Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
10 posts total
addie

Hot take (since that's all social media is good for anymore): [And I mean NO negativity about it, just observation]
The more someone is "anti-gatekeeping" and constantly saying how "transparent" and "open" they are about their process, the less likely they are to have a complex/high-level process at all.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@EposVox Well, the more complex the machinery is, the fewer people are qualified to meaningfully run it and not break anything.

I'm generally anti-gatekeeping, but it's important to still recognize that not all gatekeeping is malicious.

You wouldn't trust a layman off the street to operate a nuclear reactor, if you like your reactor cores solid.

The same with social and cultural machinery.

On the other hand, being as open as possible incentivizes you to optimize and cut unnecessarily complex parts out.

@EposVox Well, the more complex the machinery is, the fewer people are qualified to meaningfully run it and not break anything.

I'm generally anti-gatekeeping, but it's important to still recognize that not all gatekeeping is malicious.

You wouldn't trust a layman off the street to operate a nuclear reactor, if you like your reactor cores solid.

addie

Crunchyroll is shutting down the Funimation streaming service and deleting everyone's purchased copies of stuff, while also hiking their own prices.
Stop paying for streaming media. Buy things you actually own. Or get it elsewhere.

Show previous comments
Wolfram Rösler

@EposVox What a pathetically long-winded way of saying „they are gone, fuck off“.

LiquidParasyte

@EposVox They had awful management but I'll still miss Funimation :drgn_weary_sob:
Why did the worst streaming service have to consume the other and monopolize anime streaming in the west
#FuckCrunchyroll and #FuckSony

Григорий Клюшников

Why do they never even consider giving people refunds when they do this? Then it would be at least somewhat sensible, it would be a minor inconvenience instead of straight up stealing.

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@EposVox This goodbye letter is heart-rending.

Because I sometimes feel this way as well.

A lot of times the only two things that keep me demolishing my server to the ground are burning love for my users and equally burning hatred of where the things are going for the Internet, along with the knowledge that breaking my only weapon won't do us all any good in this war.

addie

Continues to age like fine wine, like 15 years later

Show previous comments
Jacket

@EposVox We could also write mass surveillance on the box.

House Panther :verified:

@EposVox Yes, this is perhaps more prescient now than it ever was!

Anomaly
@EposVox The global internet should treat everyone with fairness, equality of opportunity so that it can be rational.
addie

Alright y'all, it's time to have "the talk" about these USB microphone threads... youtube.com/watch?v=jIS6xIXeqo #microphone #USB #audio #audiotips

addie

OBS 29 is out and I’m in the update notes! #obs #obsstudio #obs29

Calder

@EposVox That’s so cool, and I appreciate all of the work to improve everyone’s capture card setup process!

Mike Kasprzak 🦖

@EposVox The Stream Doctor strikes again.

Also yay, AV1 for ARC!

Show previous comments
Adirondack :toad:

@EposVox True Story!

If you went to college, it's likely your alum library privileges work, too.

Sign up for your alum email address. Now you have a login and a password to try when you hit the "Institutional Access" button next to the paper you're trying to read.

If you went to grad school, or even took a certificate program, try that email too.

If you live near one of your schools, more papers are available if you're on the campus network, with the same login. Keep a list & visit campus.

Easelbitch™️ :verified: 🕉️

@EposVox If we offered even one/third for that paper you'd score.

addie

Alright, this week there should be at least ONE press outlet giving some thoughtful, not-lazy coverage of #Mastodon and the #fediverse - which hopefully y'all appreciate given all the *terrible* articles out there.
I'll share once it's published :)

Go Up