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mostlysignssomeportents · 1 year

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Netflix wants to chop down your family tree

Netflix has unveiled the details of its new anti-password-sharing policy, detailing a suite of complex gymnastics that customers will be expected to undergo if their living arrangements trigger Netflix’s automated enforcement mechanisms:

https://thestreamable.com/news/confirmed-netflix-unveils-first-details-of-new-anti-password-sharing-measures

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/02/nonbinary-families/#red-envelopes

Netflix says that its new policy allows members of the same “household” to share an account. This policy comes with an assumption: that there is a commonly understood, universal meaning of “household,” and that software can determine who is and is not a member of your household.

This is a very old corporate delusion in the world of technology. In the early 2000s, I spent years trying to bring some balance to an effort at DVB, whose digital television standards are used in most of the world (but not the USA) when they rolled out CPCM, a DRM system that was supposed to limit video-sharing to a single household.

Their term of art for this was the “authorized domain”: a software-defined family unit whose borders were privately negotiated by corporate executives from media companies, broadcasters, tech and consumer electronics companies in closed-door sessions all around the world, with no public minutes or proceedings.

https://onezero.medium.com/the-internet-heist-part-iii-8561f6d5a4dc

These guys (they were nearly all guys) were proud of how much “flexibility” they’d built into their definition of “household.” For example, if you owned a houseboat, or a luxury car with seatback displays, or a summer villa in another country, the Authorized Domain would be able to figure out how to get the video onto all those screens.

But what about other kinds of families? I suggested that one of our test cases should be a family based in Manila: where the dad travels to remote provinces to do agricultural labor; the daughter is a nanny in California; and the son is doing construction work in the UAE. This suggestion was roundly rejected as an “edge case.”

Of course, this isn’t an edge case. There are orders of magnitude more people whose family looks like this than there are people whose family owns a villa in another country. Owning a houseboat or a luxury car makes you an outlier. Having an itinerant agricultural breadwinner in your family does not.

But everyone who is in the room when a cartel draws up a standard definition of what constitutes a household is almost certainly drawn from a pool that is more likely to have a summer villa than a child doing domestic work or construction labor half a world away. These weirdos, so dissimilar from the global majority, get to define the boxes that computers will shove the rest of the world into. If your family doesn’t look like their family, that’s tough: “Computer says no.”

One day at a CPCM meeting, we got to talking about the problem of “content laundering” and how the way to prevent it would be to put limits on how often someone could leave a household and join another one. No one, they argued, would ever have to change households every week.

I put my hand up and said, “What about a child whose divorced parents share custody of her? She’s absolutely going to change households every week.” They thought about it for a moment, then the rep from a giant IT company that had recently been convicted of criminal antitrust violations said, “Oh, we can solve that: we’ll give her a toll-free number to call when she gets locked out of her account.”

That was the solution they went with. If you are a child coping with the dissolution of your parents’ marriage, you will have the obligation to call up a media company every month — or more often — and explain that Mummy and Daddy don’t love each other any more, but can I please have my TV back?

I never forgot that day. I even wrote a science fiction story about it called (what else?) “Authorized Domain”:

https://craphound.com/news/2011/10/31/authorised-domain/

I think everyone understood that this was an absurd “solution,” but they had already decided that they were going to complete the seemingly straightforward business of defining a category like “household” using software, and once that train left the station, nothing was going to stop it.

This is a recurring form of techno-hubris: the idea that baseline concepts like “family” have crisp definitions and that any exceptions are outliers that would never swallow the rule. It’s such a common misstep that there’s a whole enre* called “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About ______”:

https://github.com/kdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

In that list: names, time, currency, birthdays, timezones, email addresses, national borders, nations, biometrics, gender, language, alphabets, phone numbers, addresses, systems of measurement, and, of course, families. These categories are touchstones in our everyday life, and we think we know what they mean — but then we try to define them, and the list of exceptions spirals out into a hairy, fractal infinity.

Historically, these fuzzy categorical edges didn’t matter so much, because they were usually interpreted by humans using common sense. My grandfather was born “Avrom Doctorovitch” (or at least, that’s one way to transliterate his name, which was spelled in a different alphabet, but which was also transliterating his first name from yet another alphabet). When he came to Canada as a refugee, his surname was anglicized to “Doctorow.” Other cousins are “Doctorov,” “Doctoroff,” and “Doktorovitch.”

Naturally, his first name could have been “Abraham” or “Abe,” but his first employer (a fellow Eastern European emigre) decided that was too ethnic and in sincere effort to help him fit in, he called my grandfather “Bill.” When my grandfather attained citizenship, his papers read “Abraham William Doctorow.” He went by “Abe,” “Billy,” “Bill,” “William,” “Abraham” and “Avrom.”

Practically, it didn’t matter that variations on all of these appeared on various forms of ID, contracts, and paperwork. His reparations check from the German government had a different variation from the name on the papers he used to open his bank account, but the bank still let him deposit it.

All of my relatives from his generation have more than one name. Another grandfather of mine was born “Aleksander,” and called “Sasha” by friends, but had his name changed to “Seymour” when he got to Canada. His ID was also a mismatched grab-bag of variations on that theme.

None of this mattered to him, either. Airlines would sell him tickets and border guards would stamp his passport and rental agencies would let him drive away in cars despite the minor variations on all his ID.

But after 9/11, all that changed, for everyone who had blithely trundled along with semi-matching names across their official papers and database entries. Suddenly, it was “computer says no” everywhere you turned, unless everything matched perfectly. There was a global rush for legal name-changes after 9/11 — not because people changed their names, but because people needed to perform the bureaucratic ritual necessary to have the name they’d used all along be recognized in these new, brittle, ambiguity-incinerating machines.

