Until it blows over and then secretly slide it in to the corporate handbook.

Namecheap suspending neocities, and now Github deleting subscriptions. I am all for the watching the world burn.

What about removing oil from water, have we conquered that yet?

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and I'm all outta gum

Brokers. Acxiom and Experian for starters.

Heck, you can buy facebook datasets right now from brightdata.

https://brightdata.com/products/datasets/facebook

Don't you recall the Cambridge Analytica scandal?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_Analytica

All corporates sell your data. You're a fool to think otherwise, data makes dosh, and you can sell any data for a price.

Data is a commodity.

There are current ten plus folk in the subway carriage I am sitting in right now. Toss me £10 and I'll give you a dataset of ten people of what colour tops they're wearing and what brand of shoe and colour.

And yes you can sell your internet data too.

https://www.moneymagpie.com/make-money/make-money-selling-yo...

It doesn't matter, money is money. Without it your pretty much screwed in this world.

Of which Meta is but one source of, among a sea of countless other places to obtain it.

When was the last time you applied for a job and got an interview?

I was on a salary of $550 a day with a bank. I left because how grim banks are. I have yet to find another job that pays that much outside of a banking circuit.

If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less?

>If meta is paying you high-end why would you give it up for something that pays you less?

Sure, because I don't value high-end living. A modest living is enough to keep me happy. If I can provide a happy, comfortable life for my family, we're good.

It would irk me deeply to set aside my values for the sake of a boatload of cash that I don't actually need.

I don't have the latest iPhone, my Android is years old and I'm genuinely considering a true-to-life dumb ol' flip phone for my next purchase. I hardly use the damn thing.

We don't have a tablet in the house, or the latest video game consoles. You should've seen how outdated our TV was before we upgraded a couple of years ago, but I didn't go posting about it online.

I don't subscribe to most streaming services, preferring to sail the high seas. Sure, we used them for a while, but then the experience began to become subpar. Even then, my collection is fairly small, limited largely to my favorite films and a small smattering of television shows I occasionally re-watch.

My musical hobbies all involve old gear that I've not upgraded in two decades.

I don't have social media and don't feel the need to show off to others.

My car is terribly old and has none of the modern luxuries of today's vehicles, but it still chugs along nicely.

Little Free Libraries are a delightful way for us to find new books and put books we love back into the community. Other than a few specific books related to our hobbies, that's where most of the books in our house come from. The children's books we have, most of them are hand-me-downs or gifts.

We value vacations in wilderness over hotels and fine dining - it's a lot cheaper, keeps us in touch with the natural world, and as a bonus, one doesn't have to have TSA fondle you prior to cramming yourself into a metal tube with a bunch of strangers for five to ten hours. And, no, we don't go camping with the latest-and-greatest gear.

I'm quite happy with all of that, and genuinely don't feel like I'm missing out on anything, or a connection with the people that matter in my life.

You talk about how everyone is addicted to unnecessary luxury, but that's an absolute that's simply not true. There are plenty of people out there who try to live a life as free of material attachments, luxury worship and whatnot as possible. The broader culture might be that way, but it's not everyone.

I've built my life around my core values (or "principled stances" as you put it), I wouldn't preach it if I wasn't trying my damnedest to practice it.

A normal non-FAANG tech salary will support such sybaritic luxury as busying a phone and using Netflix.

That's not the issue. The problem is financially supporting unprincipled businesses while virtue-signalling your conscientious objection.

Because principles are more important than a paycheck.

That doesn't apply to most people in the bay area (And especially at Meta).

What's amusing is that you have now have parties using Ai, GPT, writing the response to the same email that was originally crafted by Ai.

Browsers shouldn't have an install. Can we stop half-baked HTML XML syntax at this point?

I forsee abuse of such:

    const button = document.querySelector('install');
    button.addEventListener('promptdismiss', () => {
      console.log('User dismissed the install prompt but forcing installation of adware, malware and bitcoing mining anyway');
    });

This isn't possible, the PWA install flow is managed by the browser.

That would be because Github was founded in 2008. Microsoft bought it in 2015 and hasn't done anything apart from restrict and milk.

Unlike sourceforge, how am I suppose to find new stuff when I am rate-limited after a couple of searches?

> Most recent example - I was watching Malcolm in the Middle on Disney+ with my girlfriend, and we found that there are entire audio tracks missing in multiple episodes.

The licenses for the song tracks have also expired; so they removed these too. The main noticeable difference is being the intro sequence originally sung by There Might be Giants which has been replaced with a less-impressive cover that ruins the vibe.

Why can't these tracks just forever live with the series? I went and bought the DVD box-set just because of such. A £2 purchase that I than ripped to my NAS.

I've not watched the latest remake because I don't want to ruin the original vibe of such a great show.

Real acting, real filming; the last of it's kind.

> That's because the license for the tracks expired

They're talking about pieces of dialogue in the show, not licensed music.

If they're shouting at neighbours through a wall I'd be willing to bet that the dialogue is happening because of loud copyrighted music being played at the same time. They probably just did some automated music detection and cut the whole audio track in those sections.

Edit: I lost the bet and there's no notable music involved: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pu8-dxRkoTI

I know. And I am commenting on that the licensed music within the series has been replaced due to expired licensing for which that itself is ridiculous.

Re-licensing music is a two-fold challenge. Sometimes it's much more efficient to use substitute music, instead of negotiating for new rights.

First, licensing arrangements for "all marketing channels" only account for the channels that exist at the time. When a new market channel opens up, such as streaming, music labels will require new licensing terms for that channel. If they don't, they might not get paid. (TV & movie studios are just as ruthless as music labels).

Second, in turn, the labels often have to get new permission from artists for the new channel. Tracking down all artists can be a challenge and require resources that they can't recoup.

And all that just strengthens the case for piracy: you actually get the original thing.

"More efficient" implies that the result is equivalent but it's not.

Hah! How soon 'till some MBA comes up with a scheme to start licensing movies one word at a time?

Don't worry. Now that you can license actors 'likeness' for AI generation, they'll be replacing the people in the shows soon too.

I have never seen an episode that had a cover of the theme song.

Maybe that was a thing with the new reboot? I don't know because I heard nothing that made me want to watch it.

Yeah I'm pretty sure those kids were broken filming that show. There's a reason Dewey didn't want to come back.

This is a good point. Another problem with streaming services, specifically for music streaming services, is that they can change the track of a previously released album with no user choice to hear the original. Example: Track 4 of Elephunk by the Black Eyed Peas. It was universally replaced with the “clean” version of the song. I’m not a fan of rewriting history.