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Comment Intimacy, but only approved (Score 1, Flamebait) 66

Chinese Government: we will mediate and control all your online communication and make you work so long each day that you have no time for intimate personal interaction.
Also Chinese Government: Please be more intimate so you make more workers.

Sorry guys (and you are all guys, too). You can't have intimacy and relationships without the time to have them and no fear that Big Brother is watching you and waiting for you to say something wrong.

You also can't have actual innovation (rather than incremental improvement or implementation of known ideas) without free communication either. These have always been the weaknesses of authoritarian governments.

Comment Hysteria (Score 0, Troll) 162

This entire article reads like someone hysterically trying to claim that installing some software on your machine when you ask for software to be installed is illegal, unethical, unprecedented, and an environmental catastrophe.

No, that's what happens when you install software. Installing an LLM weights model specifically happens when you install MacOS, iPadOS or iOS too, and plenty of other software too.

Is it an illegal catastrophe when software installs a language pack or an extension you don't use but others do? Hardly so, and nor is dropping LLM weights for you to use if you want.

Comment Who is not mentioned in the article? (Score 5, Insightful) 70

The music labels - the copyright owners - are barely mentioned in this article at all, yet they are where all the money is going, incrementally, for every stream played.

They're the rentiers sucking it out of everyone else. Spotify does make a profit, but not a large one, because the costs of paying the copyright holders are so large. Yet the share of artist money from the copyright holders is tiny, so the big labels end up rich while artists end up screwed (especially smaller artists, as the article correctly points out) while the record labels end up on top.

It's really not Spotify sucking everyone dry here - it's the record labels, and it always has been.

(I have nothing to do with Spotify, I'm simply pointing out the vampire squid behind the mere octopus this article is blaming).

Comment A few facts (Score 5, Informative) 41

Some commenters here seem to be in need of some factual information.

PostNord AB is a private company and has been for some years, so the idea that this is a government service being withdrawn is untrue.

Danish law requires everyone to have access to postal services for letters. Therefore another private company, DAO, will provide postal delivery to everyone in Denmark and the ability for everyone in Denmark to send letters from DAO service points (in shops, etc).

A significant subsidy is being provided to DAO to enable a universal delivery service.

DAO will be the national postal service for international treaty (UPU) purposes, enabling letter and small parcel post between Denmark and other countries according to UPU agreements.

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