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Very fascinating. Reminded me of FlexPlay from 2003, "self destructing" DVDs for short-term rentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay
Indeed! Nice 'documentary' (what do you call this format?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccneE_gkSAs
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If they didn't want their posts linked from HN, they could block it like jwz.org does.
You can now see, that for various reasons including this, they no longer use Twitter
I may be remembering some things incorrectly, but that’s the jist.
Just thought I’d pass along the knowledge of their hatred for this site out of respect, as I don’t think most who repeatedly post & upvote their work know. Feels. Grimy as fuck to me, but I’m nobody.
Very fascinating. Reminded me of FlexPlay from 2003, "self destructing" DVDs for short-term rentals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexplay
The first post recommended by tumblr at the bottom of this article was about FlexPlay (and DIVX): https://foone.tumblr.com/post/705631633513005056/so-regardin...
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> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. Same for transphobic comments.
> The internet respects nothing, but if respect were to be a thing, repeatedly posting Foone for your guaranteed upvotes probably merits you a lack of respect.
Just FWIW, as far as I can see, this is the very first time OP has posted content from foone. I assume they were oblivious.
This is a complicated problem for a news aggregator, but it won't be solved in this thread. Making off-topic comments is just going to fuel the flamewar I think.
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I am not staff in any way, but in the spirit of the community, I would just like to point out the relevant guideline here. > Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. Same…
> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. The correct course of action if the article is inappropriate is to flag it. Same for transphobic comments.
Transphobia leads to the suicide & murder of highly oppressed people, so I’m going to choose to continuously break this rule whenever it needs to be mentioned. For doing so, moderation can ban me if they please
Wonder what changed…