Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
The stepping vs jumping on a rake meme, showing a stock image render of a person stepping on a rake and having it smack them in the face on top, and an image of a man doing a skateboard trick with a rake below, also landing on it.
The man stepping on a rake is captioned “programming for the first time”.
The man performing a trick with the rake is captioned “programming for the hundredth time”.
Hey, @[email protected], I’m curious: why do you seem to have an issue with increased accessibility?
Clothes too dirty for the closest, but too clean for the laundry?
Welcome to: The Chair
[A picture of a woman in regency period dress, in a room with old-timey decor. Photoshopped onto the chair is some modern clothing. The woman is shown staring down at the clothes.]
“Why would they do this” meme.
First frame shows man labelled “USA” shooting man labelled “Middle East”. Caption reads “[gunshots]”. USA is standing, while Middle East sits in a lounge chair.
Second frame, USA turns to camera, appearing shocked.
Third frame repeats the first frame, identically.
Is archive mode the appropriate tool for this? I would assume that’s for when a repo is no longer receiving any updates from anyone, not just when the owner doesn’t want others contributing.
There’s also the “Folkloric Block” flaw, which causes “holy symbols presented by any believer” to force you to “shrink away…or spend a Willpower point”. Even from a mortal without True Faith.
IMO it would be more flavourful to make this flaw only work on the faith the vampire themselves had in life. Present it sort of like their own faith is what has the effect on them. But as written, it’s a limited form of the general True Faith rules.
The parent comment would be pronounced “ghee A eff”. /g/ is the hard g of “gift”, not the soft g of “gin” (which is /dʒ/). (second word pronounced like “hey” or “say” without their first letters, or “eight” without its last.)
/gi eɪ̯ ɛf/
What is this abomination? /gi/‽
Is that an actual gif or one of those audio-less videos that many gif services have taken to using lately, due to their higher quality and smaller file sizes? (RIP gfycat)
Do they prioritize the data at the beginning now?
I remember my bittorrent client having an option to do that even back in like 2010, though I never used it to actually stream, because my Internet wasn’t good enough.
As others have said, Nebula is pretty great. Much more limited in content, since creators are invite-only, and they curate for high quality creators. But it’s growing quite quickly and has a wide variety of content from leftist cultural video essays, to music analysis, to urbanism, film criticism, science, original films, game shows, and more.
There are a couple of centrist creators on there that I personally avoid, but most creators are centre-left to leftist, and I don’t think there’s anyone I would explicitly describe as right-wing.
It’s subscription only, but extremely affordable at $36/year or $6/month if you sign up through a creator’s invite code, and I think they promised grandfathered pricing if they raise the price in the future. You can see their library without an account at https://nebula.tv/explore/videos. Or ask any more questions you might have at [email protected].
Yeah Nebula is for sure the best with the volume and variety of content they have. But there are also many creators/groups creating their own independent platforms. The NZ-based videogame sketch creators Viva la Dirt League have Viva+, the ancient tech podcast/vodcast company This Week in Tech has Club TWiT, and probably most successfully the former CollegeHumor is now focusing on improv comedy as Dropout, among others.
I assume many of these are probably white labelled Patreon (or similar) services, or possibly a front-end site with white-labelled Vimeo for serving videos, rather than building their own infrastructure from scratch. But as far as the viewer is concerned those technical details don’t matter.
Kinda like pirating a movie these days
Not really. More like pirating a movie in 2012. These days, there are excellent-quality pirate streaming services, there’s the ability to stream videos over bittorrent (if there are enough seeds), and probably other options I’m not thinking of that make pirated video more accessible than ever.
It’s also possible, not having seen the videos in question, that they simply did violate YouTube’s rules regarding graphic content. YouTube has had a terrible record of banning important content despite its societal value because of rigid adherence to ill-thought-out content policies. AI takes that problem and turns it up to 11.
I’m not sure what “piece linked” you’re talking about, since none of the parent comments of this comment actually have a link in them.
This is the first time I’ve ever heard of FUTO, but I did read their statement about open source and it sounds pretty good to me. I actually think they’re capitulating a little bit too much by deciding not to call it open source anymore. As far as I’m concerned, if the source is available and anyone can contribute, that’s open source. I don’t particularly care whether or not it’s free for Google to incorporate it into their increasingly-enshitified products or not.
Creative Commons (an org to which FUTO says they have donated) doesn’t like their licences being used for software, presumably for finicky technical legal reasons. But if you imagine the broad spirit of their licences applying to software, all the main CC licences would be open source in my opinion. All combinations of Attribution, Non-Commercial, Share Alike, and No Derivatives, as well as CC0 respect the important elements of open source.
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FTFY
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omg that is so adorable. Purrsday and Pawsley Addams!
Interestingly, the earliest example of this meme listed on Know Your Meme is “junior react developer”, “senior react developer”. So this meme seems to have come full circle.