Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban....
As someone who has geeked out on fonts since we were trading bitmap fonts for System 5 on the Mac, I can say that article is fine. Believe it or not, all of that actually matters to graphic design/text design people.
I don't quite get the complaints. Sync (non-Pro) was always ad supported. Nothing has changed.
LJ Dawson is charging more for "Ultra" features (understandable, since this whole reddit kerfuffle has upset his business model), but you don't need Ultra to enjoy the Sync client, and you don't even need to pay that higher price to disable ads.
A VEGAN influencer is feared to have died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet. Zhanna Samsonova, 39, previously told how she spent four years eating and drinking just fruits…
Produced by Japan's Toho (famously the studio of the Godzilla films), it's an end-of-the-world flick featuring a frankly astonishing international cast in what could be considered a "conference room drama" -- bottled-up high stakes human interaction in a true dystopic end to humanity. I can't figure how I never saw this back in the 80s; I only discovered it recently and I was blown away.
I'll second The Andromeda Strain, it's also a "conference room drama" and it really works. James Olson was a hugely underrated actor of the era.
Colossus: The Forbin Project, also wire-taut conference room drama with imminent destruction hanging on every decision.
And while we're at it, War Games, probably the best known of all these films, and maybe the only one that doesn't merit the categorization as a conference-room drama. But the stakes are the same.
I still think old shitty statues and stuff should be put in a museum or something
I don't think anyone has a problem with that. But, that's usually not what the regressive types are complaining about.
To use the US example, the overwhelming number of "Confederate Monuments" were erected many decades after the Civil War, and typically funded by white supremacist groups or their close allies in city and state government. They were installed in public parks, on public easements, in front of public buildings, etc. Notably, they are typically not on graves, old battlefields, etc.
Folks quite reasonably think we should remove monuments that were put up as a big "F U" to remind black folks who is really in charge. These statues are certainly shitty, but they also are not "old". They're much younger than the people/conflicts they memorialize, and have no historical significance (except to the white supremacists who put them there).
Of course it's not just the US. I remember in the wake of the collapse of the Iron Curtain, communist sympathizers complained at the removal of Soviet monuments. I remember college professors complaining at the renaming of Leningrad back to St. Petersburg, calling it a "dangerous right-wing move" and an erasure of Lenin's history and legacy.
So I think there are a couple of "phenomena" swirling around right now that are stimulating interest in this kind of DRM.
The first, of course, is AI. If people start using AI as an intermediary, it becomes difficult for web sites to push advertising or to even understand what views they are getting. Putting a DRM requirement on connections to your own web site would help you filter "real users" from AI and search engine bots, and potentially open an avenue to charging AIs & search engines for sucking out your content into their own databases.
Is this good? Bad? I mean, at some point, we have to figure out how to track the flow of information into AI so we can figure out how to charge for it, or every web site that depends on monetizing content will dry up. But yes, it means adding some draconian tracking & verification.
The second is the fediverse. Google makes money from advertising, and people are shifting to advertising-free platforms. The more time people spend in Mastodon, Lemmy, Calckey, Pixelfed, Peertube etc. the less time they are consuming advertising in Twitter (or whatever it is this week), Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, and Youtube.
A potential side effect of this DRM initiative might be to try and segregate the Internet into "safe" (that is, advertising-supported proper web sites that have gotten all registered with Google DRM and require it for full connectivity) and "unsafe" (those crazy nutballs running Mastodon instances), where Chrome is gonna throw up big red banners warning you that you're in a dark corner of the Internet whose safety cannot be assured!
I wonder if Google is looking out there at a BUNCH of the big players and asking, who is gonna be around in 20 years, and what technology can be put in place to help them lock down their investment?
Well, it was a position informed by literally decades of dealing with reddit, Twitter, and another couple decades before that with IRC, USENET, and BBSes.
It's on you to develop your tastes, and periodically look for new stuff. I don't see how instance blocking solves a problem that subscribing does not solve. Moderate yo self.
Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location....
But that also makes it incredibly easy for communities on defederated servers to set up shop elsewhere.
And those communities may be the sole reason that the server was defederated in the first place.
I think a possible outcome is that the larger instances would have to put a stop to open creation of new communities, to prevent toxic groups from setting up shop and moving all their objectionable content and users into the space.
Obviously Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are federated decentralized equivalent to their centralized counterparts, but what is the counterpart in the fediverse to TikTok? It is a dominant app for millions of people, and as far as I can tell the closest thing is Peertube, but isn’t that more of a YouTube equivalent? Does it...
