The intro video makes it sound multiple times like he wants creatives to use the music with absolutely no strings or restrictions, but the most basic uses like a Youtube video or indie film would require manually applying for a license where half the revenue goes to Mobygratis let alone the restrictions based on Moby’s political and dietary preferences.

He’s certainly free to license his music however he wants but he’s really overselling how permissive it is.

I’m not sure about the rev share aspect, but I’m a bit disappointed that, despite his message of “go ahead and do your thing, worry about edge cases later” (paraphrasing), the legalese further introduces the concept of commercial and non-commercial nature of different tracks.

I genuinely hoped for a MIT/BSD-like license that would allow people to express themselves freely with his content. However, I am now less inclined to do so.

Update: All said, still grateful to him for doing something. That’s already way more than most artists to do give back.

The articulated restrictions could be defined as a creative commons license too. With cc-by-nc-nd (attribition-noncommercial-noderivative), people would be free to use the songs for any non-commercial purpose and would have to aquire a license for everything beyond. The fact that moby is rolling out (and enforcing?) his own thing makes it untrustworthy.

It's very possible he doesn't know about cc-by-nc-ld not everyone hangs out on techie websites and consumes open source.

But you'd think whoever he hired that understands media licensing would. Cc-BY is pretty common in stock footage licensing for example

The value of entertainment has gone down since the 90s. Inflation isn’t the only consideration. I don’t pay $15 for a movie ticket or CD anymore because 2 hours of video entertainment is basically free now and artists upload their tracks online.

That said, it’s Mario Kart and decades of price history of Sega Genesis games doesn’t matter. People will still pay whatever for Mario Kart.

If you wanted to go skiing at Heavenly in Lake Tahoe in 1997 or 1998 you would pay about $98 in March 2025 dollars, according to the US BLS CPI calculator. This season a lift ticket is $232. Incline/DiamondMountain was $58 in 82-83, now $165.

Likewise when I looked at concert ticket stubs for the 1970's - 2000 the prices were consistently about $40-50 in todays dollars for top acts in big venues.

Are there any simple vehicles left in the US, EV or otherwise? The lowest frills cars I can think of are the Mirage and Versa, both on their last legs. Similar to the vocal minorities who want compact hatchbacks, wagons, small trucks, or manual transmissions, it feels like so few people want simple, non-smartphoney cars that the market segment will never be catered to.

Plenty of old cars out there. Otherwise, it's hard to know what people really want in the car market, because most buyers are settling for something that's at a dealer and not ordering specifics, some makes don't allow orders, and even if you can order it's still trims and packages.

For the most part, every car made gets sold, too. If a car is undesirable, it gets a lot of incentives to get it off the lot. If the car maker misunderstood demand, a dud can still have large sales numbers, because some people will buy it when it's cheap enough.

The first time I drove some new-ish Toyota that displayed a tap-to-dismiss advertisement for the navigation subscription every single time you started it up, I knew I would never own one of these smartphones on wheels.

A safe, air conditioned kei truck would be great, but I can’t imagine a small truck in America given the current gigantic car culture. Sedans are too small for the American market now, let alone subcompact cars which are already gone.

How can a car be to small for your streets when there are bikes and whatever also driving around? I am really lost on this point

Purely logical sentence refuting your comment: bikes driving around doesn't mean they are big enough for the street.

But they are not banned. If A is banned because it's small, but B is not banned despite being smaller than A, then the logic doesn't support banning of A. Change small for dangerous, if you want.

Maybe B should be banned then? I think in the original post he should not use "if A then B" with those exact objects.

Problem with banning B (bikes, to not get lost) is that even SUVs are small and fragile to big trucks. Should all vehicles in the road be banned due to its size, except the biggest trucks?

The problem is that banning key cars for their size or fragility is logically inconsistent. Banning now smaller vehicles like motorcycles and bikes is a patch to wrong logic. This is just targeting a specific kind of car because some reason that the regulator doesn't want to disclose.

So people don't want small cars? But there is no literal reason to not have them driving around?

You didn't say anything about "people want" or "people don't want".

> How can a car be to small for your streets when there are bikes and whatever also driving around?

Can also be presented as: if bikes are driving on roads, cars can't be too small for roads (because they are bigger than bikes).

So, bikes being on streets doesn't mean they are big enough for roads. Your whole sentence is "non sequitur". What I want to say: small cars can be too small for USA roads independently of bikes being too small for USA roads. People wanting to drive small cars or bikes is also independent and being allowed to is also pretty much independent.

Now, my opinion: I think you should be allowed to drive small cars, I have a small car too (and a bike), but existing usage of roads in USA by increasingly big cars makes it increasingly unsafe (in USA). I agree that USA should do something about bigger and bigger cars, but I have no idea what and it's not very probable that I will ever drive a car or a bike in a big city in USA, so you can safely ignore my opinion and drive whatever you like.

I think I get what you mean. Never been to the U.S. and was just really surprised about this sentiment.

Some people drive tiny single seat cars here in Europe and I never considered that particular dangerous for them or anyone next to the relative way bigger cars that are common.

It’s pretty dangerous to ride a bike on US streets

I mean that sedans are too small for American tastes. Automakers are phasing out sedans like they phased out subcompacts because people don't buy them. Americans basically buy crossovers at a minimum now.

...Subcompact cars most certainly are not gone.

I see tiny Fiats, Volkswagen beetles, Smart Cars, and other very small vehicles all the time. I live in a rural area filled with lifted pickups.

Please don't make the mistake of thinking that "there's a trend toward larger vehicles, which can make smaller vehicles somewhat less safe" means "no one is buying or selling anything smaller than an F-150".

The risk to Manjaro is being branded “Spyware Arch Linux” by detractors and privacy enthusiasts, regardless of how deserved the label is. I’m not sure why that’s worth forgoing the obviously more user-respecting option of defaulting a checkbox to off.

There’s always closed source, subscription based, privacy invasive software causing problems to be solved. If people didn’t want solutions to these problems I wouldn’t see so many ads for data broker removal services or people complaining about their Adobe subscriptions.

What is the market for this? Users use Google/Facebook logins because it’s one easy click and no one cares about privacy. Users who care don’t want a unified identity tied to all of their online activity, regardless of Eartho’s current privacy policy.

It’s early days, and I know it sounds ambitious. You might think this is just for privacy fans, but I believe it could become the go-to login for everyone—even those who aren’t privacy-focused—by being as convenient as Google. And with Google facing pressure over its competition with OpenAI, it feels like the right time to rethink who we trust with our logins.

The SBC can make sense depending on energy cost in your country if you just need a little 24/7 DNS or NAS. I have an SBC w/NVME that idles at 1.4W (~$2-3/yr) and an x86 server idling at 11W (~$20/yr). If you're really nickel and diming your power bill, the best choice is making better use of your existing gear followed by an SBC.