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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • I doubt any billionaires have that much money “sitting in a bank”.

    Most wealth is non-liquid. For example, if you found a company that becomes massive, and you maintain a controlling share, then you could be a billionaire on paper while having no real money to spend – the only way to turn that into “real” money would be to sell shares in the company, and thus lose control of it. If the company is doing good work, it could be better to retain control and act through the company, by ensuring that it pays employees good wages to do good work for the benefit of society. This is not completely incompatible with profit in theory, though in practice…yeah. I’m not sure if there are any such billionaires in the world today.

    The real problem is more fundamental to the economy, in that it fairly consistently rewards bad behavior.

    Larry Page basically became a billionaire overnight when Google went public. I don’t recall Page or Google doing anything especially evil or exploitative before that, though their success was certainly built in an unsustainable economic bubble.

    If Amazon didn’t treat its employees like shit and poison the entire economy, then Bezos could probably still be a billionaire and I wouldn’t necessarily hold that against him.


  • Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

    I don’t think he was ever a billionaire, though he’s certainly done quite well for himself. Since leaving Apple, he has founded several new companies and projects, focusing a lot on education and philanthropy. He was also involved in founding the EFF.

    He’s an engineer first and foremost, and several of his projects never achieved mainstream success, partly for being, IMHO, ahead of their time – for example, a programmable universal remote in the 80s, and a GPS-based item tracker in the early 2000s.

    As far as I know, he has never been involved in any notable scandals.




  • I would advise against any rolling distro if you use Nvidia drivers and CUDA. When I was using Tumbleweed it kept breaking with kernel updates. This was common in the forums. I had to pin my kernel to an older version to fix it. It was not ideal.

    I’ve come full circle back to Debian stable. I’m sure at some point I’ll need a newer package and be frustrated again. When the time comes, perhaps I’ll try distrobox if I can’t easily backport it.


  • The github page has more context than the F-Droid listing.

    API Key

    This application uses the AudD® service as a Music Recognition API. You need a special API token provided by AudD® to use the application. If you don’t have one, you can sign up for a free API token. You can add the key on the onboarding or preferences screen, or just set it in local.properties.

    There is also the option to use the app without a token, but please note that this will restrict the number of daily recognitions that can be performed.

    The AudD web site says:

    Music recognition API for both content analysis and in-app music recognition costs from $2 to $5 per 1000 requests. First 300 requests for free.