314xel

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

He never played Hades, huh?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I saw the post after watching this video, and I thought "this is one of those movies!", but I didn't realize it's also one of the generally bad movies.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

I remember it, and I'm a sucker for any SciFi with new ideas, but the delivery on this one had the subtlety of a brick. The idea of the plot is the punchline and that's it, no other social commentary. Justin Timberlake was mediocre at best and to me so obnoxious that it was very hard to identify with him as a justice warrior. 5/10.

"Don't Look Up" was not subtle at all, but it had the kind of in-your-face so well done, that proofed exactly that the target audience it was mocking will not understand the direct slap they were getting.

"The Menu", or "Parasite", or "The Platform", or "The Hunger Games" are also orders of magnitude better if you want to watch a "eat-the-rich" kind of movie.

I'm bad with words and not a movie critic, but hope you get the point.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

Three of the top 10 viewed stories on the Post’s website Sunday were articles written by Post staffers outraged by Bezos’ decision. The top one was humor columnist Alexandra Petri’s piece, headlined, “It has fallen to me, the humor columnist, to endorse Harris for president.” 

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

How about... the tanks could be empty?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Cards For America

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

They're paying people to apologize for not voting last time. What that means is up for the reader. Not the same.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

And some copyrighted shit from Dolby. Granted, header files only.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

At first I was... wow, no shit! Open source Winamp!

But then I went through the Github issues (because, 6 hours since first commit and already 5 issues open?). As someone else put it, "This has got to be the most embarrassing open-sourcing i've seen to date.". The licensing is a mess, the coverup is a dumpster fire. By tomorrow this is going to be as viral as Twitter's "open sourcing" of its recommendation algorithm they did last year. Not sure if I should make coffee or popcorn in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Those share buttons are trackers themselves. So it's not about "supporting" those websites by publishing content to them, it's about undermining the privacy of your readers and doing the opposite of what you preach, and "supporting" those websites by feeding them much more valuable user data. As another comment said, just put a button to copy the permalink and let them paste themselves if they want to share.

As for you sharing a link on the mainstream social media platforms yourself, I'd actually encourage that. Cory Doctorow auto-publishes links (not content) to his articles on as many social media platforms as he can (sorry, can't find the article in which he describes it). The point is that he still retains control over his content by hosting it himself, he controls the (lack of) trackers and ads, and gaining traffic from these platforms is still to his and his potential readers benefit. Bending your rules a little to reach more people and maybe even convert them to be more privacy-aware is fine.

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I highly recommend Ben Eater's channel. He's a good teacher, took his time and dedicated months to build quality content in video format, which is a rarity on Youtube these days.

 
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