#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag @freeschool@qoto.org

We all want real friends / real friendship.

How to get that online is beyond me a bit... and too sensitive in others. Mostly just project based.

Project ends, friendship ends.
Or...?

(example: retro community I find has a real love and sharing beyond looking at each other comparing but is it still read friends?? maybe...)

Making friends - is that a fake notion?... fallacy and just aesthetics somewhat ?

Can someone teach / tell me what they think...

I think there is a bit of a fake fish or fake folklore here... yes you can of course have "hi/bye" friends with some chat in between, often harmless "small talk", but nothing much more than that unless it's really something else keeping you together like WORK as a colleague, free sof project, or PROTESTING against something...

So about real friends I'm not sure they exist more than those who already have their own line and it matches yours (with and without you) including

a) a person being friends generally everyone like "goodwill to all"

or

b) hates the XYZ authority and is willing to team up with people to achieve something ABC or band together (not alwys for life but on their own basis and maybe yours too).

maybe c).. d)... etc exists but anyway this is the basics

Maybe I don't know how to 'Make friends' because whenever you test a friend they are lacking in themselves and flop or get too offended or whatever chosen things instead of build with what we have together as 'friends'

Mind boggling tragic roundabout

Man I really hit good topics... and I'd like to know if I'm far wrong like parent or school that never told me and you find out 30yrs later !! (we all have that I'm sure!)

Hi, video starts from points I was touching on about AI

SAAS runs proprietary and server owner owns server and code.

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=42m26s

AI is mostly the above structure... and even offline not sure if it would be made using xyz technique, Can't trust from who it's made by.

And still no answer about how people can be anon. How the same switch later doesn't turn off bad.

#RMS #Quote #Video #AI
#GNU #Linux #FreeSchool #FreeSoftware #OpenSource
#SAAS #Propriatery #Backdoor #Software

HDMI is proprietary... meaning audio / video signals between devices and screens are NOT Open Source and could be jeopardized since made from HDMI Forum (who are Microsoft and others at 4.51ins as video shows) ...

Click for watch exact place in video:

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=L9VPaYc84s0&t=4m02s

People need: food, shelter, etc...

BUT ALSO NEED LOVE...

Love is often missed out in this list.

Love or practise of respecting people (their spirit, their being) would also reduce wars or at least balance things using the above listed rather than only food and shelter.

Picture is from
https://diaspora.psyco.fr/posts/10661517

#Israel #genocide #gaza #famine #starvation #Westbank #Palestine #US #EU #war

"How do you teach values? By basing those value and actions... not only convenience... "

For A Free Digital Society - Richard M. Stallman [Video + no adverts link]

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=36m04s

#RMS #Quote #FOSS #OpenSource #GNU #Linux

Amazon in 2009 erased 1000's of copies of 1 book... Can you guess which book?

1984 by George Orwell 📖

This link jumps to exact part of video;

https://yt.cdaut.de/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE&t=19m23s

"He said it disappeared while he was reading it... " !!!!!!!!!!! lols 🤣 🤣 🤣

#RMS #Story #Time #WiseUp #FOSS #OpenSource #GNU #Kindle

For A Free Digital Society - Richard M. Stallman [Video]

https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=7ZSPf7YnGfE

NOTE: This is a filtered link (open source software to clear adverts and bad code 🚫 from Stallman's open source themed video!!)

● WHY THIS VIDEO? [first few mins]

ℹ️ The beginning few minutes is how I would start family gatherings when young about photo's uploaded on commercial / spy software / geo-location / meta-tags etc... lol

🤨 Not the best way to start family events but the right way *if* they would only remember so I would only have to say it once for everyone!....

If you sell yourself for free, what do you expect in return?

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Clarifications / A bit more clarity:
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This means:
1● don't expect people even to be thankful when giving them something (happens in real life often where people don't appreciate things, even for logical things that benefit others or things they need - has to be earned or educated somewhat)...

Also means
2● We have to do more to work with each other - so if we must work with money, then do it in the same way (true it might be called illegal etc but this is exactly why we need it). Better communication amongst ourselves not to pay for _everything else_ so much not just software / computing.

3● Expect the wrong hands to use it faster than minority of poor / innocent types and imagine how your ecosystem educates or prevents that as embedded process.

4● Need more hand-holding overall for a human type of training / copying of better habits.

TLDR:
Good people do overlook things above (taken centuries to see the patterns they cheat us with) and even expect people want their stuff or don't have enough to change the world (which let's face it we did probably last century if it wasn't for the wars and lack of knowledge still burning people like witches)

basically helping others helps ourselves

AND we do have to loopback a bit better + involve lesser-skilled people + give credit ....

"No one knows what’s human and what’s AI."
- Creston @crunch
https://defcon.social/@crunch/111938309681540160

Good [practical] point!

#FreeSchool #AI # #Artificial #Intelligence #Freedom #Tech #Technology #Capitalism

"While such moves might make sense from a business perspective, in many cases the result is unhappy subscribers."

#Quote #TV #Adverts #Ads

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HBO Max confirms 2024 password crackdown, explores adding transactional ads

WBD looking for ways to grow newfound streaming business profitability.

Scharon Harding - 3/6/2024, 12:27 AM

Ellie in the HBO show [pic]

Enlarge / Max viewers will soon need their own account to watch Ellie in The Last of Us.
Liane Hentscher/HBO

Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) has confirmed that it will be cracking down on password sharing for its Max streaming service starting this year. The news follows streaming rivals, including Netflix and, soon, Disney-owned Disney+ and Hulu, in banning the sharing of account login information with people outside of the account holder's household.

