For what its worth, many package managers support some method of exporting a list of installed packages to a file (or in a way that can be easily piped to a file), and its not difficult to pipe a file of packages into a shell loop to get the behavior as described.

Native support in the package manager would be nice, sure, but the Unix philosophy of providing tools that can easily augment each other to solve problems means this is generally a trivial thing to implement by anyone in a way that works best for their use case.

Also Zen exists, which is a Firefox fork that implements the concept of Arc

Arizona has several long-standing laws on the books requiring both public government properties and businesses to provide drinking water without cost or other barrier to access. Businesses can’t even charge for the cup.

Common courtesy unfortunately doesn’t go far enough, especially when it matters most, so law is required.

This isn’t exactly the type of work tons of astronomers are doing, nor does it cut into their jobs. Astronomers have already been using ML/algorithms/machine vision/similar stuff like this for this kind of work for years.

Besides, whenever a system identifies objects like this, they still need to be confirmed. This kind of thing just means telescope time is more efficient and it leaves more time for the kinds of projects that normally don’t get much telescope time.

Also, space is big. 150k possible objects is NOTHING.

National debt doesn’t work like consumer debt bud. Learn some economics. Nor is the trump admin actually using it to pay down the debt.

Anyway, defunding the NOAA to pay off the national debt is like skipping a coffee, once, to pay down a mortgage on a house.

Good to know. I only lost about 30 out of 5000 or so going from Spotify to Tidal. Seems like the catalog gaps for both Tidal and Quobuz have become less of an issue over the last few years.

The big annoyances were some playlists with orchestral and jazz albums that I had to find again via slightly different album names, but those are a mess on any platform due to re-releases and compilations being chaotic enough in that space as it is.

I’ve heard (annecdotaly) that Quobuz is much better for orchestral and instrumental music in general. Spotify wasn’t great for it. Tidal is a bit worse, but far superior than Spotify for Jazz at least.

I’d rather have it in my desktop workspace than nested in a web browser, plus it can integrate better with native media API’s for media buttons, notifications, and other items being aware of the audio, which the tidal web app doesn’t do out of the box.

Yep! It’s a good app overall, even has some improvements over what is shipped on macOS.

https://github.com/Nokse22/high-tide is new and promising for a better experience overall. I’d always prefer native over electron.

Absolutely! It works fairy well. A little clunky since the Linux support is bolted on after, but it’s not noticeably worse than the macOS experience. The extra options it offers over what tidal ships to macOS are also nice.

These non-native electron apps are all kinda junky for native music listening anyway. (This is a problem with Spotify’s desktop app as well)

Tbh, podcasts through a “storefront” is a poor way to experience them. It’s meant to be decentralized via RSS feeds. Tho having some cross-device metadata about what you’ve listened to is definitely helpful.

I’ve been using Pocket Casts for a long time for that more refined experience and ease of use between listening devices. Their new owners are ethically complicated nowadays (Automattic), and the cost for their pro features is a bit high unless you are a podcast fiend (I was grandfathered in from their old mid-2010s pricing scheme that was pay once/own forever), but it’s a good app (for now).

This is great to see. I ended up moving to Tidal from Spotify, and even though there are some nice to have features missing from Tidal (an equivilant to spotify’s sync between devices/speakers as well as a better Android Auto experience), it’s a far superior experience.

Quobuz is also on my radar, but they’ve traditionally lacked in the music catalog space. I need to give them a try again now that it’s been a few years.

That said, Tidal barely has Linux clients and I don’t think I’ve seen much movement for Quobuz on Linux, unless I’ve just missed it.

I think this is pretty easy to BS through though.

For sure. So far I’ve only used it for one batch of interviews so I’m not 100% set on it, but we used it as our last round to narrow down between a few finalists and we were already confident they were not people who would BS the excercise.

Yup, this is what I’ve always done for interviews.

Technical questions are purely to see what background someone has and how they explain or reason their way to some sort of answer. Its also nice to see if someone will say they don’t know something but offer their best guess, which is always a good indicator. I’ll usually provide the answer right away after they’ve answered, both to boost confidence for correct answers and because a quick explanation has a tendency to ease tension, especially if they then relate it to some other knowledge they have or suddenly recall the info with a little help.

The other thing I do is ask questions about disagreements with previous coworkers or managers. If someone starts explaining themselves into being superior to others, it’s a red flag. Its nice to get an idea for how someone resolves conflict or what kinds of complications they’ve run into, but I mostly just want to see how they view themselves compared to others.

I know my approach is sometimes strange to others doing hiring with me, but it’s all pulled from my time as an education major (I switched out after 3 years to another degree) and real world teaching experience. Good teachers ask questions to understand how a student learns and what they know broadly, not to get an exact percentage of points. (State/district testing requirements aside)

A new thing I’ve been trying instead of live coding is having people map out a loose architecture for some sort of API data process or frontend data process, then walking us through it. Its more or less a pseudo coding excercise, but it takes the stress of actual language knowledge away. I’m not sure if it’ll stick long run, but it’s been an interesting experience.

