ABC radio kills third party internet radio streams and embedded links. (help.abc.net.au)

submitted 1 week ago by naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/news@aussie.zone

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Nfi why? It is literally blasted out into space for anyone with a receiver to hear but now unless I want to spend 2 gigs of ram and a CPU core I can't listen on a computer.

Why lock down public radio? What possible state interest does that serve?

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[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

However was this solved before the ability to surveil everyone all the time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

You know, we don't actually know what roads are efficient. Let's gps tag every car. Actually we don't know at what hours of the day people need water, we could optimise this if we put a camera in everyone's kitchen sink.

I swear neolibs are more in favour of restrictive surveillance than the most ardent ML.

edit: god fucking dammit everything about your comment pisses me off. You don't "consume" a radio program, nothing is destroyed by you listenining to it. You listen, there's a fucking non business-idoit product-brain word for participating in radio programming as as an audience and it's called listening. L-I-S-T-E-N-I-N-G can you spell it you weirdo?

[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone 0 points 1 week ago

Do you think it's bad for a generator of content to determine if said content is being viewed / listened (or consume)?

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

However was this solved before the ability to surveil everyone all the time? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Such a stupid false dichotomy. Can you seriously not think of any solutions other than indiscriminate, nonconsentual surveillance?

Also what the fuck is content. Why do you all speak like pod people

[-] YeahToast@aussie.zone -1 points 1 week ago

Gee whiz you seem empassioned by this. Ok, so as a taxpayer and a funder of a public service, I'd like elements of the service to be held accountable by key performance indicators. Obviously a fairly clear indicator would usually be reach/ viewership. Do you have any alternatives ? I'm not sure what pod people are?

[-] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here are some:

Surveys, very old technology, worked for 100 years. Know how statistics work? You can survey x from X and generalise any x' from X within known confidence intervals.

Voluntary tracking: Ask users if they would be ok making an account. Consent, it's good in more situations than the bedroom

Track IPs. You own the server that is issuing the streams, IPs can be broadly associated with areas. Pretty good stats. Some people forward streams or use VPNs? statistical noise who cares.

btw it would have been faster to look up pod people than write about your ignorance.