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Audiotool (https://www.audiotool.com) | Germany (or EU, UK) | Full-time employees | Hybrid | Visa | Engineering
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See our jobs page for more info: https://www.audiotool.com/jobs
Personally it would've been better to take down the offending repos and at least give a warning to the author before doing this.

Now all knowledge is lost. Not the code, but there were discussions, tutorials, and what not.

I don't know who Auto is or what he did in practice that led to the violation (yes, I read about those mods): my qualms with the repo were due to its questionable licensing, which is, however, allowed by GH. After all, I can use something without agreeing with the author's moral views.

And yes, this again, even if one agrees with the suspension, shows the danger of centralized platforms when they become so large (although they are convenient).
I think there's a better place to discuss this than here and I also see little reason to discuss this.

All I'm gonna say is that I believe it's silly to pay for subscription services and pay for spotify/youtube or endure their ads.
I hope Amazon does this too but probably they won't because it'll cannibalize Audible. This is good move from Apple. Take the credit!
Here in CZ, where pirating has long tradition, mainly because it's legal to download movies and copyrighted files for own use.
Or at least it's in gray area now because of push from EU but still nobody is willing to prosecute it.
(Uploading/uploaders are prosecuted normally, since it's illegal to upload)

Many people is buying games from Steam, because it's convenient. Not gonna mention we have same prices like US or even bigger, because it's in EUR, yet we have 4x smaller median salaries. And still we buy games from Steam.

Netflix was popular here too, but recently (me included) everybody is switching back to fileshares and torrents.
It's unbearable to pay for multiple streaming services and that's just foreign movies, if you want our local movies, there are different streaming services for it.

Thanks but no thanks.
It's back up as of now!
You've trained your gut biome to expect a certain composition of foods, it takes a bit for it to calibrate to something different. After a few weeks you can easily get used to different types of food.
Actually, I kinda like the current way.

I can listen whatever I want via Spotify. If I like the album that much, I can buy it via iTunes or their store, however finding lossless versions are hard.

If I really love the album, I'll buy its vinyl.

If I don't plan to buy the vinyl, and can't find the lossless version or a decent priced CD, I buy the album online and find the lossless version elsewhere.

I'm a former orchestra player. I know how tedious and draining producing music is. It's unethical to just download it and let it be. Before, it was impossible to get decent music without being gouged, so I had to download some of the albums, but it's no more now. Buying prices are accessible, storage is ample, and syncing is easy.

There's no need to screw musicians over it.

I'm not a big movie buff anyway, so if I can stream it legally, I'm fine.
Why did so much tech go on a pandemic hiring spree? Did they think it was going to last forever? I don't understand all everyone ( in tech ) made the same mistake. "oh let's increase our headcount by 25% in response to a pandemic that is mutating and gradually lessoning in severity while vaccines and other medicines are dramatically increasing in efficacy... but it's going to last forever." what am i missing? How did the whole industry get it wrong? Did they think the whole planet was goign to be ok with these authoritarian hobby regimes keeping everyone locked inside glued to a monitor?
I wish I had the discipline to manage things that way.
What's worse is that the emphasis of the prompt is on feet (an overwhelming common fetish)

It makes (((PERFECT))) sense that a person with a foot fetish would want an accurate foot.

However, we live in a world with so many people that anything (and I truly mean anything) will be taken as offensive by at least one person.
As mentioned the code is open source. The link to the repo is in footer of the site. The backend repo contains a sample response in JSON format.
Sodium ion batteries work just as well and should be arriving this year [1].

[1] - https://www.reuters.com/technology/chinas-top-ev-battery-mak...
How does one go about not being a physicist anymore?
One of the core problems with environmentalists, intelligent people and anyone left wing really is that we insist on doing nothing until we have a perfect solution. Instead of trading climate change for a lithium shortage, we will fail to push these cars because there might be some imperfection for someone somewhere someday. And a massive serious issue is better than a tiny possible future issue we didn't foresee.

Hence the world is run by stupid, selfish, shorttermists who "just do it".
The Usenet subreddit is a good reference. They have an excellent wiki as well - e.g., https://www.reddit.com/r/usenet/wiki/providerdeals/
This article and the IEA sources that they rely on assumes that an EV is a car. That’s not a good assumption: electric bicycles and trikes like the Aptera are much better direction for the vast majority of individual transport.

At that size, you can rely on smaller batteries and solar panels for many journeys (it isn’t fully sufficient for an Aptera but an e-bicycle with a small roof can ride as long as the Sun shines).

Using three tons vehicles for long-distance journeys or for the transport of goods isn’t efficient: trains (and last-mile delivery on cargo bikes) are a lot more economical in both energy, accident risk and individual time (or vehicle investment if you assume an autonomous future).

