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Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by JacobDotVI » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

animal531 wrote: post #82

enriquto wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would seem that he has some idiosyncratic neighbors, then. But they are not alone, a certain amount of people are strangely obsessed by the grass of their neighbors. My kids loved the dandelions of my grass and I let them grow, but then I received regular bullying by the old lady next to our place, who had a "perfect" french style garden, and looked at us as if we were some kind of savages. I actually found this b…

Dandelions used to be both cultivated and consumed, it is only in modern times that we've decided it's a weed.

I have often purchased dandelion greens at my local farmer’s market - they are great sautéed!

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by _bxg1 » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:23 PM UTC

How does this keep happening, across all these different services? The very least you could do is give the account a few days' warning via email, which is totally automatable. There's no excuse for not doing that.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by _bxg1 » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:26 PM UTC

narrowtux wrote: post #47

According to an earlier tweet [1], the reports are from users who are mad they were banned from his discord server. > Actually, it seems like this "report" to discord came on the heels of us banning a member for posting offensive content. That member then, to seek revenge, reported the entire server to Discord, and told us about it. Nice. I've experienced similar immature behaviour in the Minecraft community back whe…

And how was there no system in place to prevent one disgruntled person from taking down someone else's entire project on a whim, without evidence?

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by Retra » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:30 PM UTC

rootlocus wrote: post #100

dTal wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That particular phrasing comes across a mite hypocritical - if you admit that having a well-kept garden makes one a good neighbor, then you are admitting that your unkempt garden makes you a bad neighbor.

1. That's not how the implication operator works 2. You don't necessary have to agree with the premise, but you're proposing it because you think the other person agrees with it.

Of course, there's a good chance the person you're talking to will not see it that way, instead making the same mistake dTal did.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by a3n » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:32 PM UTC

denkmoon wrote: post #61

removes without notice or consultation. How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more? How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.

We are all Ford Pintos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Cost-benefit_analys...

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by arkades » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:35 PM UTC

dooglius wrote: post #86

SteveSmith16384 wrote: post #84

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So what should we do? What price do we need to pay to exceed the "jack shit" threshold? Specific recommendations please.

Do your own backups on physical drives you own of anything truly irreplaceable

Or host your backups on DigitalOcean.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by arkades » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:38 PM UTC

AgentME wrote: post #63

narrowtux wrote: post #47

According to an earlier tweet [1], the reports are from users who are mad they were banned from his discord server. > Actually, it seems like this "report" to discord came on the heels of us banning a member for posting offensive content. That member then, to seek revenge, reported the entire server to Discord, and told us about it. Nice. I've experienced similar immature behaviour in the Minecraft community back whe…

I've helped run a forum in the past, and holy shit is it scarily easy to make stupidly-determined enemies. Even people who joined just to spam offensive content would act like they were the one victimized when banned and would do all sorts of things to "even the score". I think these people would emotionally forget that they joined looking for a fight and earned their ban in the first place, and would then ride the h…

This is not unique to forums. Anyone that’s owned a retail or retail-analog business (eg, medicine) has to deal with precisely this sort of crazy-ass behavior on a reasonably frequent basis.

A tiny sliver of the population is effing nuts.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by arnaudsm » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

denkmoon wrote: post #61

removes without notice or consultation. How often do we have these articles? Averaging once a month? Maybe more? How often does it need to happen before people realise that your $10/mo means jack shit to a multi-million dollar company, and "accidents" like this are just a cost of business to them. Solving the problem properly would cost a lot more than just letting people fall through the cracks of automation.

Boycott is often the only solution. That's why those articles are important.

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by yeldarb » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC

arkades wrote: post #106

dooglius wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do your own backups on physical drives you own of anything truly irreplaceable

Or host your backups on DigitalOcean.

Maybe not the best choice in light of them deleting this guy’s entire app, db, and backups the other day: https://twitter.com/w3Nicolas/status/1134529316904153089

Re: GitHub removes 5 years of One Hour One Life designer's work

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Post by derefr » Wed, Jun 05, 2019, 1:50 PM UTC

aasasd wrote: post #28

abetusk wrote: post #11

Jason Rohrer [1] is the author of Passage [2]. His latest game, "One Hour One Life" [3], is a massively multiplayer online game where your character has only one hour of life. You start off as a baby and are dependent on others for shelter and heat before you're able to be autonomous. Eventually you die of old age but your impact on the world/server persists. I recommend anyone interested to purchase the game [4] or…

He's also idiosyncratic in the approach to the rest of his life. When he practiced ‘simple living,’ in his front yard he had (or still has?) a small wild garden with uncut grass, where he of course walked barefoot and his children played naked (iirc). He was taken to the court by neighbors on the issue of grass, and appeared there with a tome of paper citing local laws and research that says cut grass exudes harmful…

> cut grass exudes harmful substances

Intriguing “fact” if true; I can’t reconcile this with so many animals eating grass. They’re both directly cutting it in their mouths, and also inhaling the volatiles from the part they leave connected to the plant.

Is there some problem common to all grazers? Something like the way koalas are proposed to be as languorous as they are because the eucalyptus leaves they eat are acting in a drug-like manner on them?

Or, alternately, is there some adaptation all grazers have in their bodily response to chemical volatiles released by the cutting of grasses, that other animals species don’t have?