music Music Buck 65 recently wrote that a vinyl plant refused to press his record unless he named every sample he used and provided clearances. They used AI to detect if his music was sample-based.
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    This affects indie and hobby artists more than mainstream artists. But tbh I never really cared for vinyl. CDs and cassettes are where it's at for hobbyists.

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    Buck 65 recently wrote that a vinyl plant refused to press his record unless he named every sample he used and provided clearances. They used AI to detect if his music was sample-based.

    Buck 65 is a rapper from Canada. If you aren't familiar with him here's one of my favourite songs from him: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OViINrmZUY He recently wrote this on his substack: "Not long after sending the master off, we received a message from the pressing plant (one of the bigger, more popular plants). They said there was an issue and refused to go forward with the pressing until the issue was resolved. We came to find out that they used AI to analyze the album and determined that the music was sample-based. They said they would only press the album if full details on sample clearances was provided. I went through all of this with Warner back when I signed my deal back in 2002 or whenever it was. That paperwork may or may not be collecting dust in a drawer somewhere in the world. Finding it now would be impossible and going though the whole process again - with lawyers and contracts and blah, blah, blah - would be just as difficult. I don’t even have a lawyer anymore. So we bailed and then had to scramble to find a different plant that was willing to do the job as pre-orders were already in and all copies sold out in advance." Has anyone heard anything similar? If more widespread this could kill vinyls across the board, not just hip hop but anything sample based from plunderphonics to vaporwave. The full article is here but only the first paragraph talks about this issue: https://buck65.substack.com/p/hill-and-gully-ride This isn't good.

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    world World News Germany hammers Trump over debate barbs about Berlin’s energy transition
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  • world World News Germany hammers Trump over debate barbs about Berlin’s energy transition
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    From the article:

    “And we are shutting down — not building — coal and nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest.”

    This isn't even true. In fact they're taking taking down wind farms to get more coal. This is just someone trying to get a dunk on Trump, like there aren't a million other actually true things they could say. Not to mention them resurrecting other coal plants when they're supposed to be phasing it out.

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    I doubt it. Those that would've opposed them left the party. Now if the GOP were to somehow get rid of Trump and he went on to form his own party out of spite? That could definitely end the GOP.

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  • news News Elon Musk sets his sights on Taylor Swift: "I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life"
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    She would have to make her own server. She would overwhelm and destroy those sites.

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  • world World News Germany hammers Trump over debate barbs about Berlin’s energy transition
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    Pftt. Germany shout stfu about being green when they're closing nuclear plants, still taking Russian oil and bringing back retired coal plants.

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  • opensource Open Source Can I make a paid app on playstore free on fdroid ?
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    Some just do it to make some extra money and save for convenience. Krita is free to download and install yourself. It's 10 bucks if you want to get it on Steam. It's perfectly within their right. Especially in KDE's instance.

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  • world World News Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman at a West Bank protest, witnesses say
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    He's been sabre-rattling with Israel for months now.

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  • world World News Israeli soldiers fatally shot an American woman at a West Bank protest, witnesses say
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    A Turkish-American woman. This is gonna piss off Erdogan.

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  • technology Technology Advertisers plan to withdraw from Twitter in record numbers | CNN Business
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    Again? I thought they already left and then there was a lawsuit cause of it.

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  • world World News Malaysia says it won't bow to China's demands to halt oil exploration in the South China Sea
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    It's such a bogus claim too. I could see them claiming around Hainan but the South China Sea is so far south I can't see how they could even claim it.

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  • pcgaming PC Gaming Oof, I forgot that Concord has an episode in upcoming TV series Secret Level
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    If it's anything like the game I don't expect it'll standout much. Unless the devs have some sort of hail-mary-plan that the episode will be so good that it revives interest in the game.

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  • selfhosted Selfhosted Does anybody know an open source self hosted application to create diagrams? Like draw.io or something like that
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    Yed is pretty good. It's what I use.

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    This is like that other comic about 'girls only like guys who treat them right' (i dunno the name) but actually good.

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    Ah, I see. Then I've never seen a proper possum then. Everything out here is just opossums. Nice. Thanks.

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  • opensource Opensource Seal: a fully featured YouTube downloader for Android based on yt-dlp
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    Great app. I can speak to it. Far easier than setting up Termux with yt-dlp too.

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  • nostupidquestions No Stupid Questions Why I Haven't Seen Any Trump Supporters In Fediverse (Lemmy and Mastodon)?
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    Well Truth Social is running off Mastodon so they are kind of here. Just invisible (I don't tihnk truth social is federated with anything). When I was on Kbin I at least saw quite a few conseravatives. Can't really speak to this instance since on my end it all just appears as the same.

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  • opossums Opossums Confirmed, am opossum
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    One of these days I really gotta figure out the difference between these guys and 'regular' possums.

