They didn’t encode/reencode anything with popularity>0.

What they are providing is the same as the available source.

They did reencode songs with popularity=0.

They are archiving what they could get from Spotify and in this case what they could get was encoded in a lossy format to begin with.

It doesn’t get any “more” lossy over time just being stored as an .ogg

It’s not the most welcoming read in terms of sci-fi but I love that book. That and its sequel (Echopraxia) do what sci-fi is supposed to do (make you think).

I think a generator for that purpose would likely make a lot more sense. I can’t see buying an electric truck just so you can use its battery to weld. Maybe that’s a nice to have at best.

Dang, removed by mod. I got here too late to see it :(

smh Apple playing 5th dimensional chess again making stupid design decisions to get the all important lemmy advertising for free.

Tim apple is truly a genius

They were talking about warehouse workers, not corporate employees.

No rank and file US-based employees at Amazon are getting years of severance. They don’t do that.

Firefox can do without Google being the default fine. What they can’t do without is all the money that Google pays them to make Google be the default.