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The only songs reencoded to that quality is a sample of the 0-streams songs, which do make up a lot of the total count.

Everything that has been listened to at least once is in high quality.

:o Thank you for making alternate reality content!

You're kinda right, but PII != bits of entropy about you

I'm not sure why you think any digital device shouldn't know what time it is. It's not leaking any kind of personal information, just literal facts about reality.

Maintaining a shared "now" is actually an interesting problem from a relativistic point of view, considering you need time to communicate what time it is. NTP is a relatively simple protocol with some clever tricks around latency; it is organized by strata which go from very precise, authoritative sources (these are atomic clocks at universities, not the NSA) to various levels of "mirrors", down to within your LAN. It is massively distributed and decentralized by nature, to be able to handle everyone to be in sync without overwhelming a handful of primary clocks.

The end device does not need to be able to talk to the internet at all, just to your router (or designated NTP server if you're into that). It is such an old protocol that it is embedded in most consumer routers, and getting a server running in Linux is literally just install, start. You don't need to connect upstream at all, you can absolutely say "on this network I am the god-clock".

Sure. I'm just saying that this well-known demonstrated phenomenon is being weaponized against you

No this is not directed to you at all, just seemed like a good space to vent :)

I just hope Americans can find hope and love for each other again, and really be the "beacon of liberty" they purport to be.

Archival and practical use are different goals. This is not about making it easy to use as a music library

Then you're either transcoding when burning the CD or plugging in a modern player via aux, aren't you?

I understand why people might not want a music library in FLAC, but just pre-transcoding everything to MP3 in 2025 just seems silly

Trump and his cronies need to be removed from the office, not prosecuted. Not because a part of the population strongly disagrees with his policies, but simply because he has been blatantly disregarding the constitution. And if you think "only the supreme court can decide if that's true" I'm sorry but you're wrong, you only need a brain. You don't need a conviction to know that he is a paedophile and has something weird going on with Putin, you just need your eyes and ears. The epstein files have now been released, clearly implicating him, yet people still seem to be waiting for "the official thing" and crying about the redactions. I understand that he "allegedly" is an Epstein associate until he's convicted, but dear Americans please remember that being found guilty of something is not the same as being guilty of something. You can be one without the other. You can be reasonably certain someone did something based on the evidence you've seen. Judges are not superhuman, and especially if they're complicit, how can you rely on them to stop the injustice?

This really is not a call for violence. I do not care how you stop Trump from hurting the USA and the rest of the world, but it does need to happen, and You The People are the only ones who can make it happen. It is your duty and your right to resist tyranny, isn't it? I hope new "political" figures can rise soon and accomplish that with nothing but charisma and a spine, but at the very least, please stop being so defeatist towards the lack of consequences.

And they're right. Being unserious about climate regulations because of "but muh old automaker profits" is already terrible from a moral/logical standpoint, but even financially, what about all the startups in EVs, renewables, energy storage, public transport, micromobility, etc? The Economy™ will be fine either way, but people won't.

Fun™ fact: some city councils have canceled their Flock contracts after finding out the cybersecurity and moral issues, only to find themselves unable to remove the cameras that were installed on public grounds because since they were leased and not bought, they are Flock's private property and it would be illegal to remove them.

I can't express how many levels of fucked up that is.

Btw, new Benn Jordan/404 media video about the new "condor" cameras was released today. They skipped the "admin/admin credentials" part and just went with no authentication at all to see the live feed and 31 days of recordings if you know the IP. I have no words. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1-uiUlHTo