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> and some good stuff

which is mostly inexistent on Netflix


That's a matter of opinion. Other people all over this thread have shared what they think are good Netflix shows and movies.

It's the opinion of Netflix execs, who have expressed envy over how much money HBO is still making off of decades old IP. Not a lot of Netflix content has legs like that, but I suppose that's about to change with the WB acquisition.

> how much money HBO is still making off of decades old IP

I'd say Disney is the uncontested king of making money off old work. If HBO was that good they wouldn't have been scooped up so easily.

Netflix execs may be envious of the enduring cultural cachet of shows like The Sopranos or The Wire. That's completely different from making real money.


I'm not sure Netflix execs spend much time worrying about cultural cachet like that. They care about popularity and virality but I think they'd be 100% contented to make 100 reality shows like the one I affectionately dubbed "Sluts Island" that each make them $10 million than make one Sopranos-type show that makes them $500 million and 57 Emmys.

Very close to Netflix's core business: violence.

I don't find Netflix "live action" movies to be super violent and there are a lot of non-violent shows. Its animations can be quite violent though (and those are good quality). From the little I know, it, like every other big platform, does shy away from sex. This has been a theme for decades - its ok to be violent but sex is a no no.

> I don't want abstraction layers that I have no purpose for.

That is the main issue in modern software. The only way to "improve" something, is to add another abstraction layer.


> I'm not sure that that's the win that you think it is. Linux 10 to 20 years ago was pretty terrible, at least on desktops.

Huh ? It worked much better than today. It was not so bloated and people kept improving things instead of changing them every year.


> Meanwhile there are 1000's of works that people are free to take.

Yeah, if you know where they are. Where can I download a public domain, silent movie ?


They have Baby Yoda now, much better than Mickey Mouse.

> “Internal company materials explain that simply viewing the advertisement is enough to trigger the infection on the target’s device, without any need to click on the advertisement itself.”

Who would have thought that a web browser executes remote code ? /s


> AI Autonomously Finds 7 FFmpeg Vulnerabilities

I heard that AI can code. And test. Maybe it shall submit a fix.


> Software QA using Nuclear

> This example demonstrates how Tasker Mode can run developer QA workflows, automating repetitive testing tasks. The agent navigates applications, performs test actions, and validates expected behaviors.

That explains why software quality has gone downhill.

Unexpected behavior ? Never heard of it.



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