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ComcastifyJS – Sometimes images just load too damned fast
- darkstar999 12y agoI posted this yesterday. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8305709
- azinman2 12y agoLove that the onion uses humor to recruit. Too bad it's not something that's actually useful somehow as well!
- tim333 12y agoIt could be useful for people campaigning for net neutrality if they want a "This is what downloads may become like:" with an image on their site.
- Xeoncross 12y agoIt's friday, just one last push to add comcastifyjs.fixMyImagesLoadingSoFast() to the build process before the weekend...
- dzhiurgis 12y agoYeah if developers could keep their protests within US - that would be great.
- eck 12y agoIt needs a whitelist of giant corporations like Netflix that acquiesce to Comcast's fees. Images should only load slowly on poor websites.
- elwell 12y agoHere: https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs/pull/5 https://github.com/theonion/comcastifyjs/pull/5
- jacob019 12y agoComcast is a trademark. Perhaps it could be exempted as a parody, but if this got popular I would expect a DMCA takedown.
- kentonv 12y agoDMCA covers copyrights, not trademarks. Anyway, I'm sure The Onion would love to get a C&D from Comcast. They'd have a field day with that.
- hoers 12y agoThis just took me back deep into memories of looking at porn in the 90s.
- kentonv 12y agoThis appears to be the code behind "These Koalas Are Refusing To Load In Support Of Net Neutrality": http://www.clickhole.com/article/these-koalas-are-refusing-load-support-net-neutral-967 http://www.clickhole.com/article/these-koalas-are-refusing-l...