I went technology - > programming - > general and got suggested a Brazilian instance in Portuguese. Maybe needs a language question 😅

How much does McDonald’s in Indonesia pay?

I doubt it’s enough to buy a 25000 euro house. And if you’re talking about McDonald’s in the US then I’m guessing not much is left over after food and rent in order to save the 25k.

Everyone says the machines put us in a late 90s Matrix because it was the peak and it keeps the people happy so they can use us as batteries.

But it seems more likely that they put us in the late 90s so we can re-live the downfall of humanity as punishment.

Holy hell, Napster is a (legal) subscription music streaming service! Crazy times we live in.

This has some nice Daniel Tiger’s Tiger Cake vibes (but a lamb).

I’m not sure what can be done at the free tier. There is a switch to turn on AI not blocking, and it breaks federation.

You can’t whitelist domains because federation could come from and domain. Maybe you could somehow whitelist /inbox for the ActivityPub communication, but I’m not sure how to do that in Cloudflare.

Yeah Bandcamp is great. They also do Bandcamp Friday events where all the revenue goes to the artist.

The problem is it’s really hard to find any mainstream bands on there. Presumably most of them sign away those rights when they get a label.

How do we know there isn’t a number that was named by a mathematician like googol or Graham’s number, where unlike defining it as a 1 with a hundred zeros after it, it’s instead defined by it’s spelling?

Here’s one: the number seven thousand three hundred and seven is otherwise known as Da…ve’s number, which is spelt with a D and then seven thousand three hundred and three A’s, followed by ve’s. It’s a made up name for a number but so is googol so I think it should be a valid candidate.

In terms of Lemmy instances, if your instance is behind cloudflare and you turn on AI protection, federation breaks. So their tools are not very helpful for fighting the AI scraping.

Ah interesting, I didn’t realise Apple Music was available on Android.

For the life of me I cannot find an Apple Music website that lets you buy and download songs. I keep getting directed to download iTunes.

I know Apple has a music store. But if I use Android and Linux, how do I access it?

My favourite thing about Qobuz is they have a store where you pay money and they give you audio files, like in the old days. So you can pay for your music then keep it without an ongoing subscription.

AI scrapers are a massive issue for Lemmy instances. I’m gonna try some things in this article because there are enough of them identifying themselves with user agents that I didn’t even think of the ones lying about it.

I guess a bonus (?) is that with 1000 Lemmy instances, the bots get the Lemmy content 1000 times so our input has 1000 times the weighting of reddit.

If you’re using Nextcloud All In One then it’s easy to enable it in the AIO settings.

If you’re not, I suggest looking into it. It’s the new officially recommended way of installing and it’s been great.

Nextcloud has an export/import data function but at the time I did it I only had a few GB of data so not sure how well it scales.

Maybe that’s it. Maybe Elon is just another puppet, doing the bidding of someone else because he’s got himself into a pickle he can’t get out of.

I’m told Melbourne is mostly the same climate as the northern part of NZ, except it will randomly be 45+ degrees Celsius (apparently 113F).

Always in my mind is that this was part of the plan. If Tesla loses all this value then Musk can buy up the stock and take full control.

Its worth considering when you see the S&P 500 falling, too. Maybe it’s all in the plan.

Or simply “…they will be deleted after Alexa processes your request and generates a token for AI training”.

There is a troll currently spamming NSFW images to popular communities. Report them, they will get removed. But they just make a new account and keep going. It will just be a battle until they get bored, there aren’t many tools available to fight it.

I don’t like my chances of swaying IT. The organisation is too big and I’ll get told I should be using Edge which is the only officially supported browser.