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I tip my hat to those who have the stomach to run a business like that.

I once worked for a company where they operated in the red for 95% of the year as they paid for project material costs up front. The CFO was quite open about how finances worked in our niche sector.

A client would pay an invoice and the balance would swing from -£20M to £0 and back down to -£15M for the next project within weeks! Revenue was in the £100Ms per annum.

As someone with almost zero business background it was a real eye opener how much we depended on a healthy relationship with the local bank manager. The business model clearly worked as they passed their 30th anniversary during my employment!

Same here - splashed out crazy money upgrading my PC to play HL2.

After that moment I switched to consoles.

For those without a FT subscription: https://archive.ph/DrFSW

Ethics will depend on the developer's needs at the time, and there is a big difference between ethics of the developer themselves and their employer's ethics.

They may take a less ethical job to put food on the table for their family.

They may take a less ethical job to build a financial buffer zone allowing them to take a more ethical one in the future.

They might not have the luxury of working a more ethical job - either picking the least worst option or perhaps only option due to reasons far beyond their control.

I consider myself extremely fortunate that - so far - I've always been able to avoid industries on my moral blacklist.

It's a psychological addition of being stoned and slightly detached from reality - no different to people munching pills every weekend at a rave or drinking enough to be tipsy (or wasted, if that's your thing)

It's escapism, pure and simple.

Employment at a below market rate might be the only job some people can get due to events in their past i.e someone with a criminal record that puts most employers out of reach.

There is a large talent pool who want to get their lives back on track.

I'm curious how your platform might avoid false positives with intentionally repetitive music, in particular techno (either produced via a DAW or hardware).

I've been caught out a few times after learning a new artist I liked was AI.

The time spent listening to AI music _could_ instead been spent listening to something created by a human.

That is what pisses me off the most!

I have "friends" purely through common interest in music, and the same for bicycles too.

My oldest/life-long friends have very different musical tastes...and some can't even ride a bike :)

I have little interest in doing a DJ set in public but I'll spend hours crate digging for new music and mixing circular black slabs of vinyl for nothing more than the love of the craft.

These days many DJs are booked on their social media following not their skills or musical knowledge.

The market is completely flooded and promotors cannot practically sift through the sheer volume of mixes published online -- so they go by Internet points instead.

It's no different to a mortgage being in negative equity as the home owner would still be in debt after selling the property.

It's better for the company not the customer

Definitely my cuppa tea too :)

https://m.youtube.com/@arcologies

Gambling and weapons (or "defence" depending on perspective) are two industries I refuse to work on principle.

On my deathbed I want to look back on life and feel I've made a small positive impact on the world.

"John helped his uncle, Jack off a horse"

"John helped his uncle Jack off a horse"

Two very different outcomes...

It's a sibling to curl in that way

Pi-hole operates on your local network.

NextDNS performs the same thing but on the public internet, removing the dependency on a VPN to the private local network.

+1 for NextDNS.

Been a happy user for a few years now and introduced many non-tech friends/family into the world of 99% advert-free internet.

High five fellow DnB heads :)

That Source Direct release was out of this world... absolutely beautiful body of work

Sponsored segments is no different to Netflix (and other producers) selling "product placement" in TV shows or films. If anything they are far more subtle and effective as the viewer isn't usually aware.

I remember once watching an episode (can't remember the show) where the dialogue included characters talking about how good their new car was. The B-rolls would show almost every angle of the car too.

Sure enough, according to the end credits, the episode had product placement from the car manufacturer.

This instance it was a little _too_ obvious but I have no doubt I've been exposed to hundreds of in-film/show adverts.

I learned wheel building many years ago from Sheldon's website and that lead to many great memories fixing other racer's wheels around camp fires in my 20s.

A fantastic resource!

Operating on such a tight budget is more common than you might think and they could have been hit with a surprise bill that's pushed them into debt.

So who's the fire starter - the twisted fire starter?

The physical aspect is what I most enjoy while DJing with vinyl.

While I do have a full "digital" DJ setup to nothing beats (no pun intended) the satisfaction of mixing the black circular slabs with no crutches available in the digital world.

Every mistake and imperfection of the groove is there for the listener to hear, with little room for error.

Out of habit (and corporate experience) I default to ~/.local/ where possible in case lockdown happens at some point in the future.

At $DAY_JOB our Windows laptops are locked down and supported.

Linux & macOS people have zero support (outside hardware, corp VPN) and the password to the local admin account (thankfully Jamf does not reset sudoers file)

As more developers/operators opt for Linux or macOS I'm surprised support hasn't been expanded.

The concept of a postcode was originally due to the sack weight a postie could deliver before returning to the van.

Each postcode would then have an optimum delivery route often devised by the postie's themselves.

Thanks for the links very interesting to read.

I buy loads of DJ music on Bandcamp and "downsample" (I think the term is) to 16bit if they only offer 24bit for smaller size and wider compatability.