Different thing. That's their Brave Rewards thing, which shows you ads (your choice how often) as toaster popups and gets you a part of the revenue as BAT (which can be used to support creators with Brave's tipping service).
The search engine itself shows keyword based ads on search results pages, and Brave offers a $3/mo subscription for ad-free search.
I agree with his point about the films being a snapshot of history, but the examples of ET and Roald Dahl highlight for me the issue. Dahl’s language isn’t very friendly, and the guns in ET are scary and arguably inappropriate, but the film and books are fantastic stories with real-world lessons in an accessible format for kids. Do we just “remake” them? How does that work for books?
> Do we just “remake” them? How does that work for books?
We leave them alone.
And we read for the kids watch movies with them and don't let them access the full library unsupervised.
We never know what triggers kids. I had nightmares about the toy pirate handgun that the other boy at my age had, that and vw mini buses.
I never had nightmares about some rather nasty things I read (described below trigger warning), but I did have nightmares about a toy gun..!
My point is: we have to face reality at some point. And we have to let children think about it and play with it, even if some of them gets scared of guns or even like me, toy guns.
The rest qualify for a trigger warning, stop here if you don't want to read graphic descriptions of what I read as a kid.
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We had free access to the complete local village library (which was located at the school) almost from we started at school and as a nerdy kid I had read a lot about WW2 way before I became a teenager, much of it old books with first hand accounts of what people saw and experienced, mutilated bodies, literal revenge decimations of locals when Germans couldn't find who had sabotaged them, torture and more.
I think they're fine and appropriate. As long as they keep the originals available I don't mind the alternative moralist edits. Just don't force them on me. I'm not interested in such edits.
Are you a creator? A writer, or an artist, or a director? ... Are you a very good one?
Because to the best of my knowledge, no world-class author or director has ever said "Feel free to change my words, images, and choices after I die, however you see fit to make the most money or appease the current narrative".
... And if a creator ever did say that, it would be the exception that proves the rule.
What? How about living ones? Like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. At least Spielberg says he regrets his decision but when it comes to George Lucas and the original Star Wars, there's plenty of people who were very angry at him when you could only get a DVD of the original trilogy that was filled with modern CGI effects and prequel actors that weren't there in the original release. At one point the only way to watch those original edits at home was to get an old VHS set at the flea market.
Whether I'm a creator myself or not has nothing to do with this, and whether the edits are made by the authors themselves or by other people without consent of the now dead author is not really my point here. Both annoy me but of course the latter is even more annoying. I just want an easy access to the unedited works thank you very much.
You said "I don't mind the alternative moralist edits".
I do mind, and my point is that basically every creative would also mind having their work subjected to "alternative moralist edits", especially without their consent and/or after their death.
That's not the same thing as George Lucas adding random CG crap; false equivalence.
If I understand what you're saying, it's that as long as the original is available it's fine, if annoying, for publishers to re-edit and profit from bastardized, censored, altered versions of creators work.
That's why I ask if you're a creator - because no creator, ever, anywhere, at any time, has expressed a preference - or even a tolerance - for having their work fucked with like this.
Well, to me those moralist edits are like those reader's digest books with shortened edits of novels. I really don't mind their existence, as long as they're labeled as special edits for a niche market rather than an attempt to replace the original.
That's not what Spielberg is talking about at all. These rewritings and revision are quite different; in scope, in manner, in presentation and in purpose.
What happened to Dahl, or the 1984 audiobook, etc, are nothing like a Reader's Digest regurgitation.
Dr Seuss books were recently recalled and remade to be less racist and to remove insensitive imagery. Bernstein Bears books all got replaced by Berenstein Bears books, so it's clearly not impossible to do.
> Many people incorrectly remember the name of the series as the "Berenstein Bears". This confusion has generated multiple explanations of the memories, including an unannounced name change, time travel, or parallel universes, and has been described as an instance of the Mandela effect.[87][88][89][90] According to Mike Berenstain, confusion over the name has existed since his father's childhood, when a teacher told him there was no such name as "Berenstain" and the correct spelling was "Bernstein."[91] A few examples of the "Berenstein" spelling have been found in references to and knockoffs of official merchandise[92] and publications,[93] and cartoons for the series used an ambiguous pronunciation which may contribute to the false memory.[94]
Your story is true, but I think this is far too broad a loss to be something like that, even providing a smokescreen. An article I wrote has been lost, and there's nothing controversial in there!
I think this was true in the past, but communities like Premodern, cEDH and, of course, Old School, have managed to sidestep this issue: in the case of Premodern and Old School by sidestepping new releases, and for cEDH by being lenient on proxies.
