New comment by sgskinner in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

sgskinner — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:05:14 +0000

> Literally any alternative you choose is an improvement

Counterintuitive to me would be (1) not listening at all, or (2) torrenting.

I suppose choosing (1) means Spotify has less leverage over the artist, but to the detriment of the artist since they don’t get that fraction of a cent. Additionally, that also means one less pair of ears discovering the artist.

I suppose at least with torrenting the discovery aspect is preserved.

New comment by sgskinner in "Shai-Hulud Themed Malware Found in the PyTorch Lightning AI Training Library"

sgskinner — Fri, 01 May 2026 01:18:33 +0000

“Some people, when confronted with a problem, think ‘I know, I’ll use regular expressions.’ Now they have two problems.”

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New comment by sgskinner in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

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