If we don’t use the energy transition to shift away from the domination of heavy, polluting, deadly cars, we would have lost an opportunity.
The second prompt includes "child, young".

Yuck.
It doesn't seem to affect Lightroom classic which is what I use.
I decided a while ago that I don't really need to watch TV or play video games, that it's a distraction from more fulfilling activities.

So I got rid of the lot and now spend my free time composing music and reverse engineering software that I find interesting.

I regard this as time much better spent than passively consuming media or getting lost inside virtual worlds adversely designed to be addictive.

And there's no need to even consider piracy, as I don't require these products. Though I'd pay for these items if I did desire them, just like I'll pay to watch something in the cinema now and again.
I never wasn't open to it!?
Nah, people who want to serve him papers have plenty of options (including the public information the ElonJet posts were sourced from!).

Most likely, he's just (barely?) smart enough to recognize that it's a really bad look for the CEO of an electric car company to be using a private jet all the time.
https://twitter.com/timse7/status/1609862090054828033

There's recent IEEE research which shows that 8K is useless, there's also a stack of other well founded research which shows that viewer engagement on video content tops out at 1080p60+HDR (which is still classified as 'UHD' in some definitions of UHD).

8K is just marketing and trying to sell people things they don't need.
Awesome, this could change the status quo of code forges. Also tangentially related, but just the fact that Forgejo is self hosting gives me more confidence in it than Gitea (which is on GitHub LOL), hopefully both projects share any improvements between each other.
I loved playing with Terraserver back in the day. However it was built to be a demo rather than a product. Their GIS products were Streets & Trips and then MapPoint which then rolled into an online version that went through various MSN/Live/Bing rebrands.

I don't think that Microsoft failed to realize how large a business mapping would become. I think the problem was mostly these products existed in the Ballmer era where Microsoft expanded into seemingly every niche without clear goals besides using up all the oxygen in the room.
Is that why Netflix killed video stores? I don't know anyone who used it when it had DVD rentals (I don't even know if we had that option in Canada).

Myself and most people I know stopped renting videos when we could stream stuff easily.
Not so strange! ... at least when it comes to the legal community[1] (pdf).

For those around during the O.J. Simpson trial, this was a very, very contentious topic during the trial!

[1]https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.wustl.edu/dist/3/2151/fi...
I totally agree. However, copy/paste on such a high level must not happen. If you are making serious claims, you should demonstrate that they are true and not that something similar is true somewhere else. Otherwise, you can say that if A murdered B in 1995, then A murdered C and D because they were murdered in 1995 as well.
> The only proven way to live longer and reduce your risk of essentially every disease is to reduce caloric intake.

The problem with this is how a continuous caloric deficit affects your quality of life. Your body tends to adapt by making you feel tired and killing your libido. Not to mention that being underweight becomes a health hazard past a certain age.

IMO, if you aren't overweight, eating a healthy diet and enough calories to maintain your weight will give you the best combination of longevity and durability.
After some technical know how and upfront time investment, piracy is genuinely easier and presents a better UX than the legal route.

With the suite of production-quality piracy automation software out there, as well as BYO media front ends like Plex et al, those who are so inclined are a long long long way past the ‘manually rifling through Usenet or Demonoid’ of yesteryear. One can simply visit a polished web UI of a piece of software running on their home network, and that they want every season of Letterkenny in 4K and it’ll be available to them within the hour.

Those who consume media this way don’t need to keep track of which steaming service has the rights to which property at the current point in time. Nor do they need to deal with inconsistent and increasingly Byzantine UXs of steaming service apps. They can instead enjoy a consistent interface on all of their devices with a single play queue, with even the ability to build playlists and collections of media that would otherwise be across streaming services.

I am significantly visually impaired and as such find it difficult to sit back on the couch and bounce between different apps and interfaces on my Apple TV. Were I inclined to consume media by way of piracy, I imagine that I’d find the experience to all in all be much more accessible than doing things the Right Way. All completely hypothetical of course.

The one thing that paying for and using streaming services has over the modern privacy approach, for one that has the prerequisite technical knowhow and ethics to pirate in the first place, is discovery / recommendation engines. The current suite of piracy apps make attempts to recommend new media to you, but obviously they can’t hold a candle to the millions of hours and petabytes of Big Data that powers…say…Netflix’s recommendation engine.

I genuinely believe that there’s a notable portion of pirates that would stop doing it if it were easier to consume content legally. This is why you see music piracy sinking deeper and deeper into the shadows. Comparing music consumption with movie or even TV show consumption has its limits, but were there a legal way to consume such content with a Spotify level of coverage, I think that it’d be quite compelling to these people. Of course, piracy is much less of a problem than it once was, so who knows if media companies even care anymore.
Lithium is the only major mineral in an EV that does not have a significant use elsewhere. Steel, aluminum, manganese, nickel, iron, phosphate, cobalt, rare earths, et cetera have significant industrial uses outside of EV's. So while EV's can put a lot of pressure on those supply chains, the effect is on a different scale.

