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Weirdly the article doesn’t mention steganography. Arguably it isn’t quite the same, because the aim of steganography isn’t typically to add an identification, but something like “steganomark” would seem to be fitting.

Forums were best before up/downvoting/likes/reactions and before sort-by-most-popular became a thing. When they were simply a discussion in historical order (possibly threaded) by topic. HN is halfway down the engagement slope with its voting mechanism, its inability to track which comments you already read, and its locking of discussions after a day or two. The last two points prevent long-form asynchronous discussions. The first prevents a shared and stable discussion order, and diverts attention capacity to giving/receiving up/downvotes and to one’s karma level.

Obviously LLM-generated text generally doesn’t have the right quality. People aren’t just annoyed by it being LLM-generated, they are annoyed because the writing is bad in a soulless way.

Without copyright, almost none of the content would get produced, especially in this digital age of zero-cost copying, and “they” (the companies) wouldn’t exist.

I don't think that's true. Copyright isn't more than a few hundred years old. Humans have been making and performing creative works for thousands of years.

Did Shakespeare or Chaucer need copyright? What about da Vinci? And the cave painters of Lascaux?

Sure you may argue that copying had costs back then and doesn't today. Maybe that's the only difference but maybe it isn't. I think creativity and art are human compulsions. Not mere commercial endeavors.

All this to say: it would be a very different industry. But it wouldn't cease to exist.


We had way, way less, and less polished, entertainment a few hundred years ago. Without copyright, you would mostly only get productions like what now exists as fan/amateur projects. Virtually no creator would be able to make a living from it, other than from stage shows (theater/opera/music concerts).

> All this to say: it would be a very different industry. But it wouldn't cease to exist.

You can turn it off: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102. Does that setting not work for you?

More importantly, it would lead to more “product placement” and other underhanded product/brand promotions.

And the real annoyance with YouTube Premium is that the UI is still full of engagement dark patterns.


no it wouldn't, such things are straight up illegal in most places? You have to clearly disclose ads + have clear distinction between ad content and rest of content. A bunch of youtubers have gotten in trouble for this?

You can’t simulate the motion clarity of CRTs (yet).

You don't want to simulate the god-awful flicker my CRT has at 60Hz.

The hysteresis of the phosphor makes this a non-issue in reality. 60Hz looks great on a CRT when the input is a game console or VCR from the era.

Maybe you mean screen tearing, bad deinterlacing, etc. caused by software running on a PC?


No, I mean the screen noticeably flickers when displaying a static image at 60Hz progressive.

I mean... are you bobbing and weaving your head while rolling your tongue or what?

I get that CRTs aren't perfect, but I'm not sure how else to reproduce what you're calling "flicker".


You can increase the refresh rate until it goes away. I don't think anyone notices flicker at 80Hz or so.

Yeah, there's no visible flicker at 70Hz or higher.

The flicker is fine, especially with 240p and 480p.

You do want to simulate it, because it's the only way to preserve the original motion quality of games designed around a fixed 60 fps frame rate without changing the gameplay or adding latency.

My CRT did 1024x768@85 just fine.

> if you edit it to leak a secret the protection is everything.

It’s really not, because knowing when you edited it is already enough, given that there’s a timestamped edit history. And the size and shape of your request payloads will show that you edited it, not merely performed GET requests.


Justifying “they believe it” isn’t so simple, however.


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