Fwiw, they’ve open sourced the specification behind canvas, so there’s a good chance any OSS Obsidian “forks” that pop up if they do enshittify will be able to support it.

Not the biggest fan either but sometimes it’s the only way to organize a response in text with multiple layers of context. Far to easy in async discussion to branch off and it can be difficult to circle back or ask for clarification while addressing other items and it provides a way to organize.

I’m not here to have an in depth academic, cited, philosophical discussion. Not right now. I understand that you are pushing more in that direction and there’s nothing wrong with it. As such, I’m not formulating arguments or discussing with that in mind. We don’t need to have a discussion of dismissal of evidence because I’m sure we’re on the same page. But I don’t owe you a perfectly crafted argument in a Lemmy thread. This is informal, and as such there are times where one has to leave space for less rigid constructs for presenting evidence.

I’ve found this frustrating. But I don’t think you are outright trying to troll which is why I’ve engaged. I hope you understand that I’m not going to engage at the level you might wish I would. (Its exhausting to do so in a context like this even though I’m an academic and philosophical discussion-minded person at heart)

I’m more concerned about the methodology of the ban and its downstream effects of it than whether (in your case, extremely valid criticism) amounts to it deserving a ban. I’m not going to find some articles for you or counter that because it’s not something I want to spend my time doing since the reality is extremely nuanced and we could present evidence from both perspectives for days.

In an effort to combat this, would it be fair to say your position is that while TikTok is bad, it’s okay to still use it because it’s extremely popular, and thus the ability to do things like engage or organize with other people in your subcultures is consequently quite high? “The good outweighs the ill” as it were? Which is a reasonable position to take, to be clear, even if your actual feelings are more nuanced.

More or less. I think there are plenty of things to criticize the platform for and/or strive to adopt a less-bad platform for. Users of the platform should be allowed to stay or not stay, and not be abruptly cut off for a political stunt by an authoritarian act of government, and as such, my position is that celebrating this particular ban is antithetical to the overall goals that one would expect from people using the fediverse.

The law prevents other American companies from hosting their infrastructure so they don’t really have much to do other than shut down and offer the minimum required to off-board employees and contractors.

So why is tiktok, an equally bad app (but one you like), suddenly okay?

It shouldn’t be banned for the reasons the law is stating. I’m all for people moving to better places. Centralized moderation will always be influenced by the ownership and succiptible to problematic choices (intentional or unintentional) that will effect people. some content will be less moderated on different platforms and that will change over time, which is just the reality of the current social media landscape.

Look I’m sorry this apparent egalitarian wonder app is on the chopping block, but do you seriously want to be a TikTok Apologist?

I’d be happy to see a better option that works for people currently using Tiktok that doesnt have the baggage of the corporation. Maybe Loops can be that one day. Maybe something else will show up. But I’m not wishing an entire platform to just evaporate even if I have major issues with it, and pointing out things that it is good for compared to alternatives is not the same as being an apologist. Pointing out that a ton of people incomes (in a country in a time where small businesses and self employed income is at every increasing risk) is not defending EVERYTHING tiktok has done, currently does, or will do. Nor is any of that claiming it’s an egalitarian wonder app.

Could you imagine your reaction to someone this zealously defending, say, Facebook? You’d think they were nuts, facebook has been exhaustively shown to be so evil their CEO is widely rumored not to be human.

I’m all for people abandoning Facebook. While I’d be less caring if it got banned in a similar way, i would not celebrate it. There are still tons of normal people using it for normal reasons and they shouldnt be suddenly cut off like this. They should absolutely move away from it or their own voilition, not due to authoritarian intervention.

Facebook has actively promoted a genocide entirely of its own creation, which is quite a different issue from content suppression. You are mischaracterizing my arguments by making it out to be equivilant to a completely different situation.

You’re changing the requirements for evidence to render previous valid evidence invalid.

I never said your evidence was invalid, I just said it needed context.

I offered my opinion (which is absolutely personal experience bias!). I suggested you consider that the article in question it may not be universally applicable to the current state of the App due to its age. I did not say you had an invalid opinion or reason to dislike it. I did not say that there was not a problem. I did not say that there still aren’t problems.

Being in a minority on social media sometimes means choosing the places that are the least awful. Tiktok can be both good and bad for groups. That doesn’t mean it deserves to be banned.

Look, I’m just advocating for people who are being harmed by the actions of an authoritarian government against an app and suggesting that celebrating the actions of said authoritarian government is problematic, even if there are other reasons to dislike the app.

You’re the one who seems pretty upset about things but sure. Feel free to stoop to name calling and bad faith accusations if you’d like.

Time is, in fact, a thing that exists. Pointing out the age of an article is not shifting the goal post. Bad actions can be learned from and it is possible for things to become less shitty. You are welcome to couch your opinions in out of date information.

Tiktok is absolutely not perfect. It absolutely has issues of over-censorship at times. It absolutely should be critiqued. Even so, it provides a valuable place for people who are disenfranchised on other social media, even if it’s simply that they are disenfranchised less on Tiktok.

