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@Benjamin-Hall Well then put the screws back on whoever is pressuring them. They're Tumblr, they should have some negotiating power.
Reddit, for example, has plenty of adult content and they can stay in business. Or pornhub.
Edit: apparently they had "a huge influx of bots posting child porn". Which was already being reported but didn't get deleted fast enough. But how will banning all porn stop the one kind they already couldn't stop?
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@Applied-Mediocrity What we need is a law where if someone's being an asshole you can spray them in the face with a water bottle, like a cat. It'd need some sort of dispute resolution system where people can vote on who's the asshole in a situation and impose additional fines if necessary.
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@Applied-Mediocrity We'll see.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
Ads, like everyone else?!
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
Ads, like everyone else?!
Many advertisers would not want to be associated with pornographic content.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
Ads, like everyone else?!
Is that a question? In a private window with adblock off I don't see any.
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
Ads, like everyone else?!
Many advertisers would not want to be associated with pornographic content.
Doesn't stop YouPorn et al. from being free with ads.
Also, as far as I can tell, blogs are categorized as either adult content or not, so you could show ads according to that.@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Is that a question? In a private window with adblock off I don't see any.
I've seen some before.
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The Walled Garden makes you safe™
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
The Walled Garden makes you safe™
Perfect example of why you do not give your payment information to Apple or Google. Or the rest of them.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too.
How does Tumblr make money? I mean, literally: where does their revenue come from?
Ads, like everyone else?!
Many advertisers would not want to be associated with pornographic content.
Doesn't stop YouPorn et al. from being free with ads.
Also, as far as I can tell, blogs are categorized as either adult content or not, so you could show ads according to that.@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Is that a question? In a private window with adblock off I don't see any.
I've seen some before.
If adult blogs get no or different ads, that may cause them to be significantly less profitable.
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@kazitor Back in 2010 or whenever it was first released the Chromium JS engine was blisteringly fast and the built in dev tooling was better than either IE or Firefox (IIRC everyone used firebug and nonsense like IETester). Node was spun off from V8 (the JS engine) and the rest is history.
However Chromium just like every other web browser has bugs. Internet Explorer during 10 & 11 was more standards compliant (but supported less standards overall) than other browsers and had fewer defects.
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@LaoC said in In other news today...:
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Your parents lied to you when they said drugs are bad
Funny how drug addiction has snowballed in recent years.
Actually psilocybe mushrooms have been successfully used in the treatment of drug addiction.
Although one should point out that many substances initially ballyhooed as treatments for addiction have later turned out to be addictive themselves, e.g. cocaine, morphine, even heroin. But probably not psychedelics, such as mushrooms, for one thing -- because they build tolerance too quickly to support an addiction.
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The fact that people are choosing terrible web tooling over UWP just reinforces Blakey's tired rhetoric: People are adamant about not choosing good things, when given the choice to make them horrible.
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@Magus It is more likely it is cheaper to build the interface once for all platforms rather than 4 or 5 times (one per popular platform).
Also the definition of "good" is highly subjective.
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What the actual fuck?
ala http://gog.show/ep-302-security-badgers/
good show. Nothing to do with me but I feel that this is a podcast a lot of us would like.
also this from same podcast
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@sweaty_gammon I'm interested in your math. As far as I know, there are 3 popular platforms, and that's only if you include UWP, which you seem not to. And that becomes closer to 1.5 if your other platforms are supported by Xamarin, since only the UI layer needs to be rewritten in horrible mode, but even then only once.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Finally, a good reason to fear climate change
You posted it as a joke, but the article's premise is faulty. Even if we suppose that global warming would render some places that currently grow barley unsuitable for growing barley, there would likely be places that are currently unsuitable for growing barley that would become suitable for growing barley.
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@Karla said in In other news today...:
And it reminded me that in college when I was a Sophomore I hooked up with a pre-frosh that ended up playing for Bills.
I trust you checked his ID to ensure that he was over 18.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
As for people changing it later: I don't see why it can't be done, though another solution would have been to leave it out completely from the birth certificate. It doesn't list how tall you were, your weight or the density of your hair (if any).
The birth certificates I've seen do list length and weight. To change information on there that was correct at the time is to rewrite history. Some people have no problem with that.
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@JBert said in In other news today...:
As for people changing it later: I don't see why it can't be done, though another solution would have been to leave it out completely from the birth certificate. It doesn't list how tall you were, your weight or the density of your hair (if any).
The birth certificates I've seen do list length and weight. To change information on there that was correct at the time is to rewrite history. Some people have no problem with that.
It depends on whether the birth certificate has been pushed out to any other branches yet, doesn't it?
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@Magus Discord and Slack for example are released on the following platforms Windows, MacOS, Browser, iOS, Android. So there is your 5.
As for Xamarin. Not everyone wants to use stuff that is based on .NET and XAML and nor should they expected to do so. Especially when there is no clear benefit other than you are not drawing the ire of some random internet forum member you have never met.
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@sweaty_gammon Browser apps are cancer, and the technology used to make them is worse. .NET is a better platform in every conceivable way.
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@anonymous234
Great idea!
More bottles needed around @Polygeekery !
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@tharpa said in In other news today...:
@Karla said in In other news today...:
And it reminded me that in college when I was a Sophomore I hooked up with a pre-frosh that ended up playing for Bills.
I trust you checked his ID to ensure that he was over 18.
Um, yeah, of course.