Traditionally Lithium isn't mined, it's concentrated out of a brine. Some miners are setting up hard-rock Lithium mines, but those are on a vastly different scale than a coal mine, so there would likely be very little equipment overlap.

A significant number of batteries still use cobalt, although the percentage of batteries that are cobalt-free is increasing.
damn, you’re right. thanks for the thorough comment! i do pay more for 4k for netflix and co.

my mistake was thinking about renting titles on prime and rakuten, where i get 4k(uhd) and 1080p at the same price.
More like, don’t pay until they curtail their segmentation of content across myriad of services, each adding n number of dollars and mental overhead of automatically renewing subscriptions bundled with certain must-pay-on-delivery for certain content that’s not available any other way.

We see their model, we need to stop the growth of it.
AFAIK the mineral reserve bottlenecks are cobalt and manganese, not lithium!
As long as Hollywood keeps producing stuff that is barely watchable I'm all for piracy. This is largely not stuff I want to vote for with my wallet.
> SourceHut as a solution to centralized censorship is...ironic.

It's not a solution to a centralized censorship. You can self-host it if you want.

> SourceHut literally bans anything blockchain/crypto related from their platform.

It's their platform, they can decide what to do with it. However, I support SourceHut's view on this, because I also didn't see anything useful came out of blockchain/cryptocurrency scene.

Moreover, you can send your project in for vetting if you are so sure that it's something really beneficial. The ban is not a curtain / we'll ban you no matter what variety.

To directly cite:

> We will exercise discretion when applying this rule. If you believe that your use-case for cryptocurrency or blockchain is not plagued by these social problems, you may ask for permission to host it on SourceHut, or appeal its removal, by contacting support. [0]

[0]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurre...
Sadly that is behind a Pay Wall.

Our documentary Pain Warriors is not.

It is free to watch on Amazon Prime and TubiTV.
It is also found on iTunes, Google Play and Vemo for international viewers (Those are not free).

Pain Warriors is five stories, one being of my late wife who killed herself because of Chronic Pain. There is one other suicide in the documentary.

One of the stories is of a doctor that lost everything for helping people like my late wife.

This is the other side of the opioid epidemic.
Where people that need pain medication can no longer get it.

There is no evidence at all that properly prescribed and taken pain medicine is in any way contributing to the 'Opioid Epidemic'.
Yes, there are bad actors out there than do need dealt with for running Pill Mills and such. That has nothing to do with people in Chronic Pain.

As the pain medication has been taken away, deaths continue to mount proving that people in pain have had nothing to do with this problem. It all stems from Fentanyl.

The CDC has recently revised their 2016 guidelines to be more favorable to pain patients. Sadly it is to little to late. The CDC has stated that pain medication should not be taken away from people in pain. Alas the damage has already been done.

I receive no remuneration from the documentary. We are just trying to raise awareness.
Ebooks are the worst offenders IMO. Most stores I’ve seen don’t even tell me the format or DRM, but I’m pretty sure it won’t be an open format
What makes you think it was a mistake? Could very well have been planned. "Lets hire like crazy in order to meet demand, and when the demand disappears again, do layoffs".

Probably someone calculated something somewhere saying "If we hire 25% more people to take advantage of the increased demand, we'll earn more profits even with layoffs with heavy severances for everyone after X months".
Maybe I am, maybe I am not. You can have great fun with Abmahnanwaelten (lawyers, who are in the business of threatening people for their supposedly unlawful actions), if your blog is missing your address.

The law says, that you can get fined up to 50k€ for that. Obviously it will very likely not be that much for a measly blog. You need to put your address, if you have any advertisement on your website, do anything journalistic, or, if you are organizing any kind of group on German territory. Probably some more conditions which I forgot.

Want to make a post about your favorite restaurants? Oh, that could be seen as an ad! Better not post it! Want to rant a little about something silly some politician has done? Ooops! That could be seen as journalist activity! Want to post a datetime and location of the next meeting of your favorite hobby group? Organizing people on German territory!

You can see it is very easy to make a mistake. Not likely, that anyone will even find your blog or care, but also not nice to run the risk. On the other hand I don't want everyone on the Internet to know where I live, so I cannot put an "Impressum" there either. I have read up on things like: "Can I put a post box there?" and similar ideas, but there have been cases in which courts decided, that this is not sufficient any longer.
I just dont understand how media companies cant figure out that its QUALITY over Quantity. I dont want bullshit C list actors coming up with sharknado 3. Ok, maybe I do want that to some degree, but not all the time and everywhere. We get it, its cheap and easy to make. cool. no one wants to watch it and especially no one wants to pay AND watch ads to watch it.
dvd is 1080p
Stump remover is cheap and plentiful. I tried to make gunpowder with it but it was not what I hoped. (It fizzled and went out).