For important categories, ambiguity is a feature, not a bug. The fact that you can write anything on an envelope (including a direction to deliver the letter to the granny flat over the garage, not the front door) means that we don’t have to define “address” — we can leave it usefully hairy around the edges.

Once the database schema is formalized, then “address” gets defined too — the number of lines it can have, the number of characters each line can have, the kinds of characters and even words (woe betide anyone who lives in Scunthorpe).

If you have a “real” address, a “real” name, a “real” date of birth, all of this might seem distant to you. These “edge” cases — seasonal agricultural workers, refugees with randomly assigned “English” names — are very far from your experience.

That’s true — for now (but not forever). The “Shitty Technology Adoption Curve” describes the process by which abusive technologies work their way up the privilege gradient. Every bad technological idea is first rolled out on poor people, refugees, prisoners, kids, mental patients and other people who can’t push back.

Their bodies are used to sand the rough edges and sharp corners off the technology, to normalize it so that it can climb up through the social ranks, imposed on people with more and more power and influence. 20 years ago, if you ate your dinner under an always-on #CCTV, it was because you were in a supermax prison. Today, it’s because you bought a premium home surveillance system from Google, Amazon or Apple.

https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/29/impunity-corrodes/#arise-ye-prisoners

The Netflix anti-sharing tools are designed for rich people. If you travel for business and stay in the kind of hotel where the TV has its own Netflix client that you can plug your username and password into, Netflix will give you a seven-day temporary code to use.

But for the most hardcore road-warriors, Netflix has thin gruel. Unless you connect to your home wifi network every 31 days and stream a show, Netflix will lock out your devices. Once blocked, you have to “contact Netflix” (laughs in Big Tech customer service).

Why is Netflix putting the screws to its customers? It’s part of the enshittification cycle, where platform companies first allocate surpluses to their customers, luring them in and using them as bait for business customers. Once they turn up, the companies reallocate surpluses to businesses, lavishing them with low commissions and lots of revenue opportunities. And once they’re locked in, the company starts to claw back the surpluses for itself.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Remember when Netflix was in the business of mailing red envelopes full of DVDs around the country? That was allocating surpluses to users. The movie companies hated this, viewed it as theft — a proposition that was at least as valid as Netflix’s complaints about password sharing, but every pirate wants to be an admiral, and when Netflix did it to the studios, that was “progress,” but when you do it to Netflix, that’s theft.

Then, once Netflix had users locked in and migrated to the web (and later, apps), it shifted surpluses to studios, paying fat licensing fees to stream their movies and connect them to a huge audience.

Finally, once the studios were locked in, Netflix started to harvest the surplus for its shareholders: raising prices, lowering streaming rates, knocking off other studios’ best performing shows with in-house clones, etc. Users’ surpluses are also on the menu: the password “sharing” that let you define a household according to your family’s own idiosyncratic contours is unilaterally abolished in a quest to punish feckless Gen Z kids for buying avocado toast instead of their own Netflix subscriptions.

Netflix was able to ignore the studios’ outraged howls when it built a business by nonconsenually distributing their products in red envelopes. But now that Netflix has come for your family, don’t even think about giving Netfix some of what it gave to the MPAA.

As a technical matter, it’s not really that hard to modify Netflix’s app so that every stream you pull seems to come from your house, no matter where you are. But doing so would require reverse-engineering Netflix’s app, and that would violate Section 1201 of the DMCA, the CFAA, and eleventy-seven other horrible laws. Netflix’s lawyers would nuke you until the rubble bounced.

When Netflix was getting started, it could freely interoperate with the DVDs that the studios had put on the market. It could repurpose those DVDs in ways that the studios strenuously objected to. In other words, Netfix used adversarial interoperability (AKA Competitive Compatibility or ComCom) to launch its business:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability

Today, Netflix is on the vanguard of the war to abolish adversarial interop. They helped lead the charge to pervert W3C web-standards, creating a DRM video standard called EME that made it a crime to build a full-featured browser without getting permission from media companies and restricting its functionality to their specifications:

https://blog.samuelmaddock.com/posts/the-end-of-indie-web-browsers/

When they used adversarial interoperability to build a multi-billion-dollar global company using the movie studios’ products in ways the studios hated, that was progress. When you define “family” in ways that makes Netflix less money, that’s felony contempt of business model.

[Image ID: A Victorian family tree template populated by tintypes of old-timey people. In the foreground stands a menacing, chainsaw-wielding figure, his face obscured by a hoodie. The blade of the chainsaw is poised to chop down the family tree. A Netflix 'N' logo has been superimposed over the man's face.]

#pluralistic #enshittification #shitty technology adoption curve #cpcm #interoperabiltiy #comcom #adversarial interoperability #interop #netflix #family #ambiguity #digitizatio #nym wars #authorized domain #dvb #dvds #password sharing

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feraliminal · 4 months

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Actual episode 70 discussion before I vanish back into the aether to do coursework:

Obligatory meta bit: I’m in the process of reading Interaction Ritual Chains for a draft thesis chapter (which I need to be writing now) and just happened to be halfway through reading the section on remote/virtual rituals when the episode dropped. The book includes stuff like sports events and concerts as rituals, defined as community-building events where people share an experience and get meaningful symbols and stories out of it. But it has a whole section on why this needs to be in-person. I’ve never really done live premieres before because my fandoms tended to be old, but I’ve now got participation observation data to disprove that - it’s definitely a shared experience for the fan community, and we have plenty of stories. Fandom is folk culture!

The appearance of cam-ghosts and Plunger’s interaction with the secret agent was very cool as I love the “sufficiently advanced tech is indistinguishable from the supernatural” trope. The camghosts could have been hallucinations, but there was one peeking around a corner much earlier in the episode. I suspect that there’s some kind of remote connection/Alliance network going on (they’re able to share and broadcast footage, after all, even if they need to use tablets for long range comms), so these could be virtual encounters through the secret agent hacking or otherwise accessing Plunger’s brain - like he’s able to get into the skibidi computer to taunt the scientist. But why (other than exposition and dramatic effect)? Is he trolling because their death is part of his scheme (likely imho), or is he just an incorrigible dick who can’t say “good job” without being sinister?

