aasatru

joined 2 years ago
[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 3 points 4 months ago

Shouldn't we try to gift them our technology so they are better equipped to survive?

Looking at the state of affairs right now, I'm not entirely sure this is the effect the "gift of technology" has had. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if they end up outliving all of us.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

group of people who don't want to compromise on any of their values

Of course I don't want to compromise my values in order to see growth of a platform that I use precisely because it aligns with my values.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I installed it myself on my FP5 (bought with Android in a shop) using the online installer, which was pretty easy and obviously free of charge.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They cooperate with Murena, so /e/OS is officially supported and you can buy new devices with /e/OS installed. I am running /e/OS on my Fairphone 5 and it works great.

They also seem to have given developer devices to the PostmarketOS folks, so that they hit the ground running with a working FP6 port already. I'm not sure exactly what is going on behind the scenes between Fairphone and PostmarketOS here - maybe @z3ntu@fosstodon.org can fill us in.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 6 points 4 months ago

On the positive side Mastodon is working on a fix.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 1 points 4 months ago

Working quite a bit with lawyers and law students it's endlessly frustrating that so many of them are there not because they have any interest in understanding what the law is or how it relates to society, but simply because they had good grades and they figured a law degree was the natural thing to do.

Follow your interests. If you're not interested you won't end up doing interesting things.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 2 points 4 months ago

The legal industry is about to get upended by LLMs.

As an LLM myself, this weirds me out every time.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Seems to be some misunderstanding somewhere - Jerry states elsewhere that the costs are covered by donations.

The Mastodon instance I'm on has around 200 people (not all of them active), and received around €800 in donations last year,. Total costs were less than €300.

I think the problem of scaling kicks in when we go after demographics that are less charitable on average.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 27 points 4 months ago (14 children)

the flagship instance of Bandwagon.fm will be taking 0% of any money musicians make.

Good stuff.

To support development, Bandwagon’s flagship instance will be offering a $10 per month Premier plan that allows musicians to sell their music and offer their tracks at a higher bit-rate, among other features.

So they will take 0% of money, except a flat fee of €10 every month in order to be allowed to sell music at all? This seems a bit more problematic, as smaller artists would lose money every month by trying to position themselves in the market.

I like the business model of selling subscriptions to the artists but giving them 100% of proceedings quite a lot, but it would be nice if they for example only had to pay a monthly fee once sales surpassed €10, or if they could sell a limited amount of tracks for free in order to test the waters before putting all their music out for sale.

Writing this comment listening to @torstentorsten@bandwagon.fm by the way. Recommended to anyone interested in German singer/songwriter music. Who isn't.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 11 points 4 months ago

The borders of fascism, I guess.

[–] aasatru@kbin.earth 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think this is going to be pretty huge.

I ended up subscribing to @feed@404media.co (404 Media) after following them on Mastodon. It just feels like a more direct way of following media that fits with how I consume stuff online these days.

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