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  1. Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google in ~tech

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    I wasn't aware that robots.txt is backed up by law in any part of the world. Would you mind elaborating on which EU law does this?

    In the EU, or for anything released to the European market: The huge, huge fines for breaking the laws that require you to follow robot exclusions like robots.txt excepting the defined exceptions.

    I wasn't aware that robots.txt is backed up by law in any part of the world. Would you mind elaborating on which EU law does this?

    32 votes

  2. Comment on ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google in ~tech

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    You've misread. They're saying Google does respect robots.txt but AI companies are unlikely to.

    You've misread. They're saying Google does respect robots.txt but AI companies are unlikely to.

    23 votes

  3. Comment on Bosses mean it this time: Return to the office or get a new job in ~life

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    Can you explain what you mean by this? When have you been helped by "body language"? Working with people that communicate things that would affect my work through "body language" sounds like my...

    Can you explain what you mean by this? When have you been helped by "body language"?

    Working with people that communicate things that would affect my work through "body language" sounds like my own personal idea of hell.

    22 votes

  4. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! (v3) in ~tildes

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    I'd also be interested in a News tag. One think I miss about reddit is having enough content without opening myself up to the firehose of an entire site's content aggregation. I'm not even...

    I'd also be interested in a News tag.

    One think I miss about reddit is having enough content without opening myself up to the firehose of an entire site's content aggregation.

    I'm not even particularly sensitive to it, it's just nice to be able to spend a day on the Internet and know you're not going to be bummed out by reading about murder this or terrorism that or erosion of rightswhatever.

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Reddit is removing ability to opt out of ad personalization based on your activity on the platform in ~tech

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    It's on life support, IIRC. Only two people working on it (down from ~30 in 2015). They've admitted that they won't be able to cope with any major breaking changes.

    It's on life support, IIRC. Only two people working on it (down from ~30 in 2015).

    They've admitted that they won't be able to cope with any major breaking changes.

    15 votes

  6. Comment on $600million and a decade later, where is Star Citizen? in ~games

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    Plus ça change.

    I think the biggest problem that the company had in general is being self-funded. When you're a developer working directly with a publisher and you have milestones to meet it's a whole different ballgame. If you don't meet those milestones, you don't get any money. That right there will keep your project on schedule. If, however, you're funding it yourself, you don't really have anyone to answer to except yourself and you can quickly lose sight of just how much money is going out the door."

    Plus ça change.

  7. Comment on Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds in ~life.women

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    I would absolutely choose broken ribs over everlasting sleep. I think you're in the minority in choosing death in that scenario and I imagine if I sourced credible DNR statistics, we'd find that...

    this thread has framed that as sub-optimal, and has framed option 2 as being the option that people really want and are being unjustly denied access to.

    I would absolutely choose broken ribs over everlasting sleep. I think you're in the minority in choosing death in that scenario and I imagine if I sourced credible DNR statistics, we'd find that the majority of people feel the same way. The fact you don't want that 12% chance of life is - respectfully - so alien to me that it makes me want to ask if everything is ok but this is the internet and that is easily taken badly.

    Of all the healthcare options that women have measurably unequal access to, we should probably focus on things that have better evidence for improving quality of life or for lengthening life.

    I don't like this whatabouttism. We are a complex society that can address multiple failures at the same time and the existence of other problems is not a reason or excuse to not focus on others.

    Community defibrillators are easier to use and far more likely to have a good outcome. We should focus time and money on those instead of CPR.

    Again. Why not both?

    10 votes

  8. Comment on Women less likely than men to be given CPR in public places, research finds in ~life.women

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    In what way do you think this is being framed weirdly? If there was a disease that had a single cure with a success rate of 12% and the alternative was certain death (I'm assuming that cardiac...

    In what way do you think this is being framed weirdly? If there was a disease that had a single cure with a success rate of 12% and the alternative was certain death (I'm assuming that cardiac arrest without intervention has a survivability of close to nil) and we found that women had measurably unequal access to it, would that not be a concern?

    To your broader point, for something that can be taught in an hour, a 12% survival rate seems very much worth it from a societal point of view to me. What success rate would you need to justify society "pushing" it as a skill worth having?

    16 votes

  9. Comment on We have heard you - Unity says in ~games

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    Ah, there you go. Cunningham's Law in action. Thank you for your response. In my field (data), there seems to be a deluge of bootcamps over the past few years and I just assumed it'd be similar in...

    Ah, there you go. Cunningham's Law in action. Thank you for your response.

    In my field (data), there seems to be a deluge of bootcamps over the past few years and I just assumed it'd be similar in gamedev.

    1 vote

  10. Comment on We have heard you - Unity says in ~games

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    I know very little about the industry, but I get the impression from following gamedev Twitter that the average tenure is short and relies on fresh entrants. The school year has already started...

    I know very little about the industry, but I get the impression from following gamedev Twitter that the average tenure is short and relies on fresh entrants.

    The school year has already started (or is about to start) in many parts of the world and syllabuses have been set. If Unity can walk this back quickly, then course creators will need a long memory to justify shifting all their materials away from Unity to Unreal or Godot in time for next year's courses.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Starfield's pronoun-removal mod has been banned by NexusMods in ~games

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    It's interesting that you've linked to a software activist's personal thoughts on their blog as a source... do you think they have some sort of authority that puts their opinion above everyone...

    It's interesting that you've linked to a software activist's personal thoughts on their blog as a source... do you think they have some sort of authority that puts their opinion above everyone elses?

    And - be honest - did you even notice the they/them pronoun in the above paragraph? Was it "jarring" or "confusing" like Stallman said?

    32 votes

  12. Comment on What is a good website to buy legitimate MP3s? in ~music

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    Amazon is completely DRM free in my experience.

    Amazon is completely DRM free in my experience.

    3 votes

  13. Comment on Building my own email system and/or other privacy-first email solutions? in ~comp

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    Just seconding MXRoute.com. I've been with them for three years, and recently switched to the Lifetime subscription on the current promo. Had to set it up again from scratch and the documentation...

    Just seconding MXRoute.com. I've been with them for three years, and recently switched to the Lifetime subscription on the current promo. Had to set it up again from scratch and the documentation they provide to set up the domain configuration is second to none.

    Reading interviews with Jarland Donnell (the owner), I find it endearing how much one man can love email.

  14. Comment on Redditors of Tildes .. what is the thing you can live without? in ~tech

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    One thing that I've really enjoyed about the rexodus is the sheer volume of memories I've re-unlocked from reading comments like this. I distinctly remember one of the first things you'd see on...

    We used to actually do meetups on reddit, and I would go.

    One thing that I've really enjoyed about the rexodus is the sheer volume of memories I've re-unlocked from reading comments like this.

    I distinctly remember one of the first things you'd see on visiting a new subreddit was a pinned post of a group photo titled something like "Great to meet you all at the 23rd July /r/Whatever meetup". It does make me wonder how many other late 00s/early 10s internet stuff that has quietly disappeared and I've just forgot about.

    3 votes