Oh ok, I must have remembered wrong. I edited to be less specific.

Oh ok, I must have remembered wrong. I edited to be less specific.

I couldn’t find a source for this, but I heard that we were convinced to think of dandelions as weeds by the makers of a herbicide so that we would accept the collateral damage.

I’ve had a set of those circulating through the family for well over a decade. But, they don’t sound all that great.

Fort the same budget, I’d recommend instead to buy a higher quality pair of bookshelf speakers that you would actually enjoy using fort the rest of your life.

I also made a YSK post recently to explain how to objectively identify good speakers.

I used to feel the same way, but the interface is actually super customizable if you are ok with editing config files!

Here is the manual.

There is also a huge variety of third party scripts, like this one shows thumbnail previews when hovering over the seek bar.

The interview with Serj Tankian

Yes

Relevant Silicon Valley scene

I stopped using Spotify after I noticed that a song’s share URL contains unique tracking elements. Then they started trying to lock down the podcast market, which reaffirms that leaving was the right choice.

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.

I loved the original videos, but doubted it would make a good movie.

GrapheneOS

What we need is a Constitutional Amendment that bars convicted felons from higher office

This would be dangerous, allowing inconvenient politicians to be excluded from office through framing or selective enforcement of the law.

What we really need is a population capable of making better decisions.

Hopsan shares similarities with Simulink, and can also work together with it.

Signal is certainly not. It’s open source, and verifiably end-to-end encrypted. The only information that they have about you is your phone number, when your account was created, and when you last connected to the service.

Telegram is not so privacy friendly, with a major problem being that it’s not end-to-end encrypted by default.

For YouTube frontends: On the Linux desktop, there is FreeTube, on IOS there is yattee (IIRC), then there are web based front ends from invideous.

Louis Rossman mentioned the other day that they are in the process of creating an app that will allow you to follow your chosen creators across multiple services, so that you can continue even if their primary platform removes them.

If you’re looking for YouTube alternatives, check out Peertube, Odyssey, and Nebula (I haven’t looked at Peertube or Odyssey in a while, so I can’t comment on how they are doing).