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Jeremiah

@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold

I work in tech, fight for digital rights and the environment, kiss dudes, cycle, lift heavy things, and donโ€™t eat animals. Swedish immigrant, US American emigrant. Occasionally shirtless. (he/him | they/them)

Working on https://restoration.software/@restoration.software

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#ADHD #environmentalist #EU #fedi22 #fitness #gay #GSRD #LGBTQ #openSource #plantBased #plants #privacy #programming #Stockholm #Sverige #tech #technology #webDev #WebMonetization #YesBot #searchable

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Jeremiah, to privacy
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My quick lunch read of this is that EDPB just ruled Metaโ€™s forced consent (โ€œpay or okโ€) is a valid tactic (page 20). Prepare to pay for your right to click โ€œdeny allโ€. What a gross undermining of GDPRโ€™s intentโ€ฆ

https://www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2024-04/edpb_opinion_202408_consentorpay_en.pdf

Jeremiah, to random
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Demo of my SL ferry departures display on a Vestaboard from my home in Nacka.

Stockholm is an archipelago city of 14 islands. So in addition to busses and trains, ferries are vital part of the public transportation system.

Video starts with a screenshot of the iPhone launcher and an app named SL Departures opening. The โ€œupdateโ€ button is tapped and the list of upcoming ferry and bus departures is listed with their line number, destination, and departure time. The next scene is a Vestaboard split-flap display mounted on a wall between 2 windows. It displays the text โ€œStockholm Ferry Departures Demo by Jeremiah Leeโ€. The display cycles through characters to display the departure information that was displayed in the app. The camera moves from the Vestaboard to the window beneath it showing a ferry loading passengers 1 block away.

Jeremiah, to security
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TIL from @cigitalgem that the US government cut NISTโ€™s budget for the first time ever and this has had rippling effects on the worldโ€™s software security reporting since February.

When we talk about security not getting enough budget priority, NISTโ€™s entire budget request was $1.6 billion. For comparison, the US militaryโ€™s budget request was $850 billion.

https://www.scmagazine.com/news/update-delays-to-nist-vulnerability-database-alarms-researchers

anderseknert, to Stockholm
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Writing and reviewing blogs all day, but now the sun is shining over , and the weather is supposed to be crap for the rest of the week, so...

Jeremiah,
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@anderseknert @noplasticshower @cigitalgem Sweet. Thanks for the invite. Iโ€™ll be there!

Jeremiah, to webdev
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Text fragment linking is being turned on in @FirefoxNightly โ€œin the next couple weeks / monthsโ€.

While we wait, letโ€™s discuss what the fragment directive looks like as an emoticon:

#:~:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1753933#c6

Jeremiah, to StarTrek
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Change dot org petition to save Star Trek: Lower Decks

https://chng.it/wHjVFZvsS8

Jeremiah, to random
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The nuanced, fact-based take never goes viral like the confirmation-biased take. ๐Ÿคท

Webtypography, to Typography
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Excellent post from colleague @james on his favourite free fonts. There really are some quality choices nowadays if you're strapped for cash.

https://clearleft.com/thinking/some-of-the-best-free-fonts

I'd definitely add Literata to the list - the optical sizing is fabulous. https://www.type-together.com/literata-font

Jeremiah,
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@Webtypography @j98 Another fantastic mono font family is Githubโ€™s Monaspace. They feature a rather unique "texture healing" feature that makes narrow and wide characters easier to read while still respecting the monospace grid. https://github.com/githubnext/monaspace

Jeremiah, to random
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Spotify pays ~70% of its revenue to music rights holders.

If a music artist doesnโ€™t have at least 1,000 plays a month from 713,000,000+ active Spotify users, itโ€™s not Spotifyโ€™s fault they are not popular enough to earn a living from their artistryโ€”nor would that artist be able to live off of CDs, merch, and live show performances.

I know capitalism sucks, but people have to actually want someoneโ€™s art for it to be a profession. However, the barrier to building a fanbase has never been lower.

Jeremiah,
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Streaming services saved the music industry from piracy. It took 20 years to recover from Napster according to the RIAAโ€™s own data.

Streaming services got more people paying for music than ever before. The result is more artists in more countries are earning a living wage from their art than ever before.

An artist with less than 1,000 plays a month just isnโ€™t there yet. The good news is that streaming services give them more of a chance than ever before to find and grow that fanbase.

Jeremiah,
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Could the streaming music royalty model improve? Absolutely!

The current model works like this: There is a pool of royalty money (70% of Spotify subscription). It gets apportioned to each artist by the number of streams the artist had divided by the total number of streams all artists had.

The user-centric payment model would have a royalty pool for each streaming service subscriber apportioned by what they alone listened to. This would benefit more niche artists.

So why donโ€™t have this?

Jeremiah, (edited )
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Music streaming companies would pay the same total amount of royalties with a user-centric payment model. It wouldnโ€™t affect their margin.

But it would negatively affect the revenue of the Big 3 Music Label Oligopoly because they donโ€™t represent niche artists.

Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group own the copyright for the vast majority of music. They dictate licensing terms. Spotify has no negotiating power because it has no business without their content.

Jeremiah,
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The Big 3 Music Label Oligopoly is protective of its revenue. It is more fearful than innovative. If you want to get mad at someone, donโ€™t get mad at Spotify. Get mad at the intellectual property kings who decree the royalty model Spotify must use.

The only progress on a user-centric payment model has been an experiment by Universal Music Group with Deezerโ€”the least popular serviceโ€”with an tiny portion of its royalty pool.

https://musically.com/2023/09/06/umg-and-deezer-reveal-plans-for-artist-centric-streaming-payouts/

Jeremiah,
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Even better than getting mad is getting politically active.

