This is refreshing to hear. For a while it seemed like Apple was clamping down on things like employees organizing and requesting remote work on Slack earlier in the pandemic.
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Iefthandrule commented on Apple tells workers they have right to discuss wages, working conditions reuters.com/business/appl... · Posted by u/dev_tty01
First, I don't consider auto-playing content a commercial, and I don't consider the promoted content to be a commercial, either. (It's an advertisement, but not a commercial.) To me, a commercial is something that advertises something I'm not watching and prevents me from watching what I want to. A non-skippable trailer for a movie is a commercial, for instance.
So I don't consider Netflix to have commercials... And I'm pretty sure I turned that autoplay crap off in every instance that I could anyhow.
We've also got Disney, Showtime, Paramount+, HBO Max, and ... I feel like there's another. I haven't seen commercials on any of them, though I understand that some of them have forced commercials for certain shows on them, which I think is total BS. The live TV streams on them still have commercials, also, which I don't watch, ever. When available, I chose the subscriptions that eliminated commercials.
> To me, a commercial is something that advertises something I'm not watching and prevents me from watching what I want to. A non-skippable trailer for a movie is a commercial, for instance.
Autoplaying content is the advertising of something you were not watching (if you wanted to watch something you would have selected it) and prevents you from watching what you wanted to (again, you wanted to watch nothing, otherwise you would have selected something).
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Iefthandrule commented on Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/te... · Posted by u/1cvmask
Finance has plenty of articles written about it but you don't see them because that's not a part of your media diet. Finance has made some pretty significant strides to diversify post 2008 due to public pressure.
Do you have any evidence from your media diet? I see recent articles over the past year that it isn't successful in diversifying.
Iefthandrule commented on Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/te... · Posted by u/1cvmask
Getting into tech and getting a great-paying job is achievable and realistic for anyone from any background, right now. It's completely unregulated, there's no gatekeeping outside of factual knowledge, and people are actively encouraging diverse applicants with non-traditional educational backgrounds. Even if the experience for these people is not always as good as it could be, the community is trying.
Getting into finance is not even remotely like this. It's a brutal old-boys' club.
That's why they recommend the former. You'd have to be insane to recommend that most people try to break into finance.
The point being made is that finance is far more exclusionary and racist/sexist than tech, but tech gets all the articles written about it. The onus would be on those with power to change hiring in finance, much like the big tech companies are tasked with making tech more inclusive.
The predicted fracture has started, with different networks starting their own streaming services. Luckily, there seems to be an acceptable minimum level of quality in the UI and service so far, which was one of my fears.
We subscribe to a number of the services, but it's still cheaper than cable TV and there are no commercials, and it's all "on demand" which still seems to be pretty iffy on cable directly.
I feel like it's going to be a constant struggle to only subscribe to the ones that we're actually using, but it isn't as bad as I feared yet.
I'm still predicting that they'll get ridiculously fractured, and then realize their mistake and start bundling together again.
It has kind of already happened with Paramount+ and Showtime's bundle, and I think some of the others were doing it before them even. But these bundles are just a bandaid. You still need to actually use 2 different sites/apps to view your TV, and it's hard to get a list of what shows have new episodes across all the sites/apps. We end up just starting up each app and checking until we find something we want to watch right then.
What services are you using that have no commercials? I would definitely consider Netflix auto-playing content by default a type of commercial.
I must have touched a nerve among the Netflix base
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Iefthandrule commented on Tech journalism is less diverse than tech (2020) oonwoye.com/2020/07/31/te... · Posted by u/1cvmask
> I have never received a satisfactory answer for why a lot of people from these fields are all about "Everyone should learn to code" initiatives, but not, say "Everyone should learn to be a citizen journalist", or "Everyone should learn to be a copy editor".
Software pays significantly more. Why push people into lower paying jobs?
You don't see narratives about how everyone should get into finance. That is certainly a good ol boys club.