synthpop · HackerTrans

2 года назадdiscuss

I wasn't suggesting the like count would be hidden, but the ability to click into the like count underneath the post to see the list of users that liked the tweet. The article isn't entirely clear on if this feature would be disabled once user likes get privated, but I don't see why they would make the effort to do this in the first place if one could still see the users that liked an 'edgy' tweet anyway.

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2 года назадdiscuss

Aside from this clearly being a reactionary decision from Elon to prevent getting roasted with screenshots every time he likes nazi tweets, this also appears like a convenient way to obscure the fact that certain tweets with a large number of likes are being artificially juiced by bot accounts. Just another day on X, the best place for fake news, ragebait, and forced memes. It's honestly impressive how he's managed to fumble the platform this bad.

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2 года назадdiscuss

My read is that TV (or 'entertainment' as we've come to know it since the cultural explosion of television) still requires artists and/or professionals with some form of skills/vision in order to be made, but is ultimately produced by and for the enrichment of corporate giants at the end of the day. Under that system, works can still potentially be made which satisfy the interests of the artist, the corporation, and the consumer (and everywhere in between). The transition to the distraction economy (e.g., TikTok but more generally 'content' as we've come to know in the last decade or so) seeks to remove the pesky artists and professionals from the equation, and tighten the corporations' collective grip around the consumers' attention to the point that the constant use of their product is less of a choice, but more of a compulsion (or as the author states more plainly, addiction) to which there is little alternative thanks to the current landscape of culture at large essentially now being contained within a handful of apps.

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3 года назадdiscuss

+1 for international orders, would love to get notified once that goes live. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a shopping cart to check out with multiple items at once, even if they're all from the same seller. Suppose that's not a big deal yet until I'm actually able to get orders shipped to USA, though. Good looks so far, very promising stuff!

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3 года назадdiscuss

You could always try making some music with mobile DAW/synthesizer/audio sampler apps. Or play around with photography and graphic design apps. Or get good at chess.

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3 года назадdiscuss

It's ironic that as a result of previous generations of the USA being so terminally car-pilled, the "scenery" of most American towns/destinations have slowly transformed into bland, ugly parking lots as far as the eye can see.

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3 года назадdiscuss

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In this instance, the risks to be worried about is far more than just cancer. And it isn't exactly comparable to a career in a vinyl chloride factory because factories don't typically have these production chemicals ablaze and mixed with whatever else was in the train wreckage, seeping into the surrounding earth, water and air. Before even speculating on the undetermined adverse health effects of this event in the long term, the immediate impact of this environmental disaster should warrant a mandatory evacuation and corporate accountability.

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3 года назадdiscuss

Data would actually be a perfect name, but I don't think current technology qualifies it for a title of such power.

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3 года назадdiscuss

Chatbot :)

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3 года назадdiscuss

Society of the Spectacle. The revolution will not be televised.

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3 года назадdiscuss

Before writing any code, you'll probably want to lobby the government to completely overhaul the broken copyright and DMCA laws first. Then design the hosting around a decentralized infrastructure like Peertube.

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4 года назадdiscuss

They can keep holding their property? Homes are meant to be lived in by people.

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4 года назадdiscuss

This is a fair enough point, I'm not saying the host isn't being wronged by the state in this instance. It is a burden to fund such things that he may not reasonably be able to afford. But I don't know what the standards for required captions actually are because there was no effort made to elaborate or even link to the accessibility law being discussed. It's assumed that auto-generated captions won't work for one reason or another, since that would reasonably be the easiest and most accessible option (for the creator) to implement. I understand that professional captions cost money but cheap alternatives and community-driven efforts certainly exist. Respectfully, if the guy is hosting 15 websites just for these resources, it seems odd that he wouldn't make an effort to at least mention this circumstance or a timeline to shutdown with his users before a total ragequit. There's obviously many details missing throughout all this so while the situation is sad I don't think this is the best example to illustrate exactly what's going on in the HebrewNet.

synthpop

4 года назадdiscuss

Then if it's free, can it really be considered a business in the eyes of the state? Why aren't free auto-generated captions from YouTube sufficient for appeasing the law if no money is being made by the creator from the work? Is it being targeted despite being free because YouTube is still generating ad revenue? Which would mean that it should be YouTube's responsibility for content on its platform to meet the new accessibility standard? Again, I don't know how legal affairs like this work over there and he didn't elaborate, so readers are basically forced to ask questions like this in order to actually understand or sympathize with what's happening here.

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4 года назадdiscuss

Not much of a description of the new accessibility requirements, so I don't think people can have much insight about what exactly broke down here. I'm guessing if a website has more than 500 viewers/visitors a month, it's required that the videos must be captioned? Couldn't this guy just hire a professional captioning service or offer transcripts to users that may need it? This all seems a bit dramatic from the guy, but I've never heard of this accessibility law nor am I familiar with how Israel enforces such things, so some more context would be appreciated.

