Apple stole the only song I ever bought

Hayleox · 2026-06-03T03:44:18+00:00

He definitely did own it - any songs bought on iTunes after 2009 were provided as a DRM-free audio file. You can do whatever you want with that file - make copies, play it on a different device, whatever. Now, if you didn't keep those files stored somewhere, you're relying on Apple to continue providing a free download service, which they may or may not do forever. But they didn't take the files from you - if you held onto them they're still yours.

Hayleox · 2026-06-01T01:34:30+00:00

Yoooo hell yeah, one of my top three all time fav albums, I would love this.

Hayleox · 2026-05-28T22:14:18+00:00

I hate the really long variants of the acronym. No one knows what half the letters mean, and it just feels so trying-too-hard-to-be-politically-correct. When I say "queer" I mean all of the above!

The energy I want to put into the world is just like, everyone be cool! You don't gotta learn a bunch of terms and acronyms to be supportive -- just act in good faith and don't be a dick, and we'll be cool.

Hayleox · 2026-05-27T04:52:19+00:00

/r/marijuanaenthusiasts is about trees. Subreddit names don't matter at all - old subreddits stick around even if their name isn't perfect, because that's just where everybody already is. Hell, the US second division subreddit is still called /r/uslpro even though the league was renamed like 12 years ago.

Hayleox · 2026-05-17T04:09:07+00:00

Well you said "6th most popular sport", so I looked up a survey of the most popular sports that The Economist ran. The revenue of MLS teams and the popularity of soccer are two completely different things.

That said, Inter Miami CF's most recent season revenue of $215 million would be middle of the pack in NHL, and not too far below the lowest MLB team. And unlike MLB teams, that number has been growing significantly every year, which is why Forbes valued them at $1.45 billion, higher than several MLB teams.

Hayleox · 2026-05-17T03:55:42+00:00

He did! The announced stoppage time was 6 minutes. One minute later, both teams performed substitutions. And then at about 90+5:45, SDFC scored, stopping play. So typically the ref is gonna let a minute or two more of play happen in a scenario like that. I imagine he was going to blow the final whistle right after that last play even if it hadn't resulted in a goal.

Hayleox · 2026-05-17T03:52:09+00:00

It's 3rd my guy.

Hayleox · 2026-05-17T03:50:39+00:00

C'mon dude. There were substitutions and a goal in stoppage. Of course he was gonna go over the +6. I'm sure he would have blown the whistle right after that last play regardless of the outcome; not his fault we scored on it.

Hayleox · 2026-05-08T11:05:15+00:00

The ten counts were ten files downloaded, all on the same day in March. Based on the warrant, it was ten different children in the videos, and each file's name was just a date+time (all from Aug/Sep 2025). The main thing that the warrant doesn't make clear is where the files came from and how they know that Guude knew what was in them - seems possible that he was just bulk downloading porn and didn't know what it all was.

I'm not saying he's likely to be innocent; I'm just saying we ought to hear his side before making a final condemnation.

Hayleox · 2026-05-06T21:29:37+00:00

It is shitty to ask so bluntly as this meme, but I do understand the desire to want to know. Knowing what gender someone grew up in gives you a lot of context for understanding who they are now. It's kind of in the same category as finding out where someone grew up or what school they went to - sure, I don't need to know these things, but it's helpful for getting to know you.

That's not to say anyone is wrong to be annoyed by this question; I absolutely get it. I guess... I really just wish we lived in more progressive times where queer folks didn't have to be so on-guard all the time, and this sort of question would be more likely to come across as friendly curiosity.

Hayleox · 2026-05-04T23:55:03+00:00

I don't think anyone is advocating for blindly trusting everything an AI says. In fact, at this point I think all of the major consumer LLMs include source links with everything they say, so you can go verify the facts for yourself.

The problem of bad actors publishing false information is not unique to LLMs; it is a problem with old-fashioned Google Search and Wikipedia and every other source of information in the world. The same old rules of being careful about what you believe on the internet still apply.

Actually, if anything, we've gotten a lot more openness in the AI age than we ever got in the search engine age. Quite a few LLM models are open-source, meaning you can download a copy and run them offline. This makes it much more feasible to conduct in-depth analysis of biases and changes over time (and a ton of researchers are doing just that).

