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So we’re just admitting they’re troops now?

It does, but in mildly corpo-speak:

I didn’t say you were. I was just mentioning that there are still a few stalwarts out there actually trying to do it right. Admittedly, probably not many.

Not my web site.

Our privacy policy is one paragraph long. We don’t share any information with anybody. And if we can at all help it, we don’t collect any identifying information on you whatsoever. In one case we can’t help it – If you actually buy something, you’re going to have to admit your name, contact information, and shipping location to us. Other than that, I literally could not give less of a flying fuck.

My analytics are interested in what users are doing in general, not what a particular merely pseudoanonymous individual is doing specifically.

We have a spam… ahem, email marketing list, also. I’m astounded at the proportion of users who deliberately check that check box that says, “Yes, please send me spam.” (It’s unchecked by default.) The month before last I didn’t have anything particularly compelling to market, so I didn’t spam anyone on our list.

I realize the way my particular business operates is a minority, but there it is. (Oh, so you have an Etsy shop or something and you’re pretending to be Mr. Big Time Businessperson, you say. Er, no. We did $5.4 million in sales last year, a significant portion of which was online.)

This serves as the perfect illustration as to why whatever brand of kissing Trump’s ass anyone may be doing or have done in the past will not save you when he decides to turn on you. Rupert Murdoch is probably the number one person on Earth most responsible for getting Trump into office not only this time, but also the last time. And the fact that he did so means absolutely nothing to Captain Cheeto who is big mad at him right now. The Trump regime absolutely will attack and discard anyone – anyone – who has been deemed to have outlived their usefulness.

Business owners. Racists. Farmers. Factory workers. Proud Boys. Conservative pundits. Trump doesn’t care about you. He only cares about himself. Trump will not protect you unless he thinks doing so will benefit him today. Tomorrow? The day after that? Eventually he’ll be done with you, and he’ll make up a way to declare you his enemy, and he’ll come after you. And nothing you did for him before will matter. You’ll be in the exact same El Salvadorian gulag or whatever as whoever he was mad at last week.

Fascist regimes need a constant supply of enemies to pretend that they’re valiantly fighting against, and when the run out of the last batch of enemies they’ll make up a new one. That new batch of enemies will likely contain all the people who they claimed were their allies during the last go-round. There’s precedent. As it happens, plenty of it. Absolutely oodles of examples.

Those watches, if any of them even actually ship, are guaranteed to be straight from Aliexpress.

The current revived version appears to be tied to a content streaming platform for “creators,” and also sells NFT’s. The mothership certainly gets a cut of all of those sales. Just like seemingly every other techbro venture nowadays, their business model entirely revolves around being a “service,” and the media player itself is apparently just a side hobby. (Note that this is basically exactly the same mutation that happened to Napster. That worked well.)

Otherwise, the answer is sponsorship by a corporate sugar daddy. Even the OG Winamp was sponsored by and then ultimately bought outright by AOL.

My LG smart TV from 2017 or so has never been connected to any network.

About two years after I set it up, it went through this phase where every time I powered it on I got a new nag popup about this app, that app, this streaming service, and that streaming service having their “support ended” after which they would no longer work. One after the other. I can only conclude that the thing had fucking suicide timers built into all of its onboard apps to deliberately pull this crap on you regardless of any other factors to try to trick or entice you into buying a new TV.

Needless to say, I did not buy a new TV. Mine has had a PC plugged into it and has since day 1, which serves it all of its content except that which is generated by retro video game consoles.

What a crock of shit.

WineDB has it marked as silver.

Honestly, for a modern PC I can’t imagine Winamp is all that taxing of a program to run. I think the biggest bugbear will be its fairly tight integration with the Windows shell for file management and enqueuing things from an Explorer window, and maybe the external device integrations which would rely heavily on the Windows API and possibly WDM.

If you’re running Windows you can still use old versions of Winamp.

On Linux, I dunno. I’ll bet you it’ll run in Wine.

The whole look n’ feel. Not UI, then, maybe just call it overall design.

But it was the first thing I thought of as soon as I saw it. Even the cursive font, in pink…

I like my idea for kaiju sized Rock-em, Sock-em Robots better. We could host robot battles between skilled karate practitioners and put them live on television.

What, it’s been done already?

Ah, crap.

…That site’s UI looks like someone saw the marketing literature for the Frigidaire produce preserver and said, “Yeah, that’ll do.”

In its day Winamp was the most comprehensive media player and users were super into its skinability which was a big deal at the time. Nowadays the “plays everything” throne is very firmly occupied by VLC, with a little cushioned stool next to it for Media Player Classic to sit on. However, neither of them offer the user interface experience that Winamp does/did.

Winamp was iTunes before iTunes. It was Spotify before Spotify. It did an excellent job of managing the hordes of totally legitimate MP3’s we all had back in the day, and did so with an aplomb that nothing else seemed to manage. Really, its playlist and library management was top notch. Newer apps still piss me off because none of them do it the way Winamp did.

Side note, if you have an old iPod kicking around and don’t feel like dealing with Apple’s ecosystem, Winamp can still, to this very day, stick music on your device natively without having to install or use iTunes. Just saying.

But this source code release thing really baffles me. I have no idea what the point of that was supposed to be.

Compare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qBbsqkSR1A

Edit: Wait, wait, wait. I thought of a better one. https://youtu.be/nQy-eJALZI0?t=143

There’s an empty spot at the bottom of that list and the author – who by the way is a monster – could have easily included Subaru.

[blows dust off of cover]

Correct.

I still have a 1080Ti in one machine and it definitely does not support RTX of any stripe, on any OS.

No, but Librewolf and Iceweasel and all the other forks are ultimately wholly dependent on Mozilla and Firefox continuing to exist. If Mozilla techbros themselves into imploding entirely and goes bankrupt, for instance, all of those other fork projects are also by association toast.

Uh-huh. Which uses Mozilla’s renderer. So, all those upstream commits in Libewolf’s code base are coming from where, exactly?