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by voidwtf 4y ago
I’ll respond to this, but I’m also replying to another that noted how cheap phone numbers are. In the beginning, yes, they appear to be cheap. But that doesn’t last very long in my prior experience, the last multiplayer platform I used that
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I don’t understand how this is controversial. If you’ve ever played a competitive game then you’ve almost certainly encountered an abusive player. I don’t just mean verbally abusive, I mean the player who quits the game, AFKs, or intentiona
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Luckily we have laws in place in many countries that invalidate contracts that are clearly disadvantaged to one party. Meta made a decision they were entitled to make, though I understand that this is a separate point of controversy wherein
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by voidwtf 4y ago
p.s. If I have to go out of my way to evade anti-adblock measure then the answer is a clear yes to me. Otherwise, if no clear block is placed before me I view it as a moral grey area. Sites that I want to support and regularly visit I disab
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by voidwtf 4y ago
The argument has been made before, that adblocking is a form of theft. I don’t disagree with it, and when a site blocks me for using ad block I accept it and either forgo the content or disable my Adblock. Years ago there was an effort to a
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I’m with you almost all the way. I’m just not going to say that any of us our entitled to the resources of someone else. I believe in what’s best for the commons, but not at the expense of stealing what’s not mine. Sure, take possession of
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by voidwtf 4y ago
p.s. to entertain your comedian argument, I think there are some situations where that may be correct. If a comedian tells vile racist jokes, I believe the writer of the joke, the talent manager who knew the comedians content, the person wh
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I was careful in my choice of the word participated. I chose to use that word as I intended it to only include people who worked on the product. If anyone at the company who did not work on the development of the product was banned then I w
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by voidwtf 4y ago
That’s a pretty hot take, can you elaborate? I’m not sure I understand.
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I don’t disagree on that point. I’m just making it clear it was in the TOS. I don’t want my gmail account permanently because of a comment I made on YouTube, nor do I think that should be commonplace. I’m not sure what the best solution is
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I agree with you and disagree with you at the same time. Here’s the rub though, if you make and distribute a thing, with the sole intent that the thing will be used for stealing something. Is that ok? If I made a device that could unlock an
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by voidwtf 4y ago
If the users were building the source code and deploying it to their devices, sure. That’s not what’s happening here though. This isn’t DeCSS, this is a company trying to build and sell a DVD duplicator that advertises that it rips copyrigh
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by voidwtf 4y ago
It’s different because they didn’t make the information/source code available on GitHub and say “go at it”, allowing each user to choose to violate the TOS. They actively facilitated the behavior and received funding to do so. Also sit
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by voidwtf 4y ago
This is only true if you also agree that they used a pair of alligator clips and attached it to the copper wires on the pole as well. The infrastructure has real costs, the api development, storage, and maintenance that they aren’t compensa
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Ok, that’s fair, but how should the platform be compensated for the resources expended by the users or developers in question? Would you be ok with a usage plan? Something like $1 per 10,000 tweets read? I mean, the developer could save mon
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Agreed about antitrust enforcement, Instagrams marriage to Facebook should have never been allowed to proceed. At some point we let “free market” supersede a market with competition. When you become large enough that you can leverage non-ta
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by voidwtf 4y ago
This wasn’t competition though. This was straight up theft of resources/services. What? “extra-legal”? Don’t mix this with other behaviors Meta/Facebook/Instagram engage in, I hate them for all the bullsht they get away with
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Listen, I really didn’t like the way your machine consumed your resources, so I built my own machine that consumes your resources. You should totally let me do this because it’s what your users want. Oh, and I also told your users to stop p
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by voidwtf 4y ago
https://help.instagram.com/581066165581870 Except for the part where the TOS explicitly states that you will be banned from all Metas products…
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Each employee willingly participated. I understand the feeling, but these weren’t random people that had nothing to do with a company action. These were all individuals who took part in the act. I agree it’s petty, and yes this is what many
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by voidwtf 4y ago
1. Violating TOS 2. No clear privacy policy (re: how does the app protect and utilize user info) 3. Circumventing user access/security policies Maybe I missed something, but it sounds like everyone on their team participated in multipl
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Agreed, I think the average “coffee snob” really just wants people to enjoy coffee that doesn’t have to be 50% cream and sugar. Coffee doesn’t have to be that acrid tasting black water made from over-roasted, stale, coffee grounds that our
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I think it would be intellectually dishonest to imply that there is no objective “bad”. At some point it goes beyond yelling fire in a theater, into the realm of certain and immediate harm to the whole. We seem capable of recognizing certai
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Art is an evolution and transforms over time both in its creation and it’s interpretation. The same stories are told across generations and they both influence, and are influenced by, the culture in which they originate. It’s in this contex
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by voidwtf 4y ago
Efficient resource usage or Java. You can only choose one :p
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by voidwtf 4y ago
If it continued to reliably generate a profit and distribute dividends, then yes. Infinite growth is not possible and seeking it is not sustainable. I’m not saying they should stop attempting to innovate, just that it shouldn’t come at the
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I think your missing the part of the bug report where Firefox is REUSING the existing TLS connection, which was established with a completely different SNI. If I have a load balancer handling all these connections, and I routed a connection
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by voidwtf 4y ago
When did the consumer stop being the ones who consume the product? I’m sure many farmers would consider John Deere’s practices regarding DIY repairs, anti-consumer, as they are the consumers. Any person who might reasonable be considered an
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by voidwtf 4y ago
I’m really not comfortable with how they resolved this as invalid. This seems like it could be ripe for abuse when the host is behind a Cloudflare like service, or a CDN with a shared anycast infrastructure. Often times these services will
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by voidwtf 5y ago
Roku has been demanding increasing amounts of revenue sharing from their "channels". I moved away from Roku after their spat with Spectrum made some of my Roku TVs useless for watching my Spectrum subscription (kids doing kid thin

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