Someone at BuzzFeed is reading our Lemmy conversations:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/laurengarafano/the-hunger-games-characters-ai-vs-the-movies

Did you know that mastodons were relatively short? Despite being nearly 40% more massive than modern African elephants, the American Mastodon was 25% shorter on average!

It’s not a minimum before a check is issued. If you do not have a certain number of annual listeners on a track you never get paid out for it. If you had 100 tracks that were each streamed by 999 listeners who each streamed them 100 times per year every year, Spotify will no longer pay you a dime, ever.

I think a key point of confusion is in the way they presented it. They talk about how many songs have “less than 1000 listens” and that those would only make $3, but then their new policy is to deny payment for “less than 1000 listeners.” If each of those listeners streamed the song once per month, you’re talking closer to $40 than $3, and that’s on a per song basis.

The newest part, which is Spotify refusing to payout what small artists are owed if they don’t hit a certain streaming threshold, is 100% on Spotify.

For alternatives, Tidal allegedly pays better and at least doesn’t do this. Qobuz is not owned by any big tech company.

https://get.bandcamp.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500006084082-What-are-Bandcamp-s-fees-

They charge a 15% fee. So the artist (if independent) or record label (if not) gets 85% of whatever you pay.

I did, I cancelled Spotify and switched to Tidal because of this, and noted the reason in my exit survey.

It’s tricky because the data itself is going to be biased here. Think about it - even the video game is specifically called “Spider-Man Miles Morales” while the one with Peter Parker is just called “Spider-Man.”

Katniss is actually a good example. I was not aware of the details, but the books apparently describe her as having “olive skin”. The problem though is that if you image search her all you get is Jennifer Lawrence.

That said, Homer is yellow.

If a request is for a generic person, sure. But when the request is for a specific character, not really.

Like make one of the undefined arms black.

This site was made by someone who was active on Reddit a few years back. It was made back when Steam specifically provided support for Ubuntu and no other distros.

Yeah their license is pretty clear that you can use and share it at will. The subscription gives you adfree and priority support.

It’s the Tetons, specifically seen from Glacier View Turnout. You can see Grand Teton on the right.

Hey, I’ve been to that very spot.

Well I’m an idiot then.

Why did Linus start developing Linux when he could have just contributed to FreeBSD which already existed?

Agreed, so let’s celebrate the progress and find alternative ways for people to provide for their families rather than act like robots are taking the desirable jobs.

I do find it funny that just a couple years ago people were talking about the horrible conditions in Amazon warehouses and now we’re concerned about humans not needing to do those jobs.

I’ve been a fan of FOSS for a while, but the big thing pushing me even further is the fact that commercial services are adding so much advertising and data tracking. I’d happily pay for a piece of software that works as promised and does not include advertising, but when you start throwing ads in my face or putting features behind “IAPs” and subscriptions, I’m going to look for alternatives.

Android Auto functionality is also limited - it does not show street names on-screen.

Ah whoops.

This doesn’t make it better. That’s $125 per message then.