Mastodawn

🔥Cassandra🔥1h ago

@britt HOW IS THAT RELEVANT TO MEDICAL TREATMENT???!!!!

Added context to above post:

Edmonton has a high population of immigrants and I think that asking those questions (as a white immigrant) on a written form has a high probability of causing people to be stigmatized or to be treated differently due to their country of origin or ethnicity.

I also think it’s a human rights and privacy issue.

Tim Hergert 1h ago

Badass Britt

2h ago

This morning in *I’m so tired of Alberta and its disjointed medical system.* (with humour)

So, I’m filling out a form prior to a minor medical test/procedure for a new specialist.

The form says at THE VERY TOP:

“Ethnicity _____”
“What country were you born in?”

I’ve seen A LOT of the medical system and I’ve never, ever been asked that before on a medical form.

Fuck. Off.

Maybe I should fill in the blanks with such words?

Man aging with style 2h ago

@cjust
I laughed, because it's true!

#microfiction #flashfiction

🦋ShouldbeWriting🦋2h ago

Brother William smiled like the sun. "Yes! We preach against the evils of technology. We interview prominent people in the field, discuss the problems that technology brings, and preach the pursuit of a simpler and less stressful life. We call it The Luddite World!"

Amy frowned. "And this is... a Podcast?"

"Indeed! We're even on Spotify!"

Hyacin 2d ago

@dgar A good set of speakers is a sound investment.

Dgar 3d ago

Dad always said “Good speakers are essential for listening to music.”

It was sound advice.

Natasha Jay 8h ago

If you need a timeline cleanser this morning ...

Tim Hergert 3h ago

Hailey 17h ago

Sent a pull request to Audacity fixing a crash bug I'd been running into frequently. The cause was an out-of-bounds memmove. Classic C++ areas.

Anyway I got a fucking copilot review on my PR which left two comments, both completely wrong, one of which suggesting I reintroduce the out of bounds memory access. I'm furious!

#entertainment #tv #film #movies #television

Modern streaming.

That Old Guy With the Beard 1d ago

@davidaugust @billyjoebowers Also, HBO Max negotiated with the creators and then sold it to MAX in a back room deal. Then, before the ink was dry, MAX traded it to HBO MAX for future consideration of HBO and HBO MAX content under the rebranded HBO MAXWELL MAX platform.

MacCruiskeen 1d ago

@davidaugust That's a drag. Poob had all the good stuff.

@maccruiskeen they really did.

Real talk: where the good torrents at these days? I was in the scene up to 2010 then streaming became quite viable so I stopped, now it sucks and I would like to find films again.

Hubert Figuière 23h ago

@joriki @rorystarr @davidaugust the long harassed Swedish index still exists. Argh.

Astrobach

22h ago

@hub @joriki @davidaugust really? I thought they got taken down years ago?

felis_catus_domesticus 21h ago

@rorystarr @hub @joriki @davidaugust nope it's still there.. going great guns.

dominic 10h ago

@rorystarr @hub if they're blocked where you live and you're not into VPNs, there are proxies and indexes of said proxies. Takes a few tries to find one that hasn't also been blocked, but then it's all good.

I guess I don't understand VPNs as a service, not as a technology. Like, pricing, risks, etc. I do understand what they do.

I'm in Canada but I am on a shared internet with someone who would be less than understanding to get a warning letter. That and the fact that I've been out of it for so long, leads me to be concerned I now lack the wisdom I had about torrents way back when. And I am interested to see the options because these streaming services are failing.

CynBlogger™️Dissents 1d ago

@davidaugust
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

jbz 1d ago

@davidaugust Mubi is quite good actually

Dusty 1d ago

@davidaugust I have the heretical view that it's not only possible, but wise to just post one's own videos on one's own blog with #RSS. As long as the videos are shot in a lower resolution, they are much smaller in size. Hundreds of such videos (say ~160MB each, for an hour's video in 360p) can be saved in the tens of GB that come with renting cheap VPS'. Then a javascript video player like clappr embeds the videos on one's personal web pages. A mountain of #enshittification is avoided in this way.

All the "broken glass" we're being dragged over - as is in the OP - results from unwisely trusting 3rd parties to host the videos. My unpopular opinion is: don't use those 3rd parties, period. Be the 1st party, even if your efforts are a little amateur-looking. The key is to quit being greedy with high resolution - which plays into the hands of #AI, btw. This is to make the file sizes more wieldly and self-manageable. No transcoding, etc. Every such simplification matters.

**You get to set your own license this way also**, such as:
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International - Creative Commons

@d1 You're not wrong, and if one has no aim to monetize video, or get paid to make them, that can work.

Dusty 1d ago

@davidaugust
Anecdotally: A video on Youtube needs to have at least 30,000 views, apparently, before you even so much as earn $300US on it:

"The True Costs of Being on YouTube":
https://carlalallimusic.substack.com/p/the-true-costs-of-being-on-youtube

Also note 👆 : They, #Youtube, are keeping 2 of every 3 dollars of ad revenue that passes through them.

And as to in-video ad sposorships: only about 0.21% of all Youtube content creators have such sponsorships:

"How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets":
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250213-youtube-at-20-a-computer-that-drunk-dials-online-videos-reveals-statistics-that-google-doesnt-want-you-to-know

The True Costs of Being on YouTube

what I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away

Food Processing

@d1 thank you for sharing that. Good insights in both articles about the not-one-size-fits-all way that the economics and such of YouTube play out.

panda ♥️ 🇪🇺9h ago

@d1 @davidaugust

During the pandemic, people started uploading on #pornhub instead, since ph is paying better.

