Wouldn’t know ^^; not American I’m afraid. It’s more an impression I have from US media. Take from that what you will.

I.e being more reliant upon Google Play services so you’ll have to accept their predatory EULA.

Now if they released a new driver update system independent of Google Play, that would be better.

Photosynthesisn’t, or in the southern sociolect, photosyntheain’t.

My shareholders!

Sun Microsystems was once the great hope of the computing world, and technically the JVM was first to normalise the use of VM’s, albeit from a containerised perspective. It was Docker before docker, in some sense.

This coupled with Solaris and the SPARC systems that were Java-native (whatever that means) enabled this type of containerisation from a hardware level, which again: was a huge thing.

But, Sun turned for the worse once the JVM hit browsers and server stacks. That’s when their SaaS model was envisioned, that was the precursor to the acquisition by Oracle.

So it started nicely, but hit the enshitification velocity somewhere in the early 2000s.

haha java is terrible, mostly because of who owns it.

Maybe they lifted him up when they were choking him?

“…daughter dearest.”

“Wow, this guy programs.”

I think Reddit gold can be benign, but let’s not exploit FOMO plz. That’s how we got loot boxes and micro payments.

How to do “Reddit gold” on Lemmy, in a non-exploitive and ethical way? That would be the rub.

Nobody… not a single soul…

Some biologists: We take this man from a Nigerian family, breed him with a girl from this Greek family, then as the child grows to maturity, they again breed with someone from this Philipino tribe, and we have the vaccine for cancer.

Everyone: …KILL THEM!!! KILL THEM ALL AND DESTROY THEIR FINDINGS!!!

Well well well, folks. Looks like we have a landlord… release the mountain lion.

Release it into the landlords room while they’re in bed sleeping, save at least a couple of months of rent.

put a #### in your ######## with a #### in your ########, you absolute ########

The whales, probably.

I’m wondering how many open WriteFreely instances there are.

No, shhh! Don’t do that… Republicans absolutely love taking away rights. You’ll only encourage them even more.

“Trees are gay and communist, so we have to cut each and every one of them down!”

“LOOK!! WE’RE ACTUALLY DOING SOMETHING!!! ALL OUR USERS ARE NOT PDF FILES!”

What are you doing, step GM?

And let’s not forget TicketMaster, the overseer of stages.

My god. Corpo propaganda, here we go. HERE WE FUCKING GO!!

Let’s make this absolutely clear, piracy of any kind, including music, is no longer unethical. Why?

Who owns the majority of musical intellectual property out there? The artists? Gtfo here with that bunk. If you got signed by anyone, chances are that you’ve lost any right to royalties, because it’s been absorbed by the publisher or the studio.

Why don’t they own it? This is a careful reminder read contracts and know that unless you’ve got an army of lawyers, you will in some way, shape or form get screwed.

Then you have Spotify, whom you pay to publish your music and you probably won’t see a single cent of it back, because that is Taylor Swift’s money.

Most artists and bands make their money two ways:

1. Shows
2. Merch

That’s it. Other than that, market precedent set by predatory publisher’s makes it so very, very few musicians make money off publishing.

So put it on SoundCloud, upload it with CC Attribute Non-Commercial and give it out for free. Then your music is more widely available, and if someone wants to use it commercially, you want a standard contract at the ready that is non-negotiable.

That is if you follow Hollywood rules, in that you don’t want “from the profit”, but for net gain. Why? Because these mfs cook the books to make sure they don’t have to pay you squat.

And this is fair, since you’re expected to be your own content creator, marketing department, etc. You do all the work, but some asshat who networks that work is supposed to make the big bucks?

Fuck off, you and your New York lawyers. Fuck all of em.

The company had avoided certain destruction, after having fired the previous CEO and putting a new one in it’s place. The new CEO had managed to bring a newfound calm to the company and it’s ranks, and brought an air of meditative discipline to board room meetings.

Some said it was crazy, but making the LectoFan EVO the new CEO was the best decision the company board had ever made.