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Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people on Thursday May 14, 2020 @09:22AM (#23179169)
No, there is not. The moderation log is only visible by other moderators (of that subreddit, you can't gain access to modlogs of subs you don't mod.)
Re:Recaptcha v3: new way to stop bots on Monday October 29, 2018 @05:31PM (#18331703)
No, no, no, no.

I do not want Google to have any more fucking data about me than it already does! "Put this blob of JavaScript on every page of your site so that we can see how users are clicking, scrolling, and browsing around. Think of the children^W spam and abuse!"

I just cannot believe that Google somehow gets away with spinning this as some sort of "guardian of the Internet" thing when it is a transparent attempt to a) make adblocking more difficult and b) force people to accept being tracked by Google or get blacklisted from the web.

Getting banned from sites or treated as a subhuman because you don't want Big Brother to follow your actions around should not be something that we're okay with. It just shouldn't be.

Re:What I Learned Burning $14k on YouTube Ads for Candy Japan on Monday February 26, 2018 @09:08AM (#16465299)
Hi Bemmu. I subscribe to TokyoTreat, and formerly subscribed to Japan Crate (and the 'umai crate' noodle box, until one of them got seized by customs because they shipped something with pork bits...)

I don't subscribe to CJ despite having seen it a million times here and almost definitely being the target audience (though this particular ad would have definitely repelled me) because your prices just aren't competitive. I mean, sure, the root price of $29 a month is, but when you consider the volume of candy you get, it's not even close. 7 items on your example image vs. the 14 I got in the February TokyoTreat (one of which was a heavy drink and another of which was a 30-piece share pack) just makes it clear.

Have you considered dropping the shipping to once a month like all the other boxes and making them bigger? I think that would help you compete more effectively, because you'd be paying less for shipping as a percentage of your subscription gross and the "unboxing" pictures of your boxes wouldn't look as sad.

$29 for 7 items is over $4 an item. You're going to have a hard time convincing people it's worth paying that if they look at any other subscription box.

From looking at the list of past boxes, I think you do a really good job hitting the right balance of "ooh, exclusive Japan thing" and balancing out the tastes of an average person. The candy you select is spot-on with what I considered some of the best stuff I got when I lived there.

Re:The Problem of Doctors’ Salaries on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @12:27PM (#15758582)
Selection bias.
Re:LastPass autofill exploit on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @12:54PM (#12174426)
I also very very very strongly do not want any hosted service requirement for using 1password. I am very proud user of 1P but a hosted requirement would kill it for me. No matter how much you (the generic 'you') tell me you're super secure, nothing will be as secure as owning my own data and using local Wi-Fi sync to put it on my phone.
Re:Oracle continue to circumvent EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() on Sunday May 11, 2014 @06:38PM (#7730304)
> Is it deliberately gimped

Yes. It's deliberately gimped because the author of the function decided Freedom™ is more important than functionality and so they hid it behind a license check.

Most new symbols exported after its introduction are exported with the GPL check. See this for more info: http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0110.2/0369.html

Re:Netflix disables use of the Chrome developer console on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @09:56PM (#7351586)
"self-XSS" (the thing this malfeature is purportedly protecting people from) is a made-up concept. It's basically "don't run your own scripts to interfere with our site, and we'll use scary-sounding security words in an attempt to discourage you from doing it." I don't believe for a second this is about helping the user - more likely is that FB and Netflix want to prevent users running scripts that add features or do functions they find inconvenient, like exporting your address book or movie rating info.

I get to run code just as much as you do - it's MY computer, MY browser, and MY bandwidth. Making up a scare word (that just means "users running code I don't like") in an attempt to legitimize disabling access to development and exploration tools is beyond the pale. There is absolutely no reason to permit this kind of behavior, and I'm frankly a little appalled a community of startup founders and hackers would ever defend this kind of behavior, as some of the comments here have done. If you want to protect users from themselves and limit and restrict what they can do, write a mobile app. Don't try and put your shit on the web if you want it to be a walled garden.

The problem is that "acceptable" in this context means "paid protection money to the ABP dev".

(see https://adblockplus.org/en/acceptable-ads-agreements)

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1973 was almost 40 years ago. You should not have the right to profit from your work forever. 40 years is more than enough time. As such, I don't feel the least bit compelled by the second part of your argument. If Disney goes broke because Steamboat Willie has finally entered the public domain and is blatantly copied in Russia, I don't think anyone is going to shed a tear.