Sounds like the botting was the problem, not the AI-generated tracks. He could’ve done the same with sounds of nature or some other shit like that.

Clickbait is strong with this post.

I’ve heard it said that in African cultures it doesn’t make sense to say that someone is ‘not musical’, as in the concept doesn’t exist. Seeing as musical gatherings are such a communal part of life. They are also famously reliant on percussion, so I’d guess that those people indeed can’t imagine the instruments not being there.

Like this.

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Afaiu some instances or apps have ‘starter packs’.

Are these only visible for users that made comments in the modded subreddit? I wonder if I can make it show a summary for my own account, since I’ve gotten some weird limitations lately-ish.

Oh indeed, all journalists around the world should receive NSA training, then no regular user would ever suffer inconvenience to ensure their security: they would simply be cannon fodder for the police tracking their location around the clock and scammers vacuuming their contact info, no big deal.

That’s nice. Now please evaluate the statistical utility of the CEO of an independent opposition-aligned media outlet, like Galina Timchenko, or journalist like Jamal Khashoggi, against an average phone user.

Oh really, so the Pegasus attacks on Galina Timchenko and dozens of other people, including Jamal Khashoggi, never happened? Or, do you seriously not understand that the impact on one journalist is greater than on thousands of nobodies like you?

Google could’ve implemented better measures to circumvent bugging, like iPhones’ ‘lockdown’ mode, but claiming that infecting with spyware never happens on Android is plain disingenuous and idiotic.

Rookie number.

Your wish is fulfilled. Google now requires the government id, full biometrics and shared gps location to publish apps in the store.

Technically installing an app allows continuous spying instead of one-time offloading. It’s an actual consideration with spyware like Pegasus: it might’ve been used as a bug to listen to offline conversations.

That’s not what I mean. I have a keyword like ‘wik’ set to take me to Wikipedia’s search, and if I type ‘wik black pus’, i get the page for that term.

I also have an extension that shows a popup with buttons for different search engines whenever I select text on a page, and I have a similar thing on the phone for text shared from any app. Each of these methods has about twenty-seven sites configured in it. Considering that I look up things on these sites easily a dozen times a day, it’s ridiculous to say that this doesn’t save me time over opening each site.

(P.S.: This workflow also allows using the keyboard for keyword-triggered search, while the search interface on some sites is getting less accommodating and assumes me mousing around.)

That’s not how any of this works. The browser has its own list of search engines. Seriously, look in the settings sometimes.

Firefox even has two separate mechanisms for this, the second is via bookmarks with keywords.

Why would I need any of that if I can bang the search bar of my browser instead, and it takes me straight to search on Wikipedia or any other site I want without waiting for DDG to add that site?