This is how it happens for me. Names, dates, important details. I know them. They are on the tip of my brain. But I can't access them in a timely fashion.
So, there's a inherent problem with blocking working both ways on a forum style site or platform like Lemmy.
When you block someone and the block goes through, if it works both ways, that means your comments or exchanges with that person disappear. The problem with that? They disappear for you and the person you blocked. Anyone else who comments can see the thread. But you both no longer can. So say someone comes along and responds to you on that thread. Or to the other person on that thread? Will their comment go through? Will you be able to see their comment? Will you be able to reply to their comment?
It becomes more complicated and further can affect users not related to or involve with the block depending on how it's handled and for the most part that's problematic.
I think we should be differentiating a "block function" (and neither the twain shall meet) from a "mute function" (a one way filter).
I feel like this might genuinely just be better than giving people a false understanding of what the filter they are using does.
I'd love to know what you do when you can't find a DVD still in print? Media companies like Disney and Paramount etc have been deliberately limiting the number of DVD's and other physical formats available, putting whole movies and series "in the vault" for the purposes of manufacturing scarcity. Piracy is largely a matter of economic affordability and ease of access. I can pirate. The point is when I had these titles available to buy, I bought media rather than pirate it. I preferred to. And when it's not easily available or locked to specific services I'm boycotting etc there's few avenues left. I can appreciate that you were trying to give me a legal avenue to obtain what I want, but I feel like you missed the forest for the trees here.
Looks like from a cursory search only 12 of them available of about 22.
I was. Until they made that so difficult and time consuming that the barrier to entry was too high. Not because of the price. But because of availability. When Google play music was a thing? I bought music. When streaming took over I moved to Bandcamp. But Bandcamp doesn't have everything. There's no music stores anymore where I can just go and buy music. It's all Amazon and similar.
I'd love to own the ghibli collection. But to get it I have to buy the DVD's (and have a DVD player to play them on), or I have to pirate them. No digital store front seems to have the whole collection. This happens all the time with media that I'm willing to pay for.
I block people mostly because I don't want to upvote anything they have to say in the future. Usually because something they have said to me or someone else is so egregious that I don't care to know what else they might say.
The other reason comes down to harassment, or deliberate misuse of tags.
The opening riff to this song instantly transports me back in time. It feels like being back then.
With or without the pedophile involved?
While I appreciate some of the clarification in the actual linked article, I don't like that it makes claims that Google has done this but doesn't post a link about the specifics. When did Google make such claims about their AI and what were the claims?
It's interesting to me that they infiltrated what's essentially been kind of a bastion of rabid pro LGBTQ+ rights media. There's a lot of pro-trans users on Tumblr. It'd be like going to xitter and trying to infiltrate and spread pro-liberal information. The main user base doesn't really align with that.
My biggest issue right now is trying to figure out what I need/want to work vs things I don't need. This list is one I've been keeping of things that I want it to do/be compatible with:
Weather Calendar News/RSS Feed Light Panel Media Panel Search Query Panel Use of Voice controls Singular touchscreen hub and android phone Works with Google home max speakers and Google nest mini speakers Chromecast equivalent functionality
It's based on the things I use Google Assistant for daily or at the very least weekly. Most all of it can be done with an android tablet and my raspberry pi. But implementing it to be the way I want isn't as simple (hasn't been as simple for me) and I think that's down to following guides for a lot of things that weren't necessarily intended to work together cohesively.
I use my notes app to try to mitigate this. If I remember. Which. Well.