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by amiga386 1y ago
Valve's payment processors told Valve they would withdraw payment processing unless Valve banned specific categories of game from their online store. The payment processors did not cite any law; Valve selling those games was not illega
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by amiga386 1y ago
But it seems fairly straightforward who it is. If it was indeed Collective Shout's pressure campaign that led to Valve and itch.io being told by their payment processors to remove games, then this is how it went: Collective Shout
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by amiga386 1y ago
Clay Shirky's essay from 2005: Ontology is overrrated (centred on Yahoo!'s directory of links, oddly enough) https://web.archive.org/web/20191117161738/http://shirky.com...
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by amiga386 1y ago
Remember url.city? https://web.archive.org/web/20141122194515/https://dir.yahoo...
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by amiga386 1y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20211204202302/http://pub.keygen... https://ftp.modland.com/pub/modules/ https://amp.dascene.net/ https://files.scene.or
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by amiga386 1y ago
It seems somewhat overblown. It claims HTTP/1.1 "is inherently insecure". This seems like hype, and indeed the countdown is to when some guy gives a talk - it's a promotional website for that guy. What appears to be the
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by amiga386 1y ago
Agreed! In the 68k Mac's lifetime, you could emulate a Mac on an Amiga in realtime (in software alone with ShapeShifter, or add hardware support with A-Max II) and run most of its software, as that software was OS-bound and never touch
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by amiga386 1y ago
We're going round in circles now, so let's just say we will see what happens. Project Zero seems upbeat, but acknowledges this risk: > We understand that for some vendors without a downstream ecosystem, this policy may create
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by amiga386 1y ago
Did you not see the panicked, stupid, wrong mob that the vaguepost whipped up, with your own eyes? It is very easy to whip up a mob: 1) be well regarded and trusted, and 2) post a vague statement about a specific target (e.g. "you mi
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by amiga386 1y ago
I think it's a fair illustration of what irresponsible disclosure looks like. I expect Project Zero will be monitoring carefully; for all their good intentions, this policy trial has the potential to go as badly wrong as the atop dis
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by amiga386 1y ago
A bug matching the details of the vaguepost was found by a third party with no help from Rachel: https://blog.bismuth.sh/blog/bismuth-found-the-atop-bug > Given the vagueness, we were curious if Bismuth's bug s
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by amiga386 1y ago
I stand by what I said at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43492940 - and if you only read one thing, read the harrassment an atop contributor was subjected to by "eslerm": https://github.
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by amiga386 1y ago
If Google is adopting this, maybe rachelbythebay's vagueposting was ahead of the curve? I jest; the vagueposting led to uninformed speculation, panic, reddit levels of baseless accusation, and harassment of the developers: https:&#x2F
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by amiga386 1y ago
I appreciate the experimentation with new software, and the overview of the various OS versions, but the elephant in the room is the Vampire "accelerator". It's not an accelerator. It's a full hardware Amiga emulator tha
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by amiga386 1y ago
> In fact, the Tories did NOT promise to reduce immigration. In fact they did. They promised to reduce immigration. They did the opposite of what you just said. Their 2019 manifesto said "There will be fewer lower-skilled migrants a
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by amiga386 1y ago
> unserious word choices throughout article This has been the house style of The Register since 1994. Have you read El Reg before?
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by amiga386 1y ago
This is off-topic, but I like pointing out that natural does not mean good , especially to hippies at the supermarket who want to pay more for "organic" foods that "aren't full of chemicals". I sympathise with th
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by amiga386 1y ago
> everyone feels nudity is inherently sexual I propose you watch 5 minutes of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Jungle with nude Keith Chegwin, and you will be disabused of that notion. Your argument will be reduc
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by amiga386 1y ago
Puritans chiseled the penises off Greek statues, indeed the lead image of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship is a fig leaf over the penis of Michelangelo's David . It wouldn't be appropriate to use a f
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by amiga386 1y ago
For those who are now fearful to click the link, its an opinion piece about the given topic, and it's illustrated with a stock photo of a nude pregnant woman. The author's point is that this nudity is not pornography. So it's
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by amiga386 1y ago
BT, EE: Yes. Three, Vodafone: No. O2: Unknown. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cnvmvqrnq7go > A spokesperson from BT, which owns EE, apologised and said the firm was "currently addressing an issue impa
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by amiga386 1y ago
The URL contains "open_your_vacuum_packed_fish_before_thawing" but neither headline nor article says this directly.
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by amiga386 1y ago
If RewriteCond (or any other Apache directive) doesn't behave as documented, that's a correctness issue. If you use RewriteCond as the basis of securing your website, that's a security issue for you. If it's a security i
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Yet, what if the logger’s ctor function is implemented in a different object file? This is a contrived example akin to "what if I only know the name of the function at runtime and have to dlsym()"? Have a macro that "ena
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by amiga386 1y ago
Dear bot, Fuck off. Dear humans who advocated for installing the bot, let me use anodyne, US corporate bullshit language so you'll understand: Your bot does not add value . Get rid of it, before it drives out all voluntary contributor
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by amiga386 1y ago
1. A marketing department that can get it more than 2% market share 2. A legal and advocacy department that can work with governments to stop monopolists like Google and Apple privileging their own browsers on platforms they control 3. To u
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by amiga386 1y ago
> Then every major news website, news paper and news broadcast runs with "Dangerous Internet Trolls caused the suicide of lovely teenage girl". Sure, that can happen. What if tomorrow's headline is "porn habits of eve
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by amiga386 1y ago
How nihilistic and dismissive. Do you wait for the end of football matches before deciding which team to support, because only the one that won matters? I advocate against laws I don't like, and try to give people practical advise abou
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by amiga386 1y ago
It's a classic demo. The question is, how does the size-reduced version perform on an 80386? (as opposed to a multi-gigahertz machine trusting DOSBox to emulate a 386)
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by amiga386 1y ago
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you. You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state w

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