They didn’t fuck up. They’re doing it deliberately.

I understood it to mean that wishlists currently only offer things shipped by Amazon, so they don’t share your address with other sellers, but they’re going to change wishlists so they offer things from third party sellers, who will need your address to ship things to you. So they’re going to start sharing your address with these sellers.

If you spend a lot of time sitting next to a CD player they’re still OK for now. For music on the move, not so much. And when the player breaks it will be hard to replace. So they’re definitely not perfect.

HDDs are not designed to last very long. Neither are SSDs. That’s one reason to prefer dedicated physical media.

Those never worked well. They pick up every tiny bit of dust and scratch, far more than a stylus does. If you keep your stylus in good condition, changing it regularly, and set up your tonearm correctly, it shouldn’t harm the records.

I recently revived my record player and CD player and I’ve been enjoying three things:

1. You have to think about what to listen to,
2. the player is completely offline and separate from the devices you work and communicate on, so nothing will interrupt and you feel you’re doing something different, and
3. it means you listen to whole albums, not mixed up playlists, so you get deeper into it.

What I don’t enjoy is that records in particular are ridiculously expensive now. I don’t know who can afford them. So I’m stuck with the records and CDs of my youth and whatever I can find in bargain bins.

I do also use Qobuz and… other means of obtaining music.

Can we stop publishing these articles? I was enjoying the cheap CDs.

Their post history reveals them to be kind of a jerk. If it was an attempt at sarcasm it was a poor one.

The frustrating thing is we can’t boycott AWS since so many of the sites we use run on it. But yes, we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.

I refuse to believe Trump “weighs” anything, despite the media’s constant sanewashing.

Lasers tend not to be good for camera sensors, I’ve heard.

Heather Doshay, head of people at SignalFire, told the New York Times: “Nobody has patience or time for hand-holding in this new environment, where a lot of the work can be done by A.I. autonomously.”

This is how they think. It’s not smart.

The link I see is https://media.thebrainbin.org/07/d0/07d00b948c11cabc80df4924731e168ff9bf6797ba0580e7b94b9baf18b9c31b.jpg which is just an image.

I think it’s supposed to be this:

https://www.livescience.com/space/black-holes/rule-breaking-black-hole-found-growing-at-13-times-the-cosmic-speed-limit-challenging-theories

Nobody who’s into vibe coding wants to talk about it. The sane people, on the other hand, are already well aware.

I think Labour is just trying to die.

We got one! A terrorist right here!

I remember in the 1990s when you went to download Netscape you could only use the 40-bit encryption if you were in Europe, not the 128-bit encryption people in the USA could use.

ROT13 too.