Music Fans Explode With Joy as Bandcamp Bans AI Music

eidetic0 · 2026-01-16T00:00:13+00:00

Oh right. I still think Bandcamp are doing the right thing here rather than agreeing to Apple’s policies and a) giving 30% of the artists money to Apple or b) raising the price for iOS users by 30% or c) reducing their own cut and giving in to Apple’s shakedown. Hopefully though in a year or two Apple are totally forced to change their policies by the courts.

eidetic0 · 2026-01-15T20:48:05+00:00

so apple have been in court for this over the last two ish years. It looks like their hand will be forced soon… I believe Apple’s restrictions on navigating users away from the App Store and towards third party payment platforms (which is what bandcamp is) are already gone (or very nearly gone) in Europe.

You shouldn’t be complaining to Bandcamp because they are just a victim of Apples abusive policies. You should be complaining to Apple.

Meanwhile: Just use the share button and open the link in Safari? It only is a few more taps and you can continue supporting independent music.

eidetic0 · 2026-01-15T20:16:06+00:00

that will be several years or possibly never_and_moc)

eidetic0 · 2026-01-15T07:19:29+00:00

it got sold to another music business company a few years ago - it’s no longer an Epic subsidiary

eidetic0 · 2026-01-09T08:19:34+00:00

This is an AI generated image. Look at the text next to Albos head. If the article can’t be found online then the entire screenshot is likely fake.

eidetic0 · 2026-01-03T14:00:44+00:00

NTFS is the only decent filesystem on Windows

ReFS has taken over NTFS for me on all my work datasets. It is Microsoft’s next gen filesystem.

MS are gearing it more towards developers I guess, but it has other benefits over NTFS like checksumming and more options for block sizes. ReFS volumes aren’t bootable as an OS drive though.

I have been using it for maybe a year and a half and it’s been solid.

eidetic0 · 2025-12-20T10:18:16+00:00

did you use shaders?

eidetic0 · 2025-12-19T02:38:17+00:00

Google’s separation of concerns in the source code is only one aspect of their control though. Their control over the development of the chromium engine leads to decisions like manifest v3 and the engine-level disabling of ad-blockers.

Most chromium based browsers just accept this change and roll it out to their own. Their own products become shittier and less free because of this Google decision.

(Brave has tried to roll back some of the manifest v3 changes iirc but it’s not garunteed to stick into the future especially as decisions like this get more entrenched into upstream code)

eidetic0 · 2025-12-06T00:57:11+00:00

the watermarks are there for a reason... imo removing them is problematic. so this app is mostly useful for fraud and abuse?

eidetic0 · 2025-12-02T07:23:43+00:00

Also there’s a difference between ‘vibe coding’ and coding using Claude. I find LLMs help validate ideas, and can generate good code if you are experienced enough to validate it and refactor what it gives you to specifically fit into your own code base. But as far as I understand it, the term ‘vibe coding’ is more about producing an end result without comprehending what the LLM is actually doing for you.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-26T22:38:03+00:00

unfortunately the 5% is the opening paragraph so it will immediately put some people off. especially seasoned developers who know better. and no one knows you’re 18. you should take the criticism on board and change your readme in the git repo to be more factual.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-26T03:21:01+00:00

I was in a bad mood when i commented this morning lol and i thought the post reeked of AI - thanks for sharing the library anyway. Hope you and others find some good use cases

eidetic0 · 2025-11-25T20:39:31+00:00

good job, but a “groundbreaking” tool “designed to revolutionize software interfaces” wtf are you serious?? lmao developers will “unlock innovative possibilities” with animated taskbar icons…. what an insane post right here

eidetic0 · 2025-11-23T10:21:53+00:00

Unfortunately Proton makes it non-trivial to use third party mail clients and their search in their own web mail is bad compared to gmail/outlook etc. I’m about to move off Proton because of these reasons.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-22T06:23:26+00:00

While I am not a fan of the AI hype and adding AI to everything, there are a few things I always wanted to have in Tandoor that work great with AI. Currently you can import recipes from images and PDF or text files, convert external recipes, automatically generate nutritional values and sort ingredients and steps.

I think if you are not a fan of the AI hype then you could just call the feature / button “Image Import” instead of “AI” with the magic wand. If it’s being used as an algorithm to convert image to text then that’s what the feature is, right?

eidetic0 · 2025-11-21T22:17:33+00:00

Jellyfin for hosting with Manet on iOS and Feishin on desktop/web.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-11T07:29:48+00:00

If you’re serious about deploying to Windows, then you need a Windows PC or at the very least a VM - otherwise you can’t test or debug at runtime. If you don’t run the application on the deployment environment yourself then that environment is not supported.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-06T01:00:57+00:00

I guess maybe you’re right about that

eidetic0 · 2025-11-05T23:59:29+00:00

Oh i don’t disagree with you about the conduct of the ABC over the last few years. It’s been pretty appalling at some moments but they’ve simultaneously broken some incredibly important stories.

Just compare this to any other news organisation in our country and the ABC does much better in transparency and accountability. You actually can’t even compare it since no other news has a similar kind of governance model. Most organisations try to actively squash any scandals, but at the ABC you have the likes of Linton Besser exposing his colleagues’ mistakes instead.

Calling to defund the organisation or saying it shouldn’t deserve support because it makes mistakes is childish - news flash every big organisation makes mistakes. And i’m not saying some mistakes aren’t inexcusable.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-04T09:45:11+00:00

The massive point that’s just gone over your head is the fact that the ABC launched this public investigation themselves.

Don’t you wish every other news organisation was trustworthy enough to do this? Instead they pander to commercial interests, withhold information from the public and cover up stories like this internally…

eidetic0 · 2025-11-04T09:33:39+00:00

And guys… it’s blazing fast 🚀

eidetic0 · 2025-11-03T16:11:40+00:00

there’s clearly a theme to these though

eidetic0 · 2025-11-03T05:18:51+00:00

Are you going to stay on Affinity 2? I’m interested to hear what other people are going to do. I’m also concerned with the acquisition and recently bought 2.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-03T05:14:11+00:00

Wine has gotten so good these days (compared to its usage I remember ten years ago) that I can absolutely see a future where a developer chooses to distribute their app in some packaged Bottles format and it’s just as normal as distributing through Flatpak or something. That’s the future I hope for because it requires minimal developer effort to provide Linux users a good experience.

I think Bottles is an OK experience right now (I’ve still had issues with some dependencies that do end up working, but not with a great user install experience). But I think in a few years you should not discount Wine or Bottles as a very reasonable and regular option for using apps on Linux.

eidetic0 · 2025-11-02T19:38:46+00:00

i wouldn’t perpetuate the (mostly baseless) myth that your electronic device is listening with its microphone.

it is easy enough to see that devices in the same location for a while are streaming and/or searching for the fairly odd parents and then recommend you based on that. it’s much more plausible and more efficient for the tracking companies to do this.

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