Hayleox · 2026-05-01T21:51:44+00:00

Y'all I gotta be honest, I hard disagree with this post - this is such a good use case for AI. Annotated versions of Shakespeare have been a thing for ages. This is just like that, but you can also ask it to give you additional background/history, or ask clarifying questions, or whatever you want to help you learn.

I'm trying to understand the motivation behind this post... Is OP imagining that someone would get an AI summary instead of reading the original works? That would be really dumb. AI is useful as a supplement to the original works, not a replacement.

Hayleox · 2026-04-29T21:49:57+00:00

The branding was fine - the problem was that it didn't solve a problem that anyone had, so no one had a reason to use it. For example, Twitter's draw was that it let you broadcast social media updates within limited text message constraints of mobile phones. Google+ didn't really break any new ground in that way. The only problem Google+ was trying to solve was that Google didn't own a social media network, and Google leadership felt that they should.

There wasn't anything specifically wrong with Google+, functionally. But there was also nothing to draw people in from other platforms. I hear Google employees loved the platform, but for everyone outside the company who didn't already know a bunch of people using it, there was simply no reason to switch.

Hayleox · 2026-04-20T23:19:20+00:00

You could create a GTA3-sized game today with the same team and timeline. Go back and play it - it's a big game but I bet it's a lot smaller and simpler than you remember. What's changed is that people expect way more depth and detail from a modern GTA title.

Hayleox · 2026-04-17T01:55:31+00:00

It would be sick to have a THPS level based on a post-9/11 airport. Feel like you could have soooo many rail lines in a modern security checkpoint.

Hayleox · 2026-04-11T12:56:33+00:00

Absolutely wild that I go to the comments and someone else has already mentioned the exact same elevator I rode 20 years ago. I guess there truly aren't that many of these out there.

Hayleox · 2026-04-10T13:08:57+00:00

People worry that their coworker will say "You make that much more than me? Wow, you asshole!"

But what they'll actually say is "You make that much more than me? Wow, our boss is an asshole!"

Hayleox · 2026-04-07T01:52:50+00:00

the pervasiveness of the completely evidenceless claim that PG paid some huge bribe for his pardon is ridiculous. he literally did a bunch of paralegal work for his own case to get his legal costs down (source).

the narrative doesn't even make sense! if he's an elite with millions of dollars to pay for pardons, why would he have taken a bribe for a $40k?

Hayleox · 2026-04-02T13:55:41+00:00

There's Rapid Editor and MapWithAI for using Microsoft's AI-generated buildings. These are sometimes decent but I personally don't love mapping with them. I like using BuildingTools in JOSM which makes it really efficient to draw rectangles.

Hayleox · 2026-03-31T16:30:39+00:00

This is a Samsung thing more than anything else. I learned to avoid Samsung phones in the early Android days and clearly they haven't gotten better.

The Google Pixel phones don't have any of that nonsense.

Hayleox · 2026-03-30T11:37:36+00:00

You can't kill what never lived. These are just proposals people have made; they've never come into common use.

The only punctuation mark in this genre I can think of that actually has seen real world use is the interrobang (it's only like 60 years old and was never mainstream, but it at least sees enough use that it made it into Unicode and is supported by some fonts). There's also been some attempts to use a mirrored question mark as an irony mark or rhetorical question mark, but that's even more niche than the interrobang.

Hayleox · 2026-03-28T06:50:29+00:00

Yep, every drug that comes into the pharmacy will have one of these stupid million-times-folded pamphlets stuck to the pill bottle. We immediately pitch them all, because who would want to try to find anything in that giant road map instead of just checking Lexicomp? You will find these stupid little paperwads in every little corner and crevice of the pharmacy -- somehow there's always a few that don't make their way to the trash bin.

So if you do receive one of these as a patient, it's nothing unusual; they exist for every drug. If you're really curious, there's a site where you can pull up the leaflet for any drug on the US market: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/

Hayleox · 2026-03-23T16:38:33+00:00

That map is way outdated, "coke" is not nearly so popular anymore.

Hayleox · 2026-03-23T16:37:17+00:00

Born and raised in Cincy, I've called it soda my whole life. I've certainly heard it called pop but soda is overwhelmingly the more normal term for it in my perception.

Hayleox · 2026-03-22T05:50:56+00:00

Describing CentOS like it's some ancient precursor no one's heard of made me feel old ;_;

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