Transmission error/recording error: is the secret agent signal jamming? And what was that stealth mode? Is it related to the secret agent and the camghosts? Probably.

Unless our two ex-main characters are fixed or downloaded (which I doubt but I did notice that the the tagline was “someone”, which is usually singular), ST is doing Anyone Can Die. If this was being approached as a lolrandom meme thing, that wouldn’t be surprising, and that has been the tone of much of the series so far. However, it’s ascended to the point that there’s an actual Skibidi Toilet store. The longevity of comparable meme horror/sci-fi series has seemed to rely on people getting attached to iconic characters, so I wonder if there’s a plan for avoiding Too Bleak, Stopped Caring? My guess is having the elites and titans consistent throughout the plot, but DFB may also be an incorrigible dick and kill everyone. I am a sucker for dramatic deaths though, so I can probably put up with it (just about, did that speaker squeak as they were dying? Oh no ;_;).

On the subject of trolls, one way of interpreting Titan Speaker putting out the fire before completely flattening the scientist was that they wanted to kill them themself, another interpretation was that they were fucking with the scientist by pretending they’d show mercy. Either way, A+++ revenge!

Polycephaly is also super interesting as they don’t really seem to be the TV equivalent of the others factions’ big combat units. There’s only one of them, they can fuck around with teleportation-stuff (nanites? weird science particles?) and swap out their extra bits. They might have a role that’s unique to the TV faction, I already wondered if it’s something like managing TV communications or information flows, and now I think that could include something to do with teleportation too. Maybe running the teleportation-navigation software? In the Dune series, there’s heavily mutated Guild Navigators who guide faster-than-light spaceships and to make sure no one crashes into a planet, and Warhammer 40k has a similar Navigator role to guide space traffic through the Warp using psychic beacons.

#skibidi toilet #skibidi speculation

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andmaybegayer · 7 months

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while I was figuring out my TV subscription my parents tried to stream the Sunday Rugby final to me live over a video call and I realized that most people have not internalised the sheer lengths that broadcast companies go to to make sure you cannot watch live sports programming without paying for it.

Unless you're breaking the analog barrier or running noncompliant/hacked software you're not going to be able to do it. MS Teams will NOT let you play the rugby over it.

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voxmedia-billsans45 · 1 month

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(Edit: Made a Vox RP Beginning/End bar! I think thats what their called anywho. OwO)

#TV Demon #Vox #Hazbin Hotel Vox #Hazbin Hotel #Hazbin Hotel RP Blog #Vox RP

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paper-gold-theories · 1 year

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Villainous Observations/Theories: Compiling the list of folders and pop-ups as shown in Episode 4 from Timestamp 1:02 - 1:12. The first photo is from BHO while the rest is V.I.R.U.S. exploring the dark web. I headcanon that some of these companies and places might be relevant in future episodes.

1. 02_SERVER

- CST (It might stand for Central Time Zone. File probably contains BHO shows to be broadcast at that time zone.

- HEED'S REC (Headcanon: One of the employees in BHO is simping for Miss Heed and is watching her livestrams and saving her vods. 😆)

- CODES

- CONTRACTS

- CNN NEWS (At the end of Episode 6 GoldHeart is watching CNN NEWS, so I wonder if CNN is part of BHO's service which is ironic as the news seems to be covering for the Heroes 🤔)

- Although BHO has the same initials as Black Hat Organization. It might be just a streaming service with the same initials as from the public Charly mentions she only knows BHO is streaming platform.

- (File is corrupted, appears to be where V.I.R.U.S. is located at. My guess is that the file would say Live-Cam considering that V.I.R.U.S. was spying on the BHO employees.)

- WAIFUS 👀

2. YOURCRAFT

- The Villainous version of Minecraft. (Someone is playing video games at work 😆)

3. LIVE CAM 09

- As mentioned above V.I.R.U.S. is spying on the BHO members.

4. ...THE VILLAIN - HYPE-V

- Looks like the name of the music that is playing (full name is cut out by Live-Cam).

- This might be referring to the type of virus V.I.R.U.S. is, which is a Hyper-V virus. Hyper-V is a computer file which behaves like an actual computer which enables you to do tasks like create software, run operating systems and programmes and connect to different networks.

- As shown here in V.I.R.U.S.'s origin it appears to be creating its own commands before going rogue.

5. WEBFLIX - WEIRD STUFF

- The Villainous version of Netflix and their show Stranger Things. (Someone is watching tv at work 👀)

6. 404 LOKY

- LOKY might be the Villainous version of Lokinet which is an onion router that enables users to access the internet anonymously. It is commonly used to access the dark/deep web.

7. Date

- Current date of 14 June 2022. Which, referring to this episode is the date that Codigo Guajalote's final episode is supposed to be released. This episode also aired in 2022 confirming that Villainous takes place in the current timeline.

8. BAiTSHOTEL.com - El major viaje otra vida. (Translation: The best trip another life)

- Headcanon: This might be a hotel for ghosts or might be a place to trap ghosts, hence the word "bait" in the name.

- I wonder if the Villainous gang will go here in the future, maybe to meet a client or a business meeting.

- Or perhaps this hotel is owned by hero and they to fight a Hero in order to rescue a Villain.

- And Perhaps it's Mother Poltergeist, in Episode 2, Mother Poltergeist is nowhere to be seen while the Bandit House and the Ghost kids have to fend off against the hero Bulldozer, perhaps she is trapped in the BAiTSHOTEL.

