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...I don't view myself as a consumable. I enjoy accomplishing. I do not enjoy burnout. I'm interested in ways to prevent it. It's really that simple.

I don't particularly find this survey compelling, but I also don't want to be judged as some vampiric capitalist just because I'd like to have more work bandwidth.


...is this bug being tracked somewhere?

As a reasonably known but not super popular bluegrass artist, I agree: please steal my music instead of paying Spotify for it.

Hell, Weird Al himself only made $12 from Spotify views in 2023.

> DRM free digital music from all of the record labels

Is this true? Can you show me where I can get DRM-free releases from Mountain Fever?

Better yet, can you add that information here? https://pickipedia.xyz/wiki/DRM-free


Your link doesn’t work. But I assume you are talking about this label? I looked at the first artist and I found the artist’s music on iTunes. Everything that Apple sells on the iTunes Music Store has been DRM free AAC or ALAC (Apple lossless) since 2009.

https://mountainfever.com/colin-kathleen-ray/

While ALAC is an Apple proprietary format, it is DRM free and can be converted to FLAC using ffmeg. AAC is not an Apple format


ALAC is open source and royalty free since 2011. https://macosforge.github.io/alac/

Wow. How did I miss that!!!


I remember trying to use music I had bought in a slideshow that year and finding out that I couldn’t load tracks with DRM into the editor I was using; it was very frustrating.

A way to strip the DRM was built into the iTunes app - burn the song to a CD and rip it.

Is burning to a CD and ripping it lossless?

If the source and target are both lossless, then yes. ALAC was available in iTunes since 2004 AFAIK.

Caveat: CDs were 44.1/16 so if the original files had more bit depth, they would require downsampling. Technically lossy, but not "compression" per se. But AFAIK, iTunes was also 44.1/16.


I don’t know about Mountain Fever, but for anything I haven’t been able to find on Bandcamp, I’ve been able to find on Qobuz.

...aren't we all.

> The problem is that consumers are not savvy...

> ...This is a perfect situation where government regulation is required.

Isn't this precisely the dynamic which causes governments to have an interest in ensuring that consumers don't become savvy?


Yes, this seems to suck. But I've been wrong about plenty before. I'll keep an open mind.

Call me crazy, but I think any time, any where, without any exceptions whatsoever, someone wants to fly a multi-ton chunk of metal, they need to broadcast telemetry in a cleartext, open standard.

I understand that this might be disruptive to people who want to drop explosives on other people, and while this disruption is a fantastic benefit, it's only a side-effect.


To be sure, the relevant statutory regulation[1] didn't always read the way how it does.

[1] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-14/chapter-I/subchapter-F...


Yeah, exactly. I've been watching adsb activity over my house for years, and in the past few weeks, for the first time, I have activity (helicopter and jet) in my area that it not visible.

It's unnerving, and unbecoming of an egalitarian society.


3. Puppeteer? Or Playwright? I haven't been able to make Puppeteer work for the past 8 weeks or so ("failed to reconnect"). Do you have a doc on this?

I know the Playwright MCP server works great. I use it daily.

Same, I use Playwright all the time, but haven't been able to make puppeteer work in quite some time. Playwright, while reliable in terms of features, just absolutely eats the heck out of context.

I’ve heard folks claim the Chrome DevTools MCP eats less context, but I don’t know how accurate that is.

> This gives governments an excuse to ban VPNs in the name of 'thinking of the children'. That might be the point though.

...then the rest of the world will see what the people of China and Russia already know: bans on VPNs cause them to explode in popularity and development pace.

There's a reason that the most sophisticated VPNs and tunneling tech are built to evade the GFW.

I recently visited a remote part of Siberia, and I was amazed at the ubiquity of VPNs. Grandmothers who grew up in shamanic traditions knew how to get around apparent traffic shaping (even on youtube!) to listen to their traditional music. It was quite inspiring.

I'm not saying bans are a good idea - I'd much rather the adults in the room read the writing on the wall and bring about peaceful dismantling of legacy states in favor of a censorship-resistant internet.

But it is coming either way.


"in favor of a censorship-resistant internet"

At least that's a good incentive to build censorship-resistant internet.


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