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New comment by beberlei in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

beberlei — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:06:37 +0000

I believe if you go down the rabbit hole of "mood playlists" and spotify created playlists, then you'll get a lot of tracks that they don't need to pay royalties for and that could probably include AI generated music.

If you are explictitly looking for music by specific artists, then you get their music obviously.

New comment by beberlei in "Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team"

beberlei — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 18:58:42 +0000

While I believe you, its an argument that artists bring forward since the beginning of art, so even many hundred years before the internet on average humankind did not value this work.

New comment by beberlei in "We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs"

beberlei — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 10:29:24 +0000

Its odd at first, but springs from economic principles, mainly sunk cost fallacy.

If you invest 2 days of work and did not find the root cause of a bug, then you have the human desire to keep investing more work, because you already invested so much work. At that point however its best to re-evaluate and do something different instead, because it might have a bigger impact.

Likelihood that after 2 days of not finding the problem, you wont find it after another 2 days is higher than starting over with another bug that on average you find the problem earlier.

New comment by beberlei in "The AI bubble is 17 times bigger than the dot-com bust"

beberlei — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:39:22 +0000

customers also got value out of pets.com selling them products for below cost.

New comment by beberlei in "European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices"

beberlei — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:48:48 +0000

yes, lets charge the EU customers 10% more for the price of viewing an ad.

New comment by beberlei in "Fight Chat Control"

beberlei — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:57:05 +0000

Came here to say the same thing, confused how a website like this can be made, the people behind it must have not understood how the EU works.

If Germany is listed as "Undecided" then this is in the Council. The 96 MPs are from a wide spectrum of parties and most of them will already be either for, or against this.

New comment by beberlei in "Exploring Coroutines in PHP"

beberlei — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 10:39:17 +0000

My hope is that the parallel extension will get more widespread adoption when its integrated into FrankenPHP: https://github.com/krakjoe/parallel

New comment by beberlei in "Bookshop.org launches Kindle alternative, sends e-book sales to local bookstores"

beberlei — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:39:40 +0000

We have something similar in Central Europe, covering Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux and Italy for many years now. The tolino https://mytolino.com/ works similar that bookstores get a cut of the sales.

New comment by beberlei in "PHP 8.4"

beberlei — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:14:33 +0000

Just to set the record straight, Nikita is not the creator of the PHP JIT code, that is Dmitry and he is employed by Zend owned by Perforce working mostly on this.

New comment by beberlei in "Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution"

beberlei — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:26:30 +0000

Yes you can see the list on the opencollective page here https://opencollective.com/foundation

New comment by beberlei in "Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution"

beberlei — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:24:43 +0000

Its just one financial host that is closing down. Most open source is on a different host called "Open SOURCE Collective". The platform still stays and there is no need to migrate to something else for open source projects.

New comment by beberlei in "Open Collective Official Statement – OCF Dissolution"

beberlei — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:24:22 +0000

New comment by beberlei in "Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU"

beberlei — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:29:40 +0000

Individuals cannot sue for GDPR violations. They van only raise their concerns to data protection agencies and these can sue, bur they can also decide to ignore.

New comment by beberlei in "GlitchTip: An open source, Sentry API compatible error tracking platform"

beberlei — Sat, 20 May 2023 07:47:34 +0000

This is due to how PHP and Sentry for PHP works. It sends out the data after every request to Sentry backend via HTTP. Depending on your network path to their servers, I have seen this take 10-100ms. This is different on how other APMs work for PHP, for example Tideways that I work on, or DataDog/NewRelic/Blackfire. They have a local agent running that accepts the data over socket/tcpip before sending it to the backend for processing.

The workaround in case of Sentry is to deploy the Sentry Relay in your network and send all data there.

New comment by beberlei in "Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities"

beberlei — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 02:32:54 +0000

You can design a citycenter to primarily benefit bike traffic and then it will be consistently faster than car travel

New comment by beberlei in "SVB depositors, investors tried to pull $42B Thursday"

beberlei — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:41:34 +0000

Thats not what parent is saying. They are saying todays value of the known portfolio is not what is on the books due to interest and risk discounting the future value at which the bonds mature.

Either you sell everything now at the discounted value, leading to loss in deposits. Or you wait 10 years and pay everyone back their deposit then. Given current inflation a dollar now is only worth 50 cent in 10 years.

New comment by beberlei in "Emergency bridge loan for SVB customers"

beberlei — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 11:48:53 +0000

Loaning money to a startup in this economy is far from risk free. Companies can go bust regardless of getting a part of their cash back

New comment by beberlei in "Errors for the Twilio Rest API impacting multiple services"

beberlei — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 20:11:37 +0000

occam's razor suggests that

New comment by beberlei in "WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (2013)"

beberlei — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:41:59 +0000

This discussion was 13 years ago, the project changed alot since then including its approach to self organization.

Tying back to this particular story, parse errors don’t include tokens anymore since PHP 8

New comment by beberlei in "WTF Is T_paamayim_nekudotayim (2013)"

beberlei — Sun, 04 Dec 2022 07:39:03 +0000

Tokens are left out of parse errors since PHP 8 released 2 years ago

See https://3v4l.org/2T8qQ