chrisrhoden (u/chrisrhoden)

chrisrhoden commented on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down pcgamer.com/games/masterc... · Posted by u/croes

KingOfCoders · 5 months ago

Say fuck on TV.

chrisrhoden · 5 months ago

In addition to the sibling comment about safe harbor hours, the FCC regulates not speech but the shared airwaves. Print is irrelevant, and that’s why you can do whatever you want on cable.

Also, the FCC does not directly set standards and instead responds to complaints from the communities in which the broadcast is available. So it’s conceivable that in an environment where nobody cared, you could do this at any time of day.

chrisrhoden commented on The correct amount of ads is zero manuelmoreale.com/the-cor... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

madeofpalk · a year ago

"Less ads" is the easy way to describe what they're offering, but I believe what they're doing is not just 50% less ad spots, but rather paying will remove all third party ad networks from the site, leaving first party ads only.

> we’ll get rid of all the chumboxes and third-party programmatic ads, cut down the overall number of ad units, and only fill what’s left with high-quality ads directly sold by Vox Media

If you think all advertising is immoral, then this probably doesn't do anything for you. However, if you have privacy and performance concerns, this is a big win I think.

Generally I like what the verge does, and I would gladly pay if it included their podcast being ad free. The Verge’s podcast is the only podcast I listen to that I don’t pay for, and it’s full of repeating programmatic ads for crypto companies, sports betting, and cars.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

In various contexts, you would draw the distinction here between `ads` (that is, marketing sold against large swaths of content) and `sponsorships` (marketing sold against a small targeted set of content) but the distinction is subtle and the terms are pretty overloaded.

chrisrhoden commented on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/vladyslavfox

galleywest200 · a year ago

>"It's dispiriting to see that even after being made aware of the breach weeks ago..."

These people are not dispirited whatsoever, if anything they are half-cocked that these script kiddies found an easy target.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

The words came from a message written by the people you are calling script kiddies, rather than being editorializing by bleepingcomputer, as you seem to believe.

chrisrhoden commented on "Us vs. Them" language shapes the Apple ecosystem narrative twitter.com/xroissance/st... · Posted by u/retskrad

qwerty456127 · a year ago

> 4/10 The External Link Account Entitlement? It's like they're actively trying to make it sound complicated.

WTF this even is? I have no idea what could "The External Link Account Entitlement" mean.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

Entitlements are flags (like AndroidManifest permissions) for apps allowing them to do things. It’s not something a user will ever encounter.

In this case it is a flag indicating to the reviewer etc that the app links to a website for account creation and management rather than doing it all within the app.

chrisrhoden commented on Ask HN: Why are PWA user install stats so hard to find? · Posted by u/chr15m

threeseed · a year ago

Open Website. Click Share. Click Add to Home.

Doesn't seem that obscure and for me the issue is much more with websites not making it clear when a PWA version of the site is available.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

Share doesn’t seem strange in that context?

chrisrhoden commented on The Birth of Standard Error (2013) www2.dmst.aueb.gr/dds/blo... · Posted by u/marbu

amelius · a year ago

What I hate about stderr is that it's character-based, not line-based.

I often get output from multiple threads or multiple processes garbled together on the same line. I know how to fix this, but I feel my OS should do it for me.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

I think it makes sense as a default to avoid issues discerning timing due to a buffer.

chrisrhoden commented on Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes conduition.io/coding/tick... · Posted by u/miki123211

cbsmith · a year ago

> Scalping aside, TicketMaster is taking massive fees each time the same ticket is sold. For example, I went to an event last year and the fee was $50 on each ticket, and these were reseller tickets so TicketMaster had already taken a fee on each of those tickets at least once already (perhaps more than once).

So your evidence is that you were charged a $50 fee on a separate transaction that didn't involve TicketMaster?

This is not the compelling evidence that you think it is.

chrisrhoden · a year ago

I think you can probably re-read and understand that their entire post is about the fact that Ticketmaster hosts, processes, and charges fees on resale tickets.

I know that you already know this, based on your other posts on this thread.

The technology referenced in the post above is, at least in part, to prevent you from reselling the ticket without involving TicketMaster. That may be justified as a way to prevent selling the same ticket more than once, but it’s certainly the case that this is one of many possible approaches, and it’s the one that most favors this business.

It would probably be criminal for the company to act any other way, so I’m not claiming any evil doing here.

chrisrhoden commented on epoll: The API that powers the modern internet (2022) darkcoding.net/software/e... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

deaddodo · 2 years ago

What a weird thing to get offended by. It mentions kqueue, sure. OP is just noting that it's a near ubiquitous thing nowadays.

Cool your wits.

chrisrhoden · 2 years ago

From the article:

> Aside: All of the above work on many operating systems and support API’s other than epoll, which is Linux specific. The Internet is mostly made of Linux, so epoll is the API that matters.

chrisrhoden commented on Tell HN: DEI initiatives undermine the self esteem of PoC within a company · Posted by u/qzx_pierri

hnuser123456 · 3 years ago

I find it bizarre you're diminishing mine. I got roasted by leetcode pros and othered by turbonerds too. That's humanity. I bet they haven't gotten as far as me since then, and that's an attitude that anyone who has faced pointless discrimination should keep in mind.

chrisrhoden · 3 years ago

Nobody diminished your experience since you didn't relate your experience - you simply said that someone else was taking their own too personally.

chrisrhoden commented on Spotify deletes 70 Joe Rogan episodes jremissing.com/... · Posted by u/Acrobatic_Road

concinds · 4 years ago

The open web is dead.

It's likely Rogan would have been banned from YouTube and Apple Podcasts had he not moved to Spotify. He could have moved to tiny platforms like Odysee or Rokfin that would likely have poor retention rates, or just relied on people adding his URL manually to Apple Podcasts, but come on. Nobody would do that.

The "death of the open web" problem isn't creators somehow consistently choosing to empower companies that keep hurting them. Users are doing that, and creators follow.

Imagine Tim Ferriss gets banned from all "non-open web" platforms today: podcast app indexes, Google Search, Twitter, Facebook, Spotify. We'll imagine he gets banned for zero reason: did nothing wrong, did nothing different, isn't any intrinsically less relevant or popular than he was yesterday. What's left is his website (if you remember the URL), and newsletter if you're already subscribed. You can add his podcast URL to your podcast app, but his podcast doesn't appear in Search. How much of his reach does he lose, overnight? 50%? 75%?

Google Search isn't the "open web", and if they don't list you, you don't exist. How can one creator fix that?

chrisrhoden · 4 years ago

> or just relied on people adding his URL manually to Apple Podcasts, but come on. Nobody would do that.

You mean by clicking a link on his website?

How likely is it that google would block joe rogan's website from search results for joe rogan?

I feel like people keep dodging a central issue here - joe rogan is not an independent being silenced on the open web by centralized platforms - he effectively sold the show to one of the platforms. They decide what happens with it (specifics of the terms of their agreement notwithstanding).

this isn't the first controversial audio programming on the internet, but it is the first one that is effectively owned by one of the listening platforms that actually has the power to do something without wading into unfathomably complicated waters, if they want to. that they (until today?) seemed not to want to - or to pretend that their relationship to the show is the same as twitter's relationship to me - is what is keeping this in the news.

To be 100% clear - it's not obvious to me what anyone should do in this case; joe, spotify, etc. I have my own opinions about the cost / benefit on the content but I also know enough to expect that things are probably more complicated than the popular narrative I have access to.

What I do know for sure is that Joe would have more control of his show's destiny, not less, if he had decided to keep distributing in a way that did not give a single entity complete control over whether a given piece of content could be distributed at all.