You are correct, I wanted to say the manufacturer is ultimately responsible. The consumer deals directly with the seller but the manufacturer still takes over when the seller doesn't exist anymore.
That would make sense if apps like Twitter or Reddit were banned from the app store or had also decided to ban NSFW content, but they seem to be getting along fine with their verification-free "click here if you're an adult" systems. Why was Tumblr different?
To be sure, this move by Discord seems like a reflection of the same kind of decision that Tumblr made. But blaming it on the app store in Tumblr's case doesn't seem to make sense. Discord seems to be doing it either to comply with increasingly fragmented laws, out of actual moral desire to fix a problem, or to avoid lawsuits-- not because of app store policies.
> That would make sense if apps like Twitter or Reddit were banned from the app store or had also decided to ban NSFW content, but they seem to be getting along fine with their verification-free "click here if you're an adult" systems. Why was Tumblr different?
The official Reddit app was still relatively new, but various third party reddit apps had occasionally got in trouble for nsfw content on reddit. Twitter had a lot more direct relationship with Apple than the third party reddit apps or Yahoo/Tumblr at that point.
Now, _could_ Tumblr have tightened up CSAM prevention without banning all regular adult NSFW content too? Probably. But given Apple had gone nuclear on them, the decision was made to err on the safe side as it was a lot easier to enforce a blanket no NSFW policy than a policy that allows nude 19 year olds but blocks nude 17 year olds, especially given the variation in body types people have.
And sure, there were people within Yahoo who had wanted a no-NSFW policy for a long while to make Tumblr more advertiser friendly and they probably pushed for the more total NSFW ban too. But honestly Tumblr was mostly in its arms length neglect phase at that point and "do whatever Apple wants to make this go away" was the driving motivation.
In reality, losing the nsfw content was certain death, but losing the app would have just been a downsizing. Maybe not even a major one - platforms are sticky as hell. I think most people would happily use the browser.
Now if you go out of your way to make your browser experience dogshit, like Patreon... Then yeah, losing the app store is very bad.
It saves face with investors to say you're shuttering a product to focus on the hot new thing as a strategic decision than to say you're shuttering it because your actions have led it to be unviable.
Matrix has threads. So does discord, but discords UI around them basically renders them functionally useless.
Anyway, the first goal listed in this project was to move to European sovereign solutions so Zulip failed at the first hurdle.
Given the (lack of) speed of European bureaucracy, this is likely more a reaction to the US sanctioning the ICC than the more recent Greenland saber rattling, but you'll probably see more of this in the future.
I wouldn't say Discord threads are useless - I do wish the UI made them more obvious, but I'm in many discord chats that use threads all the time.
Matrix has threads in a sense, but in this very thread the project lead is talking about how the new, ostensibly less buggy and more performant flagship client does not yet fully support them.
Element Software SARL and Element Software GmbH however are not. In practice I believe it's Element Software GmbH providing the European Commission deployment of ESS. (Both are owned by the UK topco, but at the current rate we might flip one of them to be the topco instead).
The Declaration for European Digital Sovereignty defined digital sovereignty as the EU and its Member States' ability to act autonomously and to freely choose their own solutions, while reaping the benefits of collaboration with global partners, when possible. The UK is not the EU or a member state.
Part of Russia is in Europe. Do you believe Russian products were considered?
The EU's definition of digital sovereignty included collaboration with global partners. It is obvious why UK companies could be considered more reliable global partners than US or Russian companies. A muddled concept of European was not needed to explain it. If where an open source solution was developed mattered even.
It’s part of why I’ve tried to move my Internet time to smaller forums in recent years. It turns out it’s still possible to have that feeling of community that old forums had, but only if the users you encounter aren’t constantly changing. Forums with personalisation like avatars definitely seem to help a bit, but e.g. new reddit still feels impersonal with avatars and tildes manages personal with a very similar layout to HN, so I think size is the biggest factor
Currently eating dinner & reading the comments. I have got 2 priorities for this project. This is the 3rd one.
Commenting to not forget it as its actually pretty nice and I can feel useful for people. Personally I am more of a new account guy (joined in 2024) but the website's really old & it's history's quite rich! [the famous rsync comment]
Actually this website is older than me. (It's 18 when I am 17)
maybe I am getting offtopic but I wonder how many teenagers use this website quite a lot like me (don't use tiktok)
I wonder because when I mention hackernews to my age friends.
Me:"Yea I use hackernews"
They say: "Oh so are you a hacker?"
Me:...
I just end up saying computer tinkerer. Actually (I have written about this once or twice here) but it's actually really hard finding people (my age) to have something in common at times.
Actually the reason why this and many other reasons made me want to watch movies & series again. Dexter is awesome :D
(Fair disclosure this prompt is generated with AI, not sure if I should add this to the website, but I definitely can. but I was really curious and so I am gonna run it on you but anyone else whose interested can simply go to the clickhouse playground and run it with their own username as well, where changing Macha to their username if they are interested )
SELECT
year,
yearly_words,
concat(toString(yearly_rank), ' / ', toString(total_active_in_year)) AS yearly_placement,
round(100 * (1 - (yearly_rank / total_active_in_year)), 2) AS yearly_percentile
FROM (
SELECT
toYear(time) AS year, -- Simply use toYear(time)
by AS username,
sum(length(splitByWhitespace(text))) AS yearly_words,
rank() OVER (PARTITION BY toYear(time) ORDER BY sum(length(splitByWhitespace(text))) DESC) AS yearly_rank,
count(*) OVER (PARTITION BY toYear(time)) AS total_active_in_year
FROM hackernews_history
WHERE type = 'comment' AND deleted = 0 AND notEmpty(by)
GROUP BY year, by
)
WHERE lower(username) = lower('Macha')
ORDER BY year DESC
(Ctrl/Cmd+Enter)
16 rows in result, 1.38 sec.
100.0%, Read 46.73 million rows, 16.18 GB (33.80 million/sec, 11.70 GB/sec)
№ year yearly_words yearly_placement yearly_percentile1
I don’t think Nintendo’s scheme was ever that great as it blurred the difference between variant form factors (Game Boy Pocket vs Game Boy, Game Boy Micro/SP vs Game Boy Advance, DS Lite, 2/3DS XL, Wii Mini), pro models with limited exclusives (Game Boy Color, DSi, New 2/3DS), and full on new generations (Game Boy Advance, 3DS, Wii U).
“Render yourself with GPU APIs” has all the same problems with a11y, compatibility, inconsistent behaviour that electron has - the only one it might fix is performance and plenty of apps have messed that one up too
Note that it becomes the _sellers_ responsibility - this might be the manufacturer if you bought it direct, but otherwise it’s the retailer
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