- Update: (great observation from @znvorz) the Baits Hotel hotel is also inspired by the Bates Motel, owned by Norman Bates from the 1960s horror movie, "Psycho".

9. EL BUITRE - COMPAÑIA DE SEGUROS DE BHO (Translation: THE VULTURE - BHO INSURANCE COMPANY)

As mentioned in the Lost Cases of the Park Orientation Video (Timestamp: 6:07 - 6:39) this company is a subsidiary of Back Hat Organization that provides insurance for space ships being totaled.

10. HITMAN - SERVICICIO PRIVADO (Translation: Private Service)

- I wonder if this is a private evil organization outside of Black Hat Organization also provides hero extermination services.

- Headcanon: It would be an interesting episode if the Villainous Gang would have to compete with the rival company if they have the same target and have to fight to see who will defeat the hero or else they won't get paid.

11. DR. BRAXTON'S

- ARMAS (WEAPONS)

- GADGETS

- ARTILUGIOS (GADGETS)

- Y MÁS (AND MORE)

- This is PENUMBRA'S Website in the dark web for selling her inventions. As shown throughout her Instagram, she set up a booth in the Mad Science Expo which helped bring in more customers for her business.

12. SILENCIO de los CORDEROS Restaurante - Ahora a Domicilio (SILENCE of the LAMBS Restaurant - Now at Home)

- Lol the name 😂. I kinda imagine the Villainous gang tagging along with Black Hat to the evil restaurant to have a business meeting.

13. WANTED - RING US! BEFORE... WE-RING-YOU!

Looks like a help wanted ad for Villains. The claws on the ad kinda reminds me of HIM from The PowerPuff Girls.

14. HATCOIN

- The currency used to buy products in BlackHat Organization.

15. EvilZone

- The Villainous version of Amazon. Most likely used to buy dark web stuff.

16. TAKEN BLACK HAT ORG.

- As mentioned in the Guide for an Evil Conquest Orientation Video (Timestamp: 4:31 - 5:17) this company this company is a subsidiary of Back Hat Organization that provides space ship taxi services for Villains. In exchange for 100 years of service and 99 souls...

17. VILLAIN LOANS

- Provide evil loans to Villains. I wonder if Metauro is taking loans, seeing as he needs money to pay back his debt to Black Hat Organization and get his family back.

18. INSTAGRIM

- Villanous dark web version of Instagram as used by Penumbra and other Villains.

19. BLACK HAT RESORT

- from the Villainous Trap-ical Resort Video

20. The rest are clips of the orientation videos and Episode 1 and the Black Hat Organization Business Card.

#villainous #villanos #villainous headcanons #villlainous theory #mother poltergeist #villainous blackhat #black hat organization #blackhat #villainous virus #villainous missheed #villainous miss heed

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lazysailor · 4 days

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50 Avery and Kayden

Avery opened his eyes and slowly sat up, his eyes slowly adjusted to his room as he woke up. He could see a white light outline against his curtains, it must've snowed overnight since it was around January now.

He got out of his bed and stretched before he went over to a mirror he kept in his room. He stared at himself in the mirror as his appearance changed, again.

He was able to convince his dad to get transplants from the bio-builder. He was able to get his arm and eye back, along with new skin to cover scars he had gotten.

It was a bit weird adjusting to using his arm again and having to use both of his eyes again, but surprisingly it has been easy for him to adjust too.

He leaves his room and heads downstairs towards the kitchen, as he went to open the fridge he noticed a note on the fridge.

‘Hey kid, I had to head out on a business trip. I'll try to be back soon as possible.’ The note read.

“Again.?” He quietly said to himself.

‘Ever since he stopped making transplants and switched over to software, he's been going out on so many business trips.’

Avery opens the fridge and takes an egg carton, he then takes out a couple eggs and puts them back in. He then gets out a pan and starts hearing it up.

After a few minutes he heard the front door open as he was cooking some scrambled eggs.

“Oh hey Kayden! How was hunting?” He asked her as she walked over to him.

“It was fine, I was able to get some rabbits but they'll only be good to make some food with.” She tells him as she grabs some eggs off of the pan and puts them on a plate.

She sits down at the counter as she starts eating the scrambled eggs.

‘Ever since Nathan offered to teach me how to hunt it's been a great pass time activity when I'm not busy.’

‘I was hesitant at first though..I couldn't really handle a gun after what happened with Tommie..’

‘But I've been able to not think about him as time went on and I was able to actually focus on hunting without thinking back to him.’

She finished her breakfast and put the plate and fork in the sink.

“Thanks Avery, they were good.” Kayden tells him.

“No problem, but jeez you need to learn to not eat that quickly.” He says to her.

“I was just hungry, that's all.” She says.

She walked out of the kitchen and headed upstairs, planning to wash off the smell she had gotten from hunting today..

She stood under the running hot water as she washed out anything that got into her hair this morning.

‘Maybe I should take a nap after this.’

‘At Least my sleep schedule has gotten better over the past few months, now I don't have to stay up all night or wake up really early.’

‘Now I can just take random naps throughout the day instead of having to be awake constantly.’

‘I wonder what I should do after night classes.?’

‘Unlike Avery, I somehow can't get myself a job.’

‘Well at least Nathan let us get a proper education after we came here.’

She finished up her shower and put on some more comfy clothes rather than heavy camouflaged clothes she had to wear earlier.

Kayden walked back into her room and shut her curtains, then turned on her fairy lights. Even though it had been only a few months she was able to litter her room with stuff she likes like band posters, stuffed animals, and her bass guitar that sat near the corner of her room.

She laid down on her comfy bed as sleep was already waiting for her. She moved her arm around the cat plush she had since she moved into Nathan’s house and fell into a comfortable slumber.

