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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by tyingq »

boring_twenties wrote: post #27
ubermonkey wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm just agog that people are still doing dumb pattern matching for profanity filters. I just assumed that YEARS AGO people realized how dumb it is, but apparently: No.

Not super relevant or anything but I just can't help but share my favorite profanity filter story, so here you go. I worked at a place that had a profanity filter in two parts. The first part was in C, several pages of if (!strcmp(x, a)) return 0; After all that, it then invokes popen() to ssh to another machine and run a shell script there, which contains several more pages of string comparisons, this time in shell.

Doesn't popen() pass strings to a shell? Sounds dangerous, as you would have to escape semicolons, quotes, etc.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by mywittyname »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #93
mumblemumble wrote: post #50

This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.

Is that so? I find that U.S.A. media tends to avoid rape but features all other kinds of violence. Anything related to sex, nudity and swearwords is held to the utmost standards of censorship.

Might be a product of what you watch.

One of the longest running dramas on American television is Law & Order, a crime drama. The most popular spinoff of this series, Law & Order:SVU has focused on this topic for the entirety of twenty-two (!!!!!!) season run. That's nearly 500 episodes of detectives investigating and describing some pretty brutal rapes and sexual assaults of people of all ages, genders, and walks of life.

Pretty much any crime drama is going to hit on this subject pretty regularly. Based on the stuff I've seen on shows that run on broadcast TV during primetime, there is not really much taboo around the subject. Comedian John Mulaney has a very popular skit that focuses entirely on the ridiculous things that are said on this subject during day-time TV.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by jowsie »

ihuman wrote: post #80
hatsunearu wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The few groups that used to do that have stopped making fansubs. Mostly because HorribleSubs took a lot of the market share by just ripping CruncyRoll subs and re-packaging with RAWs. But now that HS is gone, I'm not sure what's happening to the scene. There is a power vacuum and I'm not sure if anyone took up the space.

I don't want to name them here, but a new group has popped up that does the exactly same thing HorribleSubs did.

Erai-raws has been at it for a while now.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Yeroc »

alex_c wrote: post #39

It is infuriating that Google's default action for these automated takedowns is to remove the app and ask the developer to upload a new build with a new package name , which means not keeping any of the existing users. It's happened to two of my clients in the past 6 months based on small infractions in the app metadata, but no issue with the app itself. In both cases the app was taken down with no advance notice, an…

Yeah, this is what doesn't make sense to me. Why not leave the current approved app listing up? Why, during an update would they completely remove the listing for previously approved versions?!? Is the process really that broken?

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by TeaDrunk »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #93
mumblemumble wrote: post #50

This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.

Is that so? I find that U.S.A. media tends to avoid rape but features all other kinds of violence. Anything related to sex, nudity and swearwords is held to the utmost standards of censorship.

I'm confused how USA Media tends to avoid rape but Game of Thrones, which has plenty of rape (and even implied rape of a teenager) was massively popular in USA?

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by dang »

mumblemumble wrote: post #50

This tracks. One of the things that always gets me about US media is that gratuitous rape - even fairly graphic rape scenes on TV - is just fine as long it doesn't involve visible nipples.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25907230.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by canucker2016 »

hotz wrote: post #95
falcolas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contact the police so they can arrest the poster? Also, maintain a public denylist of packages with an transparent process for overriding or correcting the list?

Is a denylist a blacklist? Denylist as a word doesn't really roll off the tongue.

Yes. A news search points to last July when many social media/tech orgs decided to switch from whitelist/blacklist to allowlist/denylist.

see https://grahamcluley.com/blacklist-whitelist-terminology/

I would've gone with yeslist/nolist - due to being shorter in writing and speech.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by wizzwizz4 »

hotz wrote: post #95
falcolas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Contact the police so they can arrest the poster? Also, maintain a public denylist of packages with an transparent process for overriding or correcting the list?

Is a denylist a blacklist? Denylist as a word doesn't really roll off the tongue.

And blacklist doesn't actually mean anything without the context of an archaic idiom; it was a large barrier for me when I was younger, until I eventually learnt what the word means. You can go with “blocklist”, if you'd rather; that's similarly meaningful and sounds similar.
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