To bring this back around to the NSA, they’re prevented by law to do data collection on American citizens who fall outside the exceptions like this FISA bill. The one loophole is that private companies have much more leeway in whose private information they can collect, and NSA can use American tax dollars to buy your personal information that’s illegal for them to collect themselves. Now NSA is a military intelligence organization and they’re not supposed to toss their intercepts over to US law enforcement like the FBI, but they do.

The usual. Journalists, democracy, threats to fascism and corporate profits at home and abroad.

Looks more like a paywall to me.

Capitalism will bring out the worst in AI, to prevent it we’d need to overthrow capitalism.

tldr 1 in a million RSA keys are vulnerable

/r/worldnews is apparently curated by capitalist apologists. I got banned for expressing a normal leftist opinion, many people have.

Oh god, here we go again.

http://www.reddit.com/r/musichoarder is a community of folks who are interested in that problem of organizing large amounts of music.

As for me, I’ll download like 80 gigs of music, mostly playlists off qobuz, then match it all with albums and tag it using musicbrainz picard, then dedupe it against my collection with dupeguru, then normalize the volume using rsgain. I use Logitech Meda Server to play them. I rate songs with a star rating, with the RatingsLight LMS plugin. I listen to all my unrated songs on shuffle, rate them and put them in playlists. I’ll listen to playlists based on mood, genre, country, or star rating. I have various bash scripts to process playlists.

It’s really manual. If i wanted to, I could throw everything in the same playlist when i download a big tranche of music of the same type. Another neat tool is soundiiz, which enables one to move playlists between spotify, qobuz, deezer, and m3us. So you could export a playlist out of spotify, import it to qobuz, run qobuz-dl against it, and add all your new flacs to your local copy of the playlist. Soundiiz is the only thing i had to pay for, $4.

My music server’s on a pcie ssd so operations don’t take too long. I have a backup on a NAS and I mailed a second backup to a friend. Between me and my girlfriend we have 2tb of music.

I name files ~/Music/MyMusic/artist/album/track number - track title.flac I have playlists at the root directory with relative paths, so it’s intact copying to a Digital audio player. I convert everything to Opus to fit a copy on my phone.

I pulled down about a TB of music from qobuz-dl and i’m growing over a lb of cannabis, I think it is a good idea.

I worked with Aaron Barr

He went on to be CEO of HBGary, a federal contractor. He claimed he could dox Anonymous. It didn’t go well for him.

I bought a commercial pack of pre-rolled cones and have been working it down for years. I’ve never messed with tobacco. Vaping dry herb is better but I’m lazy.

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I was doing that anyway in my early 20s. Now I’ll do it for $50,000.

Tall untattooed vegetarian teetotalers won’t go to heaven either.

It’s like the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft 22 years ago. They are still trying to push their browser.

Mass shootings, although there are indeed many, are a small percentage of the gun deaths in the US. Most are suicide, next most common are arguments outside bars. Most common weapon in gun homicides is a handgun.

Research shows that income inequality causes crime and you can see that more unequal nations (Brazil, Argentina, South Africa, Israel) have more violence.

The problem with the US is it’s a sanctuary for capitalists, capital and capitalism. Worse than anything that the US does or allows to happen to its own people, is what our government/corporations do to “developing nations”. Invasions, supporting coups, fighting to suppress labor rights and wages, extracting natural resources with little compensation, overthrowing governments that try to stop any of that, supporting genocide, committing genocide, chemical warfare, biological warfare, nuclear warfare. Any socialist country they can’t overthrow they’ll try to starve through embargoes.

Anyway, the worst states are ones where abortion is outlawed, lawmakers fight access to public health care or any public resources that don’t go to the wealthy. Usually these states are controlled by the wealthy, like coal bosses running West Virginia into the ground. Capitalists have been using evangelical christianity in north and south America to scare voters into voting right-wing on culture war issues like abortion and transphobia. They use reactionary tendencies like hatred of foreigners, hatred of gun control, hatred of schools teaching the history of how our country treated black people, etc, to keep people voting for the right-wingers who also happen to be the friendliest to business.

Both major political parties are right-wing pro-capitalist parties. Some states do have some social safety nets for health care and welfare but being poor is a horrible experience in every state. 50,000 people die yearly from lack of health care access, not including COVID deaths. There’s really no state you can live or party you can vote for to get away from it.

I’ve lived in a few less right-wing states. A friend of a friend was killed by police while he was suspected of shoplifting, trying to run away. Some kid killed himself in my high school while i was there. I live in a town where there’s lots of homeless people and syringes all over the place. 3 people in my family died of COVID.

Basically the US is a fascist country. Fascism is when the wealthy consolidate their power over government, in the face of growing violence and instability from growing inequality. The point of fascism is to protect capitalism from these growing threats by creating a police state, deflecting blame for hardship onto minorities, and handing off chunks of the government to the wealthy through privatization. The wealthy and the government essentially merge, they become the same people with the same goals.

Similar story to Aptera Motors, they collapsed and reformed in 2019 and they’re raising money to put out a solar EV.

I just tried it. I can’t bulk import external playlists, so I’m not using it. I keep my playlists in with the music directories so I have to scroll past 3,000 artists to get to any of them in musicolet.

It’s a CLI tool, it’s a great generalist tool for converting video and audio but you have to script it if you want to do a recursive batch job.

I use FRE:AC https://www.freac.org/downloads-mainmenu-33

It can do bulk conversions with a recursive directory search and works in most OSes

I had the exact same use case as you, 1TB of FLACs onto a 256gb phone. Because you prefer minimal quality loss, Opus is the format for you, not MP3. You can maintain transparency-level quality with 128kbps, Opus is roughly equivalent in quality to a mp3 twice its size. AAC and Vorbis are also preferable to MP3 in this aspect, but inferior to Opus. At this point, mp3s are only useful for devices that can’t decode any better codec.

Then i do a search-replace for *.flac -> *.opus on the playlists. I use PowerAmp on android to play the tunes, can recommend.