The original idea behind the superiority of vinyl was that the ambient audio was being recorded directly to the media. Of course, this wasn’t even true when it was first made, as they were using magnetic tape by then to record in analog. However, there is still some merit to the idea that an infinitesimal amount of quality is lost when translating sound waves to digital data.

Most of the actual differences between cd and vinyl, though, can be chalked up to the loudness wars ruining the mixes on cd.

They probably wanted to sell it as AI training data.

This is a bit different from before. They aren’t privating the subs this time, they’re just doing their unpaid full time job by disallowing posts with untrusted sources.

I’m not sure you understand what decentralized means.

It’s less destructive than taking the gate down with the jaws of life.

So, just don’t do the two things that happen to every non-stick pan ever. Gotcha.

We’re already seeing signs of incestuous data input causing damage. The more that AI takes over, the less capable it will be.

This is the peak, though. They require new data to get better but most of the available new data is adulterated with AI slop. Once they start eating themselves it’s over.

AI is just regurgitating old stack overflow. It’s not going to get better.

That’s okay, because there is a law about interfering with someone else’s contracted agreement.

A lot of companies were working with honey to have them make sure people didn’t get the best offer. So they knew exactly what was going on.

That’s kind of like a looter invoking the ‘finders keepers’ defense. Last click isn’t a law.

So their excuse would be everyone else is doing it? Good luck with that.

Disney backed off because they feared it wouldn’t be ruled applicable and didn’t want to create that precedent.

The class is people that use referral codes as an income source, so not the users that would have been subject to the terms of service.

I wouldn’t count on Tesla getting anything working properly to market any time soon.

Oh, it is very familiar with Riker’s ass.

It’s fairly common. As far as legal, that will depend on the jurisdiction and the mood of the judge.

Their complaint was that honey inserted their affiliate cookie even when they didn’t find a coupon code for you. I doubt they knew the full extent of the scam.

Plus, we don’t know what was in their contract with honey. They could still be subject to a non-disparagement clause.

It’s odd you seem to have more faith in China than in the US. Personally, while my trust in my country is low, it is infinitely higher than my trust in China.