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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • It shouldn’t be.

    This kind of reframing of the words (by Denmark, not you) has led in the past to the abuse of what something is called to reshape slavery in modern times.

    On the surface, this seems like a great idea: give the people autonomy on their likeness and its use.

    What if you’re in debt? Sell your likeness? Should companies be allowed to lure ppl with commercials about making money by selling their likeness? Should we create laws about extortion and coercion that include forcibly making someone give up their likeness? Short-term likeness “rental farms”? What if the terms of the likeness are a different financial mechanism like a reverse mortgage or a lease? International laws agree on all these terms?

    We also collectively determined that slavery is illegal, but it still happens by exactly manipulating the mechanisms to get at the resource: come work in the Arab Emirates. Come to Canada, send money back to your family. If you pay me $5k, I will get you out of this hellhole to a country where you can have a job, money, freedom… But you have to spend 6 weeks in a shipping container and give us 6 months of work when you get there.

    The only way to make a person’s likeness an inviolable right is to make it an inviolable right… With no monetary value.



  • I’m sure these are accurate statements, but the fact remains that I’ve never heard of dropout or nebula. At all.

    And the only reason I’ve heard of floatplane is via LTT and Jeff Geerling, and I don’t actually use the platform itself.

    That’s what I mean about inertia, google has it now and can coast for years on people just being lazy and staying with YouTube. That alone will be a loooong hill to climb for any other platforms.

    LTT seems to have enough clout and has worked out a survivable business model, but notice that they remain on YouTube to capture and keep new views.


  • You are correct. Websites, the stack to supply video encoding, even scalability is a solved problem.

    The hard work isn’t technical, it’s getting people onto your platform in the first place (marketing), getting people to continue using your platform (retention) and the perennial problems of SaaS evolving with other SaaS platforms (how many dev hours are you willing to eat trying to keep up with the Joneses?).

    SaaS, and in this case, SaaS offering content, is a losing game. You will either lose your shirt, sell your business, or become entrenched in a position whose inertia is difficult to break. How much of any of those you are willing to take a firehose of is the question.






  • I’m not doing that.

    Staying quiet because it will make daddy angry to talk about it is still abuse.

    Toddlers also have to learn object permanence and that the world will still talk about toys, even if they don’t have any. People will bring the annexation threats up, because it was top of mind and, quite frankly, scary for us for a few months.

    And we’re allowed to do that.

    If Trump can be laughed at by literally the entire UN in 2018, he can withstand some talk of what he himself brought about.

    Despite the jokes and fitting comparisons, Donald Trump is not a child, he is an adult, and must (not should) face the ramifications of his words and actions.