Avery waters a couple plants to keep himself busy. He decided to work at a plant shop because other than a couple fast food places, this was the only place that was open for hire, plus the job had a decent pay. He only had to work with two other people which was nice since he would much prefer that than a loud work environment.

As he was misting some plants, he couldn't help but overhear a news broadcast playing from a nearby tv.

“Have you heard the latest rumor surrounding the biobuilder?” The female reporter asks.

“No Kim, I haven't.” The male reporter answers.

“What is it?” He asks.

“Well this rumor talks about how in the future teens who were unwound in the past could be potentially brought back with the biobuilder.” She tells him.

“Really? But what if they end up like the rewinds that were rumored to be on Molokai?” The male reporter says.

The two reporters continued to talk to each other, but Avery stopped what he was doing as a thought came to his mind.

‘If that rumor about people being brought back, then could that mean Ryder could come back.?’

‘I mean if he ever came back, then it would probably be hard to find him.’

‘He would probably still hate me..’

Avery shook those thoughts out of his head and went back to focusing on his job.

At the end of shift as he's about to leave, he spots a pot of marigolds that seemed to not be there before.

“Did those come in today.?” He asks one of his co-workers.

“Yeah, they came in only a couple hours ago when you were on break.” His co-worker answers.

“Hm.” He hums.

He looks at the marigolds for a few moments.

‘I feel like Ryder would've liked these.’

He picked up the pot and brought it up to the counter.

“I'll get these then.” He says to his co-worker.

“Alrighty then.” His co-worker responds as they scan the barcode attached to the pot.

Avery then pays for the flowers and then walks out of his job, now having at least one thing to remind him of Ryder.

‘Hm, today's lesson was surprisingly easy.’ Kayden thought to herself as she left her class.

But then she feels someone grab her shoulder.

“Kayden! Wait for us!” Her friend, Robin says as her other friend Ethan is next to her.

‘Oh yeah, I actually have more friends now.’

‘I thought I would never be able to make any friends again.’

They all walked over to a nearby seating area so they could further talk to each other.

“So, when should be the next time we all practice together?” Robin asks them.

‘Our band, I remember Robin came up with the idea around last month since we all knew how to play instruments on a basic level.’

‘I learned some basic bass chords, Ethan knew how to play drums, and Robin knew how to sing and play guitar.’

“Well I'm fine with practicing anytime, the more we practice together, the more we'll be better as a band.” Ethan says.

“Yeah, I can agree with that.” Robin says.

Then Kayden suddenly came up with an idea.

“How about we work towards a goal?” She suggests.

“What do you think our goal should be?” Ethan asks.

“We should get good enough to the point we can perform at a gig!” Kayden tells them.

An excited look forms on both of their faces.

“That's a great idea Kayden!” Robin says.

“Yeah!” Ethan adds on.

‘They like it!’

A smile forms on Kaydens face.

‘I should definitely get some personal practice in later! I still have to get up to their level of good.’

Avery and Kayden both stare up into the night sky together as they sit on the deck. The sky was clear tonight which allowed the stars to shine in all of their glory.

She turns over to Avery and looks at him.

“Hey Avery, do you think our lives could've been different if we didn't meet each other.” She asks him.

He thought about it for a few moments.

“I probably would've gotten caught by the juveys quickly and been sent off to a harvest camp way earlier.” He tells her.

“What do you think would've happened if your brother ever made that fake order?” Avery asks her.

“My life would be boring like how it was before and I would still have to deal with my family.” She tells him.

“I wouldn't have been able to make any friends either, I couldn't make any before.” Kayden adds on.

“Yeah, our lives would've been totally different.” He says.

“Hey, do you have any dreams Kayden.?” He asks Kayden.

She thought about it for a few moments.

“I wanna try to become famous with my friends.” She says.

“Oh yeah, you're in a band now right?” He asks.

“Yeah, I am.” She answers.

“Do you have any dreams Avery.?” Kayden asks him.

“Yeah, I wanna finish school and go to college.” He starts off.

“Then after I graduate college I'll start a business where I sell plants and crops.” He adds on.

“That sounds nice.” She compliments.

They both smile at each other then they go back to staring at the peaceful night sky.

Their lives were finally on a normal track after two long years, even if it came with tragedy and loss.

As the end of unwinding becomes closer day after day, all the other people who were impacted by it would hopefully live in peace now like how Kayden and Avery were.

#unwind fanfic #unwind #unwind dystology

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I’m currently bothering everyone with questions and statements who reblogged that “please bother me with questions and statements” post, so: Do you have a weird fact that won’t leave your mind that you feel like sharing with all of us?

Hmm... Weird fact? I don't think so. Well, I do one thing that bothers me, but I dunno if you can really call it a fact.

Lately, my job did encourage us to learn AI tools as we are starting to incorporate those in our workflow. And well, I did start to check AI tools for video editing and boy, I am worried. Not about my job, but about the fact that since now you can just create videos from start to finish with the minimal amount of efforts and research without at any point reviewing your video and double checking up before posting a video that could hit all the algorithm markers to spread.

You can have Chat GPT create a text for you, import it into another website (because Tech Bros sure love websites instead of developing actual softwares to work locally) in which the text will be transpose as "scenes". Then you can pick up shutterstock like video from their database to add to the scene. Oh! And what about the ai-generated videos you can create with a prompt! And AI can also help you generated clickbait titles and so long.

Heck, the tutorial I saw had a guy explain how to make a youtube video through AI step by step and his subject was... "good" aliments for pregnant women. Imagine. This is a public health issue! Each year, I have ads I have to proofhead by an external agence before sending them to a TV broadcaster and anything related to health, medicine, cosmetic and alimentation are heavily scrutinized upon and there are very strict rules on what is allowed to say or show regarding those specific domains. You even will have to go to an higher governmental instance and pay for an highly qualify approval to proofhead that your ad isn't a public health hazard and can be broadcasted on TV. (Sidenote : if you are wondering why you often see TV ads with just people saying repeatedly the name of a product without any information aside of "Ask your doctor about it", this is thanks and because of that process).

