If you listen to the same music a lot of the time, why pay a monthly fee when you can just buy the album once, rip it to your server, and listen to it forever?

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • I love the libraries in my area because they're well-funded and pretty much always accept requests for new content (books, movies, etc). If there's a new book and they don't have it, I can ask them to order it and it'll usually be available within a week.

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • You can also set up a Jellyfin or Plex server and have your own streaming service :)

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • For Soulseek you should use a VPN that support port forwarding. AirVPN is the one that's usually recommended.

  • YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families

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  • Revanced works for Google Music too.

  • Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation

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  • I absolutely hate when networking equipment forces you to use an app to set it up, and the app doesn't do anything that a website couldn't do.

    I encountered this with some solar equipment from Enphase (IQ Gateway, which all the inverters connect to). The installer had to set it up using wifi and an "installer app" before I could connect it via Ethernet cable or access the (local!) web UI.

    On the flip side, I have to give Enphase a shout out for having a fully-featured local web API running on the device itself. I've had Home Assistant polling it every second for years (to pull data about solar generation per panel, total power consumption, grid import/export, etc) and haven't had issues. With so much stuff being cloud-reliant, it was a good surprise.

  • Fedora Linux 43 exposes 20-year-old Microsoft Outlook security failure

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  • Someone who's still using POP instead of IMAP4 probably hasn't updated their setup in 20 years.

    This is a good reminder to use the secure ports for IMAP (993) and SMTP (465). Don't use ports that use opportunistic TLS (STARTTLS), which are 143 for IMAP and 587 for SMTP. These start unencrypted and switch to using encryption once the server says it supports it. An attacker can just modify the response and say the server doesn't support encryption, in which case the connection will remain unencrypted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunistic_TLS#Weaknesses_and_mitigations

    You can force encryption on the client side... but then you may as well just use the port that's always encrypted.

    (yes, I know that the TLS handshake isn't encrypted either)

  • Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries

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  • They don't need to drop prices though - they sell plenty of them at the current prices.

    Also, all consumer electronics are going up in price due to the component (RAM, GPU, SSD) shortages, which are happening because the majority of new stock is being sold to AI companies.

  • Nintendo Confirms EU‑Only Switch 2 Revision With User‑Replaceable Batteries

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  • It's the Apple approach: Implement consumer-friendly policies only in regions that require it by law. Apple mostly do it with software though, for example only allowing third-party app stores in EU and Japan.

    Plenty of US companies do something similar with subscriptions too. California mandates that any subscription you create online must also be cancellable online, and so some companies (like New York Times, SiriusXM, gyms) only show their simple online cancelation flow to Californians. Everyone else must jump through hoops like use live chat, call them, cancel in person, etc.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • There might continue to be flat monthly fees with some providers, but I can imagine the prices growing to at least 10x the current prices. At the moment, a $200/month plan with Anthropic or OpenAI lets you use thousands of dollars worth of tokens per month (and even that price might currently be subsidized) which isn't sustainable.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • They switched from heavily subsidizing it, to subsidizing it less. That's going to happen with the other providers, too.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • I'm not sure why anyone is surprised. The new pricing is closer to what it actually costs to provide the service.

    They can't keep subsidizing AI forever. The same thing is going to happen to other providers too.

  • GitHub just switched Copilot to metered billing, and developers are watching months of credits vanish in a single day

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  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • Huh, interesting. I didn't know that. I thought it was similar to Australia, where the betting services do advertise.

  • "Cookie Monster reads the policy"

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  • "legitimate interest" is a sketchy, unclear term. It's not defined by any legislation.

    There's a type of cookie called "strictly necessary". These are things that the site needs to work - for example, to keep you logged in, to remember your shopping cart, etc. Sites do NOT need to offer a opt out from these, and if they're the only cookies the site uses, they don't have to show a banner or cookie consent notice.

    I think "legitimate interest" is really trying to trick people into thinking the cookies are "strictly necessary", when in reality there's some non-necessary tracking cookies lumped into the "legitimate interest" category.

  • "Cookie Monster reads the policy"

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  • Those two links are talking about fingerprinting.

    Cookies can contain fingerprints, but they're also used for a bunch of other things, like keeping you logged in, remembering your shopping cart rather than clearing it every page load, storing preferences, remembering if your device has a high DPI screen (so a fresh page load knows to serve higher quality images), etc. Anything where small amounts of data have to be persisted and shared across both the client-side and server-side. They're not always evil.

  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • Give a pigeon a button that when pressed gives sometimes nothin or some food and they go haywire and become addicted to pressing the button.

    My dog goes nuts when I'm in one particular part of the kitchen because her treats are in one of the drawers, even though 9/10 times I'm doing something other than getting a treat for her. The payout is often enough that she puts on a show to try and get a treat out of me lol

  • All Hail Gamblor [PizzaCake]

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  • Sports betting is huge in the UK though.