Posts by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
(DIR) Post #9ykd8AwmT0eLBdz36O by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2020-09-02T14:33:25.774Z
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@inigo Coming soon: "A config for Peertube to prevent promotion any soy sites in description when uploading a video."I kid, but babbies first scripts are not a bad way to coax Linux users out of the GUI habit and into the terminal. Teach a zoomer to fish and all that.
(DIR) Post #A2pcJeidLPx58MKpVo by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-02T15:45:51.194Z
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Commercial videogames pursue sales in a competitive market. At AAA studio level that means they must compete fiercely; a dud threatens the business because the standard of expectations for every element at the high of the market is completely absurd nowadays.Once one successful AAA videogame leveraged behavioural psychology to make a profit (or even just appeared to do so) every other AAA studio's mindset went from "why should we risk adding this new controversial stuff in and risk damaging the brand?" to "why should we endanger the shareholder value of our You-Will-Work-Crunch-To-Ship-This-On-Time-Maggot company to make our average user playtime look worse than THEIRS?"A book, or older forms of art cannot have its properties change because the pages are read an order of magnitude faster or the imagery is an order of magnitude more beautifully described.Videogames can have things jump by orders of magnitude and the result of what they do to someone's behaviour change. It's perhaps a rare individual initially like a pre-existing gambling addict, but perhaps a less rare with more scale changes in typical AAA features change.I think the 'are videogames art?' debate is an entirely inconsequential sideshow for attention seeking; if the wrong answer was chosen it'd create no harm, it's just filler controversy for "esteemed journalists" to drag out endlessly. The same "esteemed journalists" who want to raise the important issue will never, ever suggest they're becoming like cigarettes and support a ban on their sale to children; that's a position that puts them out of a job. Their loyalty is to whatever keeps their racket going and the "are they art?" bit is part of it and nothing more. If AAA games become more addictive or create weird behaviours as normal ones, it will not be reported by media companies that own videogame studios. Which is many, many media companies as mass media is highly consolidated.
(DIR) Post #A2pdAhMMFzOqfiCyv2 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-02T15:55:50.962Z
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Relatively few commercial videogames are made now to run on hardware that has no internet connection whatsoever as a standard configuration. Anyone who'd reject real-time-telemetry as a violation of privacy is a minority; that telemetry means addictive design can expect to incrementally improve year on year - best case scenario. Worst case scenario is the same but with fat tailed breakthroughs in effectiveness.
(DIR) Post #A2ppZ4y7KUrcIHGJE0 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-02T18:12:23.185Z
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@combat I got mental whiplash from reading "disproportionately shows addicts" followed by "because the more normie games tend to be the more addicting". Luke covered the most heavily advertised and highly financed fraction of a medium, which can expect to be selected as a gift for Christmas/birthdays/whatever, and can expect to be copied."you should be fine" maybe works when something is old and unchanging. But certainly not when something is new and rapidly changing.
(DIR) Post #A36yaFz3wqDCKq6XtQ by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T00:45:45.877Z
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@nicholas_rees Propaganda manipulates, but so much other stuff manipulates that's an art too; a skilled salesman manipulates how someone looks at somethings' value, and even if one dislikes the harms that leverage marketing today, trucking and bartering are ancient. Hard to imagine a civilisation worthy of the word without them. They salesman is a legit performance artist; it's most calling themselves performance artists that are mad bugmen.I think it's strange to care about something enough to make art about it yet not try to sway other people to think of what you're depicting the way you do. That's puts the muse in quite a straitjacket.
(DIR) Post #A36zKvz87ZpVv6OSmm by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T00:54:27.072Z
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@logen@9chen.org I don't get what you mean by "marketing destroys art" at all.The starving artist as more of an ideal than as a thing to be avoided is a disaster. When nobody knows what you work all day on, that doesn't make you authentic. It makes you a tree fallen in the woods that no one heard and that will vanish the day you die, unnoticed.If there was one thing that destroys artists, it's having to compete with the works of dead artists that are backed up by large corporations with massive budgets for IP law that want to both corner the attention market and screw any outside threat without hesitation.Disney and other media giants are cancerous and wildly influential because of their leverage on the World Trade Organisation. Yet their reputation isn't nearly as filthy as "marketers" who at worst are mercenaries.