But on social medias, on youtube, this barrier doesn't exist before posting. Someone in the public has to report when the content is inappropriate or dangerous often time after it has gone viral.

Anyway, it is becoming easier and easier to spread misinformation that can be very harmful. That is what is worrying me the most. And it will only go exponentially from here because now ANYBODY could make videos and the most dangerous people are often the ignorant people because they are way more ignorant people than malevolent and ill-intentioned ones.

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"In lucid dreams (LDs), people maintain consciousness and can make predetermined actions while asleep. Since the 1970s, electrooculography and other sensors have been used to send signals from LDs into reality. In this study, we test whether electromyography (EMG) can help transfer melodies from LDs, which can expand our abilities to transfer information from LDs into reality. Software was developed to translate EMG impulses into sounds. Four LD practitioners were trained to play musical rhythms by straining their arm muscles, which had EMG sensors on them. Then, these volunteers were asked to induce LDs and repeat the task under polysomnographic observation in a laboratory. Each volunteer induced from one to three confirmed LDs. Three of them were able to transfer musical rhythms into reality, as the EMG sensors detected electrical spikes in the arm muscles despite sleep paralysis. The researchers heard the sounds from the dreams in real time and in recordings. The results prove the concept that people can transfer rhythmical EMG impulses from LD, which could be potentially useful for transferring sounds or music from LD into reality. As one practitioner failed to transfer proper EMG signals, the method needs further investigation. Since LD practitioners sometimes create original music in LDs, it could be possible to transfer these insights into reality. These melodies can be broadcasted via the Internet, TV, or radio in real time."

Raduga, M., Shashkov, A., Gordienko, N., Vanin, A., & Maltsev, E. (2023). Real-time transferring of music from lucid dreams into reality by electromyography sensors. Dreaming. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/drm0000244

#lucid dreaming #oneironautics #psychonautics #indexluciddreaming

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Farming Simulator 22 focuses on forestry.

map Silverrun Forest from platinum expansion Farm Simulator 22 will offer options not only for farmers, but also for players who are hungry for forestry. The landscape, inspired by the Pacific Northwest with its vast forest landscape, is a great place to new forest missions, new types of trees as well as new production chainswhich are developed on the basis of timber supplies. Players will be…

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literally downloaded software to delay the altitude radio broadcast enough to sync it to the tv. and thank god. because i would not survive this experience without conor mcgahey to hold my hand.

#avs lb #hockey

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Lost media quest: H&G Epic Tales (part 3)

Last time I ended my post while exploring the defunct epictales.com website. There was one page of this website (preserved in the Wayback Machine) that I did not add in this post: the About page.

The About page not only describes the Epic Tales line, but also lists the full staff that worked on this project. Here is what the website contains:

EPIC TALES™ is a developer and publisher of interactive storybooks for the iOS platform. EPIC TALES presents its own unique interactive adaptation of the imaginative and magical stories found in fairytales, folklore and world mythology.

All of our tales are narrated by our central storyteller, a most likeable dwarf named Silvertongue who used his magic to let our books and stories come to life. Each storybook offers stunning hand-drawn animations, a revamped storyline, original music scores, and spellbinding interactive environments that are sure to draw readers deep into the story.

EPIC TALES allows you to not only enjoy magical worlds and enchanting tales, but to experience them more closely than ever before.

We, the people at EPIC TALES, are always inspired by stories that fuel our ideas and imagination. We are storytellers, animators, and composers that gladly indulge ourselves in folklore, mythology, and the many tales and stories that have captured our imagination for generations. The result is a talented team of people driven to create original storybooks that are filled with whimsical characters, spellbinding environments, and interactive surprises. By combining creativity with technology, and talent with expertise, we hope to constantly produce exciting tales that bring every page to life. EPIC TALES is a joint venture between Cloud Castle Interactive and Anikey studios.

EPIC TALES Paul Hanraets, Founder of EPIC TALES and producer

Albert ‘t Hooft, Partner and creative director

Paco Vink, Partner and lead artist, animator

TEAM MEMBERS Lou Attia, Narrator and voice actor

Martin van Spanje, Software engineer

Joost van den Broek, Music composer

Arjen Schut, Sound designer

Sjan Weijers, Background clean-up artist

David Muchtar, Animator

Jelle Brunt, Animator

Ruben Zaalberg, Animator

The website also briefly offers descriptions/curriculum of the staff members:

Paul Hanraets Paul Hanraets has been a creative entrepreneur since 2002 when he co-founded Red Road Media, a media agency specialized in video games. Successful projects undertaken by Red Road include: Benelux largest annual game event Gamexpo, the tv show GAME FACTS broadcasted by TMF/MTV and the freely distributed game magazine Games Guide. In 2008 Paul founded Cloud Castle Interactive and was involved in the development of smaller game projects which further awakened his passion for the creative industry. As an immediate result Paul founded EPIC TALES, a developer of interactive storybooks for IOS and GAMBITIOUS an equity based crowdfunding platform dedicated to the games industry.

Albert ‘t Hooft & Paco Vink Albert 't Hooft and Paco Vink both studied traditional animation at the Willem de Kooning Art Academy in Rotterdam before they founded Anikey Studios in 2007. Anikey is an award winning animation studio which specialises in hand drawn 2D digital animation. Anikey creates independent and commissioned animations for television, films and games which have an emphasis on story, characters and fun. Anikey's first two independent films 'Paul & the Dragon' and 'Little Quentin' won several awards at international film festivals. In addition on working on the new EPIC TALES titles, Anikey is developing the first hand drawn animated feature film in the Netherlands since 30 years.

