It’s not negligible

I don’t like GitHub either but the large userbase ensures increased attention, which means more adoption, which means more contributors. That’s why devs are always begging for “stars”.

Good thing that’s not the discussion we were having then.

I have no interest in “gotcha moments”. Just having a discussion about the virtues of streaming music platforms vs. buying.

If you don’t pay for it then you are pirating, which is a whole other discussion.

What evidence is that, jerkface? What does any of this have to do with my ego?

LOL your suggestion is that they said they’re subscribed to various producers but they don’t listen to them? Now that’s pedantic.

I have to pay someone 🤷 at least legally, anyway

Lots of assumptions here.

you got every assumption wrong.

Zero assumptions here, you said you were, and I quote, “not seeking out new stuff”, I didn’t assume that.

I’m subscribed to various music producers on YouTube

So you DO enjoy streaming music…

if I encounter a new track I like in the wild, I’ll buy it.

How do you “encounter” new tracks?

But I’m not seeking out new stuff because…everything feels homogenized today.

If you’re not actively seeking out new music, it will feel that way, because you’re just listening to whatever is on the radio or on TV or whatever. This is the beauty of streaming platforms. In the past you were only ever exposed to whatever music the record companies decided you should hear. And it was almost exclusively homogenous “pop” music, to some degree. With streaming music you can discover new music every day based on your personal preferences.

I listen to probably at least a dozen new songs every day. If I bought them that would cost me $18/day. Or $540/mo. Not to mention the absolute fortune required to store them all locally.

Why would I? Pay $1.49 to listen to 1 song over and over or pay $12 to listen to basically the entirety of human creation any time I want? Not to mention custom playlists and whatnot.

Because no one cares.

“I’m going to use Congressional authority and every influence with big tech platforms to mandate immediate ban for life of every post or commenter that belittled the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked. I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.”

• Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA)

This is really a much more interesting article:

https://www.theverge.com/policy/776840/charlie-kirk-death-social-media-jawboning

I was going to quote segments but it’s really worth reading the whole thing. Senators shitting all over the first amendment and quotes from Charlie Kirk shitting all over them in return.

I haven’t. It was omitted from the article in question. I stand corrected.

You may have seen that MSNBC recently ended its association with a contributor who made an unacceptable and insensitive comment about this horrific event. That coverage was at odds with fostering civil dialogue and being willing to listen to the points of view of those who have differing opinions. We should be able to disagree, robustly and passionately, but, ultimately, with respect. We need to do better.

Seems like it’s exactly what’s being said?

Believe it or not, not everyone who disagrees with you is “doing a bit”.

I mean it seems pretty rational to demand your employees not to celebrate murder. 🤷

Brave also offers a few additional, very valuable things:

• the only app that reflects fingerprinting protection in PrivacyBadger, in my experience
• works on most webpages
• selective use of first-party cookies, per site.

One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.

The point is management. As in managing apps and data. On a single device.