Author, Do you really think Twitter's investors will accept taking a haircut and allow that company to go non profit ? That's a stupid assumption. Twitter has value, it is just over valuated right now.
lol, can someone write a generator that generates this kind of non sense ? This is the kind of bullshit statement that gets often upvoted on HN and I love it !
With neocons like Hillary Clinton who takes a lot of Saudi money anything is possible except bombing Saudi Arabia. And USA always needed a big bad enemy for fear mongering, Saddam, Bin Laden, Putin, US needs a "big baddy" to justify its insane military spendings.
> And USA always needed a big bad enemy for fear mongering
Not only for fearmongering. From the pen of a "conspiracy theorist" George F. Kennan, former US ambassador to Moscow and distinguished Council on Foreign Relations member:
"Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy."
Look's like I've said one of those "true if you think it's a good thing, crazy conspiracy if you thank it's a bad thing" facts. No one really denies the link between Jewish Americans, the various Jewish organizations that are active in politics (AIPAC, ADL etc) and US Foreign policy. But people strongly deny this in the context where people criticize foreign policy, and want to redirect discussion towards safe topics like the military industrial complex or oil.
Some will say the most American Jews are liberals and therefore wouldn't support neoconservatism. It's true that they are mostly liberals on domestic policy, but by judging candidates on a single issue (Israel) they end up implicitly helping neoconservative thinking, which places the most emphasis in the US-Israel relation.
Twitter is valuated $10B but it's hard to see Twitter selling for more than Yahoo. It's a tool that might be useful for a tiny part of internet users , marketers, journalists and drama kings/queens but frankly for most of us Twitter is useless, worse it is actually dangerous as it has ruined careers and was used to launch witch hunts or falsely accuse people of sexual crimes. I'm not touching that toxic platform with a ten foot pole.
How about writing libraries with clean API and encapsulation ? because basically your argument is "Our developers aren't disciplined enough to write clean API, so we need to force it with http calls ...".
It's not clear whether David is involved in this project. Nothing against it but if you're going to use someone else's assets make sure you get at least his blessing. The author of the campaign is NOT David Revoy but some unknown guy from Russia. I personnally would not give any money to this kind of project if the original author is not clearly involved, Creative Commons or not.
They don't need his blessing because David Revoy explicitly released their webcomics under CC-BY. Although you're right about your clarification, I think the parent just wanted to talk about David Revoy in general rather than the author of the animation campaign.
I'm also confused about the involvement of David Revoy with this project, although it seems he isn't involved at all. I wasn't endorsing the campaign owner, I'm just sharing the love for David Revoy himself. If someone wants to support David, the best way would be to use his patreon page!
They are putting his name everywhere in the campaign like he is involved or something. He is clearly not. That's misleading and can be potentially detrimental to the person's reputation if the campaign ends up being a scam.
Again they might have the right to use his assets, they don't have the right to use his name to get money from people like this. That's completely wrong.
License requirements are generally not well understood at large, even among activists and other people involved with copyleft/free culture/etc. There's a plausible scenario where content author B takes content author A's work, creates something based on it, adds what looks like is the necessary (minimal) attribution that you're talking about here, and then content author A regards it as an attempt to diminish the credit that is due to them.
Content author B, being a thoughtful person and wanting to mitigate this response, but not wanting to allow B's own publication to hinge on establishing a dialogue with A beforehand, may look at this and opt to take a "safer" approach, which involves liberally giving credit so that attribution is well-known. (In other words, what the phrase "for good measure" means; no one can reasonably say that B was trying to diminish any credit due to A.)
Now, your comments here are indistinguishable from the ones someone would have posted after looking at the facts that we have and asking themselves, "what's the worst possible way to interpret this situation so that I can infer malice from this series of events?". I don't know if this is what you did, but the point is, your output here is indistinguishable from that of someone who had.
Here's where the strang-loopiness shows up and where the kicker lies: if you take exception with this line of argument, (so long as you're internally consistent) then you are necessarily compelled to be upset with your own earlier statements that you've made here.
It doesn't matter what you think. I advise anybody not to give a cent to that campaign until it is made clear whether the original artist supports it, or not.
Everything below "production process will include following steps" makes it clear that original artist is not involved. See also this text - "The money collected from this campaign will go for production of one motion comic video, based on the «The Potion Contest» episode".
It's a mandatory requirement of license to "give appropriate credit" - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed
If author of the campaign wouldn't put David's name on the artwork, then that would be violation of license condition. Let me know if you can specify any other way to "give appropriate credit", without mentioning the name of original author. ^__^
We had David Revoy over to our place last weekend for the Krita sprint (https://krita.org/en/item/new-builds-to-test-krita-sprint-to...) and he was very enthusiastic about this project, saying that Nikolai was really good at drawing. He loved the trailer! The campaign definitely is blessed by David.
The campaign is also endorsed by Konstantin Dmitriev, the person behind the Morevna project who gave Synfig a new lease of life.
I wish Twitter really had a way to filter subscriptions by "channels". If you tweet about databases and I subscribe because you did, I don't want to get photos of your daughter's birthday, your wedding, your favorite gang-star rap music, or your opinion about Hillary or Trump. I ended up un-following a lot of prominent devs because of this.
If Twitter had a way to filter followed people messages by keyword or hashtag It would lead to a healthier environment on that platform. Unfortunately since Twitter basically locked access to its API, writing a fully featured client with that capability isn't even a viable alternative for the terrible UX ...
This is an unsolved problem; some people work around it by managing multiple twitter accounts, one for each "channel". It doesn't scale by topics, though.
OTOH if I have to think about which channel / user I tweet to, I think people would tweet less. A bit of noise is ok, I guess.
Not a complete solution, but if you use a third-party client like Tweetbot (on iOS & Mac) or Fenix (Android) you should be able to setup a variety of mute filters, for example by keyword or hashtag. Putting Trump & Hillary as mute filters is one of the quickest ways to make your tweetstream more sane.
I still tweet sometimes about Eurovision, which I know must annoy many of my followers, so I try to use the hashtag on every Eurovision related post so that others can mute it if they're not interested. (I guess I should do the same for infosec & coding, so Eurovision fans who aren't into the tech stuff can mute those too.)
Nice idea, I didn't find a good client on PC that does it.
But it shouldn't be up to you or your followers to sort the tweets, I don't understand why Twitter doesn't implement this basic feature. The hell it could be something done in the front-end with no server-side code involved at all.