Lou Attia Working with the likes of Disney and Sesame Street, Lou Attia has been a professional voice-over artist for over 15 years. After studying professional vocals in London, England, Lou landed a radio host position at 104.2 Nile FM in Cairo, Egypt where he became Creative Director and then Program Director of the station. Throughout his seven years on the air, during which his morning show went on to be the No.1 listened to radio show in a city of 16 million, Lou continued to do voice-overs for numerous commercials, shows and features. In 2010 Lou moved to Toronto, Canada where he is currently a full time voice-over artist, writer and TV show host.

Martin van Spanje Currently co-owner of LayerGloss Digital Publishing, Martin used to program and design on 8-bit Sinclair machines in the eighties. Then came Macs, digital audio, ten years of IT-projects and finally, iOS. Nowadays he lives his life surrounded by Objective-C code, and he sometimes thinks cornflakes look a bit like people. Oh, and he doesn't do Twitter.

Joost van den Broek Joost van den Broek is a producer, composer, arranger and keyboardplayer based in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Starting out as a keyboardplayer for several metalbands like After Forever touring all over the world, he finished his conservatory with honour in musicproduction, keyboards and classical arrangement. Since then he been working as a freelancer in his own studio on several productions, compositions and arrangements, for acts/events like: Ellen ten Damme, Symphonica in Rosso, Wende Snijders, Games in Concert, Ben Saunders, Qlimax. Epic moviescores and/or/in combination with (pop/alternative)rock is what defines his style the most.

Arjen Schut Arjen Schut is a sound designer based in Hilversum, The Netherlands. As a freelancer Arjen has worked on numerous projects, both on location and in his own studio. Arjen is involved in sound effect creation for all sorts of media, but has a strong focus on interactive and animation projects. International blockbuster Killzone 3 being one of the larger projects.

I have taken upon myself to contact some of these artists, just in case they were open about talking or sharing information about the animation they worked onto. Is it a bad idea, or a good one? I don't know but that's the most straightforward direction one can take. I will warn you if I ever receive any response, positive or negative.

I forgot to link before the official page, on the Anikey Animation website, for their work on Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales. Not only does it contain large, high-quality screenshots of the artwork, but their "Production" page also has one concept art for the storybook. They also list the credits of the app as such:

Title: Epic Tales - Hansel & Gretel

Release: 2012

Directed by: Albert 't Hooft & Paco Vink

Animation by: Jelle Brunt, David Muchtar & Ruben Zaalberg

Backgrounds by: Paco Vink & Sjan Weijers

Music by: Joost van den Broek

Sounddesign by: Arjen van der Schut

Producer(s): Paul Hanraets for Cloud Castle Interactive

AppAdvice still has a page dedicated to the application. There is also a review by the MacTrast website that is quite interesting because, while today the pictures contained within it are "dead files", in the Wayback Machine you can fetch them back, and they are pretty rare screenshots of the game! Here's an additional Dutch article I forgot to add earlier. Again, not much to add since they all basically just announce the game's release and rephrase the storybook's commercial description.

I also don't think I have added this to my previous posts, but Cartoon Brew also had a page for the app's launching, which contained this text:

The Hague, the Netherlands — April 24, 2012 — Hansel and Gretel – Epic Tales animated storybook is the first in a series of tales as told by Silvertongue, the likeable dwarf and storyteller, and is now available on the Appstore for IPad and IPhone.

Hansel and Gretel – Epic Tales animated storybook offers a world filled with whimsical characters ranging from pesky gnomes to witty dwarfs; from brave children to wicked stepmothers and cunning witches.

“But we are not just another fairytale App,” says Paul Hanraets, founder and producer. “What sets Epic Tales apart from other storybooks are the incredible production values. Each of Epic Tales storybooks are digitally hand-drawn by our award winning animators, and offer stunning 2d animations, professional voice acting, original music scores and ambient sounds by game industry veterans. These elements combined offer spellbinding interactive environments that are sure to draw readers even deeper into the story.”

“Of course, our alternating witty and wacky humour and the high quality of our animations are amongst the things that separates Hansel and Gretel from other storybooks,” says creative director Albert ‘t Hooft.”However, what ultimately distinguishes Epic Tales is the implementation of our central storyteller, Silvertongue the dwarf.” Using the magic of pesky gnomes, Silvertongue brings the stories to life and narrates them.”Silvertongue used to be quite the adventurer, travelling the world in search of the most intriguing tales and stories, and now looks after your storybook collection in his humble bookstore. He is a truly gifted storyteller who can take an audience from a gasp of fright to a roar of laughter in just the twist of a phrase.”

Epic Tales is a series of high quality, interactive fairytales that allows you to not only enjoy enchanting tales, but to experience their magical worlds more closely than ever before. Children will love the sense of wonder and discovery,while adults will certainly appreciate the clever and wacky humor.

A final piece to add to the dossier so far is Muchtar Productions' page for Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales. Muchtar Production is the WordPress website of David Muchtar, a 2D animator and illustrator who worked on the Epic Tales animation as a (I quote) "Rough and Clean-up animator". He notably put within his portfolio an important number of concept art for the game's character designs. But, as with last time, I will keep it for the NEXT post!

Or... an almost final piece. I wanted to keep this for a much later post, but I ultimately decided to share it here. I vaguely described before one unofficial source for content about "Hansel and Gretel - Epic Tales". And that is an online review, a Youtube video, by a Youtuber named "Crazy Mike" specializing in app reviews. Here is the video, and the reason why this video is important (beyond it being the last remaining video review - unless I manage to get back the one from the defunct website) is because so far it is the only visual recording we have of the app outside of the trailers. Not only that, but at one point Crazy Mike opens the list of chapters within the app - which gives us a full glimpse of the story's main episodes, with thumbnails of each "tableau". Mind you, it is tiny details at the bottom of the screen so we can't get much of it... But with all the additional material I gathered, it will be a key element in my reconstruction of what the storybook looked like and was about.