    Always happy to see these ones in my neighbourhood.

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  • games Games As the Borderlands movie slides into oblivion and Risk of Rain 2's new DLC burns, Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford compares himself to The Beatles, who he says only "had a 25% hit rate"
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    I don't think theres anyone I despise as much as Pitchford. Whenever he comes on my feed it seems as if he does something to make me dislike him more.

    Also the Beatles were garbage so his comparison is apt.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Do bugs "clean" themself?
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    Idk. They've never really bothered me and its wasp season in my city.

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  • gaming Gaming Single player RPG
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    C. Kane. Its a comedic ROG heavily inspired by the movie Citizen Kane. (also set in a posts apocalyptic USA)

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy Do bugs "clean" themself?
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    I saved a wasp from my pool the other day and it spent a few minutes just rubbing its head and body before flying off. So I assume so.

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  • technology Technology Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers.
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    It's just another from-scratch browser in development. It's been seeing a lot of progress lately. Not as much as Ladybird but it's still making waves.

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  • technology Technology Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers.
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    It and Servo are probably the two most exciting projects in open-source right now.

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    Technology BarrierWithAshes 3 weeks ago 89%
    Andreas Kling, developer of the Ladybird Browser has announced the first ever Browser Jam, a weekend-long event for new developers to build browsers. https://x.com/awesomekling/status/1828412943823736986

    It's basically like a gamejam but instead of making a game in one weekend you have to build a web browser. Here's the github page: [https://github.com/BrowserJam/browserjam](https://github.com/BrowserJam/browserjam)

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    world World News Binance's alleged seizure of Palestinian crypto funds sparks fury
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    Binance had such a solic reputation in the crypto world for not intervening. Way to throw it all away.

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  • politics politics RFK Jr., who has endorsed Trump for president, must stay on the ballot in two swing states
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    Lol so after the battles he fought to get onto the ballet, now that they know he could siphon votes from Trump they trying to keep t to keep him on?

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  • privacy Privacy Any good Telegram alternative?
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    You'd be surprised what people have been doing with Telegram's 'unlimited storage'.

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  • technology Technology Getting Your iPhone Repaired Could Ban You From Snapchat
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    Snapchat or iPhones? How about I take none?

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  • britishtelly British Telly The Prisoner: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review)
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    One of the greatest shows ever made. Simply timeless.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?
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    I don't want people telling me how to raise my other animals either.

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  • politics politics Neil Young gives Tim Walz permission for his song – after he sued Trump for using it
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    Can he even sue? I thought UMG or Atlantic owned his music.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What's a phrase you hear a lot, but disagree with?
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    Unused ram is wasted ram. Pisses me off to no end. What I do with my ram is my concern, I don't want you bloating up and using it.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes It's said an election is like picking a neighborhood to live in for 4-8 years
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    That's good to hear. Heard too many stories of people complaining there's no neighbourly communities anymore, that kids spend all their time on phones. We have a similar thing going on here but a lot us are still new at this whole thing.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes It's said an election is like picking a neighborhood to live in for 4-8 years
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    Yeah, and they live on the same block, only a few houses over.

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts Whoever is in charge of Capybara marketing is doing a hell of a good job
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    Most overrated rodents. Where's all the love for nutrias at? (excluding the place where they're invasive)

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  • news News Chick-fil-A plans to launch streaming service with original shows
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    Yeah well see if anything comes out of it. I don't trust chicken companies that try to jump to tech.

    I'm still waiting on my KFC gaming console.

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  • showerthoughts Showerthoughts If "Master/Slave" terminology in computing sounds bad now, why not change it to "Dom/Sub"?
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    Yeah this will just piss off the anti-porn/right-wing/tradcath(?) types instead of leftist/neolib/anti-racist types.

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ [Video] Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century
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    Right. I was not aware of that. This whole thing is just horrible. Really hope this clause can't be enforced. Disneyland's neglect caused a death.

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  • piracy Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ [Video] Disney creates best argument for piracy in a century
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    Guy dies in Disneyland. Family sues. Disney lawyers say he can't sue since guy-that-died had subscribed to Disney+ before and agreed to the terms of service. The terms of service he probably scrolled by when he registered say "you can't sue us". That was the most recent move I've heard.

    That's an insane oversimplification of the proceedings but it appears like it's gonna come down to this clause. The clause that the user signs upon registering to Disney+ is a binding arbitration clause. You can read more about that here: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/mandatory-binding-arbitration.asp

    Basically says you waive your right to sue us. Ianal btw. Also Discord has this same clause in their terms of service.

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  • asklemmy Ask Lemmy What other social media platforms do you frequent?
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    Nothing particularly. But I refuse to use a site run by the guy who runs Fandom: a horrible, ad-ridden mess that gets basic facts wrong and snuffs out other, more respectable wikis.

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