Spotify has vaguely attributed the need for the API changes to improving security:

• In its blog post, Spotify says that it rolled out the changes with “the aim of creating a more secure platform.”
• In a community forum post, a Spotify employee says that “we want to reiterate the main message from the blog that we’re committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all Spotify stakeholders.” The post has many pages of replies from frustrated developers.
• In a statement to The Verge, Spotify spokesperson Brittney Le Roy says that “as part of our ongoing work to address the security challenges that many companies navigate today, we’re making changes to our public APIs.”

This is fairly disingenuous. The affected endpoints are all GET requests, which are read-only requests that provide some data about the track/artist/playlist/etc. There isn’t really very much potential to do anything insecure here.

The only thing they’re securing is their hegemony.

I learned it by watching you, dad!

“Hustler’s University”

I’m sure the intention is a play on Hustle culture and it’s supposed to teach you that grindset mindset, but it wasn’t too long ago that “Hustler” meant “con artist” and, well, it’s his university

Surely that’s not what paragon of humanity and alleged sex trafficker Andrew Taint meant when naming it. He’s got the ego, but I’m not sure he’s clever enough to flaunt it

Lack of familiarity with AI PCs leads to what the study describes as “misconceptions,” which include the following: 44 percent of respondents believe AI PCs are a gimmick or futuristic; 53 percent believe AI PCs are only for creative or technical professionals; 86 percent are concerned about the privacy and security of their data when using an AI PC; and 17 percent believe AI PCs are not secure or regulated.

I guess we don’t have to worry about our data because the people selling us the machines tell us that our concerns are a misconception.

Also kind of the manufacturer to tell us that their gimmick is not, in fact, a gimmick

Sure, but underestimating the scope is how you wind up with a Scunthorpe problem

I don’t disagree, but it is a challenging problem. If you’re filtering for “die” then you’re going to find diet, indie, diesel, remedied, and just a whole mess of other words.

I’m in the camp where I believe they really should be reading all their inputs. You’ll never know what you’re feeding the machine otherwise.

However I have no illusions that they’re not cutting corners to save money

With the sheer volume of training data required, I have a hard time believing that the data sanitation is high quality.

If I had to guess, it’s largely filtered through scripts, and not thoroughly vetted by humans. So data sanitation might look for the removal of slurs and profanity, but wouldn’t have a way to find misinformation or a request that the reader stops existing.

Ah, I’m still waking up, so I must have misunderstood.

I hadn’t considered political spending, but I didn’t get the impression we were talking about super PACs. Those are abhorrent, and undemocratic.

My stance was that if a person wants to buy something that’s stupid, ineffective, but gives them some small degree of hope and doesn’t harm others, then they should be able to. However, I’m also of the opinion that regulators need to remove those products from the market because they’re lying to people about their efficacy.

Ideally we’d be teaching people that snake oil doesn’t work. But the current political climate suggests that Big Snake Oil has captured the regulation, so I don’t see that happening either.

Are you defending snake oil? The pseudoscience con so uniquituously used to deprive the desperate from their money that it became the term used to describe “harmful bullshit sold for profit?”

Freedom of choice or not, I suppose you should be able to spend your money however you want.

But if someone is selling people lies under the promise of medical miracles, we need to throw the book at them.

I like this, everyone’s happier when they’re making out with each other.

Well, unless they’re ace, but maybe then they’re looking at each other over a loaf of garlic bread

Dumb fuck!

(/s this is the meme, I wish you the best)

I always assumed they were a pepper

I think the long distance transmission lines are kind of neat. They often become roosts for hawks and eagles here, gives you a chance to see some nature near the city.

The linked comic is ugly as sin though, that’s a high voltage rat nest. And I’m sure there’s a happy medium to be found with that sort of electrical pole, but it doesn’t give me the feeling of serenity that the high tension towers do.

Underground transformers seem to be the better approach for denser connectivity

Let’s be real, Satan would be a shitposter

If the company admits that the cost of wrongdoing might be worth a billion dollars, and then still engages in a billion dollars worth of wrongdoing, maybe the fine ought to be two billion

The trick in conversion is that you want to pull people into your service, rather than pushing your service onto them.

To use a sales analogy, imagine you’re shopping for a car. You visit a salesman who’s very pushy. They tell you all the reasons you need to buy this car, insist that this is the best car for you, and put you in the car. Then you drive the car and realize it doesn’t meet your needs. You might think the salesman was terrible and vow never to visit them again.

Conversely, imagine you meet a very different salesman. They let you walk around the lot, answer questions about each car, and maybe even talk you out of extra features you don’t need. “Yeah, the SUV will have more room for groceries, but for your daily commute the fuel economy is going to bite you.” You’ll probably respect that the salesman is trying to meet your needs, and the next time you’re shopping for a car you’ll visit them again.

Getting people onto the fediverse is somewhat similar. We’re already here, and if you’ve been here for a long time then there’s probably a bunch of things you like about it. You might insist that your friends should join lemmy because it’s open-source, ad-free, aligns with your politics, decentralized, or whatever. But if you’re leading with all that, then you’re putting your values onto the person you want to join. If those values don’t align, then maybe they’ll join, but they’ll just as quickly leave if it doesn’t immediately mesh.

When I want to pull someone in, I’ll mention that I saw some meme / post / video or whatever on lemmy, and then tell them about the post. You’re leading with the value of the content, and if the person you want to join also enjoys that content, they might ask what lemmy is. This is your invitation to pull them in.

Okay, so you asked for a one-liner, and here it is: “It’s like reddit, but it’s free from ads and corporate ownership.”

If they seem interested, give them a link to whatever instance you’re on. A lot of the time we might want to talk about the whole decentralized thing and picking out instances, but if you know nothing about the fediverse then the process sounds confusing and can turn people off. Just a link to a registration page will do and they can take it from there.

Did anybody else have parents who made too much money to qualify for student loans, but never put away money for college?

That’s why they call it the graveyard shift

Weirdly, I thought years. Like these were elves or something.

I’ve been playing too much D&D, I need to spend some time in the real world.

It’s always fun when a relative admits they don’t care about your child’s safety.