(DIR) Post #A36zXg9OIxRSZhGoSW by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T00:56:45.454Z
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@logen@9chen.org I don't get what you mean by "marketing destroys art" at all.The starving artist as more of an ideal rather than as a thing to be avoided is a disaster to young artists and their decision making - the myth of _everything that makes money is selling out_. Fuck that. There's always some mouth breather who never made anything waiting to call anyone small, successful and starting to make money after a long time building a reputation a sellout.They deserve the rope. They deserve the fucking rope.When nobody knows what you work all day on, that doesn't make you authentic. It makes you a tree fallen in the woods that no one heard and that will vanish the day you die, unnoticed.If there was one thing that destroys artists, it's having to compete with the works of dead artists that are backed up by large corporations with massive budgets for IP law that want to both corner the attention market and screw any outside threat without hesitation.Disney and other media giants are cancerous and wildly influential because of their leverage on the World Trade Organisation. Yet their reputation isn't nearly as filthy as "marketers" who at worst are mercenaries.
(DIR) Post #A36zrdThwxhI4vI0Mi by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T01:00:11.253Z
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@logen@9chen.org I don't get what you mean by "marketing destroys art" at all.The starving artist as more of an ideal rather than as a thing to be avoided is a disaster to young artists and their decision making - the myth of _everything that makes money is selling out_. Fuck that. There's always some mouth breather who never made anything waiting to call anyone small, successful and starting to make money after a long time building a reputation a sellout.They deserve the rope. They deserve the fucking rope.When nobody knows what you work all day on, that doesn't make you authentic. It makes you a tree fallen in the woods that no one heard and that will vanish the day you die, unnoticed.If there was one thing that destroys artists, it's having to compete with the works of dead artists that are backed up by large corporations with massive budgets for IP law that want to both corner the attention market and screw any outside threat without hesitation.Disney and other media giants are cancerous and wildly influential because of their leverage on the World Trade Organisation. Yet their reputation isn't nearly as filthy as "marketers" who at worst are mercenaries.Scale and bad vague heuristics like "whatever you do, keep it real, don't be a sell out!" harm art. Marketing is how the sausage factory works. It's not meant to be appetising under a close scrutiny. It's just meant to work.
(DIR) Post #A389Hv726Ok32qFefg by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T14:20:39.532Z
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I wonder if it's normal for kids the world over who grow up in a city or suburb with no rural relations to ever visit to believe every TV show depicting the same tired stereotypes of rural life over and over.Rural life has it's own unique problems too, but at least they're human scaled, so long as the town isn't a company town and everyone basically is stuck with people who will go along with whatever The Company wants.
(DIR) Post #A38igNO086PQ50aLQW by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-11T20:57:15.642Z
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PeerTube 3 now has streaming according to the release notes: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/releases/tag/v3.0.0Would you have the bandwidth at home to do a no webcam livestream? Maybe if it works some Not Related could be recorded in front of a LiVe StUdIo AuDiEnCe.
(DIR) Post #A3Cqd77pht3l2polVY by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-13T20:44:54.909Z
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Followup video to making a site with nginx & https for adding and operating a sign-user pleroma instance?
(DIR) Post #A3GaciFYp3upHdRFIm by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-15T16:03:28.945Z
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@luke Understandable. I'm tempted to learn whatever I have to make an instance for myself alone, and use it to experiment to see what other instances have easily offended moderators who'd block me over nothing. That way if I don't feel like being an admin of my own anymore I don't start an account in a bugman ruled instance that enjoys an undeserved good rep.
(DIR) Post #A3J4OTEtDnUncCAZ28 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-16T20:47:22.823Z
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One thing to know with Vultr is not all price points (eg 3.50USD/month) are available in all locations (or at least this was the case last year). So you might have to pick the New York / New Jersey location for that 3.50USD option. Not a big deal I think, but "WHY ISN'T THAT PRICE AVAILABLE?!" confused me.
