aka Hooolm. Family man. Eccentric. Nerd. Musician. Tech enthusiast. Android Themer/Icon maker. Ordained minister. I like music, books, films, good food, whisky, cars & guitars.
I'm .dk but this is my English language account.
For a super bizarre experience, I posted this yesterday, and it took me a couple of tries. My post kept failing until I replaced "Mastodon" with a weird Unicode representation, and changed "random billionaire" to "random owner".
Is tinfoil hat a good look on me?
#twitterexit #censorship
To revisit: My main issue with this, as someone who grew up with ad-based flow-tv. Apart from #live sport events, I will not watch ad-supported programming ever again, where it takes 3h15m to watch a 2 hour film, for example.
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HBO Max just broke #streaming TV's unwritten rule | TechHive
https://www.techhive.com/article/1435847/hbo-max-just-broke-streaming-tvs-unwritten-rule.html
I see a lot of you guys posting loooooong toots, definitely longer than the 500 chars, to which I seem to be limited.
Is this something that's governed by the individual instances, or am I missing something which I myself could do about it? #tipsfornoobs
"The removal of shows from HBO Max means WB Discovery is able to save money in residuals paid to cast and crews of productions, on top of the money saved by not continuing with the shows at all."
So...we give them money to stream the shows. If...if they take the shows away, we will...stop giving them money. Just so they can fuck over people who make the shows we want to pay to watch? How...how does that work?
https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/westworld-hbo-max-the-nevers-canceled-1235458657/
There were two competing visions at the dawn of the modern digital era: in one camp, you had people who saw computers as a way to empower people to push back against corporate and state control; in the other camp, there were the people who wanted to use computers to transfer power from the public to corporations or governments.
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The lack of #QTs may feel like a missing core feature, but consider: If I boost something without the ability to #contextualize or #comment, it'll look like I'm endorsing it. Which encourages me to boost #positive rather than negative messages.
To land here and demand, "We want the same plumbing and wiring we had in our old place! You know, the one over there, on fire, half submerged in shit?"
Could we maybe, I dunno, give it a month, and see if this is better somehow?
Cory Doctorow
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