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Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
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#242Now points to: https://foone.tumblr.com/post/705446706461949953/hello-hacke...
What?
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#243Now points to: https://foone.tumblr.com/post/705446706461949953/hello-hacke... What?
They don't like traffic from HN for some reason, and this childish reaction is because of that.
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#244Earlier quoted context omitted.
Which occasionally has unexpected consequences. The licensing of the music on certain movies didn't anticipate the internet. And the studios never came to an agreement. As a result you can buy DVDs of movies like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullets_Over_Broadway , but you can't rent them off of any streaming service. Given that most of us no longer have DVD players, th…
For that matter, the licensing of the music on certain TV series didn't anticipate DVDs. Northern Exposure and WKRP in Cincinnati were missing a lot of the original music on the DVDs--although this is apparently partly corrected in the newer complete series releases.
Same shit happened with GTA, on Steam for example. Lots of music pulled retroactively with an update, because licenses expired.
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Sexual shame damages people. I grew up in a Catholic household where my sex ed consisted of Focus On The Family's workbooks, and their blame and shame, sinful outlook on what turns out to be a normal part of most mammalian lives. Echoing the sentiment of a sibling comment: this damaged me. I'm middle aged now, and some of residual shame-trauma still exists. That shame mechanism is one of the things that enables sexua…
There is definitely a place for things that are not shameful, but not spoken about. I am not ashamed to go to the bathroom, but do not talk about it.
I live in a society where all sex related things are in that category. It is impolite and discouraged to randomly talk about anything sex related. But if you have reason [for example consulting with someone with more experience], than it is encouraged and totally OK.
There are VERY strong social norms, including not to be queer, not to view porn, not to commit adultery [to use the example of the OP]. Someone struggling can talk openly to get help. Someone who disagrees (eg. gay) will usually leave the society where they are not accepted.
It is a shame to confuse privacy and self respect with shame.
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#246Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sexual shame damages people. I grew up in a Catholic household where my sex ed consisted of Focus On The Family's workbooks, and their blame and shame, sinful outlook on what turns out to be a normal part of most mammalian lives. Echoing the sentiment of a sibling comment: this damaged me. I'm middle aged now, and some of residual shame-trauma still exists. That shame mechanism is one of the things that enables sexua…
There is definitely a place for things that are not shameful, but not spoken about. I am not ashamed to go to the bathroom, but do not talk about it. I live in a society where all sex related things are in that category. It is impolite and discouraged to randomly talk about anything sex related. But if you have reason [for example consulting with someone with more experience], than it is encouraged and totally OK. Th…
Cool story.
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#247Formats like this sort of reenforce Steve Albini's claim that he only records to tape because he's more certain people will be able to play it back hundreds of years from now than any other (digital) format. The tech is super simple and requires no proprietary anything. He believes that even the most open digital formats will become obscure and forgotten eventually and no one will really be able to playback lots of m…
> Formats like this sort of reenforce Steve Albini's claim that he only records to tape because he's more certain people will be able to play it back hundreds of years from now This article seems like a pretty strong argument in the opposite direction: about a tape format which is effectively unreadable without significant heroics (to the extent that a documentary was made about trying to play one of these tapes.) Th…
He uses magnetic tape that has been in use for nearly 100 years and continues to be.
Re: Fun Fact: I own porn I can't watch
#248Formats like this sort of reenforce Steve Albini's claim that he only records to tape because he's more certain people will be able to play it back hundreds of years from now than any other (digital) format. The tech is super simple and requires no proprietary anything. He believes that even the most open digital formats will become obscure and forgotten eventually and no one will really be able to playback lots of m…
> He believes that even the most open digital formats will become obscure and forgotten eventually and no one will really be able to playback lots of music that was only recorded that way. Oh please. Just use raw PCM audio. No one will ever lose track of how to play that. A 10.5 inch reel of 2 inch tape can be digitized just fine to 16 bit samples, 44/48kHz, 24 channels, most of an hour. That's about 7 gigabytes. So…
I doubt it. There’s a better chance we don’t even use modern computer architecture and everything about todays computers appear archaic and that all the knowledge is lost. And tons of stuff is left behind.
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#249Now points to: https://foone.tumblr.com/post/705446706461949953/hello-hacke... What?
They don't like traffic from HN for some reason, and this childish reaction is because of that. In order to view the content, check this archive link: https://archive.is/I00Gh
What's wrong with traffic from HN? I mean, more readers = good thing?
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#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the early 80's, I modified a VHS cassette by placing a cylindrical high-strength magnet adjacent to the tape path on the takeup side. There was a nearly perfect pre-existing pocket in the case webbing to put the magnet with a dot of glue. The idea was to make a play-once, self-erasing cassette. Although not perfect, it was effective enough to really screw up the second playback. Probably screwed up the tape deck,…
That was a common "self destruct" mechanism for VHSes issued by courts and other legal agencies for sharing decisions and reviewing certain evidence. One of the VHS archiving communities I'm in found one in a sealed envelope at an estate sale, played it, and then started a thread describing the content and asking if anyone knew why they couldn't get it to play a second time.
I played with the idea as one way to deal with a problem client. At the time I had never heard of the method.