I mean, they say earlier that music is actually well-preserved, but it’s disproportionately popular music. If the goal is then to preserve everything, I’d expect them to go for stuff that isn’t likely to be in some random audiophile’s collection or whatever then.

1. Over-focus on the most popular artists. There is a long tail of music which only gets preserved when a single person cares enough to share it. And such files are often poorly seeded.

• We primarily used Spotify’s “popularity” metric to prioritize tracks. View the top 10,000 most popular songs in this HTML file (13.8MB gzipped).
• For popularity>0, we got close to all tracks on the platform. The quality is the original OGG Vorbis at 160kbit/s. Metadata was added without reencoding the audio (and an archive of diff files is available to reconstruct the original files from Spotify, as well as a metadata file with original hashes and checksums).
• For popularity=0, we got files representing about half the number of listens (either original or a copy with the same ISRC). The audio is reencoded to OGG Opus at 75kbit/s — sounding the same to most people, but noticeable to an expert.

Perhaps I’m reading this wrong, but is this not a little backwards? Since unpopular music is poorly preserved, shouldn’t the focus be on getting the least popular music first?

This whole situation has been bizarre and really poorly communicated.

I think fundamentally a lot of people do not understand that just because China and Russia (or a number of other countries) are in opposition to the US doesn’t inherently make them “good.” They’re pretty much all shitty too, just in different ways than the US, yet actual problems get brushed off as “the loss of making Winnie the Poo jokes,” as if not being able to make jokes on Weibo is the problem.

I will never understand the hypocritical surveillance state apologism when it comes to China or Russia on this site.

If China’s surveillance state was purely for the benefit of their citizens, they wouldn’t need such an extensive censorship apparatus that frequently censors minorities and minority beliefs (e.g. LGBT topics) as well as content that reflects particularly poorly on the government.

I like the idea of NixOS and Guix System, but to recommend them to someone new to Linux is crazy.

It’s like 20 years old, with stable releases for over 10 years. How old does something have to be for you lol?

I feel like this about SimpleX. It was a hellish struggle to get people to use Signal (and still a bunch only use Instagram or insist on doing plain phone calls/SMS). Some of my family continuously complain that Signal is too complicated despite the interface being pretty much exactly the same as whatever app they want to use. I really don’t want to try to get them to use another app ever again.

You’re talking about surviving without X. Well, we survived without washing our hands, showering, brushing our teeth, etc. for 99% of human existence as well. Better be consistent in your beliefs and return to living as a hunter-gatherer in the woods.

Should stop washing your hands or showering regularly if that’s how you decide whether something is important.

This is a fucking idiotic question. If naturally our bodies heal ourselves without issue and thus “natural immunity” is better than vaccination, then why do so many people die from illness when unvaccinated?

I suppose eradicating smallpox was a mistake. We should have just let 20-30% of those infected die instead of eradicating the disease through “unnatural” vaccines.

The main issue with Session is they removed PFS when they redesigned everything. Also, it’s admittedly been years since I tried it, but I remember the app being noticeably buggy.

I do think the lower-end chips actually have great battery life, but once you start going for the higher performance ones you unsurprisingly sacrifice battery for power, so the battery life becomes merely “good” instead of “great.”

They have better battery life than most laptops, but it also strongly depends on what configuration you use and what you’re doing. For instance, my M1 Max laptop has never hit its stated battery life and frankly is pretty close to my AMD laptop (when its battery wasn’t half dead). The AMD laptop is admittedly heavier though.

AFAIK they’re about the same as the M4 in terms of battery life. If you look at their marketing, their battery life improvements are based on their Intel and M1 laptops (whose owners they seem to be targeting for upgrades).

From what I’ve heard, there are AMD laptop chips with better multi-core performance, although worse single-core. Other than the spec bump, this is pretty much the same as the M4 laptops.

Basically if you like macOS (and only macOS since Linux will probably take half a decade to show up given the current rate of Asahi Linux support with newer chips) and specifically need more perf for whatever reason (especially for AI), it’s a nice upgrade.

Hopefully this develops to be a real alternative in the future. Unfortunately, it seems to not really have much of the kind of music I tend to listen to atm.

Your kubernetes seems a bit unstable.

I vaguely remember something about some torchlit march (in Bavaria?) and people accusing suckless devs of being Nazis. Also their entire concept is just kind of elitist.

Note that I have no idea if the Nazi claims are true or not.

You can escape Windows, but you can never escape Recall.

To be clear, he’s not the founder of Ruby, he’s the founder of Rails.