They did something like that once a few years ago. I didn‘t see their email and my account was swiftly permanently blocked from the program. No chance to appeal. I was pretty upset for a moment, then made a new account and connected it to the family account. If they kick me out again I‘m gone for good.

I‘m not paying the kind of money they‘re asking for to listen to some music and podcasts that run ads and sponsor segments. Discoverability became insanely bad years ago. Most of their recommendations are obvious product placements that they‘re not declaring properly.

So yeah, looks like Spotify is about to extract some more money from customers with dubious methods short term and losing a lot of us long term. But I am prepared.

Many companies have a clause that strictly forbids exactly this behavior for at least a year, sometimes longer.

Right, reality is much more nuanced than „attributed to AI“. It‘s employers claiming they replaced them with AI without showing us the actual numbers as proof. Likely because they don‘t have any.

But while AI posters, Websites or even emails and spreadsheets might‘ve looked flashy to the untrained eye at first, they quickly started to look generic. It‘s overloaded, nothing sticks out and nobody cares.

Don‘t even get me started on AI generated videos that are still just slop or vibe code that may look stupidly productive at first but may turn out to be impossible to maintain in the long run. Especially when the few AI companies that survive the crash want to make some serious money.

Have fun. I moved to Proton years ago.

Doesn‘t seem like it‘s compatible with the German constitution so yeah kind of criminal for German politicians to vote in favor of it if you ask me. Not sure how it is in other places but I am sure Germany can‘t be the only EU country with deeply embedded privacy rights.

It‘s probably still much less secure than pre-AI FOSS simply because it didn‘t have to deal with that kind of attacks.

The way corporate software will survive is through absurds laws they lobby for and data centers, though. Because if they kept playing by the old rules of consumers owning devices they would lose to FOSS really quickly at this point. With so many vibe coded clones and all. But when the hardware becomes unobtainable for mere citizens most of us will get pushed further and further into the cloud and complete surveillance. I bet that‘s what they‘re betting on.

B-b-but Fediverse users assured me this could never happen when AI started decompiling games in an industrial speed because „You don‘t have corporate software on your computer to decompile so it will be fine“ as if that was the point. AI is a brute force machine if nothing else.

No software is safe. Not your supermarkets. Not your bank. Not your hospital. We may soon stop thinking about software as an engineering thing and more of a gardening activity because it will just keep growing when unattended.

The idea that Facebook is trying to create digital twins of their users that they control down to IP rights is laughable. It was never going to fly. They have ownership to fuck all I upload outside their services and even stuff I post directly on Facebook is still protected to some extend. No terms of service can change basic law.

Good news is that EA self-destructed in the Saudi deal so a few guys at the top could fill their pockets one more time. The debt they loaded EA with will be paid by selling everything. There is no other way. EA can no longer operate and their IPs will go to different studios. Let‘s hope one or two of them treat the franchises a tiny bit more carefully. Maybe. Or it will all be AI slop. Time will tell. But the way I see it EA is toast.

We should‘ve never allowed the rich to take control of our biggest public spaces. Because social media is practically exactly that and censorship of any kind should not be allowed no matter who owns it.

They are free to restrict European satellite operators. But of course they will come up with something completely unrelated as they throw their fit.

Politico is still owned by a fascist billionaire.

What are computer adjacent hobbies that don‘t need a computer? Reading? Guess I will be reading lots of fiction soon. That is unless the government closes libraries in their cost cutting spree after making generous gifts to corporations who probably invested it all in AI. Oh well.

Add it to the never ending list of why everyone hates this shit ass government. It‘s just bad all around with no end in sight.

Here‘s for $80 billion more.

But can they beat the Cuphead tutorial?

How about we get fiber in urbanized regions first? Actually scratch the urbanized part. Fiber would be cheaper, more reliable and have a smaller carbon footprint than satellite anywhere in Europe. Still no? What a shame.

Environmentalists have been in a pretty happy mood about energy generation in recent years. The orange turd clogging up global oil and gas supply only accelerates what was already inevitable: Complete renewable victory. It cannot be stopped anymore. Not with all the Lobbying and bribing money in the world. Renewables are too cheap, too reliable to ever switch back. That fight is basically won. At least long term.

That does not seem legally binding to me at all. At least it‘s in no way plausible that using one service could grand them ownership of your private information or intellectual properties anywhere on the web. I mean I am no lawyer but this is just asking to get sued big time on Meta‘s part.

There are so many AI generated images everywhere even in the real world. Especially in advertisements. But yeah, AI itself is not there I guess. Not yet.