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YouTube terms of service allow AI music training, Google says

sdoering — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:13:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.billboard.com/pro/google-youtube-terms-of-service-ai-music-training-lawsuit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486474

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by sdoering in "What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift"

sdoering — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:47:01 +0000

Thanks. That just killed 15 minutes of my working day. Much appreciated. I just needed that.

Love it. Went into my bookmarks for later tonight.

New comment by sdoering in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

sdoering — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:04:25 +0000

Sadly not. If the relevant people I follow (and pay for) were on better services, I would happily put Substack in my DNS file with 127.0.0.1 :-(

New comment by sdoering in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

sdoering — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:01:37 +0000

> It should be considered common courtesy that when you ask a question you have at least attempted a bit of research to find the answer on your own.

In my professional experience. About 1 in 10 people does that. Maybe, 2 in 10.

New comment by sdoering in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

sdoering — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:00:14 +0000

> Some people are inherently lazy and unload their laziness to someone else to do the thinking for them.

Exactly this. I am not willign to be the "can you google this for me" person to anybody's laziness. And when I get a BS request, I just screenshot that, put it in a chat interface, have the bot slop out a reply and paste it back. If they try a DOS attack on my time and sanity, I can reciprocate.

If they want a human, they need to invest at least a decent amount of time. Anything they can ask AI themselves, I am not willing to answer anymore in a human voice.

> I still think sending someone an AI answer is terrible

This is (see above) where I tend to differ. Anything, really anything people ask me, they could have asked a bot, I am not willing to reply in kind to. To me, using AI daily for about 60% of my day, this is where I built my Iron Curtain so to speak, my red line. I have that as a clear warning in my MS Teams status (not that anybody ever reads it - like the nohello I had in there for years). I am in a kind off cold war, mutual assured dAIstruction mode in that regard.

New comment by sdoering in "Don't Subscribe So Casually"

sdoering — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:26:27 +0000

Especially when one considers how friggin difficult this service makes it to cancel a (paid) subscription.

New comment by sdoering in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

sdoering — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:14:43 +0000

There is a Wikipedia List (German) [1] of quite a few of those (in Germany and in other countries). I stumbled upon it, while trying to find a link to the one in my home town I have wandered quite a few times, as I lived between Neptun and Pluto (it was built before Pluto was demoted), very close to Pluto. It ran the street I grew up in and was built to scale (1:4 bln scale) by a teacher who was a full blown astro nerd and in his free time taught quite a few of the local youth about space, planets, the science behind it, but also built rockets with us and let them fly.

I so fondly remember him, as he was one of those people being a massive inspiration to my life.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetenweg

Edit: Added scale.

Fake it, or don't. There is no middle way – What being venture-backed demands

sdoering — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:10:37 +0000

Article URL: https://notanotherceo.substack.com/p/fake-it-or-dont-there-is-no-middle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222886

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Adobe Lightroom CC on Linux via Wine

sdoering — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:27:37 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/sander110419/lightroom-cc-on-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191537

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdoering in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

sdoering — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:57:32 +0000

> but these conclusions are really close to what Hannah Arendt tells in the Banality of Evil

That's why the article actually mentions it.

What Do You Want?

sdoering — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:32:22 +0000

Article URL: https://dekodiert.de/en/articles/was-wollt-ihr-eigentlich

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48168342

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdoering in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

sdoering — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:13:39 +0000

Thanks a ton. Greatly appreciated. I am currently evaluation options. So this is relevant to me.

New comment by sdoering in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

sdoering — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:13:17 +0000

Thanks a ton. Much appreciated. I am looking for German/EU options so this is highly relevant.

New comment by sdoering in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

sdoering — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:06:08 +0000

I have worked with two clients. Both north of 8 million visits a month. Both on matomo. Both self hosted.

If you architect the underlying infra right it still works like a charm. But I admit people need to know what they are doing. I was quite impressed with both infra teams.

But as always, if you do not want tu use auto scaling US cloud based services, you need to enasure you have the right scaling and the necessary technical expertise at hand.

New comment by sdoering in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

sdoering — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:03:31 +0000

Any source for this? Would love to read up on this.

New comment by sdoering in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"

sdoering — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:03:06 +0000

Same here. I just discovered this and put it in my "check out tonight" folder. I am currently happy using resend. But this looks interesting, especially also for my freelance clients with a focus on EU tech.

Who Builds Your Judgment?

sdoering — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:57:36 +0000

Article URL: https://dekodiert.de/en/articles/wer-baut-eure-urteilskraft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109276

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by sdoering in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

sdoering — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:56:25 +0000

Absolutely. Could not agree more!

New comment by sdoering in "Rendering the Sky, Sunsets, and Planets"

sdoering — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:10:51 +0000

Wow. This was quite a ride. I only understood maybe 5% - but I was massively impressed.

New comment by sdoering in "Ubuntu servers taken offline by "sustained, cross-border attack""

sdoering — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:57:08 +0000

Dupe. More comments here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972213