Direct report from the FTC. ISPs are DIGGING into your web behavior. https://www.ftc.gov/reports/look-what-isps-know-about-you-examining-privacy-practices-six-major-internet-service-providers

That’s so awesome. Takes me back. I might need to see if I still have that old Treo in a box somewhere…

Last I checked .04 per play.

[Weird little guy in the back of the room.] Hey guys! I still like Qobuz. They pay rights holders better than Apple Music, aren’t nearly as far behind in catalog size as they used to be, and almost the entire catalog is CD quality or higher. No fancy algorithms or podcasts. Just hi-res music. Just saying. It’s an option.

It’s supremely disappointing, looking up campaign contributions, how little money is required to influence our politicians.

And YouTube beat expectations on profits the quarter they raised prices again. The worst part of this is knowing YouTube is turning screws on the audience AND on advertisers. We know Google keeps more data on us than any other company, but they’re miserable at pairing relevant ads to my interests. So these brands advertising on YT aren’t reaching a potential customer, they’re only being used as a pain point to make free YT worse, and to neg viewers into buying premium. In a weird way, we might be saving brands from paying for useless ad clicks. Like, even looking at late stage capitalism and enshittification, this is totally bonkers.

Well at least it’s not Samsung colluding with other companies to fix prices again, right? Surely in a free market, Hynix and Micron will use this as an opportunity to compete with lower prices and consumers will benefit from healthy and robust competition.

A lot of folks are finding out that their bosses never REALLY cared that their job was done well, or even competently. If the company can save money with an AI that gets a bunch of stuff wrong, that’s “good enough”.

I completely agree. The issue with all these MP counts, they keep dividing 12mp sensors into smaller and smaller sub pixel resolutions. It creates a lot of challenges for image software to de-mosaic. But a GN6 could be interesting, as at that sub pixel size, it would be Samsung’s first true competitor for Sony’s monster IMX989. That 1"Type sensor is a beast at 12MP.

440MP is useless but a GN6 could be kinda fun…