Copyright was invented by governments to reward innovation by giving a time-limited monopoly on an idea or expression. It can be modified at any time with political will.

Innovation in media distribution is stifled by Big Music controlling the royalty terms for streaming music. Terrestrial, satellite, and Internet radio royalties are set by governments. Anyone can start a radio station without having to ask permission from Big Music.

Jeremiah,
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Big Music is never going to allow music streaming companies to use a royalty model where its oligopoly gets a smaller percentage.

Governments created copyright to reward innovation, not oligopolies. Governments should set royalty apportionment rules for music streaming services based on per-customer revenue.

This would more fairly reward niche music artists, limit the Big Music oligopolyโ€™s power, and increase streaming service competition by removing the need to negotiate with rights holders.

Jeremiah,
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There is a long history of copyright law and royalty models being amended over time as new technologies and revenue models emerged.

(Read โ€œFree Cultureโ€ by Lawrence Lessig to learn more: https://lessig.org/product/free-culture/ )

Music streaming services found productโ€“market fit. Now, itโ€™s time for governments to ensure a fair market by balancing the power so streaming services can innovate without fear of losing catalog access and so small artists can earn without having to join the music label oligopoly.

Jeremiah,
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@thisismissem 1,000 streams a month is less than $0.25 of royalties in most markets. It costs more in payment transaction fees than the value to send. I donโ€™t think itโ€™s an unreasonable threshold.

Small artists have more opportunity because of streaming.
The number of artists earning meaningful money from Spotify has nearly tripled. Independent labels accounted for about half of Spotifyโ€™s royalty payments for the first time in 2023.

https://loudandclear.byspotify.com/

Jeremiah,
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@thisismissem Yes, Tidal managed to kinda do it with UMG. On its high end plan that is nearly twice the price of Spotify and Apple Music, Tidal was able to negotiate a 10% pool bonus to the subscriberโ€™s most-streamed artist.

https://www.billboard.com/pro/music-streaming-royalties-tidal-universal-seek-answer/

This is similar to Deezerโ€™s โ€œArtist-Centric Payment Systemโ€, which is just a bonus instead of the primary model.

https://www.deezer.com/explore/en-us/artist-remuneration/

Jeremiah,
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@thisismissem Single music labels are willing to experiment with low revenue services, not the big players. We saw this before. When there was growing pressure for music labels to drop DRM, the music labels allowed Amazon Music Store and a few other tiny stores to sell music DRM. The labels would not permit Apple iTunes Store to sell DRM-free music until Steve Jobs made a public plea that caused regulators to start searching for potential monopoly and collusion abuses by the labels.

Jeremiah,
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@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e22@mostr.pub Copyright law requires Spotify to license the content from the rights holders. If music artists have a bad deal with their label, that is not a problem Spotify or any other streaming service provider can solve for them.

Jeremiah,
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@thisismissem Agreed.

mikedev, to random

Cool - I think this is the first time I've seen a fediverse event from software that I didn't write.

https://fediversity.site/photos/mikedev/image/0b86e104-d6a7-4d41-abc3-70dff06e8fff

Jeremiah,
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@mikedev As someone who has not studied this use case extensively, what is the event invite spec it should have followed? My (admittedly ignorant) reading is that their implementation seems reasonable.

Jeremiah, to houseplants
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What is the best way to water your houseplants when away from for 2 weeks?

The glass ball things have never worked well for me.

I backed Altifarm's Cura system on Kickstarter 2 years ago and still haven't received it. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hrbstn/cura-led-grow-light-for-indoor-plants/description

I am considering 2 options, but don't have any anecdata on them:

O'Drip system: https://www.smartasaker.com/en/automatic-watering-system

Hozelock ceremic cones: https://www.smartasaker.com/en/holiday-watering-cones-

Jeremiah,
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@henryhenderson Looked more into Wet Pot this morning. Great recommendation! So obvious in approach and beautifully executed. I have ~20 plants, so this would be an expensive conversion, but Iโ€™m going to buy these when my plants outgrow their current pots.

robb, to random
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โญ Spotify has demonetised all songs with less than 1,000 streams https://www.nme.com/news/music/spotify-has-now-officially-demonetised-all-songs-with-less-than-1000-streams-3614010

Welcome to music streaming. You can use the one with the crap app from the biggest tech company in the world who pay artists basically nothing or the one where they pay artists even less that that.

๐Ÿ“Œ https://rknight.me/links/spotify-has-demonetised-all-songs-with-less-than-1-000-streams/

Jeremiah,
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@vincentritter @robb Digital music sales like iTunes never came close to the revenue lost from piracy. Music streaming services saved the music industry from piracy by being a better value proposition to consumers.

More in this thread: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/112252983431153528

Jeremiah,
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@ravi @robb @gdp Ravi is correct. Music streaming royalties are not a fixed rate per stream.

There is a pool of money that is apportioned to an artist by the number of streams the artist had divided by the total number of streams all artists had.

Apple Music customers seem to not listen nearly as much as Spotify customers. The demographics for each service could also skew why one artist makes more per stream on one service vs another. Most artists earn far more from Spotify than Apple Music.

nopatience, to mastodon
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Would be very useful to create a feature in Mastodon which would enable admins of instances to create trusted and exchange relationships for peer blocked domains.

That way I could create a trusted relationship to for example @jerry and @seb and choose to trust their block lists of for example limited servers, or even blocked ones.

That way we would somewhat leverage the Fediverse of selective trusted relationships between instances.

Jeremiah,
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@nopatience Itโ€™s a great idea. Here are some folks working on something related:

https://fediseer.com/ by @db0 is the closest attempt at doing what you described.

@thisismissem gave a great demo of her work with @oliphant and @iftas on FediCheck recently: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/112151159627944641

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