This was absolutely happening in 2020. That was a long time ago and the App is practically unrecognizable from its 2020 state.

To address some specific points:

What I would like to see personally is these users, and internet users in general, take their personal internet data privacy and security seriously (regardless of whether it’s against apps like tik tok that are foreign, or meta/Google etc all which are domestic).

Absolutely agreed. But as you also discuss, there’s only so much individuals can do so long as the US lacks real privacy laws. Even those of us who do our best to de-google and make our online lives as private as possible can not truly avoid the surveilance state- just make it less easy for the surviellance state to gather info about us.

Leveraging this ban against the federal government to sue for the right to data privacy would be a good idea as well. The argument probably should be that this bill foments the idea that this scale of internet/app data collection is harmful, and if it’s harmful in the hands of a foreign adversary it’s just as harmful in the hands of the federal government who have countless times leaked the sensitive information of citizens.

Good news! This is the core of TikTok’s legal argument in front of the supreme court right now. And I’m sure that people with the funds and connections are planning on pursuing this strategy in the future, too, but these kinds of legal solutions take time.

Leaving Tik Tok hurts Tik Tok more than it helps them, yes, even as a form of protest.

They aren’t leaving tiktok. They’re in both places.

Some Tik Tok users have already been banned from rednote for the content they post and comments they make.

That’s fine, people aren’t jumping to rednote to actually move their content there for the long haul. No one is legitimately thinking this is where everyone will move and they’ll pick back up as if nothing had happened. It’s simply a method of civil disobedience that has an added benefit of cultural exchange.

I’m not downplaying the users, their number, or that they are trying to protest by taking these steps. I’m pointing out that the apparatus to thwart what they’re doing is basically already in place

Everyone jumping into Rednote is aware of this.

Hell, if creators got together and put in a bid to buy Tik Tok, that would be a better protest because at least then they’d be collectively attempting to save it.

It would certinally be neat, but there’s no way the userbase could do this. Even if enough people got together to put up the capital, there’s a whole suite of regulations and funding nonsense that would get in the way. The law text gives the president a lot of leeway in how the sale is handled, so even if the people put up the money the president could just say “nah” and ban it anyway. This also requires ByteDance to even agree to the sale, too. So far, all indications are that ByteDance is planning on just letting things shut down according to the law (which also bans any US companies from hosting or providing services to a company that has been banned) It’s clear that the ideal resolution that congress wanted was for tiktok to either go away (as it is now) or be purchased by someone who could add it to the toolbelt of corporate america and bring it under the thumb of the surviellance state. A group of citizens purchasing the app to preserve it is not one of these outcomes that congress is expecting nor would tolerate long-run.

I think you are fixating on Rednote here rather than seeing Rednote as a component of the efforts at hand. It’s a minor item, it may be short lived, and it’s absolutely not the thing anyone is viewing as the stone that will break the back of the ban law. It’s not easy to know for sure how many are making accounts, but it’s most likely less than 1 million so far, which is obviously a drop in the bucket of the tiktok user base. MOST of the organizing on TikTok is not focused on Rednote, and instead of trying to ensure there are lines of communication for people to find each other elsewhere once the ban hits, because nothing else could be done in such a short span of time once it became clear the ban was actually going to happen.

For now, the secondary goals are focused on trying to ensure Meta doesn’t gain as a result of this, especially since it bankrolled the lobbying efforts for this ban, congress members have invested in Meta in anticipation of the ban, and because Meta is worse with data collection (and sells the data to china anyway). We’ll see if that happens, but between Bluesky, the account closures as a result of Meta’s awful moderation rollbacks, and the long-held distaste for Meta by TikTok users, it’s certinally possible.

I know you’ve drawn some comparisons to reddit, but it’s really not the same. Reddit didn’t go away by government action, and it acted on it’s own to disgruntle it’s user base, and even then, it wasn’t the entire user base. It is absolutely not the same. I know we all love to view the lemmy migration as a big deal here, but in the grand scheme of things, it didn’t change anything for reddit as a corporate entity and there was little fuel for continuing the conversation. We moved. We set up something that works for some, doesn’t for others. The same is true of the multiple Twitter -> Mastodon+ migrations. Enough people moved over to the fediverse to establish a much more sustainable userbase and allow for more innovation, but no one in social media is looking at the ~11 million Mastodon users and thinking “wow, we gotta win them back”. The fediverse is a long-term game when it comes to the future of social media and in it’s present state, it may not even be that future. But it might (along with BlueSky, assuming it doesn’t enshittify too) inspire the next-gen solution that does pull people off of centralized social media.

Successful acts of protest and change require a multi-pronged effort. Some efforts fail. Others are successful. Many efforts seem like failures until the downstream effects become more apparent years later. Some of the most successful acts of protest during the civil rights era were viewed at the time as silly and counter-productive, but now we view many of those things as instrumental in bringing about change.

I think a lot of people in the TikTok world who are organizing around this situation would agree with your broader points. Tiktok, after all, was a haven for organizing on behalf of progressive efforts in human rights, privacy, and other areas. I certinally agree with your sentiment and concerns as well.