Kiwifarms goal is to remove the freedom of speech of LGBTQ people online. Is it okay for them to this?
This is an inflammatory, fact-free assertion.
Readit NewsYver commented on Kiwi Farms is down across all domains as DDoS-Guard terminates service twitter.com/GossiTheDog/s... · Posted by u/intunderflow
Yver commented on I ran the worlds largest DDoS-for-Hire empire and Cloudflare helped rasbora.dev/blog/I-ran-th... · Posted by u/Rasbora
> And why isn't law enforcement stepping in?
Because 1) they have limited resources and must prioritise and 2) America law enforcement seems to have a distinct lean towards the transphobic / homophobic / white supremacist / right-wing, etc.
Just because something is not being actively policed does not mean it's not an actual crime (cf motorists running red lights for an easy example.)
How does one reconcile the idea that KiwiFarms is guilty of unspecified crimes that threaten lives and require emergency intervention, but also those alleged crimes aren't urgent enough that authorities would prosecute them? Is that entirely handwaved by calling the whole of U.S. law enforcement "transphobic / homophobic / white supremacist / right-wing"?
As this submission shows, cybercrime is prosecuted in the U.S.
If you want to claim that they do, then you should provide some evidence. Preferably not in the form of circular references to unsourced blog posts/articles.
Yver commented on Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix? gq-magazine.co.uk/culture... · Posted by u/metadat
I find it ironic that the article itself was edited after the initial posting, per the disclaimer at the bottom. If Netflix added such a disclaimer in the credits of the episode, would that make it more acceptable to the author?
Earlier versions of the article can still be found on the Wayback Machine. [1]
The original article called the alleged removal of that scene, "wimpish laziness."
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20220727142524/https://www.gq-ma...
I think a lot of the takes on this are coming at it from the wrong angle - "Why does Apple deserve a third of app revenue?"
What if we flip it to: "Why do app developers deserve access to Apple's customers?"
30% is the price to access Apple's customers.
If you're a developer and don't like this, then don't build an iOS app. Build Android-only, or build a web app.
If you're a customer and don't like this, then don't buy an iPhone. Vote with your feet. Buy an Android. Or a Pinephone/Fairphone/Librem which are as close to a general purpose computer-as-a-phone outside of the Apple-Google duopoly that there is at the current time.
I understand that the value of the Apple ecosystem is not just what Apple bring to the table. It's the ecosphere of apps available. So there's definitely a symbiosis here. But Apple is like China here. No matter how ethically questionable, there will always be those for whom the market that Apple represents is too tempting to ignore. Even with a 30% cost of doing business. Meaning there will always be app developers building apps for iOS.
Customers deserve access to all app providers.
Yver commented on Governor Mike Parson might have known about the threat in 2019 twitter.com/bitsdigits/st... · Posted by u/swalsh
Sigh, that snarky Twitter interaction in the replies . "Back to your paid counter PR attempt rookie. Grown Folks are talking" doesn't seem like a great way to win friends and influence people.
It's worth noting that the @RomanRaminsky Twitter account it refers to was created today and all of its tweets are to throw barbs at the @bitsdigits account.
Yver commented on The handshake emoji is more complicated than you might think jenniferdaniel.substack.c... · Posted by u/donohoe
What about family emojis then, e.g. https://emojipedia.org/family-woman-woman-girl-boy/? Blended families are not there. I am the third of three sons, why am I not represented?
The same multi-tone scheme would generate more than 10,000 combinations for the family emoji. I wonder if it will ever be seriously considered.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the tone of your comment, are you suggesting that we don't rename things that lead to people feeling unwelcome in a community?
EDIT:
Turns out I was misunderstanding the context; I misread it as something like "look how offended these people get omg", but in reality it looks like the poster was saying that it's sad that we live in a world where this might need to be changed [1]. Entirely my fault!
That's a transparent attempt at concern trolling.
A shame, but I just can’t teach it in my programming languages class. I can’t stand up there in front of 200 students saying coq coq coq for an hour. I just can’t.
That sounds like a you problem. Also, you could say "the language" for the oh-so-many times(?) you apparently have to have to refer to it during a programming class.
Yver commented on Anti-fingerprinting extensions tend to make fingerprinting easier palant.info/2020/12/10/ho... · Posted by u/a2x0
That sounds like a recipe for the #%#%^#^ GDPR popups but 1000x worse.
Sure, but that's an issue with those websites, not the law. The law doesn't mandate to have a fullscreen modal that says "We value your privacy" with a big button that allows all cookies and myriad tiny buttons to disallow them individually.
If websites choose to sacrifice usability to be able to fingerprint users, that's on them.