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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It’s only one page long and reads

    “I lied. I cheated. I bribed men to cover the crimes of other men. I am an accessory to murder. But the most damning thing of all… I think I can live with it. And if I had to do it all over again, I would. Garak was right about one thing, a guilty conscience is a small price to pay for the safety of the Alpha Quadrant. So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it. “Also I’m a god now”






  • Jaccident@lemm.eetoMildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldFacepalm
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    8 months ago

    That’s a great analogy and helps me understand your argument much better. There is something I think you’ve missed though, which is that advertisers pay to be in the publication, and they pay at the point the print occurs. Rendering in your browser is the analog to hitting the print button, not putting it on a server to be pulled down. In your analogy, the advertiser has paid already before you consume the magazine; but for YouTube the advertisers don’t pay as their adverts are never compiled into the magazine. If you want to write a browser that still calls the ads api and plays the video in the background so YouTube gets the ad revenue but you have “cut it out” then I don’t imagine google would care half as much.


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    8 months ago

    I am sorry but that argument simply doesn’t make an awful lot of sense to me. Unless I am missing a facet, you are saying that your autonomy outstrips their rights? If we were to make an analogue version of that argument would your autonomy to use your hands how you see fit, allow for you to walk into a shop and take something without paying? It seems like, unless I’ve missed something, that’s the analogy.

    Commerce and indeed society has always been a balance of personal autonomy and rules, with YouTube you’re going to a website and circumventing their chosen rules. I might not agree with YouTube’s methods, but I don’t think I can get behind the argument they are impinging on your technical rights any more than Tesco does if you try to half-inch a chocolate bar.



  • There were loads of overt Star Wars references in this episode which was fun.

    • Music queues were distinctly more John Williams-y.
    • Scene transitions hidden behind ships travelling past the screen.
    • Scariff style forcefield over one planet.
    • Tatooine like architecture.
    • Tatooine cantina shape and style to the bar.
    • A masked bounty hunter with an unintelligible language is actually an undercover ally.
    • The weather station is reminiscent of the Endor shield array.
    • Attacking a technological foe with sticks and war cries was similar to the Ewok battle in RotJ.

    Some folks had a good day when they signed all that off.