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> In this way, Jeffrey Katzenberg said to us, “I understand something about the world that others do not.” And yet, in saying so, he missed the essential lesson that could have been gleaned from his own industry: Popular culture is an existential conflict between what is “good”, what people like, and what people watch. This dialectic is the central feature of cultural businesses.

Dialectic and existential conflicts aside, I don't think the "gray area of public taste" really applies here. Quibi's content was BAD. [1,2,3] If there is an existential lesson here about entertainment platforms, maybe it's Don't:

* launch a $2B app

* with no library of content

* that is strictly walled off from your customer's social media

* and your customer's TV.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3IRvX9UaIk

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKyZWJ75nDM

3. https://twitter.com/zachraffio/status/1250273191810875392

> if we can create a digital system which provides for code <-> data duality

So.. LISP?

Scummy is a polite word for the advertisements. It's been fascinating to watch them evolve in waves.

First wave: POV of a predator in a parking garage approaching a woman. Grave female voiceover: "Sexual predators could track your automobile, and remotely control the vehicle - including unlocking the doors." The female victim turns as the camera descends on her - she screams - "Vote No on Question 1. Don't let sexual predators control YOUR vehicle."

Second wave: Russian hackers with pimples nodding with pleasure as they take control of your vehicle, in a "Kremlin-sponsored hacking room" that looks like NCIS by way of Dr. Strangelove. Vote no - don't let Russian hackers control your vehicle.

Third wave - Muddy the waters by changing tone entirely to mimic the "Yes on 1" ads which have local, named individuals urging "it's your data, keep control of it." Muddied version - "It's your data, keep it safe. Vote no on 1."

Fourth wave - white unnamed men in auto shops with forced-sounding boston accents explaining that if you vote yes on 1, it'll hurt the little guy.

The insane $$ being thrown at trying to kill this bill [] tells a story in itself.

[] https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_t...

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Were you self-hosting, or using the free service? If self-hosting, I'm curious what resources you were devoting to your VPS, and which hosting provider?

Google is many different companies and products, and some of them I'm so grateful for. They provide a simple product that does something magically better than the competition, don't screw with the recipe. I give them my data because I like the service.

But the company-wide decision to manipulate the URL as a business strategy drains all my enthusiasm. The "U" is really important! The URL is basically a filename that you use to access the data store called the Internet. Don't take it away from me by the brute force of market dominance. I need to be sure of where I'm addressing my packets. Don't tamper with that essential construct.

I use both browsers, but without Firefox, I'd be lost in the wilderness. With its recent layoffs I'm worried about the web.

It's the only browser that gives me complete control over my session logins in containers, and it respects the cardinality of the URL - never meddles with it, conceals part of it, autocompletes it... I use Chrome only when forced to by lack of Firefox support.

it's kind of poetic that the chief bottleneck of advancement in the field is now the physical universe -

Artist John Zaklikowski had a great exhibit called Hard Drive Universe in 2012 in SF

https://www.flickr.com/photos/schill/albums/7215762935517133...

SM-J700T (June 2015), Android 7.1.1 Firefox 68.4.2, 720x1280, minimum screen zoom and font size in settings

https://i.imgur.com/oJDfTOg.jpg

Maybe it needs initial-scale=1 in meta viewport? Anyone else getting this render?

Not to stoke the flame, but I never used Twisted, where did it fail?

GIMP handles PSD, no?

Is there a way to detect such big brother firmware and flash it?

VcXsrv is great for bridging WSL and the Windows GUI, e.g. launching an x11 image viewer from WSL bash

Understanding fundamental browser behavior serves the purpose of optimizing CPU and bandwidth. Think of it as the bare metal of the browser

A VPN is one use of a Wireguard tunnel. Wireguard establishes a stateless encrypted connection between two peers, and exposes it to the user as a network interface. Endpoints can roam as with mosh

grid and flexbox are still not carved in stone, so catering to tbe lowest common denominator sometimes means e.g. nesting divs to mimic functionality in another browser

Shout out to one of my favorite projects, Luakit [^], the only chromeless browser that lets me resize the window to a single pixel.

Best part is the vim interface,

  :open hacker news
  [ddg results]
  /Hack
  Enter
  :tabopen github top lua questions
  [Github search results]
  :bookmark

^ https://github.com/luakit/luakit

> "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

There's value to this sentiment, but I disagree. I'm the same age as the author of this post, and I remember when I was in high school, my parents were transfixed by the O.J. Simpson trial - the car chase, the analysis of Marcia Clark's outfits, the whole spectacle.

In college a few years later a media studies professor asked us for a show of hands as to who followed the Simpson trial. Groans, eye rolls, not many raised hands. He was blunt: ignoring media phenomena, especially repulsive ones, is a mistake, he said, if you want to understand how media affect our culture. Study them like a physician studies a virus.

If you're into natural history, search the 3D models. The in-browser viewer works great.

https://www.si.edu/object/3d/490b6301-3869-455a-ba71-a89f5b6...

OT- Neat, have you considered incorporating non-Wikimedia Commons images in your public domain-only search? Flickr in particular has a surprising amount of quality highres images that the authors have released into the PD.

> It looks at you coyly but blankly, as if its owner has taken half a Klonopin and is considering asking you for a private-jet ride to Coachella.

Writing this good never tires me.

The credits transferred to terminal at what looks like 1200 baud makes me happy.

"Making things simple is hard work." - Rich Hickey

When I think of the simple vs complex bifurcation I think of fractals, a "simple" set of rules expressed in a complex way. The complexity arises from their expression/expansion iterated over time, but the rules that govern that expression are economical and compact. Think of an acorn: the encoding of a tree is all there. Its self-similarity, recusively expressed, creates the complex output of a tree. But nature always prefers the most economical solution because in the physical universe, resources are limited.

It might make more sense to s/simple/economical/.

Travelling from the surface of Earth to Earth orbit is one of the most energy intensive steps of going anywhere else. -Don Pettit

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/exped...

yeah the "pod house" was like the tv dinner of houses, a novelty product with little intrinsic value.

others like fuller's dymaxion home were explicit about why the odd shape was chosen: structural integrity in a natural disaster, maximize ratio of livable space to raw materials, economize the physical footprint, mix/max it so you can mass produce it cheaply and house the world.

The one major drawback I find in structures like these is that I miss right angles. They help me orient myself in a space. A spheroid may provide maximal volume for its surface area, but if your residents are going to be ill at ease for any reason, they'll never choose it for their home.

Hopefully its implementation is browser and OS agnostic on the client. I've had difficulty using Office 365 and OneDrive web access on Linux, which means I can't even consider using those services in a professional workflow.

I think it will bring them under more scrutiny and rightfully so. But this sounds like a misunderstanding, both of the GDPR and user sentiment, enforced without discussion from the top. They responded quickly, humbly, and transparently in reversing the decision. I'm not sure about long-term erosion of trust, although this may harm subscription levels or contract negotiation in the medium term

I'm a big fan of Cloudberg. His writing style is consistent, clinical, thorough, objective, and contextual. I highly recommend his analysis/timeline of the 2018 Camp Fire.