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tibu commented on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025) therecord.media/denmark-d... · Posted by u/robtherobber

jajuuka · 16 days ago

I'm not sure conflating US corporations and the US government is really logical. Microsoft isn't a startup from the US, it's a worldwide corporation. Same with Visa/Mastercard and others. Whatever buffoonery happens in the White House doesn't really get reflected out across US based organizations. It's like being worried about Siemens stability during a German economic downturn or political upset.

I think this has much more to do with rising nationalism. (I know the EU isn't a country. It's just the best word I can think of to fit. ) It's not like Denmark is saying they plan to use technology from the global south, Asia or are open to options. It's an attitude of "we want to support European companies". That's not inherently bad, but I fear this is just another expression of this isolationism that is becoming more popular in Europe. That's not to say it's exclusive or unique to Europe, but just recognizing the ways it shows up.

tibu · 16 days ago

The US government can require a US company lots of things. After POTUS declared that he wants Greenland I can totally understand Danmark wants to get rid of everything US.

tibu commented on Umbrel – Personal Cloud umbrel.com... · Posted by u/oldfuture

colordrops · 3 months ago

That's exactly my goal with HomeFree:

https://homefree.host

Goal is my mom running it, and keeping it 100% open source.

It looks like there isn't a lot of visible progress, but there's now a branch with a live CD installer, and an admin UI, so no command line shenanigans are necessary. Once that is cleaned up, the website will be refreshed.

I really need to quit my job so I can work on this full time.

tibu · 3 months ago

What will make development sustainable? I mean it could take some time until it gets trackson and also usually open source works if there is a supporting company behind it.

tibu commented on Using Deno as my game engine explodi.tubatuba.net/2025... · Posted by u/phaser

tibu · 5 months ago

It would be great to see a business model behind it too. You had to manufacture all the products in a factory and every product would be breaker down to the very basics. This was my idea for ages but never started to build it...

tibu commented on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server github.com/blackcandy-org... · Posted by u/nateb2022

Vaslo · a year ago

And now a podcast too!

tibu · a year ago

My favorite podcast in this topic is from Jupiter Broadcasting : https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/self-hosted/

tibu commented on Show HN: I built a self-hosted status page and monitoring tool for my projects github.com/goksan/Statusn... · Posted by u/goksan

pastorhudson · 2 years ago

The killer feature I need is heartbeat so I can make some device send a request every 5 min and if it’s not sent then it is down. Currently using UptimeRobot for this.

tibu · 2 years ago

You can use also the open-source Uptime Kuma for this (actually for almost everything else what UptimeRobot knows)

https://github.com/louislam/uptime-kuma

tibu commented on Spotify demonetizes all tracks under 1k streams djmag.com/news/spotify-of... · Posted by u/buro9

jstummbillig · 2 years ago

Ah. Music income numbers, where the details are not actually details. He did say that[1], but the statement is misleading (and has little to do with Spotify).

A very rough global average per-stream payout is often estimated at around $0.003 to $0.005. That brings the payout for 1 billion streams between $3,000,000 and $5,000,000. Let's go with the lower end. This is actual money paid out by Spotify for 1 billion streams, as in, a bank transfer of $3,000,000.

How do you get from there to $45,000?

- As with any legacy artist, the record label gets most (maybe 70%). Why that is, oh well. It's less shocking if you think of the label as an employer and how little an average employee gets compared to what they produce. Do you need an employer? Absolutely not. Do you need a record label? Absolutely not. Anyway, a 70% cut would leave the artist with $900,000.

- Expenses: There are various costs associated with producing, distributing, and promoting music, hotel costs. Let your imagination run wild. Safe to say: This is a black hole, depending on how you want the process to look. If Snoop wants to sit in a big studio for months, he pays prices, for month, but that's not required to make music. Renting a high end studio on end is lifestyle. Sure, it's an expense, but it's like complaining about your profit while driving a Porsche. Awkward. Let's assume a 20% deduction here, reducing the revenue to $720,000.

- Focus on Publishing Royalties: Publishing royalties are just one part of the total royalties an artist earns. So there's quite a bit of double accounting going on if you want to pretend that the above costs are all deducted from your Spotify income.

If we assume publishing royalties make up only 10% of the total, that brings the figure down to $72,000.

- tldr: Snoop is living the big life, confused about money, and then proceeds to confuse others about money.

[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/s...

tibu · 2 years ago

If the ownership is with the publishing studio then AFAIK they pay the producing, distribution and promotion. It is an investment into the artist, so they shouldn't have these costs.

tibu commented on OutRun – Open-source, privacy oriented, outdoor fitness tracker github.com/timfraedrich/O... · Posted by u/27theo

tibu · 2 years ago

Project seems to be dead.

tibu commented on Chemotherapy drug reaches brain tumors using novel ultrasound technology news.northwestern.edu/sto... · Posted by u/vanilla-almond

tibu · 3 years ago

How much time would it take to make this available for public?

tibu commented on Europe data salary benchmark 2023 synq.io/blog/europe-data-... · Posted by u/mikkelenzo

tibu · 3 years ago

Calling this Europe data when you're comparing data from 5 European cities is a bit exaggerated. We have 44 countries in Europe and even within a country there can be significant differences.

tibu commented on The president of Toyota will be replaced to accelerate the transition to EV ev-riders.com/news/the-pr... · Posted by u/grecy

jhp123 · 3 years ago

Hydrogen cars are no help here unfortunately, they also use metals such as steel and aluminum.

tibu · 3 years ago

Rare-metals used in batteries are much problematic then steel and Al.