GameOfKnowing

Author took his example photos in the backrooms lol

This is true but also not at all the point of a review. Some tools are better suited for some tasks— reviews help those with the privilege of choice find the best ones for them. Otherwise you’d have a review of a hammer saying “this is a great tool for driving screws if you’re not afraid to get cREaTive with it!” Folks who need to make do with what they have already know about their constraints.

… (For Your Love)” -Frankie Valli

I hope you’re right! There’s certainly nothing inherent stopping a widespread shift toward VPN usage and other technical work-arounds that have been part and parcel of internet usage in many countries for decades.

Hey— performer & small site owner here. Most of the hypothetical cases in the media (and these comments) relate to Pornhub, OF, etc— companies that definitely can afford to implement age verification even if it hurts their bottom line. This totally misses the vast majority of porn sites that are very small, operate on licensed technology that may not even be maintained, and would have their ~low-5-digit annual income nuked by the cost of compliance. In these cases, geo-blocking states one by one as they implement these laws becomes the only option. Yeah VPNs exist, but HN users faaaaar over-estimate the technical knowledge & ability of the average American used to having the net served to them on a silver platter.

It's terrifying to know that this is the process for an alert like that going out. I agree with other commenters that this looks like an editorial mistake, but even if not-- a bad-actor journalist (or someone having compromised their Slack account) can get a headline like this on a major wire service in ~10 minutes!? What?!

Legitimate question— is the guy’s name really Jo Blow, or is that a joke?

First, the knocks on post-production completely ignore the history of film development, editing, & printing. The time to an output photo product has only gone down. Drastically. And this piece ignores the needs of the commercial photographers high end glass is designed for, who need not a toy but as few pieces of our as possible to land as many jobs as possible. When you’re working for clients, it’s easier to own less glass and a few pieces of software that will make it look however you want.

Most technical adults I know are in some stage of trying to revert their internet usage back to the offerings this bill would allow through. The less than 1 million users careveout is HUGE— allowing for the power of small forums, federated socials, etc. seems like a great bill unless you’re trying to exploit young people.

It did. You just don’t remember the sublime experience that once was.

The author takes a very narrow claim— that fax machines are popular in Japan— and expands it into a weak orientalist takedown of Japan’s objectively advanced society. They even go so far as to acknowledge infrastructure masterworks like Bullet trains only to discount them because of a (still globally used!) piece of office hardware that has fallen out of favor in the US tech sector. Whatever, dude…

Whoa— yeah, that’s hard to un-see. I can’t believe they missed that (and that I did at first glance)

The breath rate application really got my mind turning here— replacing 2 wearables (breath monitor, fall monitor) with a wireless device, and pulse sensing can already be done by video. Imagine walking into a hospital room or grandma’s home & having full bio monitoring with no tubes or cables…

This is a system dreamed up by those who have been on the right side of hard power for long enough to forget it exists.

Yeah this is hilarious.

Without any context, this makes for a pretty epic article title

[speaking in tongues]

Correct me if I’m misreading the article, but it’s interesting that the differentiators Graham is citing are relatively low-level, (ie keenel stuff, cpu architecture, and OS hacking), whereas almost everyone in these comments is making statements about GUI elements and even display switching. Kinda goes to show just how abstracted away the concerns of even 16 years ago have become to today’s ~devs~

A) this is awesome. Great job

B) they seem to be leaving some motherboard longevity on the table by not using an AMD and/or server CPUs, which tend to use the same socket & chipset for longer.

You should probably delete it.

I’ll sell all my texts for $15.

Honestly given that weird explanation, I think Occam’s Razor says that ship can fly 0.0

This article is basically describing the UNIX philosophy from a user-facing perspective, right?

Evangelical-backed child trafficking suits are a red herring that threatens to send every part of our internet infrastructure-- from government regulation to ISP rules to social media sites' internal polciies-- down the path to complete censorship of anything mildly risque.

We all know exactly what kind of research is going down in Workspace 4...

If you think this is bad, then I have bad news about literally the entire field of ML...

I totally agree, and, as far as I know, Tom treats his employees quite well. What I’m getting at here is that, in the art world, the most expedient/comfortable/logical way for a worker to do a task doesn’t correlate to a competitive advantage as it might in other industries. For better worse! Artistic struggle is marketable.

Consider Marina Abromovic’s “Rhythm 0” or RAE’s residence in a storefront window. Consenting, controlled discomfort can be a medium in itself.

As true as this may be in much of industry, it doesn’t really apply to the fine art marketplace Sachs is operating in. Through video pieces like this and by leaving intentional imperfection (ave might say “apprentice marks”) in finished sculpture, Sachs makes his studio practice a part of the work. By developing & communicating the unique processes he uses, Sachs imbues his sculptures with origin narratives, adding market value as collectors consider not only the object but the performance that brought it into existence. Being able to talk about all the unneccary hoops they jumped through to make a piece is a definite boon. Finally, since a tremendous portion of the work coming out of the Tom Sachs studio was physically produced entirely by assistants, Sachs-dictated processes help to center Tom himself in the work while reducing the authorial role of assistants. Collectors aren’t interested in the comfort or intentionality of some no-name assistant.

At the end of the day, today’s collectors aren’t buying for a specific end product— they’re buying for an artist’s name and the STORY of the work. Better story -> bigger valuation -> More effective tax shelter