I just finished reading Amusing Ourselves to Death. In it Neil Postman explains the apathy you mention in a way that I found very convincing. Although the book is from 1985 it’s as relevant as ever, perhaps even more so given our current media climate. It’s worth a read, though I would advise reading Brave New World in advance.
How will Musk manage all the conflicts of interest, between all of his companies and assets and his role in government. His business interests are so large and diverse that it literally can’t be done, can it? Already got the sense that the US is going down the path of oligarchic kleptocracy. But how shameless and out in the open will it be?
Temu is quite literally poisonous.
It took me a while to realize this is actually true. Reality is amazing.
You mean Mastodon?
You’re thinking of MusicBrainz Picard, the music file tagging software that is powered by MusicBrainz, a music metadata encyclopedia. ListenBrainz is a separate project, though it also makes use of the MusicBrainz data.
I never used Plex so I wouldn’t be able to help you but the page below has 2 Plex-related links.
Could someone smarter than me explain Matrix to me? In particular,
I’ve been using Fennec. Any one got advise on what would be the best alternative? And please explain why.
Now could you explain it like I’m 104?
shorts are not my cup of tea. Pretty sure shorts have a negative impact on peoples attention span. I’d still be happy to see people watch their shorts on the Fediverse rather than at tiktok/yt. Of course, but still…
I followed in 2021. What remains is that I use YouTube quite a lot (even though it’s through piped or yt-dlp).
Sabotage Wikipedia, Ddos the Internet Archive. Makes you wonder if in the future we’re going to forget our past. Will actual history be obscured in a sea of alternative histories unrecognizably presented as the same thing. Maybe we need to keep some books laying around in archives just to be sure.
We still have it, and it’s quite nice.
But a fair point nonetheless.
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm. And to get all sorts of beneficial features, like for instance recommendations that are truly independent, and getting updates on new releases.
good luck finding one with a decent resolution AND price.
That raises the question: is there one that has decent resolution and privacy, but is expensive? Those of us who can afford it should surely go for the privacy friendly option regardless of price. Boycotting the surveillance society that’s in full development is worth a lot.
Youtube isn’t just a thing people use to waste time
I fully agree, didn’t mean to imply it’s just that. But it’s also that.
Unexpectedly, but apparantly Korea is reunited again