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daodedickinsonon ‘The Force has left Lucasfilm’: how Disney can salvage its $4B investment

How about a Grim Fandango movie? Or a Sam & Max or Monkey Island movie?

daodedickinsonon Ask HN: What's the coolest website you know?

noclip.website

daodedickinsonon Spreading rock dust on farms as a climate solution

I have rocks to sell if anyone's buying.

daodedickinsonon After Dark (90's screensavers) in CSS

1. Horrible abuse from media and devs since before I was born.

2. No one ever has infinite time and I totally understand that there are devs that can currently just grab and use if they're employed.

3. I dunno and defer

4. That makes sense on a first glance but the efficiency of profit will prolly never be like that again?

5. new people are born every day

6. First time I ever experienced screen burn was this month.

daodedickinsonon Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021)

Location: NW USA

Remote: sure

Willing to relocate: yes to many places but not all

Other stuff: still wanting someone to take me under their wing and teach me how to harness my learning skills to be able to afford rent and utilities and sustenance and such. Willing and able to learn anything that can be presented to me as mutually sustainably beneficial.

daodedickinsonon Twitter Calls on Indian Government to Respect Free Speech

Facebook, the CDC... they all suppressed legitimate concern about the most horrible thing during my life-time and even-more-so the younger people that continue to be traumatized by this when they were already in a worse position. John Cena, Daryl Morey, Hunter Biden - a star QB like Drew Brees in the US can't respect the US flag. LeBron James in US territory can't respect the US and can't disrespect the world's only hegemon, the Chinese Communist Party.

I don't have the means to fix very much of our world at all. I'll keep trying, though.

daodedickinsonon Taiwan bans recruitment for jobs in China

Seems like too little too late.

daodedickinsonon Myths and Realities of Ping-Pong Diplomacy

Blackmailing and framing must be easy for people who don't care. From there, I guess it's how well you can cultivate an audience for it?

I wish states had left us alone. Some of the much older abuses are "public" like from Montreal, a few are well known and even joked about, the rest continue to rule the media ecosystem over me. Multiple music videos are released under the name "Billie Ellish" depicting forcible injections and it still doesn't get discussed.

Another lesson for us poor and abused.

daodedickinsonon “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

Meanwhile, many of us powerless cry ourselves to sleep over widely seen, publicly available evidence that happens to implicate rulers.

daodedickinsonon And the winner is…who cares?

I never cared who "won".

daodedickinsonon Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

Since the patriot act when I was a kid, and now beyond, it's felt worse and worse. Feeling violated every time I remember a particular law is having me inspected.

daodedickinsonon How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

I did mean to reply to you (72 days ago plus in another thread) I just can't make a Twitter, like I've tried and doesn't like my IP or email addresses or something, not sure

daodedickinsonon How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%

I remember when someone explained here eloquently and inticately explained why Twitter constantly breaks in various ways, such at saying I'm not allowed to see a tweet, but then I merely hit reload and it works... easy fix posted around a year ago at least but still not implemented. Don't hold your breath.

daodedickinsonon If you've been laid off, please avoid this mistake in interviews

> People who have been laid off talk at me so much more than other candidates.

Because for decades we've been systematically rejected and unable to apply our gifts due to momentary misunderstandings at interviews that just crush our lives like anvils again and again. If someone has enough to pay me enough to afford rent and expenses like internet / water / power andlemme know what I need to learn on top of all I already know and I'll deliver.

daodedickinsonon Tech giants will block Kazakhstan’s web surveillance efforts again

I don't see how Kazakhstan could've outbid the abusive oppressors

daodedickinsonon Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

I finally am coming to understand I am just one of the millions of faceless idiots that're more and more surely gonna be rendered silenced or abused further or dead. No one has any privacy without at least a remote lot with a Faraday cage, which I don't know a way to ethically come to be able to afford.

daodedickinsonon What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy of happiness

We never know how it's going to end.

daodedickinsonon Twitter preconnects to the wrong domains

So it's not just me that has to reload basically every time I try to view a Twitter page?

daodedickinsonon YouTube-dl has received a DMCA takedown from RIAA

This is just the next terrifying development on Planet China. YouTube-dl went unmolested for years. About week ago, I was party to an online conversation a week ago about how youtube-dl is an important tool for archiving videos of public officials before they can be disappeared.

Coincidence?

After the RIAA won a case against Limewire in 2010, the next significant legal action I can find in a bit of looking is that the US Supreme Court ruled against the RIAA in Allen v. Cooper (March 23, 2020).

Here are the opinions: https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/18-877#writing...

I have a lot to look into...

daodedickinsonon Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response

That "belonged to intelligence" line haunts me as well, but I haven't seen it applied to NXIVM.

daodedickinsonon Senior member of NXIVM told FBI about blackmail and branding, got no response

Dismantling blackmail rings is the most important issue in politics and the same co-opted media that had Katie Couric and George Stephanopolous attend Jeffery Epstein's getting-out-of-"prison"-after-pimping-a-minor-at-his-New-Mexico-ranch-filled-with-blackmail-cameras party are not going to do it for us. Facebook, Google, Palantir, intelligence agencies - they are giant machines for harvesting blackmail material and that is their secretly most totalitarian, power-centralizing and abusive function.

daodedickinsonon Australia warns Covid-19 border closures could last into late 2021

Anyone ever find a comprehensive attempt at a cost-benefit analysis about this sort of thing?

daodedickinsonon What is the best dumb TV?

> (An alternate option might be to rip the 4K BluRays, which is doable if you have the right drive, but also a bit of a pain.)

This is what I have been doing with MakeMKV.

daodedickinsonon What is the best dumb TV?

daodedickinsonon Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election

https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/13146954946...

daodedickinsonon Additional steps we're taking ahead of the 2020 US Election

We have zero ability to verify election integrity and now we're not allowed to talk about it.

Slavery.

daodedickinsonon What is the best dumb TV?

I got a dumb external monitor for my laptop and then learned it doesn't have the right DRM for me to watch Blu-rays on it. Literally, I can view the Blu-rays on my laptop screen, but if I drag the window to the other screen, it won't display the video.

daodedickinsonon TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app

no, the CCP is far more ethnosupremacist and totalitarian

daodedickinsonon TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app

>Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article explaining the reason that the U.S. closed China’s Consulate in Houston.

>The article stated that the U.S. has known that the staff members at the consulate were conducting suspicious activities, but, for a while, it did not take any action. The Second Department of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is the PLA’s intelligence unit, sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.

>The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.

>RFA did not spell out the company names. A Twitter account said the technicians were from Huawei and the video platform they used to identify candidates and push videos to was TikTok.

http://chinascope.org/archives/24225?doing_wp_cron=159809560...

daodedickinsonon TikTok to challenge U.S. order banning transactions with the video app

  Are you implying that presidential elections have any effects on foreign policy?