Yes it is, that’s what I’m getting at - independent output’s share of total output increasing significantly

You don’t need the law to do that, you need a weekend of brushing up on router operation

Responses ITT have focused on legal and technical roadblocks. But if you can imagine a world where cultural production is even slightly less consolidated and corporate, where we start doing more of it for ourselves and our social circles, a cultural roadblock starts to emerge. How do I copy illicitly if the output is specialized and uniquely calibrated to the personal tastes of a hyper-small audience? Another way of asking the question might be: if mass markets don’t mean much anymore and it’s easy to make and propagate things ourselves, does piracy still exist? Or do we recognize that copying is a fundamental mechanism of culture, and there’s no longer any point in encumbering it for the sake of the profit motive?

I think the remarks of Denuvo hardly mattering for Ubisoft titles because they’re shitty games to start with, or jokes about Disney succeeding in making a film that will never get pirated (Snow White), start to get at this question

It wouldn’t surprise me if ‘fatphobia’ turned out to be a psyop, like the corporate-funded research into nutrition whose aim is to plant a particular meme in the public conscience (‘don’t give up soda kids, just exercise to lose all that weight!’)

50 years of high-fructose food ubiquity doesn’t negate millennia of evolutionary conditioning that expects us to be on foot most of the day, consuming high protein diets and covering 10+km distances

The notion that we can out-social engineer physical reality is a doggedly persistent one

which makes it impossible to go off-grid in suburbia

State/corps: Mission accomplished

I would love a politician to try explain why they were so committed to killing vaping

Narrator: The main reason was ego

I suspect the high tax no longer has much of a harm reduction/uptake suppression utility, and that the Aus government secretly knows this, but they are hopelessly addicted to the revenue so will enact overbearing new laws to protect the income stream.

The reasonble approach is to wean nicotine users off black market product by removing the price disparities. The only way to do that is by accepting a much lower tax intake than the current arbitrary, punitive one (perhaps VAT * 1.5 or 2?)

I remember the Australian government crowing about their world-first plain packaging initiative many years ago. Talk about fighting the last war lol

What you want is basically a recipe for the web turning into an exclusively corporate wasteland. Lack of installation freedom doesn’t provide security from anything when the A/G app stores are already full of malware. Real security - security for users - lies in our ability to exercise choice - to use a FOSS app, or to pay conventionally via the web instead of having to put up with creepy opaque vendor portals (or worse, an app)

Phones are generic computing devices. We must able to operate and maintain them however we wish.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41590466 https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/

tldr OP shouldn’t be posting Forbes articles

Lwaxana is a great character in her own right. Her comparitive color and depth next to Deanna is an indictment of the writers’ abandonment of the latter as a viable character.

S5E20 is Trek at its spiritual best, and contains some of TNG’s funniest images (like Worf in a mudbath)

Anglophone country but I would rather not specify.

Yes the BBC has its own legacy wierdness - and sadly a track record of protecting predators in order to protect itself

The old metric used by free-to-air networks was advertising minutes per broadcast hour. When I stopped watching FTA about a decade ago that number was about 12 or 13. Youtube’s must be 40+. I’m not brave enough to rawdog 60 minutes of YT and test it (and of course it wouldn’t be uniform number anyway)

Berman’s fine.

You’re a bit mean sometimes, Tenny

Log in to search: 202_ Log in to watch: 202_ Disappearing videos (watch the new slop trailer this week or else!): 20__ Subscription surcharges (oh you want the Linus package do you): 20__

place your betz

People get proccupied with emulating YT, which is indeed cost prohibitive. But that response assumes one is emulating all of it. What about only pursuing sections of it to cater to particular audiences? Serving 100% of YT’s video might be too much even for Amazon (for example) but what about 1%?

Why couldn’t Amazon host Booktube? And the manga/anime enthusiasts and other varietes of weebs to go along with them? They already own ebook retail. A VOD service to chip off some of YT’s viewership would be a more productive investment than The Rings of Power…

A YT competitor needs a bit of scale, sure, but not as much as YT itself. A fraction will do.

You have the platform

I used to use TV’s free stock screener until the inevitable happened. Screeners for non-US markets that don’t require account creation seem rather scarce.

One potential plus of the Trump administration is that its communication style inadvertently gets people to notice about institutional media what Chomsky has been discussing for decades.

I wouldn’t want to live in a country where mastheads and public offices are on the same page.

Hawke is Cloudflared

A gram of convenience for a ton of privacy :(