No it's not. I'm saying that artists have always had a shit deal, singling out Spotify doesn't help the systematic problems. I don't use Spotify, I purchase via Bandcamp but that's also because long term its cheaper for me.

> Your posts make clear that you're a wildly immoral person

I'm immoral because I don't think that artists have ever had it good? Alright Mr. RIAA.

https://sociallifemagazine.com/the-archive/90s-record-deals-...

They received some money up front in a contract to record the album, and the label make the money from sales.

There is a reason the bands toured and sold teeshirts.

Most artists never got radio money because it went into a label slush fund and was spent retaining the tent pole artists.

Prison for illegal behaviour should be applied to the C suite.

And so you remove the mattress from their possession, because they obviously don't need the mattress to sleep.

Make it painful for those companies that want to fight the rules.

The amount of "dead time" was so vast it must have taken over 3/4s of the game.

If they want to claim ownership, then they will have to accept responsibility.

Because socialism has definitely not been "far worse". Cooperatives and employee owned businesses can be great for workers and incentivises them to work towards investing in their work without the rent seeking C levels.

Thinking that you can do this without skills has been here before, and it'll come around again after the executives take the money and run.

Presumably because the Neo sets a new low price boundary, used M1s Macbook Airs are only a couple of hundred pounds. For a system that is still really competitive.

They should have checked every fly for their immigration status!

I never spoke about speed.

> the need to make a cognitive operation of 1st grader counting, which is apparently a daunting prospect for many people.

Don't be a condescending prick. The fact that counting exists at all is a cost that people don't measure.

> due to the AML surveillance from the discussed article the banking privacy is practically dead.

Or if you read the fine article you would realise that AML rules generate so much noise that there isn't any analysis.

The only people who think it's cheaper are those that value their time at 0.

> The world of software engineering has changed dramatically in the last few months

I disagree, but I guess we shall see how this is going to pan out. We've all introduced schoolboy errors in our time regardless of how long we've been developers. Messing up absolute paths because you only tested on relative happens to the best of us, but generally we say "woops" and try to fix it.

Doubling down and blaming users for your fuck up rarely ends well.

The vibe coding got the project attention and it looks like he's going to get the help he needed.

However the "outrage", if you even call it that, wasn't entirely misplaced when pretty basic bugs were introduced by this, such as:

Can't use rsync with absolute paths:

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/922

Links mode is broken:

https://github.com/RsyncProject/rsync/issues/915

The scale of the commits, and rewriting the entire testing framework was pretty big for a "bugfix" revision.