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4 года назадdiscuss

I get that this was developed for use as a practical tool with lots of potential benefits for analyzing videos shot by amateurs, but I'm rather more interested in what kind of audio it might interpolate when presented with really mangled or artificial visual content. I wonder what it thinks is happening when looking at a cartoon or computer generated film, or footage captured from a distorted VHS tape or a modern FPS game...

How much has this project developed since 2014? Can regular people download the tools to play around with it yet? Would love to see it try to get glitchy for creative purposes.

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4 года назадdiscuss

This POV is making the wrong equivalency, though. Prog, Krautrock and early (usually more abstract/experimental) electronic music) weren’t usually released to meet “pop” ambitions. Sure, the most remembered ones from decades ago did yield some form of crossover appeal with mainstream radio audiences/marketing efforts at the time, but it’s not like those genres or their influence just vanished. Check out newer ‘prog’ bands like Black Midi, just as an example. They’re not on the radio or magazine covers but still have a significant following among music nerds, much like King Crimson 40 years back.

I think autotune and Top 40 charts are too often used as a scapegoat by people that simply became too lazy to seek out stuff on their own without first being filtered through a marketing campaign. The radio or the front page of any given streaming service is designed to appeal to the mass audience, so why would you be surprised as a fan of more outsider sensibilities when it doesn’t immediately represent your niche tastes? You’d be more likely to find that type of stuff in a music store, printed review, or some random blog not too long ago. Now, that may as well be discogs or wikipedia, and the internet is much more powerful today as a resource than the record store of old. I feel like many people are more bitter over their music taste not being socially validated by the mainstream rather than just enjoying what they like and being content with the circumstance that it’s “not for everybody.” TBH I feel like it’s more desirable as an artist to have a dedicated following of fewer number than being one that’s involuntarily shoved down everyone’s throat. Most modern pop and rap is as ubiquitous as it is because of enormous label astroturfing and marketing, just as genres like New Jack Swing or Nu-Metal or whatever was dominating MTV back when that was a 'relevant' source of music discovery. It's always been commercial! So it doesn't do much good to bemoan the corporate machine's aggressive shoveling of its corporate properties, just tailor your sources of discovery to places that better suit your interests if the lowest effort option isn't doing it for you.

To me, people that have a chip on their shoulder about autotune are frankly just projecting some other abstract frustrations and nostalgia over a nonexistent time where all music culture was contained to TV and radio. It wasn’t! Do some old fashioned digging and go deeper than just the surface, you’ll find plenty of good new stuff and a thriving music community if you actually try.

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4 года назадdiscuss

Any attempt to hold music by some metric of purity ('real'ness) is always bound to be reductive and rather joyless imo. Surely there has to be 'classic' artists or genres that you've enjoyed at one time or another. Leverage the existing knowledge or potential curiosities that are within that pallette, and explore the rabbit hole a little deeper. Go back to your favorite tunes and look beyond just the name on the box. (Who are the performers/producers on that great album I spun endlessly back in the day? What other works have they been a part? Did they ever namedrop other artists in old interviews? Who'd they tour with? What other stuff did their label put out? etc. This can be repeated endlessly with every new name you come across that piques your interest. Rateyourmusic, Discogs and Wikipedia are probably good starting points to reference this info.)

I think anyone could likely find a trove of new (to you, at least) content by simply digging a bit outside of their comfort zone to try genres that are totally alien to your ears, like Avant Garde Jazz or Krautrock or Experimental music, just for example. Or by finding a genre you know you like, then exploring the likely myriad subgenres which emerged years later or are developing right now under its influence. A lot of the most satisfying things in life won't be fed to you, so the most important thing is to just keep an open mind and appreciate that although certain things may not click right away, it may not be worth writing off entirely. An important aspect of appreciating contemporary music is being aware of the cultural canon from which it was born and finds itself released within. I find that being able to connect some dots in one way or another between older and more contemporary artists/releases/genres will yield a greater appreciation of what's happening today. Applies to all forms of art, really.

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4 года назадdiscuss

I suspect that this isn't actually a big deal for most musicians and listeners, but probably indicates that Spotify wants to integrate their service into more peripheral contexts beyond basic headphones/speakers listening. Better compatibility with things like karaoke, DJs changing speed and pitch/Remixing, synchronized Stage/Lighting effects, etc. It isn't immediately obvious but the potential uses of making a music library that large MIDI-friendly actually could bring about lots of fun new applications development-wise. Shame that Spotify are one of the first to take the initiative on such a large scale because I'm not a subscriber, but this move could very well kick off a larger trend for squeezing more utility out of existing tunes. How these developments might play out in terms of labels and copyrights holders will be a different (and much less exciting) story.

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