That depends. Are you looking at preserving the music without loss of information? Then you need to use a lossless format like flac. Formats like aac, mp3, opus can throw away information you’re less likely to hear to achieve better compression ratios. Flac can’t, so it needs more storage space to preserve the exact waveform.

You can use a lossy format if you want. On most consumer level equipment, you probably won’t notice a difference. However, if you start to notice artifacting in songs, you’ll need to go back to the originals to re-rip and encode.

Bad bot. Bad summary.

There’s talk on the Linux kernel mailing list. The same person made recent contributions there.

Andrew (and anyone else), please do not take this code right now.

Until the backdooring of upstream xz[1] is fully understood, we should not accept any code from Jia Tan, Lasse Collin, or any other folks associated with tukaani.org. It appears the domain, or at least credentials associated with Jia Tan, have been used to create an obfuscated ssh server backdoor via the xz upstream releases since at least 5.6.0. Without extensive analysis, we should not take any associated code. It may be worth doing some retrospective analysis of past contributions as well…

Yet another example of why we need privacy laws with real teeth.

Do you mean Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)?

There’s a handful of them. They’re all still pretty small, but [email protected] was active recently.

Yeah, the first 2/3rds of the article covering Naomi Wu was worth a read, but that last 1/3rd… I get her argument, but she should have left that out to focus just on Naomi.

Given their history of hostilities. Hell has a better chance of freezing over than a secret agreement existing.

At that time Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were hiding along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, and from the wikipedia article:

Pakistan’s government publicly condemned these attacks. However, it also allegedly allowed the drones to operate from Shamsi Airfield in Pakistan until 21 April 2011. According to leaked diplomatic cables, Pakistan’s Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani not only tacitly agreed to the drone flights, but in 2008 requested that Americans increase them.

I doubt Iran has a secret agreement to operate drones within Pakistan.

Cleverly made the joke to female guests while attending a Downing Street reception earlier this month.

Yikes! The added context makes it even worse.

State is more concerned about US citizens in Lebanon being targeted as a form of retaliation against US support of Israel.

Yeah, I don’t think we can say there is a first day. More like there are waves. We could tentatively say the first one was around the black out. Although, there may have been some smaller waves before that. The next big one is the API-ocalypse. The next big one after that will be when the reddit executives fire their foot shotgun again.

Yes, sort of. Elmo saddled the company with $12.5 billion in debt while alienating the advertisers which was where the majority of Twitter’s revenue came from. Revenue has to come from somewhere. BuuuUUUUUuut, Elmo is in over his head, doesn’t really understand Twitter’s business model, and is making decisions by the seat of his pants. The answer to every question may as well be yes, no, maybe.

fedigrate

That’s a new one. So far I’ve seen rexxit, rexodus, and rexxodus. I prefer rexxit. It emphasizes the reddit exit, the double x’s keep the spelling similar, and you use x’s to strike out things you don’t like. Also, it’s short and easy to type.

Anyway, most people seem to be split between lemmy and kbin.

They’re not even doing that. They’re failing to flag known CSAM and their Trust and Safety team appears to exist in name. They’re down to 1000 employees from their pre-Musk number of 7500. They don’t have the people to do it. Musk is just paying lip service to them.

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/07/research-shows-twitter-was-missing-known-child-sex-abuse-material/

Sounds like reddit is having a bad year.

sips coffee

Oh well. How’s everyone’s Sunday? I’m making pulled pork sliders tonight.

archive.ph link for those who don’t want to give reddit traffic.