(DIR) Post #A3J8KoLlBpGJkOtSS0 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-01-16T21:27:33.664Z
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This is a great help. I'm glad you made a follow up, and I hope the referral links roll the lucre in. It's deserved, so much of doing this is split across multiple tutorials and it's just draining for a beginner with doubts they can cut throw it all.
(DIR) Post #A509EPUMGDSCYPofq4 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-03-08T13:05:15.558Z
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Is there some way of making a recipe into a standard document type that could then be converted into whatever format benefits the end user most? So, it could be converted to a .mobi for turning a kindle into a recipebook, or several choices of PDF for printing (depending on paper size or duplex printing) or if it's exceptionally short just a tweet that a bot can @ someone's account with (@username "pour 1 tbsp water in microwave safe cup, crack 1 egg add it, prick yolk with a fork, add garnish (eg salt, pepper, chopped chives) microwave at 700W for 60 seconds").
(DIR) Post #A5bMoBipxXxzVs26mO by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-03-26T12:23:41.804Z
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The idea of using a protocol that is harder to use has appeal, if only because on protocols that are effortless to use it's a playpen for connecting corporations with livestock eager to consume product so long as they keep the lobby money flowing to leadership.Videogames might be cringe, nevertheless they serve as a useful example. The sort who want working multiplayer for games on a console released in '99 don't suffer the same sort of cancer from masses excited by the newest thing.The differences will never be anything to make anyone rethink videogames aren't cringe or thin videogames should be treated like say chess, but as a demonstration of the difference some barriers to entry can create *even in especially obnoxious domains (gamer community) with above average tolerance for getting over technical hurdles* (following a software and hardware tutorial - or paying a console modder to do the work) it is encouraging to see such a difference is created.
(DIR) Post #A5bN84xgnvTSKzSsc4 by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-03-26T12:27:58.985Z
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@jwsmith Good peanut butter recipe.
(DIR) Post #A92Su9I8FQnMmZtkqu by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-06-29T21:19:15.348Z
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I can believe software free-riding on hardware. I've seen it first hand and I it is absolutely true. I used a feature phone made by a company branding itself as Nokia and manufactured in 2019. They lost the greybeards, and the whole thing was built with web technologies. It took a fraction of a second text input to react, the UI was near unusable. It was worse than any 1990s mobile texting phone I used decades before (and some were terrible, but all were responsive because the hardware was so comparatively weak they had to be written in low level languages to do anything), but soydevs didn't get fired for incompetent design and implementation and that phone - the Nokia 2720 Flip is selling well in India I hear. The staff working at Nokia back when they built their reputation doing things competently have moved on, and now Nokia means peddling to nostalgia.
(DIR) Post #ACvDxhnNq1xPc26lDk by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-10-08T08:35:02.082Z
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Once ranking of a websites in search engines was treated generally as a proxy for the success of a website it became inevitable that the one thing that ultimately mattered was achieving high ranking. Everything else was babble, what is in practical terms **worse** could outperform **better**.This also completely burned the notion of the web as a disruptive technology where The Small Guy could make A Big Difference. Attention of the masses is assumed to be mostly on social media, so if you're not on each of those sites and conforming to their business models' written and unwritten rules you're in practical terms on an internet with almost nobody looking at it, almost no influence, and are creating a free option for a plagiarist to discover and leverage.The conventions of how the internet now works are demotivating for the sorts of persons who contributed to the creation of the usefulness on internet and prospered from it. It has become a rather entrenched tool for effective propaganda while wearing a convincing facade to claim to meaningfully represent dissenting points of view.
(DIR) Post #ACvEHeP2A6U2sjEHVQ by barcode@videos.lukesmith.xyz
2021-10-08T08:50:30.552Z
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Star Wars is flypaper for human attention.How it works is not pretty, but it works.And today what seizes attention _and keeps it_ has power, so that means it makes money.