You can take math courses on ph.

Corb_The_Lesser 1d ago

@d1 @davidaugust I am much more likely to click on a video hosted *at* a blog than to click through to Youtube, etc. I don't want to be there.

Mx Verda 12h ago

@d1 @davidaugust also gotta mention PeerTube, Loops, and whatever else exists that I haven't heard of yet, but yes. 1080p is nice and certainly noticeably nicer than 360p... but also so much bigger. I'm sure 4K is nicer, but I wouldn't know as I wear glasses regardless.

My Actual Brain 1d ago

@davidaugust This is so true! I live in a different country than the rest of my family. So often, we cannot easily watch the same shows due to regional differences.

Additionally, my wife and I have our App Store set to different regions, so only one of us can have Disney+ on our phones. As the app is different for each country and I can’t log in using the app for the US store.

I also can’t change my region in the App Store or I’ll risk losing other US apps that I need.

@my_actual_brain yeah, it get complex fast.

Some of this I suspect the companies have not fully thought through.

Irenes (many)12h ago

@davidaugust @my_actual_brain ah. we're ex-Google privacy.

we can say from personal experience that the companies are aware of it, but thinking about it costs more in lawyer time than they want to spend, so they'd prefer not to

Irenes (many)12h ago

@davidaugust @my_actual_brain in cases where the app itself is different, by the way, that's likely because one country allows drastically more data collection than the other. just a guess though, we have no direct knowledge of that.

Irenes (many)12h ago

@davidaugust @my_actual_brain anyway, our life advice is to pirate stuff, tbh. if companies aren't willing to sell it to you.........

Archangel Valerie 1d ago

@davidaugust just pirate bro

RealGene ☣️1d ago

@davidaugust
Staying in another hotel. The new season of The Bear began last night. It's produced by FX. Great! FX is on the hotel cable. Nope, FX is showing a movie.

This FX show is only available on Hulu.

Third spruce tree on the left 23h ago

@RealGene @davidaugust ok, I won't make the crack about how I literally have this downloading at home rn.
What I will ask is how the fuck do tv/movie executives expect to build any fucking brand loyalty like this?

me: I want to watch The Bear S4E01
exec: that's a Fleem exclusive
me: ok, I've managed to obtain legit access to Fleem
exec: oh no, hahaha, you don't live in Anglia and have the 3 magic gems of Ankh
me: fuck off.

viewer loyalty is to shows, not to networks/platforms

@tezoatlipoca @RealGene & executives spent years building shows exclusive to their streamers, hoping to build subscriber bases as financial foundation of their production pipeline (I wildly oversimplify).

Then decided to fight w/key suppliers & munge brands they’d spent yrs building & now license their libraries, the whole business reason individual streamers exist, to every streamer out there.

It’s malpractice & maybe even malfeasance.

Third spruce tree on the left 23h ago

@davidaugust I will always post this until media/streaming execs figure it out.

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/game_of_thrones

The vast majority of people will PAY for content they like IF you make it fucking easy to obtain it. Platform exclusives, region locked, while lucrative absolutely make it impossible for anyone to watch ur shit.

Apple had this right back when iTunes did movies and TV. $10 for a season, $1-2 for an episode $3-5 for a movie. A la fucking carte. I lapped that shit up cause it was EASY..

I tried to watch Game of Thrones and this is what happened - The Oatmeal

WINTER NEVER CAME.

The Oatmeal

@tezoatlipoca you are quite right. For almost 20 years it has been crystal clear the audience wants tk watch what it wants where it wants when it wants, and if they can’t do that through the legitimate sources easily, pirates are more than happy to offer.

And execs have too often never grasped that.

Perfect comic to include. Nicely done.

Michael 23h ago

@davidaugust Tixee has it, but only till June 30th.

@mykl 😝

gunstick 22h ago

@davidaugust I use torrent. Works perfectly since decades.

GeePawHill 12h ago

@gunstick @davidaugust Same same.

Pomegranate Pirate 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️19h ago

@davidaugust It's gotten so much like a shell game... support your local library's stats and use your card to stream Kanopy free, it's better than netflix. The public library version rocks, the version Touro University had sucked, default to Public library, if your school Kanopy sucks.

crispycat

18h ago

@davidaugust but please don't download movies!!!

David August ❌👑18h ago

@crispycat 100%. Downloading movies means no one who made it gets paid, and they need to get paid to keep making movies and TV.

Mx Verda 12h ago

@davidaugust @crispycat do the movie teams have a patreon, kofi, liberapay, poob, mubi, pwee

crispycat

12h ago

@MxVerda @davidaugust unfortunately i have never seen any that do-their contracts with big media probably prohibit that

crispycat

12h ago

@MxVerda @davidaugust "intellectual property" as a whole enables media corpos to abuse artists and consumers in a number of ways while enriching the stakeholders. we need an entirely new system that makes culture free (as in freedom to consume and create) while providing a means for creators to survive in a capitalist system

Matilda Love 10h ago

@davidaugust you can lick your corporate overlords' boots all you want, i'm not gonna join you