As spotted by TheWrap, while speaking at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media, and Telecom 2024 conference in San Francisco on Monday, JB Perrette, CEO and president of global streaming and games at WBD, said that WBD sees a password-sharing crackdown as a “growth opportunity."

“Obviously Netflix has implemented [its password crackdown] extremely successfully. We’re gonna be doing that starting later this year and into ’25,” Perrette said.

Netflix famously launched the password crackdown trend in March 2022 and brought the rule changes to US subscribers in May 2023. Netflix had excused password sharing for years, but in 2022, it lost subscribers—about 200,000—for the first time since 2011. At the time, Netflix had 221.64 million subscribers; its most recent subscriber count was 260 million.

However, Max is unlikely to see the same subscriber surge as Netflix did. After all, Netflix's ban on password sharing started after 17 years of gaining millions of subscribers. The Max streaming service has only been around for four years, a number that includes HBO Max, as Perrette pointed out, noting that banning account sharing is still a ”meaningful” financial prospect.

Perrette didn't get into details about how Max’s password crackdown would work and how it might apply to the Discovery+ streaming service that WBD also owns.

New types of ads on Max

WBD is aiming to grow its streaming business with more subscribers and less churn as it expands to other markets and tries to boost content selection following a light year impacted by strikes.

On Monday, Perrette also discussed interest in changing the types of ads its streaming service shows. On the network side, HBO is known as a channel with very few commercials and a primary focus on its own content. Now that WBD is focusing on driving the streaming side of HBO through the Max app, it would prefer that the content be more synonymous with ads. Streaming services report making more money per user on average when they use a streaming subscription with ads rather than paying more for no commercials.

Per Perrette:

On the ad format size, we’ve made lots of improvements from where we were, but we still have a lot of ad format enhancements that will give us more things that we can go to marketers with, [like] shoppable ads [and] other elements of the ad format side of the house that we can improve …

Again, Max isn’t starting a trend here. Amazon Prime Video, for example, is already looking at transactional ads. Disney+ announced beta testing for shoppable ads to advertisers in January. Hulu has worked with transactional ads for years. Peacock sells them, too. Apple TV+ still doesn’t have an ad tier for its streaming service, but recent hires have people suspecting that that may change.

Perrette also touched on scaling WBD’s streaming business by bundling with third-party services, as Max does with Verizon. Perrette said WBD is in discussions with other partners for potential bundles.

WBD’s strategies come as it tries to grow the profitability of its streaming businesses. In its earnings report shared on February 23, WBD said that its direct-to-consumer (DTC) business, which includes the Max and Discovery+ streaming services and HBO network, made a profit of $103 million in 2023. In 2022, WBD’s DTC business lost $2.1 billion. The company most recently reported having 97.7 million DTC subscribers, compared to the 95.8 million that it finished Q2 2023 with.

Outside of Max, WBD is planning to launch a joint sports-streaming app with Fox and Disney; some, including rival streamers, however, have challenged the proposed joint venture as monopolistic. This week, also at Morgan Stanley’s event, Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch said he expects the future sports-streaming service to have 5 million subscribers five years after launch, Bloomberg reported.

But as streaming services like Max contemplate ways to make more money in the near term, subscribers are facing a pivotal point. Streaming is increasingly mirroring traditional cable companies in terms of being ad-driven, promoting long-term subscriptions, enacting price hikes, bundling, and threatening possible consolidation. While such moves might make sense from a business perspective, in many cases the result is unhappy subscribers.
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Scharon is Ars Technica’s Senior Product Reviewer writing news, reviews, and analysis on consumer technology, including laptops, mechanical keyboards, and monitors. She’s based in Brooklyn.

#Offers #Jobs towards ---> #Fediverse #exchange #FediFinance #finance #money #currency

I promise to give you money if you can help solve sending / receiving it... without BigTech and Banks in between (or with much le$$).

And I'm not sure about Crypto at all but that's a maybe (links welcome).

Ideally (magically) if you show me simple steps from start to finish (or detailed simple steps) then in I will really look at trying to send it to you for your efforts or offer my time (but has to be quite good for rewarding people and fairly future-proof / fool-proof for less scamming).

If you can visit me even better and it would be easier in the way to just give it to you.

DM for more info. And help solve this problem of:

staying alive (with money / currency)
vs.
doing things (for free / needing another job / reaching critically low on money).

#Mastodon Payments - a needed concept...

New payment System for Fediverse people?

If you want to imagine a new world then let's do some "World Building" together and cook something up... via DM if needed.

Tto exchange something (in addition to those who can give freely...) and involve some currency... some people will not see giving love as real... or as credible or permanent enough to putting food on table etc... which is fair... so let's have it all!

I say both and many ways to give + give back + take...

What can you dream up? ☁️

#FediFinance #fediverse #exchange #finance #money #currency

'Standard Normal ' and
'Intersectional Random'

Positions on a chess board used for memory testing and visuospatial abilities but for me here I'm using it visually for "Stepping out the comfort box" which can lead to new communication in a different way to different people - so can get you new friends and "new lines of thinking" which may look odd or feel wrong at first (to the stadard matrix system of value / banking / money etc) but it is about being accepting people more and diversifying...

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Pictures Credits:
https://lichess.org/@/NDpatzer/blog/science-of-chess-spatial-cognition-and-calculation/04J8gbBA

Figure 1 from Waters, Gobet and Leyden (2002) - these are the two versions of their chess memory tests used alongside a standardized shape memory task to examine visuospatial memory in players of varying strength.

#Chess #Matrix #Money #Friends #Finance #Humanism #Sentientism #Communication