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Kenneth Anger has died

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Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by z3c0 »

dihdif wrote: post #19
TheRealPomax wrote: post #18

Can't say I'm a fan of the whole "blacking out the website because someone's running adblock" though. Adblock is how modern browsers work because it turns out the internet couldn't be trusted to responsibly run them. Blacking out a site until someone turns them off is a literal dark pattern.

If a site is ad-supported, they should be free to apply any policy they want to control potential revenue loss due to adblockers. Running an adblocker is literally a "free rider" strategy. I've been online since the 90s and have never felt the need to do it. I probably have a high tolerance for unwanted ads, but that's the luck of the draw. What entitles you to run one?

Ad Nauseum clicks ads before blocking them (with uBlock Origin), so it's possible for someone to block ads while providing visited sites with the clicks they need.

That aside, what one does with information they've been handed is up to them. When you're in a crowded room, do you feel its entitled to tune out all the noise to only hear the conversation you're interested in?

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by s-video »

I watched Lucifer Rising when I was a teenager because some of my Tumblr friends recommended it to me. While I can't say I took much away from it other than it looked cool, I'll always have some fond memories of that time associated with it.

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by dredmorbius »

prvc wrote: post #23

Simple past in the headline might be more appropriate ("died" instead of "has died"), since the event took place on May 11, 2023 (the better part of a month ago).

" has died" is an HN convention:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%22has%20died%22>

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by TheRealPomax »

masfuerte wrote: post #25
TheRealPomax wrote: post #18

Can't say I'm a fan of the whole "blacking out the website because someone's running adblock" though. Adblock is how modern browsers work because it turns out the internet couldn't be trusted to responsibly run them. Blacking out a site until someone turns them off is a literal dark pattern.

The website works fine with javascript disabled. And there are no ads.

Too bad modern browsers don't have a "turn off JS" button. NoScript is the best you can get, and any sane config for NoScript is "allow first party JS, don't allow third party JS", so it might run fine but no on in their right mind is going to go "I wonder what happens if I even turn off first party JS?". It should work if JS is disabled, but it should also work with ad blockers turned on because it's 2023 and ad blockers are not going away.

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by TheRealPomax »

dihdif wrote: post #19
TheRealPomax wrote: post #18

Can't say I'm a fan of the whole "blacking out the website because someone's running adblock" though. Adblock is how modern browsers work because it turns out the internet couldn't be trusted to responsibly run them. Blacking out a site until someone turns them off is a literal dark pattern.

If a site is ad-supported, they should be free to apply any policy they want to control potential revenue loss due to adblockers. Running an adblocker is literally a "free rider" strategy. I've been online since the 90s and have never felt the need to do it. I probably have a high tolerance for unwanted ads, but that's the luck of the draw. What entitles you to run one?

That's literally the web: the entire thing is a free ride, because if you put data online, you knowingly and willingly agreed to the fact that serving that data up from your server to visitors means that data is free. That's the fundamental basis of the web.

And if you don't like that, and you don't want visitors but customers, stick your content behind a login. What data you serve is up and how you do that is to you, you fully control that, but what happens once that data is on a user's computer is up to them. Because now it's in their house, not yours, and they get to decide what to do with it, not you.

If a site can't exist without ads, you have some thinking to do as site owner, but you don't get to yell about how I parse and render the data you send without charging for it. Ads are not "part of the deal", they just something you slapped on in the hopes that someone else's obtrusive content makes you some money, by the grace of that someone else. No deal, kid.

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by MichaelZuo »

blast wrote: post #3

His brilliant short about polishing a car is rather hard to forget. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7Dk4z2oiQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kustom_Kar_Kommandos

This is more artistic then many full length 'art-house' films.

Re: Kenneth Anger has died

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Post by at_a_remove »

mysecretaccount wrote: post #15
at_a_remove wrote: post #5

I just got his Magic Lantern cycle, will be watching it with a friend. I've been considering annotating Hollywood Babylon as a gift.

> I've been considering annotating Hollywood Babylon as a gift. What does annotating mean in this context?

Good question -- I don't have a method yet because I would hate to write in the book proper, but I would like to add bits like "we saw this movie" or "this actor was in this film you liked" and otherwise put more of it in a mutual context for my friend.
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