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by pxoe 1y ago
That trending feed on mastodon would still literally be that, ranking posts on how much they're engaged with and further driving engagement on the platform. So I'm just wondering what hairs are even there to split.
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by pxoe 1y ago
It's totally fine if people would just say it like "bad algorithms" or "good algorithms", but somehow the meaning of the word "algorithm" in itself got so twisted that it apparently means "bad" j
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by pxoe 1y ago
If you're not logged in, the evil algorithmic trending feed is literally the first thing you'll see being pushed onto you. (seems like it's a default setting, because it's that way across several different instances.) So
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by pxoe 1y ago
Mastodon literally has a trending feed. Is that not an "algorithm"? It has algorithmic popular hashtags, news feed, and user recommendations. Just a bog standard handful of algorithmic surfaces, so why are they still pretending li
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by pxoe 1y ago
iTunes/Apple Music (where you can literally pay per track), Spotify (pay for streaming access and some other stuff), bandcamp itself (the web page is the player. purchases are also available within android app), are all music players w
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by pxoe 1y ago
It's there when you listen on bandcamp, it's not there in the player. It's removed from the listening experience in this app, and made further obscure by not linking out. Are we actually gonna argue whether a "music play
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by pxoe 1y ago
It's not about choosing which artists you like and whether you want to give money to some particular artist or not, and not even just personally refusing to give money to any artist. It's about going out of your way to create some
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by pxoe 1y ago
There's being "pro-copyright" and then there's just the topic of paying artists, and then choosing not to pay them. Which sometimes is bizarrely and belligerently defended like some moral stance (barely even in relation
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by pxoe 1y ago
Previews/free streaming on bandcamp is 128 kbps mp3 only. If you buy music there, you get the whole spread, lossy and lossless, mp3 320/v0, aac, ogg, flac, even wav. (Only thing notably missing at this point is opus, which would b
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by pxoe 1y ago
Yes, which is what I also mention (as more usual streaming services, what someone would immediately think of and which is more geared towards that conventional kind of streaming - which bandcamp is kind of just not), it's just that cul
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by pxoe 1y ago
It's completely understandable not just for the usual streaming services (like youtube, etc.) and the grievances there (payouts per play, whichever way it goes, be it that artists getting stiffed or people refusing to come up with even
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by pxoe 1y ago
That's legitimately a crazy thing to say about an extremely revenue driven company with a $3 trillion valuation. We can see their "human values" play out in real time as they court and bribe politicians.
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by pxoe 1y ago
>can? would? They literally already do? https://f-droid.org/docs/Signing_Process/
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by pxoe 1y ago
Valve has already pretty much "shut the door" on its games relatively to how much money they have and how much dev effort they could put into it if they actually tried harder, because they're mostly just maintaining their gam
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by pxoe 1y ago
>use profiles for what profiles are good at This is what I'm saying and what people who recommend containers as a "replacement" for profiles sorely miss. >20 minutes to set up Meanwhile on Chrome this just worked out of
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by pxoe 1y ago
Maybe you just don't understand the difference between containers and profiles, or what is it about profiles that's useful and more useful in some cases over containers. For one, it's impossible to have separate extensions wi
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by pxoe 1y ago
It's done when you're not visiting old control panel anymore. I wonder what people are even doing regularly enough in control panel for that to be such a problem.
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by pxoe 1y ago
What's bizarre is not seeing any mention of Windows Vista, when it laid the foundation and had most of these design aspects and elements people fawn about.
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by pxoe 1y ago
Was there any attempt to optimize SVG? If it was just a single object/path, it'd be pretty small (if it was optimized/simplified for curves/node count, it could be even smaller), and then it could be harder matching that
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by pxoe 1y ago
Have to wonder what those 20 MB SVGs were like and whether they could've been optimized as SVG still. Doesn't seem to add up that at "huge" resolution that PNG would be that small either.
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by pxoe 1y ago
When compared on exact same use cases, smartphones don't have to be replaced either if they're used to just call people and receive messages. If it's just for calls, why would software support matter? People keep comparing sm
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by pxoe 1y ago
That's an absurd amount of tuning to make a browser acceptable to use. What you're saying is that it's unusable as is out of the box.
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by pxoe 1y ago
Full range is a specific set. What does that range consist of? Also, seems odd to go from going on about "stretching a label past the point of meaning", but then put normal as some range that's just about vaguely everything.
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by pxoe 1y ago
What is normal human behavior though? Is it some combination of things that's gonna end up being so rare that only so many people fall under it, and is it normal if it's so rare? Is it gonna be "what most/average people
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by pxoe 1y ago
unefficient*, especially when putting actual video into gif format. most often those gifs are hideous (limited color palette etc) and huge (10+ MB for seconds of video), often either badly optimized (which would only make them look even mor
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by pxoe 1y ago
Could not come at a worse time politically.
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by pxoe 1y ago
Seems odd to point at older Material versions as "more expressive" when it's the Material You theming in 12 that really got it to shine.
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by pxoe 1y ago
In a context of "converting youtube into mp3", "technically not the best format" is an understatement for what most likely is "conversion" of 128 kbps aac or opus into "320 kbps" mp3s (or whatever ran
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by pxoe 1y ago
I'm not sure if it's so much "un-american" rather than just "popular culture is dumb" (which may be one's perspective even on culture that's more local to them). It's not interesting, it's s
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by pxoe 1y ago
Yeah, I wanted to add that it may be less of a problem when there's source code, but sideloading and third party app stores includes apps that don't have source code available, like random loose apks people just download and insta

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