In my defense, NYS has Romeo/Juliet clause, therefore as long as I was not more than 5 years older than him (if he were under 18) then it is not statutory rape.
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@Magus Why? Because you don't like it?
The applications that are built on these technologies for the most part works fine. So claiming that .NET, which can't run in the browser is better in every conceivable way is quite obviously false. What is better is a highly subjective since my criteria of what constitutes it is most likely to be different than yours.
I like building stuff on .NET. It works great for what I am building. It may not be suited to other tasks.
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The solution to traffic congestion finally found
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
Because you don't like it?
Moron. Because it's slow, and pushes work to the client, using slow, inefficient tech for a purpose it was not designed to fill.
@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
The applications that are built on these technologies for the most part works fine.
If by "works fine" you mean slow and buggy and inconsistent.
@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
So claiming that .NET, which can't run in the browser is better in every conceivable way is quite obviously false.
Running in a browser is a worthless feature. Only Google wants that, so they can sell more Chromebooks. The amount of data that has to be transferred around using buggy webtech to get basic features to work is insane, and you still can't get things like context menus pretty much ever.
@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
What is better is a highly subjective since my criteria of what constitutes it is most likely to be different than yours.
How about this: Better software has more features, with less data being downloaded constantly, and performs better. Guess what? Those are objectively things no web tech will ever have.
@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
I like building stuff on .NET. It works great for what I am building. It may not be suited to other tasks.
Whereas javascript doesn't have a situation where it works great.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
that .NET, which can't run in the browser
False. Stop spreading fake news!
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Running in a browser is a worthless feature.
I might as well claim that running on Windows is a worthless feature and it would be exactly as correct a statement. Seriously, that is crazy and I can't imagine how anyone could be alive in 2018 in this industry and believe that.
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I might as well claim that running on Windows is a worthless feature
Are you saying it's not?
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Running in a browser is a worthless feature
Here's a cool feature browsers have: they can run stuff WITHOUT GIVING IT ACCESS TO ALL MY FILES. HOW INCREDIBLY CRAZY IS THAT.
And without needing an extra "install" click, which is nice too (but secondary).
I think .NET can do that too but it doesn't by default so it doesn't matter.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
I might as well claim that running on Windows is a worthless feature
Are you saying it's not?
Of course it is for me, but I'm smart enough to comprehend that there are people out there with inferior value systems.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Here's a cool feature browsers have: they can run stuff WITHOUT GIVING IT ACCESS TO ALL MY FILES. HOW INCREDIBLY CRAZY IS THAT.
Which is why no one ever gets viruses from clicking links on the internet.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
Which is why no one ever gets viruses from clicking links on the internet.
If you're still using Flash, you deserve it
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Containers can be opened
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@Applied-Mediocrity Logic!
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@topspin I'm quite upset by that. I've used tumblr as my main porn source for years. Now to see where all the artists migrate.
And yes, it's a terrible decision from the business point of view too. You've captured a huge chunk of a massive market by (inadvertently) developing the perfect platform for it and you just drop it? Not even split it and give it a new name?
Even 4chan had the sense to do that.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
@Magus Why? Because you don't like it?
The applications that are built on these technologies for the most part works fine. So claiming that .NET, which can't run in the browser is better in every conceivable way is quite obviously false. What is better is a highly subjective since my criteria of what constitutes it is most likely to be different than yours.
I like building stuff on .NET. It works great for what I am building. It may not be suited to other tasks.
False on both counts. The apps are buggy and bad, and .NET can run in the browser.
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
@Magus said in In other news today...:
Running in a browser is a worthless feature
Here's a cool feature browsers have: they can run stuff WITHOUT GIVING IT ACCESS TO ALL MY FILES. HOW INCREDIBLY CRAZY IS THAT.
And without needing an extra "install" click, which is nice too (but secondary).
I think .NET can do that too but it doesn't by default so it doesn't matter.
UWP can, and does, by default. Continue.
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@pie_flavor There isn't a .NET runtime that is officially supported that runs in the browser at the moment. I am aware of Blazor.
From the project's home page
Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C# and HTML that runs in the browser.
As for running fine. It is completely subjective. I use plenty of web applications that work absolutely fine in the browser. So as far as I am concerned it works fine.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
As for running fine. It is completely subjective.
That there sounds like an aspersion in the casting process.
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@Magus said in In other news today...:
If by "works fine" you mean slow and buggy and inconsistent.
No. I mean it works perfectly fine. You can continue to be childish by pretending that it doesn't, but there are plenty of people running these applications without issue.
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
As for running fine. It is completely subjective.
That there sounds like an aspersion in the casting process.
It's not much of a problem if you keep the carbon content around 2%.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
@pie_flavor There isn't a .NET runtime that is officially supported that runs in the browser at the moment. I am aware of Blazor.
From the project's home page
Blazor is an experimental .NET web framework using C# and HTML that runs in the browser.
As for running fine. It is completely subjective. I use plenty of web applications that work absolutely fine in the browser. So as far as I am concerned it works fine.
Okay, now I'm really convinced you're a @lucas1 alt.
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Can we ban "vegan" since that probably offend carnivores
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
Can we ban "vegan" since that probably offend carnivores
"Breadwinner"'ll have to go too, not because of any problems with the power hierarchy it implies, because gluten intolerance.
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@TimeBandit Well it might be a protected class shortly (at least in the UK) if his case is successful.
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@sweaty_gammon said in In other news today...:
veganism is a "philosophical belief" akin to a religion