What I did have more success with is smoke bombs. Mix sugar and KNO3, heat up slowly in a non-stick pot until molten, pour into appropriate molds, let cool and ignite as desired.
I don't think most of the folks suddenly apprehensive about lithium & cobalt mining are left wing.
It's too bad if true. The Stable Diffusion GUI repo was really useful. Used it just recently when SD upgraded to v. 2 over Christmas.

A little off-topic, but seeing the confusion about (((parenthesis))) used in an unfamiliar context, it's worth mentioning another area of confusion that will eventually surface with SD prompts.

The text-to-image models have biases, of course, and so prompts (positive and negative) need to be used to combat those biases if you don't want the output to go in the biased direction. e.g. if the model tends to draw hats on people, you might need to add the negative prompt ((hat)) meaning "really, really, no hat". Makes sense.

Now, consider when the text-to-image model has a bias regarding drawing people of a particular race, the person using the model may need to write a prompt counter-biasing the result to get the result they want. For example: by saying things like prompt (hispanic) or negative-prompt ((blue eyes)).

Not saying that such prompts are guaranteed not-racist, just that an uninformed observer could naturally suspect racist intent with race-specific tags in the prompt. It's complex, and would need more context to confirm a suspicion.
Even if we have more electric vehicles, that doesn't decarbonize anything unless the source of the energy doesn't generate carbon dioxide. In many places you're just moving the source of carbon dioxide (often with a total increase). I think that part is often overlooked.
Seems like it could be an opportunity for a website with all the news shows and movies on each platform. You check off the ones that seem interesting. It tells you what service to subscribe to after you hit a threshold. Not sure if any of the services have affiliate programs for revenue.
GamePass for me was the end of game piracy in any way. (plus competition between Steam and Epic lowering prices and making many more games accessible at cheap prices).

At this point for music there is so much free music available online that makes no sense to pirate anything. But I assume this depends on your music tastes.

For Movies and TV piracy is king especially if you live in a country where many less popular movies don't make it to the movie theaters and some streaming networks (e.g. hulu, disney+ etc) are not available.
Germany can now legally spy on it's own citizens (2018)
I’ve been fortunate and really can’t bring myself to take things without paying for them. Being a movie and sports fan I pay for (deep breath) Netflix, HBO, Peacock, Disney/Hulu/ESPN, Sunday Ticket, Fubo, Paramount+, Prime, and AppleTV/Music.

I don’t mind the money, except Sunday Ticket which is insanely expensive for something that blacks out the biggest games each week.

What I mind is the complete unusability of having different UIs for each of them, and the lack of any unified schedule/guide. It is bizarre that the only way to find a live football game is to try each of the services that it might be on until found.

I don’t begrudge content creators and distributors their money. I just find it insane that the content choosing user experience is so much worse than 30 years ago.

If someone came out with a 100% pirated live+streaming solution with a unified catalog and schedule, I’d happily use it while still paying for the legit services whose various baroque UXes I wouldn’t miss at all.
This is correct. It's like saying do "in the future we'll have gasoline that contains 2, 3, or 4 times as much energy." Sure, different gasoline chemistries have different energy densities. But there's thermodynamic limits to it, unless you're switching to an entirely different chemistry.

IIRC, we're already at ~40% the thermodynamic limits of lithium, so tripling or quadrupling are out of the question.
Nope, its a bunch of little communities that are centrally managed and can force their users to a new platform easily. Network effects are minimal, sunk cost of integrations is a greater barrier to moving off platform but that is pretty weak as well.
Wouldn't it be a buttock?
> What man would need to track the 28-days cycle of the moon?!? [..]

I'm a man and I actually track the moon cycles. I go skiing in the mountains during winter. If it's a full moon, or nearly so, I can plan on starting in the evening. With snow it's easy to ski in moonlight.
If it's the wrong phase I can't plan on starting in the evening (typically Friday, for a weekend trip), I have to wait until the next day.
There are other activities here which requires moonlight as well. It's important. Where it's snow, moonlight makes all the difference. I always kept track of the moon, especially when I was in my late teens and went somewhere hiking or skiing every weekend.

I can easily imagine how super important moonlight would be for neolithic people, for all kind of activities, hunting and more.
Developing a product might be a good option but it's risky and will take time. It's difficult staying focused and motivated long-term. I've been "almost ready" to launch an analytics SaaS for months.

Hope you find something that excites you again. Good luck.
Oh don't be an ass.