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forgottenpass commented on Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system   law.nyu.edu/centers/engel... · Posted by u/pulisse
ikeboy · 6 years ago
>We discovered that if we continued to challenge the accusation of infringement and lost, our video would be subject to copyright strikes. If the account was subject to multiple strikes its ability to live stream could be restricted or the account could be terminated. While our colleagues in the communications department were highly supportive of our efforts, they were concerned that one misstep could wipe NYU Law’s entire YouTube presence off the internet.

To be clear, if you dispute and counternotice everything, then the only way this would happen is if the other side actually sues you, which is incredibly unlikely here.

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
>To be clear, if you dispute and counternotice everything

This isn't happening under the DMCA, it's Google's own brand of copyright process more tailored to appeasing the giant media companies.

forgottenpass commented on Moznet IRC is dead; long live Mozilla Matrix   matrix.org/blog/2020/03/0... · Posted by u/Arathorn
bitwize · 6 years ago
Professional developers mostly use Macs these days, and won't touch anything that doesn't have a nice UI that does exactly what they expect. Anything that looks too textual or "computer-code-y" that's not related to what they're working on, they will stay away from.

Case in point: virtually no one uses Emacs. Even Vim is diminishing; most devs now use Visual Studio Code.

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
I vehemently implore you to spend some time outside the Valley bubble.
forgottenpass commented on Secret’s founder returns with anti-loneliness app Ikaria   techcrunch.com/2020/02/18... · Posted by u/daddy_drank
watwut · 6 years ago
On the other hand, leaving abusive or manipulative person is a good idea - you are better off alone.

And dating addicted gamer that also drinks or takes drugs sounds like special kind of hell. It would just make her suffer in bad relationship where she has no meaningfull companion and partner.

No girl can cure any of these. And guys like this won't change after starting to date a girl - not for long. The idea that she will civilised him by her presence is bonkers.

Hardcore gamer culture is not the "you found a girl stop playing that much" culture. It is "you don't play enough you are weakling get gut looser, if girl stopping you from hobby she is bad partner" culture.

Amd real life dating activities are boring compared to excitement of gane for gamers. Even if he wanted to stop instantly, it is trully hard.

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
But how'd they get there in the first place? Contact with a D12 is terminal? What set our hypothetical failure apart from a 20-something guy that drinks, does drugs, plays games, is in a relationship and leads a rewarding life? Allow me to blast some copypasta about for an idea I can't quite articulate myself:

>Everything is systemic until it's people you don't like, and then suddenly they're personally morally culpable for their shit ass attitude. A whole generation of men simultaneously said "nah fuck it having a life is for fags"? When you see this many people with the same problem, the word "systemic" should come to mind immediately. They need to wipe their own ass obviously but I'm in no rush to blame a whole generation of teenagers for burning out the exact same way; I wanna know who sold them the video games, weed and tendies.

forgottenpass commented on Stop Lying About Our Sons   medium.com/@egsanzi/stop-... · Posted by u/Reedx
throwaway12757 · 6 years ago
I'm not sure, but I might be able to shed some light on this growing up in a "boys" world and then coming out as trans and transitioning to female.

I have also spent 6 years in the Navy (on submarines in an all male environment) before I transitioned.

Toxic masculinity is a real thing, the amount of men don't cry, men don't show emotion, and the large amount of "locker room" talk involving treating women as sex objects was incredibility high.

I've been in these male spaces, not saying anything, but watching and I can truly tell you, it's completely disgusting.

In the end, I'm actually sad that most men don't feel like they can talk about their vulnerabilities and emotions. It's a hard world to live in like that.

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
>the amount of men don't cry, men don't show emotion

>I'm actually sad that most men don't feel like they can talk about their vulnerabilities and emotions.

Do they not talk about it, or have they not talked about it _to you_?

I used to believe the narrative that men don't talk about emotional issues, assuming my lifetime of experiences talking to other men about our perspectives, fears, limitations and feelings was some sort of aberration. It finally fell apart when I made some friends in the trades. If _they_ didn't even follow the mold, and were willing to confide in me whenever something was on their mind, then why is this assumed to be a widely-pervasive male trait?