IMO, anything based on peer-to-peer sharing is a nonstarter, not with the kind of video bandwidth demands that a TikTok or equivalent would put on cell phone networks. You might get it working on desktop, but I'd bet good money that the cell networks & Apple & Google would move to lock that s*** down ASAP.
Sure, but people generally aren't downloading torrents on cell phones. Apple devices make it very difficult (torrent clients are explicitly excluded on Apple Store for iOS), and while you can get torrent clients on the Google store, people aren't using them for live video as far as I know.
Cell phone TOS usually explicitly prohibit peer-to-peer sharing, and I got my so-called "unlimited data" Sprint service cancelled back in 2010 for exactly that.
As long as peer-to-peer on phones is rare, nobody will notice, but if somebody spun up a competitor to TikTok that depended on serving video FROM phones to the rest of the Internet, and it started to get significant traction, I think the cell phone companies would bring an end to it.
most of the time infamous for its abundance of “linux distros”
What the heck does that have to do with watching viral videos on cell phones? We're talking about a competitor to TikTok. With respect, Linux is like 3% of the desktop market, anything happening on Linux endpoints is noise to the big players.
video streaming on mobile data is everywhere and ISPs responded by fattening up their networks with newer, better, faster tech, like 4g/5g
Yeah, but streaming from your phone to a streaming service, or whatever, hands over the job of distribution to the streaming service.
Streaming may be 'everywhere' but how many phones are streaming at any given moment? 0.01%? It's probably not even that many. Now how many are watching TikTok? How much more bandwidth would they need if the TikTok client was also serving videos to other TikTok clients?
Now, could you obfuscate the video with encryption, etc. to make it nearly impossible for cell phone companies to stop it? Probably. But, you'd need the cooperation of the Google Play & Apple stores to make that happen (on non-rooted devices), and it seems likely they would take the side of their cell provider partners.
I have wrinkles, I have grey hair, I have back problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, I can’t remember anything, the world seems confusing and complicated to me now and I wish things were simpler (which is why I like Lemmy). I definitely don’t get kids today or their music....
I don't know if you mean Apple IIs, or the scene in the movie.
If you want to learn how computers work, the Apple II was, and arguably still is, a great platform. 8-bit programming is still fairly comprehensible to the novice, and the MIPS assembly language that is used in academic textbooks draws a direct lineage from the Motorola 6502 instruction set.
I learned basic 6502 programming on my Commodore 64 in the 80s, and I was shocked when I took a computer engineering course in 2010 that used MIPS assembly for the examples. It wasn't just easy to understand, it was the same in virtually every respect. I had no problem at all following the code.
11 year old account deleted today. Final straw.
Was banned from the sinusitis subreddit for telling (apparently a mod) that a deviated septum absolutely can cause a sinus infection. He got upset and banned me- and even denied my ability to respond to the ban....
Challenge: reading google chromes blog without throwing up (blog.chromium.org)
If you can read a few paragraphs of this article without wanting to punch someone, congrats....
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Vegan influencer Zhanna Samsonova ‘dies of starvation’ after trying to live off an all fruit diet. (www.the-sun.com)
A VEGAN influencer is feared to have died of starvation after attempting to live on a fruit only diet. Zhanna Samsonova, 39, previously told how she spent four years eating and drinking just fruits…
What are your underrated science fiction movies? (www.yardbarker.com)
You've seen the famous aliens, planets and scientists, but now it's time to venture even farther into the depths of space.
Right-Wingers be like (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API” wants a DRM gatekeeper for the web (arstechnica.com)
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
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Ron DeSantis’ False claim that some states allow ‘post-birth’ abortions. None do. (www.politifact.com)
quick reminder (lemmy.world) French
A meme about /r/Place
Like bath time (i.imgur.com)
Anyone actually play tennis? Is this accurate?
Communities should be able to move servers
Idea: if you mod a community on a lemmy.somewhere you should be able to migrate it to lemmy.elsewhere which would include all post & comment links being forwarded and subbed users having their subscription updated to reflect the new location....
What is the fediverse equivalent to TikTok?
Obviously Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, etc. are federated decentralized equivalent to their centralized counterparts, but what is the counterpart in the fediverse to TikTok? It is a dominant app for millions of people, and as far as I can tell the closest thing is Peertube, but isn’t that more of a YouTube equivalent? Does it...
I feel like such an old man, but I'm 46. (lemmy.world)
I have wrinkles, I have grey hair, I have back problems, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, I can’t remember anything, the world seems confusing and complicated to me now and I wish things were simpler (which is why I like Lemmy). I definitely don’t get kids today or their music....