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Yeah, I understand your shock at this. And don't give Disney too much credit - Jerry Bruckheimer and the screenwriters made an objectively great movie with Black Pearl. One screenwriter wrote Aladdin, (story for) Treasure Planet, and Zorro movies, so swashbuckling movies were already his jam.
Personally, I think it makes sense that dark fantasy pirate media is so meager compared to dark westerns. The 30's to 50's had a lot of pulp media and adventure movies that were churned out at an insane rate. Pirate movies were a tiny portion of that because they're expensive to make. You need, at the very least, one big-ass wooden ship. Maybe two. Plus a bunch of sets. Westerns are much, much cheaper, and could be filmed in a studio lot within the Los Angeles city limits, or even just a 30 minute drive north or east. If you look at the most expensive Westerns ever made, it's mostly just salaries, none topping $200 million adjusted for inflation. And those are rare, with being animated anyway. Black Pearl cost $140 million to make, and then every one after is between $225 million and $410 million.
Also, with the actual Wild West being simply "retro" close to the 1930s, this was alive and vibrant in people's minds, Real cowboys were still around. Dude ranches, literally experiential travel to LARP being in a Western, were popular starting in the 1920's. Most "Wild West" plots are (or should be) set between the Civil War and 1900, so that's "Grandpa, were you a cowboy?" close to the post-WWII era. Contrast that with the Golden Age of Piracy, which took place in the century before the US was even established. Sailing ships were antiques by the time the Civil War rolls around, so pirate movies occupied a sort of middle ground between the Medieval age and Revolutionary War stories.
As for magic and the fantasy/sci-fi element, two factors IMO. First, that the poorly understood Native American traditional religion opened the door to magic as a plot device. Mystery is built in to the environment. With the market saturated for plots, it was worth a try for many writers. Second, that sci-fi picked up as a genre in the 1950s, so it's a natural conclusion to mix the two. As westerns were often also about people living "wild" against the contrast of an industrializing country, they've remained popular, and are a fantasy themselves that people find attainable.
Also, that is just super niche to most people. Add to that the fantasy-magic element and you're, as you've found, sub-categorized to a point where someone essentially created the genre by making the perfect genre-setting media, and setting the bar too high. Anything in that genre suddenly is "oh, so it's Pirates of the Caribbean or something?" It can't even be its own thing.
And if lineage is on xiaomi, or redmi then chinese state also has access or not ?
Yeah, the Chinese law demands hardware level backdoors. So flashing a new ROM doesn't change anything other than making you more suspicious-looking probably. In Western countries that's not an explicit demand, and Apple has shown more times than not that such a thing doesn't exist as a blanket requirement.
But it's all private companies, and maybe the signals three-letter agency has their own resources, that get into this because it's profitable. Cellebrite exists not because a government (directly) created it, but because forensics investigation companies are a thing. One of the best tricks of the 20th century is relying on contractors to do the dirty work, because they're disposable and a government can, if they want, classify their work as secret and make themselves the only customer. When the company messes up, they're booted and all the researchers get new jobs. Typically this doesn't ever mean real secrets remain secret (unless you're a UFO conspiracy person) more than a few years, and both FOIA requests and court cases reveal the info occasionally.
Case in point - the fact that data brokers and third party doctrine allow for invasive surveillance we all "consented" to by having devices in the first place. All the proxy means work just fine, and are cheaper, easier, and more adaptable to dynamic environments. All that PRISM stuff is so out of date. it's quaint at this point.
So a lack of evidence is not evidence of the inverse. You just need to not think that everything is a monolith to understand how it fits together.
It's a very limited genre. Seriously, there was about 15 years from the 1930s to 1950s when swashbuckling pirate movies were a thing, then the genre vanished until POTC came out. Those movies are exactly why Walt Disney made the ride Pirates, they were popular movies at the time that Disneyland opened in 1953. The modern POTC series literally invented pirate dark fantasy film genre. Even George RR Martin trying to force it into ASOIF wasn't successful.
It's certainly not dark, but some of the early movies might be worth a watch. The Crimson Pirate (1952) or The Black Swan (1942) are iconic for the genre. But the magic and danger and broodiness just aren't there.