#hansel and gretel #lost media #hansel and gretel epic tales #hans en grietje epic tales #hans en grietje #fairytale cartoon #lost media animation #fairytale animation #interactive storybook #animated storybook #dutch things #netherlands #traditional animation

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Efficiency and Convenience: How XMLTV Source Enhances Your Movie Streaming Journey

What is XMLTV and how Does it Enhance the Movie-Watching Experience?

XMLTV is an open standard format for describing TV listings and related information. It provides a way to organize and exchange data about TV schedules, including program names, start and end times, descriptions, genres, and more. The xmltv information can be used by various applications and services to display accurate and up-to-date TV listings.

How Does an Online XMLTV Format for m3u Editor Work?

XMLTV uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to structure the data in a standardized format. The information is typically obtained from various sources such as broadcasters, cable companies, or online databases. These sources provide the necessary data which is then converted into XMLTV format using specific tools or software.

Can you Explain the Benefits of an XMLTV Subscription for Businesses?

Organize: With XMLTV, IPTV providers ensure that TV listings are organized consistently across different platforms and applications.

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Accessibility: With xmltv source, users can access accurate TV listings from multiple sources without relying on proprietary formats. Overall, XMLTV simplifies the process of gathering and presenting TV schedule information, making it easier for movie streaming services to provide their users with comprehensive and reliable programming details.

What are the Key Features of an Electronic Program Guide using XMLTV for IPTV?

The reliability of EPG service for finding and watching movies largely depends on the accuracy of its listings. Users rely on the electronic program guide to provide up-to-date information about movie schedules, including the title, genre, cast, and airing time. A reliable EPG service ensures that these listings are accurate and regularly updated. This means that users can trust the information provided by the EPG and plan their movie-watching accordingly.

What are the Top Movies to Watch on TV?

An important factor in determining the reliability of EPG service for finding and watching movies is the availability of movie channels. A comprehensive EPG should include various movie channels from various networks and providers. This ensures that users can access a diverse selection of movies across different genres, languages, and regions. The reliability of an EPG service increases when it offers a vast array of movie channels, catering to the preferences and interests of all viewers.

How can an EPG Program Assist in Finding the Best Movies to Watch on TV?

The usability and user-friendliness of an EPG interface also contribute to its reliability for finding and watching movies. A well-designed interface makes it easy for users to navigate the available listings, search for specific movies or genres, set reminders or notifications for upcoming movies, and customize their preferences. An intuitive interface with precise categorization and sorting options enhances the overall experience and ensures that users can easily find their desired movies without hassle.

The key features of XMLTV's EPG Format for Businesses in the Entertainment Industry include:

Accurate movie listings guide in PDF file to enable users to plan their movie-watching schedule effectively.

A wide range of available movie channels caters to diverse viewer preferences.

A user-friendly interface enhances ease of use and navigation within the EPG service.

Conclusion:

Maintaining accurate and up-to-date movie listings can be challenging due to frequent schedule changes.

Securing partnerships with multiple movie channels and providers to offer a comprehensive selection may pose.

#xmltv #iptv #epg #tv guide #tv programme

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@centrally-unplanned - replying here since OP of that post seems pretty upset and I don't want to bother them any more:

Why DO anime production lines produce in 720 for the production art? I have heard that before but it never made a lot of sense to me - sure sure I get that some of it might be broadcast in 720p, but surely it would make better art to produce at higher resolutions. Is it just a “in 2008 720p was all any TV was doing and we just haven’t updated since and so now are a bit behind”? Or is maybe “honestly most of them have adapted already and *our* sources for this knowledge are outdated?” Or is there a real art reason for that choice?

I honestly don't know! To me it seems like often you get really nice drawings at the genga stage and then they lose a lot of their character at douga, and I wish I knew why. But I have done guesses about technical reasons.

One is computer memory. Animation software can be a real memory hog since it has to hold just so many pixels uncompressed at once. Using indexed colour helps a lot (one byte instead of four bytes per pixel per layer for 256 indexed colours vs 8-bit RGBA). For older computers, this may have been a consideration perhaps.

That said, I find it hard to believe that's the whole reason. I hit my RAM limit when drawing a ridiculously overcomplicated cut in Krita with hundreds of frames and dozens of layers at like 1440p res, and most anime cuts do not have anything like that much.

Another reason may be to save time and costs. The higher your res the more time you have to spend fixing stuff - small gaps, times when the fill tool won't get into those fiddly little corners.

Outside of that though, I don't know. Maybe it's just when the norm wasn't to watch anime on a computer screen near your face, blurry lines and low detail bg characters weren't as noticeable? One day maybe I'll be able to ask someone in the industry about this lol...

There's other stuff that's common in modern compositing I just don't get. e.g. a haze effect using a blurry white shape in the foreground seems to be common (there's a brief bit in Shirobako where you see a character apply it), and that just seems to be going to extra effort make the picture worse to me. I generally do not love gradients, though that's a matter of taste. A lot of colour design in mainstream shows seems to be either very flat or overly contrasting hdr-like pseudo-photorealism, even though the indie scene - stuff like Eve's videos - has been pushing into some really cool spaces.

And like OK, some stuff, like digital backgrounds with very obvious textures and artefacts, can be explained by the fact that the industry is strained to breaking point and taking every shortcut it can to release on time, or the training crisis hitting the layout system. But I do feel like if I pull out a random 80s anime, it will probably have much nicer colours than a recent one, and I don't really know why that is. (Selective memory maybe lol)

All that said, things do seem to be looking up a bit... I feel like I've been seeing an uptick in shows with good colour design and more thoughtful compositing in the last few years. So here's hoping that will continue...

#anime #animation

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