Oh for sure, browsers are complex beasts, but Ladybird already supports quite a decent chunk of the web. For an initial alpha (which they explicitly point out to be for developers and early adopters) to still be 2 years away feels a bit far out to me.
The alpha release is intended to be fully functional, in the usual sense of alpha testing. That is ambitious. It's not like a shitty game on Steam (or Star Citizen) where "alpha" means 10% of features completed. That is 30 million lines of complexity due within 2 years. Ignoring lines of code, some of these problems within a browser are time consuming and difficult to solve from scratch.
Couldn't the players who purchased legal copies of the game in territories when it was allowed and now is banned; couldn't they file a class-action lawsuit against Sony?
They bought a game and now cannot play it. Classic breach of contract and expected product that was paid for.
"The researchers examined ENDS-related Instagram posts in December 2023, using a simulated 14-year-old female's profile to search hashtags such as #vapelife, #vapecommunity, and #ecig. The team reviewed 51 posts from these hashtags to assess the presence of health-related warnings and common themes."
- Direct Quote from the article
It's not marketing if people are searching hashtags.
I was living in a building that converted to "smart" locks (not Latch) in the middle of my lease. It was horrible. It mostly worked but, it added daily frustration and friction. There was almost no benefit for me and it all went to the landlord. There is a record of every time I entered my apt that I'm not in control of. It made it harder for delivery people because the complex already had an intercom system and now I had to give directions to two different systems to successfully deliver.
It was one of the main drivers for me to move out. I will never rent an apt with a system like that again. Now I know to ask if they have "smart" locks and will avoid them like the insecure plague they are.
They also had some wireless box that communicated with my apt lock that I had to put in my apt, connect it to my wifi, and use my power, all without any compensation.
Movie studios don't want the tech to be a button that spits out a movie. Because if a movie studio can do it, then Netflix can do it better in-house. If Netflix can do it, then a group of dedicated fans can do it for the fun of it.
Imagine a bunch of Marvel fans mad over the last few Thor movies making a gritty, comics accurate version. Imagine fans making the DC vs Marvel move that literally couldn't exist because of the studios would never allow it? Star Trek/Starwars crossover?
In a world where entertaining media becomes easy to produce, the only thing about the studio system worth anything is the distribution. Netflix would eat them alive.
The end state is something like media becomes so easy to create that most of it is only watched by the person who created it and even then probably not even that.
How many stable diffusion images are glanced at out of the 4 that pop up in MidJourney and are never looked at again but, just sit on MidJouney's servers forever? Eventually movies and video games will be this disposable.
Out of that might come gems that would have never otherwise been made but, most of it will be garbage.
This would be like Japanese manga industry in contrast to marvel/dc. U have so many one man armies who are working on so many different topics. The endless creativities are just unmatched. You could have a single person to create the media empire like one piece.
The manga space is much more interesting than typical comics. I'd love to see the same thing in the other media
Yeah, I think it'll be a lot like how Vocaloid hasn't destroyed the market for real vocalists. If anything it's the exact opposite, where people get into the medium via it and end up as actual vocalists, like Reol with No Title-/No Title+. Besides just vocalists, the lower barrier to entry has produced a lot of producers, many of whom also eventually migrate to working with real vocalists.
> Imagine a bunch of Marvel fans mad over the last few Thor movies
I'd imagine a more likely scenario would be a bunch of fans of a cancelled Netflix show generate another season. There's already been a bunch of scripts for The OA Season 3 generated by ChatGPT.
Imagine all the grassroots movies. Already some of the Star Wars fan shorts are getting pretty good and the writing is already better than some of the movies that hit the theaters.
YouTube wins when content is created by everyone. They win Big.
In developing economies, YouTube has better reach than broadcast TV. I can get a good chunk of old and new content from non Anglo countries overseas right through a YouTube search.
It does not invalidate the point of this comment, but in the context of this article -- the contract dispute between SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP -- Netflix is a "Hollywood studio". Netflix joined the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers in 2021.
>The end state is something like media becomes so easy to create that most of it is only watched by the person who created it and even then probably not even that.
Sounds like how Trek envisioned holodeck programs. Though I guess a lot of those were "what if I could chill with a book character"
this is explained well by Mark Fisher and Capital Realism, although it is a bit more grim than your take, essentially all pop culture becomes too commoditized and meaningless as a direct consequence of late stage capitalism
Cannot agree more. Communication shouldn't be a specialized skill like writing code or designing bridges. It's a universal that is accessible to everyone and should be taught to everyone. It's exactly why colleges have general education.
If someone finds that their team keeps getting in trouble or failing due to mis-communication as a pattern, then something deeper is wrong.
