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Have you seen Project 2025, Trump’s unofficial but kind of official election plan? Republicans have all three branches of government now. They would have to willingly choose to not follow their own proposed plan, and there’s no reason to do that. So, logically, they will execute it - and that’s it. The end of US democracy.

Go read it or summaries of it if you think it’s hyperbole.

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Baldurs Gate 3

How does this blocking thing make sense?

Either the profile is public, which means you can still open it on another account, or it’s private, which means no one can see it anyways if they’re not an accepted follower.

I don’t see how anything changes from Musk’s change…

You can short something without forcing a short squeeze…

You’d usually crop out the top and bottom of the screen anyways.

But he said by today’s definition, and today the 3/5ths thing is in the past

it is quite literally spyware

So are Facebook and Instagram, which are apparently not a problem. Remember Cambridge Analytica?

where they can adjust their own algorithms to show things that can sway the minds of people too young to think critically

Every social media platform does this for maximum retention

to the CCP

What’s the CCP gonna do with it that’s worse than what Western companies do with it?

Companies could take and steal as much as they want from smaller artists in that case

December 6th is still coming

Link? I just find graphite dev which is not related to drawing

If you must use Spotify, use ZSpotify with DOWNLOAD_REAL_TIME and hope you don’t get banned. Alternatively, use it with a burner account.

I prefer Deezer and pay for Deezer HiFi. Deemix still works to rip FLACs from there.

Isn’t YTM like 128-192kbps AAC? I’d rather not even bother ripping that lol

Spotify’s encoding (vorbis 320kbps) should be transparent at the maximum bitrate. However, it’s possible that the files uploaded on there are mastered differently, for average consumer consumption instead of the full dynamics of most source material. I know SoundCloud enforces “loudness” mastering with presets when uploading for example.

The real reason Spotify’s quality is inferior to others is that, if you have the music files, you can apply in-app parametric equalization on every platform and compensate for imperfections of your output device.

Tidal, Deezer and Quboz all have ways to download the content. The most stupid one being to record the output of the music player, but there’s tools that automatically get the full metadata too and ensure the audio is cropped to silence.

To do it in an intended way, Bandcamp and other services let you pay once to have access to the source file on your account “forever”.

Opus at max bitrate is only like 1/4th the size of FLAC. At that point, why not just store it in 10GB while keeping the full quality?

Only one of them gets to make the decision to fire the other

Somehow this is just as incoherent as Trump transcriptions

Without DirectX or OpenGL you’d have to create a GPU driver or do CPU rendering…

Fonts can be handled by Windows itself.

I don’t care about internationalization, just EN-US is good enough.

Having more pixels doesn’t change asset sizes when the pixels used per asset are the same. Just show me the smaller button or use vector graphics.