throwaway46829
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3 years ago
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on: Twitter API Page
Also, even if they weren't making money from such users, if this is a common experience, the opportunity to make money from them with advanced warning to switch to the official client existed but has now been lost.
throwaway46829
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3 years ago
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on: Wyoming senators want to phase out sales of EVs
It's not hypocrisy, the other side isn't now saying "we need freedom of choice" they're still fine with the principle of banning things, they just want the other thing banned, simple disagreement.
Another example, politician A makes a personal attack, politician B says personal attacks are wrong and then makes one themselves = hypocrisy. If they just reply with another personal attack without the moral objection = not hypocrisy.
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3 years ago
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on: Solar panel waste may not be as bad as we thought
I thought "yum"
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3 years ago
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on: How to use your DSLR from 2008 as a webcam in 2022 (NixOS)
I don't think resolution is everything, I can definitely notice that the image is "better" in other ways when people are using proper cameras (whereas for a phone camera the resolution is a bigger part of what makes it better than a webcam), I'm quite happy with my own webcam being clear but not too clear though, it's a meeting not Instagram.
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3 years ago
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on: After price update, Amazon Prime members call Amazon Music “unusable”
I'd act differently if the worst that could happen from failing to deliver/someone thinking I had was being kicked out of the country rather than just unemployment, it's about sticks not carrots
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3 years ago
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on: Audiobooks on Spotify
A more interesting/valid scenario might be something like "Spotify is using their dominance in music streaming to get too much of an advantage in the podcast market". How much is too much is for the public and politicians to debate as seen here, it's a matter of pragmatism not absolute truths.
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3 years ago
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on: Audiobooks on Spotify
It can be perfectly legal but still wrong, in which case it makes sense to raise awareness with the public in the hope of new laws.
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3 years ago
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on: Audiobooks on Spotify
All of business is a sort of charade, Amazon might be "sorry that your product was disappointing and want to offer you a refund" by which they mean "if we give you a refund we think you'll feel confident enough to buy more from us". You still get what you wanted though.
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3 years ago
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on: Audiobooks on Spotify
Spotify also adds value to the iPhone, before the App Store it was pretty but kind of useless. Make them give both options, people can decide whether easy cancellation etc. is worth 30%, Apple can make up any losses it needs to continue the platform from the iPhone sales price (or they can charge for App Store access or whatever, we should make them allow third-party stores/sideloading regardless), people can then decide whether that platform is worth it over Android.
