If I might weigh in here with some personal experience as an indie artist. I’ll refer to my streaming stats for March 2025 which totalled a bit over four dollars in streaming earnings.
If you are paying a Soundcloud subscription, a portion of that will go directly towards the specific artists you’re streaming.
I haven’t mentioned Bandcamp as I think of it as a music shop rather than a subscription streaming service, but straight up purchasing music there is a really great way to support your chosen artists.
The annoyance of cookie banners doesn't come from the regulations, but from the malicious compliance of the corporations who want to exploit your personal data.
No data-harvesting cookies = No banner. Simple.
My websites have no cookie banners, because they don't use any non-essential cookies and don't track visitors.
""" We value your privacy so much that it only takes four clicks on drab-looking buttons and tiny checkboxes to opt out of our invasive data slurping...*or* you can click the single big green "I consent to being slurped by you and your 9k partners" and we can just move on with our day like pals. So whaddya say, pal? """
@vick21 this is going to be one of those weird laws in 50 years that nobody understands. “ In the us federal system everyone has a right to privacy… uncles your name is Jeffery Epstein. Then all your courts records become public after 30 days. “
The easiest way to install chatmail server is a small project written by a single person, meanwhile the #deltachat official server installation process is cluster of unintelligible documentation and a docker image that need multiple commands to setup properly.
How does that one dev build a better hosting experience than a company?
I don't think the official approach is harder if you have the required Debian server, and besides, one is using maddy that is a single binary and the later is a more solid battle-tested standard postfix+dovecot email server
Secure by default should have minimal configuration, exactly so that you can’t mess it up, with optional configuration flags that are hidden in the documentation reference.
@arcanechat Containers have solved this problem of compatibility, if you want more self hosters to run your stuff you make a simple docker compose example.
that single dev was actually supported by mainline #chatmail relay developers along the way, and besides, the Go-efforts (there are two) are not production ready yet.
Are there any plans to make chatmail and friends configurations more distro-agnostic or at least documented in the future, because I'm in the middle of packaging it for RHEL (and possibly Fedora) and so far it has been an interesting experience to even get the build dependencies packaged and I have not even arrived at digging the configurations out of cmdeploy yet.
It's true that the repository for now targets Debian12 but the deployment client (where cmdeploy is installed) should not be distro-dependent. There recently landed a new documentation side btw chatmail.at/doc/relay/
Alright so I got a USB hub that can pass through power as a replacement for my Thunderbolt dock as I suspect the Dock's USB hub was failing and surprise surprise I can't use the HDMI ports on it, not picked up by my laptop.
Oh also the laptop's own HDMI isn't working. Monitor seems to detect something for a split second and then signal lost
alright the new USB hub runs "usbconfig" instantly, but with the old Thunderbolt3 dock it would hang for 2 seconds sometimes. It must have been failing. That explains why I'd have issues with devices refusing to communicate through it properly sometimes without a power cycle of my laptop, even.
could that have also been a reason why I had some weird MacOS issues? That same USB hub in the dock was misbehaving and it was screwing with my Mac?
does it ever count as a real job if you get hired and you sit at a desk for months and months and you never do any work at all because the siloed teams are too busy fighting about what access you're supposed to have and what the scope of your job is?
I had that once. Was the easiest $100k salary I ever made. I never did any work at all.
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in reply to Alison Wilder • • •If I might weigh in here with some personal experience as an indie artist. I’ll refer to my streaming stats for March 2025 which totalled a bit over four dollars in streaming earnings.
Amazon Music: 6 streams, $0.00
Spotify: 84 streams, $0.00
Tidal: 2 streams, $0.01
Pandora Plus: 3 streams, <$0.01
Deezer: 1 stream, <$0.01
Facebook/Instagram: 21 streams, <$0.01
YouTube: 87 streams, ~$0.21
Apple Music: 27 streams, ~$0.15
Soundcloud: 23 streams, ~$3.78
If you are paying a Soundcloud subscription, a portion of that will go directly towards the specific artists you’re streaming.
I haven’t mentioned Bandcamp as I think of it as a music shop rather than a subscription streaming service, but straight up purchasing music there is a really great way to support your chosen artists.