Far more cheesey, but Ice Pirates is just....odd sci-fi, but might also be worth a watch. And I didn't see anyone mention Hook yet. It's pretty classically Gothic in a sense, but in a weird 90s way.
The problem with the pirate genre is that it doesn't connect with most modern people, while the postapocalyptic genre does, and supplanted it after the 1960s. Mad Max 2 and Thunderdome are dark pirate stories on dirt. A New Hope is pirates and magic in space. Hell, Waterworld might actually be the best middle ground possible there. It's dark AF, but the magic is just evolution.
Best of luck to you, matey.
Ahh, yes. The Awesome-O technique.
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Not at all. Romance scams cost people everything they have, and successfully scam people out of $700 million dollars a year.
People are lonely AF
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Ugh.
This is only slightly better than falling victim to a romance scam.
Does Austria have other cities?
I've always found it gross. Fine for wine or coffee, but food...eesh. Soggy sandwiches, microwave hot dogs, and $9 airplane style snack packs with a $0.75 cereal bar or whatever. Had a mediocre but tolerable breakfast once, but it was just eggs and hashbrowns.
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They seriously did this? FFS, they literally killed one of the few things MS still had going for it.
Sorry, I should have added a /s tag. It was just kind of ironic and made me laugh.
I get what you're saying, and don't even disagree. But, if OP is asking, I'm making suggestions. I've never paid for Dropbox or Google storage because they look at what's in there. I'm the product, but also API access is a limiting factor inherent in the storage that they look at anyway.
I'm simply suggesting that OP make something to leverage those things already free from data leaching scum to give us all something secure and still free, rather than spend time and effort to make an app that's just one more of the same thing. They should spend their capitol, which is time and effort, investing in something that stands out as a differentiated product.
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I think that was really more in the Atari days, right? Some of them have technical steps like jump switches.
For sure, but you'll note that the average age of Congress people is about 58 in the House and 64 in the Senate. It's not exactly correlation without causation - right now I see a lot of people that are solidly above 60 there that I wouldn't trust not to steal change from a donation bucket for orphans.
All I'm asking for is what Joplin already does with one improvement and one addition. So if OP is coding a new app from scratch, why not improve on what exists and is already a FOSS app anyway?
Joplin's main drawback for collaboration is that the UI can't handle 2 profiles syncing with 2 different files well, you have to close and re-open the app between profiles, going from your private personal one to a shared profile where everyone sees everything. It's annoying, but not exactly torture. Being able to save notes individually to a set of profiles (each with its own local or cloud storage location) would be an improvement.
The encryption of the API file is the only fully new thing. When using the Dropbox API, it's https, so it's encrypted in transit already, so we're halfway there. Encrypted at rest is all I ask - by the app so on the device AND in the cloud.
But even if I wanted to pay for encrypted storage on Joplin servers, it's E2EE - so I would have to pay $90 a year for 3 separate accounts because the collaboration profile needs its own Joplin login, and it's just being logged in to by everyone who is collaborating. Joplin doesn't do API use because it breaks E2EE (why Proton and Cryptdrive don't allow it). And it's nice they say collaboration is part of their lowest tier - sure, if you share the login. Everyone sees everything. So a private synced profile needs its own account. Joplin is a loss leader for selling cloud storage to run the company. It's not some passion project on the Fdroid store.
So a new app needs to do the encryption itself. Just do a 6-digit PIN to log in and ask the key, then run the data through AES. Looking around, it's maybe 50 lines of code, so it's not uncommon for apps to do that anyway.
Also, am I really getting flamed for not participating in capitalism enough by communism@lemmy.ml? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!
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Sorry, someone else had suggested that a manual that was necessary to knowing how the game works was some sort of way to try and prevent piracy. Which is just not sensible. Pirates gonna pirate.
I'll look into Cryptdrive, but Proton doesn't allow API access to Drive files.
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100% yes. Where there is no Doctor or basically the owner's manual and operation guide.
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They don't.
Undoing self-owns like ignoring available information is the basis for 40% of the economy.
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It's literally all this, all the way down until the turtles.
Maybe the Hologram Peve comes from the round holo-emitter on the ground?