@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[fazalmajid@social.vivaldi.net]

@Edent it’s set around AD 14,000 or so

[morix@loci.onl]

@Edent
Cool tiny scuttle friend with good taste in shells?

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@Kay @Edent Oh I agree 100%! I was only pointing out that Dune doesn't bear comparison to movies such as Avatar, which are fully invested in the colonialist, White Saviour narrative that Herbert set out to deconstruct. We see Paul ruthlessly exploit the Fremen in order to avenge the death of his family, and the whole story is a dark parable about the dangers of trusting Messianic authority figures. If faithful to the book, this should become even more apparent in Villeneuve's Part 3.

[ainali@social.coop]

@Edent I am not deep into the lore, and have only read it once, but my interpretation of it is that it is an alternate universe rather than in this universe's timeline.

[eicky@mastodon.social]

@kubikpixel @jbjrkng @Edent thanks for the info, how about Briar?

[kubikpixel@chaos.social]

@Eicky @jbjrkng @Edent i am convinced of @briar and use it with people with whom i really want to communicate privately. unfortunately, relatively very few people still use this.

[kay@mastodon.nz]

@ApostateEnglishman @Edent Having seen Avatar films 1 and 2 but not yet 3, I disagree on labelling them as colonialist, White Saviour narrative.

The invaders from Earth are definitely shown as villains, and the indigenous blue or green people of the land and water of Pandora as its protectors.

[eastmad@blacktwitter.io]

@Edent Is this an insane plan to avoid contact with an LLM?

[eastmad@blacktwitter.io]

@Edent Lunch!

[paul_j@hachyderm.io]

@Edent I read it as a teenager (back in the early 80's. I seem to remember at the time there were only three books in the series, but now there are more. I rated it then, and would consider reading it again.

[naturemc@mastodon.online]

@Edent Long ago that I read it - but as every great work of SciFi his story was influenced by problems of his time and even history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(novel)#Origins

"Herbert hoped it would be seen as an "environmental awareness handbook" - an important topic in the 1960s (compare to Ursula K. Le Guin).
And was it free of his political ideas of his time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Herbert#Political_views

[aerion@nerdculture.de]

@phrawzty

+1 for Fedilab. I've tried other ones, but I kept coming back to Fedilab, so it's been permanent for a good few years now. It also supports scheduled posts and boosts.

@Edent @apps

[phil_tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com]

Haere haumaru (travel safe)
[Edit: I think it might actually be better to day "whakahaumaru ōu haere" for "be safe in your travels") 🤔]

Was lovely to meet up with you both. Feel free to let us know when you're back down this way again.

[ianopolous@infosec.exchange]

@Edent Welcome to Melbourne!

[kay@mastodon.nz]

@ApostateEnglishman @Edent On reflection Jake Sully could be seen as a White Saviour in the Avatar films except that he's no longer white, he's "gone native", and the Na'vi saved him more than him saving them.

White Saviour Reversed if he was a Tarot card, maybe?

The Na'vi say that every person is born twice. The second time is when you earn your place among the people, forever. 😉

[eicky@mastodon.social]

@kubikpixel @jbjrkng @Edent @briar it's nice to hear that, true that not many people know this

[bew@floss.social]

@Edent nice to see indeed! Not so nice that they are on a separate 'page' though 😬

[danielthepope@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent I tried to see if iPhone's Live Photos are the same standard. I couldn't work out how to transfer the original file to my computer :(

[mal3aby@mastodon.smears.org]

@Edent I was looking at exactly the same fairly recently - this would have saved me some time!

One slightly surprising effect of the video being embedded in the JPEG file is that you can receive a file that appears to be a static photo, until you forward it to someone else on WhatsApp, at which point it magically becomes a video...

[ben@bluetoot.hardill.me.uk]

@Edent I think WordPress may have stripped the other items out of the images when you uploaded it, and it's served up on the blog,

I'm only seeing 964k download size and no embedded video when testing