Oh so you are saying the service exists in another form and is able to fill a need people have? So therefore Spotify is just one solution to a problem many people have.

You are genuinely being disingenuous if you don’t see how some people could want to use Spotify over something like Soulseek or even something like YouTube Music.

I don’t even like Spotify, but I can see why some people might.

Do you think people have a need for music that is streamed but not saved from a large collection?

You really don’t get the appeal of paying for a service that provides a need? Really?

How good is invidious? At the moment I’m pulling all of my videos in with TubeArchivist and that’s been hit or miss with getting blocked by YouTube. I also don’t watch my videos fast enough so they get backed up.

Crazy I was screamed at on Reddit for pointing out this guys hypocrisy. Glad I left his miserable platform.

I absolutely agree. Many just don’t think the benefit of being nimble is worth it. Glad to see it being a bigger discussion.

Now that’s good stuff

You too friend!

Just got let go last week, not ready for the journey it’s taking me on.

Not necessarily, they could have just a piece of the entire build/deploy process that requires some access to Claude to complete and have no real easy way to turn it off. Like multiple CI/CD steps reaching out for validation or something stupid.

Vendor lock in for today’s software is almost impossible to avoid unless you are running on owned bare metal which is not really an option for many mid size companies.

Tailscale is a super easy vpn that gives you access to your home network from anywhere. And it’s free.

Two Headed Calf makes me cri every tim

Tomorrow when the farm boys find this freak of nature,

they will wrap his body in newspaper and carry him to the museum.

But tonight he is alive and in the north field with his mother.

It is a perfect summer evening: the moon rising over the orchard, the wind in the grass.

And as he stares into the sky, there are twice as many stars as usual.

HELL yeah what a sick ass movie thanks for the reminder.

That’s really incredible as it was the defacto spot for git version controlled software since what feels like forever.

Finally, a real fucking response.

Taxes should exist to create and fund the things that hold society together. There should be incentives to save money for retirement. Those do not always need to overlap.

So I should have foresight to years later if I may have a life altering instance happening in my future?

That’s fine but why does the incentive become a hurdle when life gets in the way? If I lost my job, and my house, and needed money, getting penalized for having life happens doesn’t look like an incentive anymore.

Why the actual fuck do we need to pay a penalty on our own money? We put the money in, it’s my fucking money. I love how something absolutely fucked up needs to happen just so you get the luxury of paying a fee on TOP OF fucking your savings over just so you can get over the hurdle of what ever terrible happened.