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  1. Comment on We made our friend an international fugitive in ~society

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    This video blew me away. It feels like antics from the TV show Nathan For You (2013-2017) brought to a geopolitical scale. Here's some timestamps. 0:00 Intro 1:35 History of West Papua 8:35...

    This video blew me away. It feels like antics from the TV show Nathan For You (2013-2017) brought to a geopolitical scale.

    Here's some timestamps.

    0:00 Intro
    1:35 History of West Papua
    8:35 Context about their friend's trip (full documentary)
    15:10 Preexisting media
    17:25 How to make their friend a terrorist
    21:38 Giving the "dossier" to the Indonesia government
    24:48 Reviewing the new media

    2 votes

  3. Comment on What are favorite holiday themed TV episodes? in ~tv

  4. Comment on Show Tildes: Filterboxd in ~movies

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    That's a good idea. Think it would be ok to base that on the number of spaces? I'm not sure if emojis or emoticons should count as words

    That's a good idea. Think it would be ok to base that on the number of spaces? I'm not sure if emojis or emoticons should count as words

  5. Comment on Show Tildes: Filterboxd in ~movies

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    I made a userscript to filter different parts of Letterboxd. In my personal opinion, hiding content online is as important as saving or favoriting things. It wasn't too difficult to support poster...

    I made a userscript to filter different parts of Letterboxd. In my personal opinion, hiding content online is as important as saving or favoriting things. It wasn't too difficult to support poster removals, so I added more options and extended into section removals. I'm pretty happy with how clean it makes the interface look.

    If you're a Letterboxd user, I'd appreciate any feedback!

    5 votes

  7. Comment on Golden Globes nominations full list revealed: ‘Emilia Perez’ leads in ~movies

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    Seems like you're not alone. By all accounts online it has middling reviews

    Seems like you're not alone. By all accounts online it has middling reviews

  8. Comment on OSRS Leagues: Trailblazer Reloaded in ~games

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    Is it for members only?

    Is it for members only?

    1 vote

  9. Comment on Max, Hulu, and Paramount Plus are all heavily discounted for Black Friday in ~tv

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    I hear you can get a pretty heavy discount year-round on the high seas

    I hear you can get a pretty heavy discount year-round on the high seas

    3 votes

  10. Comment on Craig Newmark, of Craigslist, is giving away $300 million to improve cybersecurity infrastructure in ~tech

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    This is pretty ambiguous. Is critical American infrastructure publicly-owned or private? Either way it seems weird to let Joe Shmoe the rich man cover budget deficits, delayed upgrades, or the like

    primarily invest in projects to protect critical American infrastructure from cyberattacks

    This is pretty ambiguous. Is critical American infrastructure publicly-owned or private? Either way it seems weird to let Joe Shmoe the rich man cover budget deficits, delayed upgrades, or the like

    3 votes

  11. Comment on Your boss is probably spying on you: New data on workplace surveillance in ~life

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    Unless management only cares about short-term growth instead of the long-term sustainability of the team. This is unfortunately kinda common due to exit strategies, bonus structures, and promotion...

    I'm assuing you're playing devil's advocate, but in case you're not, I think that's kind of a losing game.

    Unless management only cares about short-term growth instead of the long-term sustainability of the team. This is unfortunately kinda common due to exit strategies, bonus structures, and promotion chasers

    4 votes

  12. Comment on Should I stop using Kagi because they do business with Yandex? in ~tech

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    I recently tested out their Orion browser and before long I was browsing their feedback forum. I had heard about the guy running it being an asshole before, but boy were the forums eye-opening. If...

    I recently tested out their Orion browser and before long I was browsing their feedback forum. I had heard about the guy running it being an asshole before, but boy were the forums eye-opening. If you can't engage with your community in good faith I'm not sure how the community can be successful. Despite not being very big, it seems like these events keep happening that rub people the wrong way.

    1 vote

  13. Comment on The destruction of the soft power of the United States in ~society

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    I think this is especially true for memories related to foreign affairs. Firsthand, lived experiences tend to feel longer and have larger personal impacts. Whereas most folks don't remember other...

    I think this is especially true for memories related to foreign affairs. Firsthand, lived experiences tend to feel longer and have larger personal impacts. Whereas most folks don't remember other countries' bad events from 5 or 10 years prior, probably due in part to the attention economy. The exception would be major geopolitical events like Brexit

    10 votes

  14. Comment on The Browser Company announces Arc Browser will no longer be their flagship product in ~tech

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    Archive: https://archive.is/y3VWd More context: It appears this tweet is a direct follow-up to their recent video titled "What have we been up to? (CEO Update)" This major announcement was at the...

    Archive: https://archive.is/y3VWd

    More context:

    • It appears this tweet is a direct follow-up to their recent video titled "What have we been up to? (CEO Update)"

    • This major announcement was at the bottom of their recent release notes

    Commentary:

    I've been using Arc for a year and a half now. While I noticed their slow-down in the past few months, I didn't expect this outcome. It sounds like it's been placed on long-term support with no new features planned. I've reported a handful of bugs to them since switching. Two medium-priority issues still haven't been fixed for months, despite direct responses from staff members stating they were working on a fix. It seems their staffing has been heavily reallocated.

    It's pretty disappointing to see how much the company is doubling down on LLMs to replace user agency on the web. I suppose I'm glad the original Arc won't be replaced by a very different 2.0 version. However, I've still lost a lot of confidence in their ability to manage Arc effectively while on the back burner.

    I set up ArcWTF recently since I found the official Arc for Windows application to be lacking. So maybe I'll try that on other devices. I was an avid Firefox user before Arc, but with the recent Google monopoly ruling I fear for their future as well. TechAltar's recent video does a good job of explaining why Mozilla appears to be pivoting into advertising since they're not financially independent.

    Maybe I'll try looking at Zen Browser again. I spend so much time in a browser that changing feels like a major life decision.

    15 votes

  16. Comment on How should Europe build its own Silicon Valley? in ~tech

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    Silicon Valley has a good track record of, and is arguably financed entirely on the premise of, finding a market to "disrupt" by creating technology that skirts past existing laws/regulations and...

    Silicon Valley has a good track record of, and is arguably financed entirely on the premise of, finding a market to "disrupt" by creating technology that skirts past existing laws/regulations and engaging in anticompetitive behavior to create monopolies in the long-term. With that in mind, I don't know why Europe would look at Silicon Valley for inspiration.

    If they want to spur more technology companies, the traditional methods of subsidizing a sector should work decently well. If they want to compete 1:1 with Silicon Valley money, that would require, for lack of a better phrase, selling their soul (e.g. privacy, labor laws, profit over people)

    32 votes

  17. Comment on Kagi Translate in ~tech

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    They always have been Source: History | Kagi's Docs

    They always have been

    In the first couple of years (2018 - 2019) Kagi was focused on AI technology, driven by the notion that any future search engine will need to have a strong instant question-answering component.

    Source: History | Kagi's Docs

    12 votes

  18. Comment on Mindless games, preferably mobile in ~games

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    There's a free variant of this on F-Droid. Looks like a Flash game but is still quite enjoyable and addicting

    suika

    There's a free variant of this on F-Droid. Looks like a Flash game but is still quite enjoyable and addicting

    1 vote

  19. Comment on US election results (other than presidential) thread in ~society

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    I wonder how effective that will be. Can the ultra-wealthy just buy property in another state to get around this?

    I wonder how effective that will be. Can the ultra-wealthy just buy property in another state to get around this?

  20. Comment on New York Times Tech Guild goes on strike in ~tech