This isn't quite true. There are some X11 screen lockers (maybe only GNOME?) that coordinate with the login manager so that a crash just leads to a restarted login manager.
...but yes, most X11 screen lockers have this flaw.
What would be the point of a program owning a patent? Is it going to charge you royalties for use? Where does that money go? If it gets it’s own bank account, what happens when you run two instances of the same program? Do you split the account in half and then join it when one exits?
The second instance is a totally different entity and does not own the patent or bank account of the first, unless they decide to somehow merge their state-vectors and become a single entity.
Australia did it better by just providing a regular income to everyone who lost their job. That way everyone keeps paying their bills/rent and things return to normal after.
The US did the same thing through the unemployment system. Back in 2008 you could be on unemployment for 2 years and get bonus payments on top of what’s standard.
There are absolutely some % of people who are so poor at financial management that they used the last year as a chance to not pay rent and instead buy luxuries. These people have dug themselves a huge hole.
Does it seem unlikely? the rise of buy now pay later services for non essential retail shows the average person is fairly financially illiterate and will put present comforts ahead of future finances.
I feel like the “server test” rule OP talks about doesn’t really matter and shouldn’t. Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself. The actual result is the same. It would make sense that embedding is exactly the same as reposting, either allowed or not allowed for both.
A similar situation is that I can listen to music on my phone with Spotify legally but if I plug my phone in to a speaker system and play the music for a large group in public, it’s no longer allowed. But the music actually came from Spotify so how is it different?
Tech people always feel entitled to loopholes in laws like “this file is just a bunch of bits, how can a number be illegal??” But this thinking is not useful for a functional legal system.
> Who cares if the browser downloaded it from Instagram or the site itself.
Can we apply this logic to downloading copyrighted material? I would love it if I could openly and legally download ROMs of all my games and archives of prime time broadcast television.
But since that's not how the legal system works, it's pretty obvious that getting something from the licensed distributor is different from getting a copy made and distributed by someone else, even if it's automated.
> But the music actually came from Spotify so how is it different?
The downloading is still legal. Spotify is still legal. The only problem is the new part you added. This is not analogous to the download vs. download comparison.
> Tech people always feel entitled to loopholes in laws
You know the test came from a highly regarded court, right?
Your spotify comparison does not really match perfectly. Playing for yourself (license permitted) vs playing for the public (license not permitted) is keeping the same content source but changing the end user.
With the photo, you are a single user browsing the photo on either website A or website B. Website A “owns” the photo, and website B has embedded it, but in both cases you are getting the photo from website A.
Since you are the same user both times, and are getting the photo from the same place both times, at first glance I would regard this as not breaking any license terms since the two parties (image host, end user) are the same, but I can accept that this is a point of contention.
I think the license to the copyright material is the important part here. In the instagram embedding example, the uploader (i.e. copyright holder) gives IG a broad license to the content that includes giving people the right to embed the IG post on external sites.
Spotify's license is obviously not going to include permission from the artist to broadcast the work to large audiences.
Probably more of a pain if you have a large amount of data and a slow internet connection. For me it all fits in the 50GB file and downloads in a few minutes. I guess pulling out 1TB of data on a slow connection would be difficult but I can’t see how google could make it better since downloading and extracting a 1TB zip on its own would be almost impossible.
mega.nz somehow managed to do this all encrypted. Dunno if its "NH approved encryption" also dont advice on using that service it has a bad reputation. Nonetheless it seems like it would technically be possible to have large amount encrypted files without losing the ability to handle single files and download whole folders as archive.
If a literal terrorist files a complaint then the police department can pick them up. The complaints department only needs to handle local citizen complaints.
Did this for years. Finally gave up last year. It’s so much work, discovery is a huge pain, listening on all devices is a pain. None of it was worth it.
Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.
Just wanna throw this out there: Plex now has an app for accessing music in a way better way than their movie/series-app, called Plexamp. [1]
I dont see it solving discoverability yet, but it worked completely fine on my Android devices. It also does some automatic tagging of your music to generate dynamic playlists.
it is limited to plex pass subscribers for now though. i'd say it's worth trying a free trial at least.
One method that has worked for me is following other users that actively buy music on Bandcamp that I like. I get an email digest when they buy new music. That's a strong signal to me: I already know they have similar tastes by seeing what they have purchased in the past, and I can conclude that they really like the music they are willing to spend money on.
all my friends use spotify and everytime i am with them i hear the same music. sure its the music they like, but its the same over and over and over again with no variation. They tell me spotify is great at discovery but i havnt heard it.
i listen to djs, radio stations and other internet channels that mix the music i like into new and exciting compositions.
Yeah, I used to use Spotify for discovery when the radio function acted like...radio. Now it's just a 30 track playlist on loop generated based on things you have liked. So absolutely fucking pointless for discovery.
I am SCREAMING OUT for a service that was like the old Spotify radio.
Currently just going to gigs again and finding bands through bandcamp the organic way is what I'm doing.
Also, here is a script I wrote to download and extract a Bandcamp download link and import it with the beet CLI music library manager:
imo it tells that spotify has a conflict of interest were it sells "access to all music" and on the other hand has the means to steer customers towards economically advantageous consumption.
I find many wrongs with Spotify, but this isn't one of them. My Spotify Discover Weekly is usually great, up to 50% great discoveries, and they're completely different in both genres and time periods to friends' lists.
I guess you just have musically eclectically challenged friends.
I was with Google Music for years, until the YouTube music fiasco then I jumped ship to Spotify.
I found discovery excellent in Google but Spotify is horrible, it thinks I want to listen to Pop because I put a playlist of "top" or "charts" on while I work, when really I want rock/metal albums and can't discover them for the life of me.
Doesn't it have those made for you thingies that change weekly or so? In my case it makes em for the varying genres i listen to so even tho i listen to some techno at work i can pick a metal playlist with new stuff.
I noticed some mixes it makes but it has talk shows, podcasts etc thrown in and I'm really not into that.
Also, because it has basically ruined my music preferences, despite me telling it what I want to be recommended, it makes recommendations for "Dua Lipa" and "Doja Cat". Nothing against either of them, but not really what I was looking for.
Yes Spotify is great at discovery. I've discovered plenty of music thanks to it during the years – lately, for example, tens of Japanese jazz recordings.
This is true; I do reluctantly pay for Spotify. But that'll always be the case with more equitable, less profitable, ergo less well-funded alternatives. And it has been consistently (slowly) improving over the years. Worth supporting imo
