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danielcassidy ("Daniel Cassidy 🦌") wrote:

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• Headline in GQ: "Netflix retroactively editing Stranger Things is the beginning of a dangerous TV trend"
• Bottom of the same article: "Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that a season one episode of Stranger Things had been edited retroactively to remove a shot of Jonathan photographing Nancy while she was changing."

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fefe@mastodon.art ("Feff") wrote:

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• Watercolour sketch painting of a woman with a stark expression and flowing purple and blue hair (remote)

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Zee@social.coop ("Zee Spencer (He/They)") wrote:

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wetpaper@social.coop ("Cam ck-chhh 📸 ☑️") wrote:

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

Please try to break the tool! SVG is huge, with countless features, and I’m worried that I’ve forgotten about some quirk.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

(I'm assuming it's really down to whatever video service provider they're using behind the scenes that just has DRM on all the time now, but it's still asinine. (Why am I complaining about these dumb things? (There's so much worse things to worry about. (Oh no.))))

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

I'm running into more and more of those "You must enable DRM" messages on the dumbest things. A corporation wants to show me a promo video for their product? "You must enable DRM" I mean, what exactly are you protecting here? Like people are going to run off and pirate your dumb promo? Although, I suppose it *could* be a misguided attempt to protect their precious analytics if the only place you can watch it is their page. :thonking:

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Going to talk about eugenics and genetic determinism on Saturday. Negatively, of course.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/07/27/talk-is-done-more-or-less/

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Anathema wrote:

I am haunted.

A creak from the upstairs hall and in my imagination she's there.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:

Looking at all these Linux distros, I'm somewhat reminded of the recent announcements of new JavaScript "runtimes" that apparently rewrite some subset of JS tooling in some favored language (e.g. Zig or Rust) but continue to utilize existing implementations of the core of the language (e.g. V8).

Maybe these are examples of a solved hard problem (or perhaps just a useful foundation) combined with bike shedding on top. Anyway, I look forward to the future of exploding JavaScript "runtimes".