Levitz

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by Levitz 3y ago
>People liked having Napster, but it didn't stop file sharing going from a big mainstream app to underground sites run out of Russia (or other places that ignore copyright law). Sure, you can download music/movies still, but it
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by Levitz 3y ago
But if the immigration is legal then the control isn't failing at all, is it? The few brexitters I talked with shared the same stance, that it was not acceptable for the EU to dictate immigration to the UK. It was not a matter of the i
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by Levitz 3y ago
What a roundabout way to concede the point
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No human has ever had an "original creative idea". That's the point. No art exists in a vacuum.
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by Levitz 3y ago
No. Art has turned into a profession, precisely because it yields money. It is not, by any means, intrinsically a profession. As a matter of fact, most of those who make videos, play music and write stories don't make and won't
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by Levitz 3y ago
>As a hobby content creator, I absolutely disagree. My content is mine It is yours as in, it's your property (like your car). It's not yours as in, derived entirely from you (like your hand). That's the thing. The generati
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by Levitz 3y ago
>Oh wait, she probably doesn’t read HN does she? Oh, but the Firefox devs probably do. All the more reason to insist that Firefox is the important bit then? What does a Firefox dev get from "Ah yes sure we only care about Firefox, b
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by Levitz 3y ago
No. It makes Mozilla part of the problem. People getting tired of Mozilla's incompetence and stopping supporting them is just a consequence of that. I use Firefox. I want to use Firefox. That Mozilla insists on pretending it's not
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by Levitz 3y ago
Shouldn't it be fixed to a point in the screen then? Very much like cookie notices?
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by Levitz 3y ago
Would it be considered bad practice or in poor taste to make pull requests in projects with the sole objective of implementing is-even natively? Thinking of being the change I want to see in the world.
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by Levitz 3y ago
You have plenty of examples in this thread, you have the CEO literally stating it as a problem. At this point, if you don't see it is because you don't want to see it.
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by Levitz 3y ago
No, that's because of greed, ESG simply enabled it. Black Panther, for an obvious example, was mediocre, but it had a degree of guaranteed success because of black pride. It seems that this is just an admission that Disney overplayed i
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by Levitz 3y ago
Which is precisely why it's impossible to point at exactly what the problem is. Yes, all films have messaging, so why did messaging change? Was it not pro-women enough? The Little Mermaid came out in 89 with great success. Not diverse
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by Levitz 3y ago
It'd be an awful idea for a business to admit they have signaled too much support for collectives after seeing it as a mistake.
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by Levitz 3y ago
Have you considered that it's a choice between the two? The script that goes full ESG is not the same script that is actually good.
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by Levitz 3y ago
There is no conspiracy, that's the neat part, it's just how the system itself works. Media survives through advertising. Those who advertise dictate what gets shown and what doesn't, since if something inconvenient for them g
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by Levitz 3y ago
For me, thinking about it as a search engine on steroids is enough. The internet has changed the world. Economically, socially, technologically, psychologically, pretty much everything is now related to it in one or other way, in this sense
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by Levitz 3y ago
Really? Solve it a different way? Do you realize the kind of tech we are talking about here? This kind of mentality would have stopped the internet from existing. After all, it has been an absolute copyright nightmare, has it not? If that&#
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by Levitz 3y ago
>Claiming knowledge without even acknowledging potential sources is gross. Solve it OpenAI. I'm sorry, but pretty much nobody does this. There is no "And these books are how I learned to write like this" after each text. T
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by Levitz 3y ago
I'm sorry if this is too callous, but if you don't understand what you are talking about you should first familiarize yourself with the problem, then make claims about what should be done. It would be great if we could tell specif
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by Levitz 3y ago
As long as nobody else can overtake it and fill the gap, it still has value. That's a very hard thing to do given that social media naturally evolve into monopolies. A whole lot of alternatives (Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon) but none as
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by Levitz 3y ago
Sure it's not their fault. It's not the current management's fault either, that's the problem. They were promised that someone else would reward them. That someone else disagrees. That looks like a problem coming from th
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by Levitz 3y ago
Well, sure, but then we need a different term for modern social media. We can consider every form of chat and forum social media, going all the way back to the telephone or even postal service, but there are very important differences betwe
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by Levitz 3y ago
They always served as a escape route for ostracized people. Good luck finding a furry community in the 50s. I'm not sure we need "social media" for this, unless we consider old php forums "social media" though.
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That's just false. More people equals more risk. It's evident if you imagine a 100 person polycule.
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by Levitz 3y ago
Sure, so on one side you have the long-term thinking and carefulness of teenagers, on the other you have literally billions of dollars and thousands of people which careers revolve around making those teenagers as addicted as they can. I
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by Levitz 3y ago
This is a map of countries in which abortion is legal: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Ab... This is a map of democratic countries: https://cdn.statcdn.com/
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by Levitz 3y ago
>This sounds entirely ripped off from a Joe Rogan podcast. Sounds like you are in the WASP bubble. You likely haven't experienced living in the hood, having to be treated like a Muslim in the US, having to deal with MAGA people bitc
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Sure, I understand these things have a purpose, my point is that film doesn't stop being film just because it's different. If the public decides letterboxing looks terrible, then it will turn into a more niche thing, that doesn&#x
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Words belong to the people. It might be the case that in an academic context a word is used for precision but that it conveys the wrong message in common parlance. It's also kinda ironic to call out references to terminology while usin

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