Fuck...there are already too many things called Prism.
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geekamongus commented on Erich von Däniken has died daniken.com/en/startseite... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
von Daniken's work inspired me to travel to Nazca PE and charter an airplane to see the alien landing strips for myself. Certainly a worthwhile trip. I may even have convinced the local guide I was a True Believer, of which I am sure he has encountered his share.
I have also take a page from his books by expostulating outlandish theories to explain facts with a straight face, always ending with a quick "of course there are other explanations".
It's a hobby. Mostly harmless.
I have always enjoyed bringing in the "you know, the bible could be read very differently if you consider God to be an alien" to certain philosophical conversations I've had with people over the years, ever since reading von Daniken's work.
As you allude to, there are always other explanations.
geekamongus commented on iCloud Photos Downloader github.com/icloud-photos-... · Posted by u/reconnecting
You need an extra tool to download your own photos? That's... not a basic feature?
I'm always surprised what kind of antifeatures people in Apple land are willing to accept and still use those things...
You do not need an extra tool to download your photos. This one runs from the command line, though.
Isn't that how every streaming service does it?
The only evidence I can find is with Spotify doing this.
Some people do not mind buying art or paying artists for their work.
If we assume an artist gets 1¢ per stream of a song, and that album is 10 songs long, you need to listen to it 100x for the artist to get the same as just buying a $10 CD from Bandcamp.
I understand this example is missing the cuts given to other parties (label, etc) but it is still more to the artist than streaming unless you obsessively stream the same albums repeatedly.
Spotify is cheaper because your favorite local indie band makes far less from it.
Additionally, thrift stores have loads of CDs you can rip for extremely cheap.
Spotify pays me about $0.003 per stream. That's pretty typical for every artist on the site.
A couple of points missed for why Spotify is bad:
- Paying musicians cheap wages to make boring music (ghost artists) for playlists they promote: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...
- Not paying musicians anything at all if they don't have enough streams: https://www.engadget.com/spotify-confirms-it-wont-offer-payo...
- Not preventing the deluge of AI-generated music flooding the platform: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/spotify-no...
geekamongus commented on Google is dead. Where do we go now? circusscientist.com/2025/... · Posted by u/tomjuggler
I'm not a marketer (anymore), but as an end user, I feel that Google has shot themselves in the foot with the horrendous search experience they provide these days. This notion and topic of discussion is becoming more commonplace online.
"Google results are just AI and sponsored content anymore." We've all seen it.
geekamongus commented on Firefox will have an option to disable all AI features mastodon.social/@firefoxw... · Posted by u/twapi
Oh, this is great news!
geekamongus commented on Cassette tapes are making a comeback? theconversation.com/casse... · Posted by u/devonnull
>Vinyl resurging, I can understand. But cassette tapes...their only redeeming quality was the mix tape
their ONLY redeeming quality? mix or not mix, did you ever try to record a vinyl?
Yeah, I used to have a habit of buying a blank cassette with two vinyl albums each weekend after I got paid so I could listen to said albums in my car. I'd still rock the records at home though.
16 year olds rule the world.