I don't think Magic will ever _die_, but if it did, these communities could well go on for a lifetime longer.
Let me introduce you to the Star Wars Customizable Card Game by Decipher. It lasted from 1995 until 2001 when Lucasfilm sold toy rights to… Hasbro. Hasbro made a terrible card game to replace it for Episode 2 that has fallen into obscurity. The original game still lives on with a Players Committee and new virtual sets. Compared to Magic the game was a niche of a niche and still exists. If magic ever ‘dies’ I am sure there will be a huge community that steps up to keep it alive.
It’s done Flashback Standard a few times, with preconstructed decks. I forget whether you have a choice over decks.
They’re really fun if you have the nostalgia, but for newer players who want know, for example, what Affinity or Caw-Blade Standard was like, I don’t think they’re that enjoyable.
We pay Heroku thousands of dollars a month for our Staging and Production environments, and one of the reasons we chose them is that we can spin up a toy widget or proof of concept in seconds for free: we probably do a few of those a day, play around with them for a few days or weeks, and then kill them.
Now that these toys aren't free, I would guess likely to move them to AWS or GCP (since they're likely to be cheaper), and at that point we might as well migrate the rest of our stuff as well. It's not just goodwill that Heroku generated from this, it's actual revenue.
As a CTO of a company which has a very similar situation - I can fully agree on that.
We already started looking into a possible migration to another cloud provider.
The biggest decision point would be a similar developer experience as with git push heroku master.
I have some experience with AWS ElasticBeanstalk that I used to migrate to my Heroku apps at some point.
With their Amazon Linux 2 they use the Procfile and it feels VERY close to Heroku with deployments (it has its own quirks though, like they have those managed upgrades that are sometimes breaking the app for some reason, etc.) but I am pretty happy with how easy it is compared to the previous AWS EB platform.
The problem is only the cost, i.e., when you have to pay for everything it is a bit more pricey (and settings are pain, those VPCs and security groups and whatnot, not fun)
Would you mind elaborating on what does the "similar developer experience as with git push heroku master" mean for you?
I'm a founder at https://stacktape.com, and we're trying to provide full power of AWS with a developer-friendly experience, similar to Heroku or serverless framework.
Even after doing a ton of research, I'm still not 100% sure which of the Heroku's features are the killer features that the competing PaaS platforms must replicate in order to have the "Heroku-like" experience.
I'm a long time user of Heroku, have built on top of it as a developer, CTO, etc.
My gut feeling from reading your homepage is that you're automating a lot of AWS service deployments on my behalf, but not "obfuscating" it that much from me either.
Your pricing talks about "Resources" which I assume are either AWS services or instances of those services. The free plan says that a REST api needs 40 resources which seems... like a lot? Is 40 good? bad? :-)
Heroku specifically allows you to think of your app == 1 dyno (depending on how much you scale it obviously), not 40 services.
I also note that the $290/month team plan talks about unlimited resources but doesn't specify their size/capacity. Heroku has sort of t-shirt sized tiers for dynos (and addons as well, like Postgres). What size of resources are you deploying on my behalf?
I do see the value of what you're doing, I'm just not getting a "as easy as Heroku" feeling. It seems potentially more powerful, but also raw-er i.e. this is automated AWS (that I might need to care for / understand), not... "git push heroku master" :-)
Every application (stack) deployed by Stacktape consists of multiple underlying AWS services (resources). For example a database instance, IAM role, auto-scaling policy, log group or a VPC subnet.
Stacktape does not limit the size/capacity (e.g. CPU, memory, GPU type or disk size) of the resources. You can use anything supported by AWS.
Also, the "git push heroku master" is similar to "stacktape deploy --stage production --region us-east-1".
The difference is that Stacktape can run on your system or on any CI/CD service and requires a (very simple) configuration.
I do understand that Stacktape might feel like it's not "as easy as Heroku". But what you trade in terms of simplicity, you get back 10 times in terms of control, flexibility and price reduction.
I only pay $16 dollars for a web and a Postgres dynos, but I have a free redis connected to my production instance.
My staging environment, which I use very occasionally to double-check major changes, is all free dynos.
I know, I know... but they offered, and I took it. Now if I have to pay for Redis that will be $31 per month - so more expensive, for less functionality, unless I double it to $62.
Just seems meh to go from $16 to $62 and not get anything in return.
We'd like to provide exactly this. Git push to deploy, free Serverless backend including SQLite-based storage. Please have a look and sign up for the private beta if you're interested: https://wundergraph.com/cloud-early-access
