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New comment by canibal in "Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer"

canibal — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:49:36 +0000

I mean... Sounds pretty clearly vibed from this description. Funnily enough this is touted as a feature, not a bug:

> Single binary > ffmpeg, Python, PyTorch, and the ML models are all bootstrapped on first launch. Nothing to install.

New comment by canibal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

canibal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:38:28 +0000

But they could charge the third-party client for access to the API.

New comment by canibal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

canibal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:37:07 +0000

You're not wrong. Reddit & Elon started it and everyone laughed at them and made a stink. But my guess is the "last dying gasp of the freeloader" /s wasn't enough to dissuade other companies from jumping on the bandwagon, cause fiduciary responsibility to shareholders reigns supreme at the end of the day.

New comment by canibal in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

canibal — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:32:07 +0000

This move feels poorly timed. Their latest ad campaigns about not having ads, and the goodwill they'd earned lately in my book was just decimated by this. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's still just dipping their toes into the AI pool. And am very much a user that under utilizes what I pay for because of that. I have several clients who are scrambling to get on board with cowork. Eliminating API usage for subscription members right before a potentially large wave of turnover not only chills that motivation it signals a lack of faith in their marketing, which from my POV, put out the only AI super bowl campaign to escape virtually unscathed.

New comment by canibal in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

canibal — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:44:32 +0000

I'm sure there's a million reasons not to, but they could even just open-source Windows 10. Leave you alone with the hardware that you rightfully purchased, and let the community police the security gaps that arise. It's beyond me how planned obsolescence especially on perfectly sufficient hardware is even legal.

New comment by canibal in "Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?"

canibal — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:26:56 +0000

Am I missing something? This isn't what ssh's purpose is. Why should anyone care? We're talking about a game built to run over an encryption protocol? What are we even doing anymore? Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but client-side option existing is secure design, really feels like it shouldn't be circumvented server-side without giving the client the choice to do so or not by default. Don't lobby for watering down security for convenience, especially for trivially important objectives, please?

New comment by canibal in "Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games"

canibal — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 14:31:21 +0000

Aside from the moral clamor, if something has a higher likelihood of fraud, there's a direct relationship with the increase of its cost. Both legal fees and labor cost to deal with these claims could add up more than we outsiders may realize. It's very possible that some risk-averse analyst "ran the numbers", and decided this wasn't worth it. I would also speculate that there may be a certain hidden coat of false fraud claims. Certain folks buying something in the moment, then shamefully claiming they didn't after the fact, which in turn could carry the costs associated with processing a new card & number or conversely fighting false claims.

As for the morality angle though, while I definitely agree that these companies' main motivation has to be increasing revenue and profit, and that their only reason for doing anything is cost-driven; you never know what middle-manager who is swayed by what belief is actually making these decisions. So as much as the monolithic goal of the organization is more money, there are still emotional (and financially fallible) people pulling the levers.

New comment by canibal in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

canibal — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 05:52:11 +0000

Funnily enough, the courts are the best place to change/challenge that law without a literal act of Congress. (Apologies for any snark, but this is somewhat fueled by another, similar debate had previously) In America there should be no such debate regarding defying law being bandied about as infallible or intransigent.

New comment by canibal in "All of Earth's water in a single sphere (2019)"

canibal — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 13:02:52 +0000

An interesting point, perhaps it's just me, but my initial reaction to this was that, for purposes of comparison, the volume of "usable" or maybe inhabitable land be measured instead, as opposed to the volume of the entire planet including mantle, core, etc. this graphic seems very prone to misinterpretation and usage as a memetic weapon against globalization, as it is.

New comment by canibal in "Update on HTML5 Video for Netflix"

canibal — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:04:23 +0000

>For video, people don't download it and take it with them

If this is so, why would Netflix have JUST added the download feature last quarter? Obviously there's some demand for storage-based playback.