As far as I can tell, men are more than willing to talk about personal topics they keep guarded. It just has to be with someone that they care to have a real conversation with.

forgottenpass commented on Programmer's critique of missing structure of operating systems   blog.rfox.eu/en/Programme... · Posted by u/Bystroushaak
Tyr42 · 6 years ago
Wow. After living on the google tech island for a while, it's surprising how much of this people have tried to "solve". Need a message? Pass a protobuf. Want to log something? Got you covered. Files? What's a file? I only make rpc calls to some database server.

So I think there's definitely some truth to what he is saying. However I'm not sure if we can climb down from our local optimum long enough to all climb up there together. I think even at google where it's pretty restricted you still might have two ways to do some things (the deprecated way and the not yet ready way).

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
>After living on the google tech island for a while, it's surprising how much of this people have tried to "solve"

You're missing the point of the article. Most people and organizations have written libraries and services that make common development tasks much easier when developing within their own software ecosystems. Google is just one of many.

The question this article is getting towards is solving those problems in a pattern that transcends individual implementations and the conceptual model becomes as ubiquitous as the filesystem hierarchy.

Dumping a "this works for $DAYJOB" solution onto the public by publishing a standard isn't the answer. If that worked, those problems would be solved and this article wouldn't exist.

forgottenpass commented on Our app powered car rental lost cell service and now I'm stuck here   mobile.twitter.com/kari_p... · Posted by u/scrollaway
forgottenpass · 6 years ago
You're assuming this was a "didn't know" failure mode, not a "didn't care" failure mode.

I'd wager it was a "didn't care". They knew about the limitations, figured the product would work often enough to make some money and labeled everyone pointing out the problem as haters or technophobes.

Someone probably even pitched a keypad password based redundancy and got drown out in valley buzzwords about MVPs and shipping fast until they gave up.

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forgottenpass commented on Stop Lying About Our Sons   medium.com/@egsanzi/stop-... · Posted by u/Reedx
olliej · 6 years ago
This article seems to be interpreting any attack on "toxic" masculinity as an assault on masculinity in general.

Things we consider "toxic masculinity" are (for example)

* Sexism and misogyny - that is women are less than or inferior to men, and should be focused on serving them.

* Violence is a reasonable response to being upset

* Men who aren't sufficiently "masculine" (often defined in terms of the above), are also lesser

* Women who aren't sufficiently "feminine" need to be put in their place (understand who's in charge, and who they should serve)

Are there a few idiots who go beyond that? yes. Just like there are idiots who go bizarrely far on any other topic.

But attacking toxic masculinity is not attacking masculinity. It's not attacking men and boys.

If you feel attacks on toxic masculinity are attacks on you fathers/husbands/sons maybe there should be some thought about what about their behavior overlaps the above, and whether you think that's ok?

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
>If you feel attacks on toxic masculinity are attacks on you fathers/husbands/sons maybe there should be some thought about what about their behavior overlaps the above, and whether you think that's ok?

My favorite part of social commentary these days is how it's layered in "I'm not poorly conveying a point, you're hearing me wrong and/or you're the problem."

forgottenpass commented on How Big Technical Changes Happen at Slack   slack.engineering/how-big... · Posted by u/felixrieseberg
jonas21 · 6 years ago
Just anecdotally, I've noticed a high correlation between:

a) People who hate Slack

b) People who hate open-plan offices

c) People who can't imagine why anyone would ever have a different opinion than them on such topics

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
How is point "C" anything more than "People on that side of the fence are not thoughtful, unlike people on this side of the fence"?
forgottenpass commented on Apple store workers should be paid for time waiting to be searched, court rules   latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/danso
dylan604 · 6 years ago
>The court’s decision is retroactive.

This seems like a pandora's box. If the employees are already off the clock to endure this delay for the searches, how will they be able to show how much time was lost in a way that would be worthy of a payment?

forgottenpass · 6 years ago
>This seems like a pandora's box.

Of what? Damages can rarely be calculated perfectly.

It's not the court's fault Apple falsified timecard data.

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