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Comment · 11 years ago
Yeah, and for extra points using that same style of misleading headlines for his title.

Would it really have been so bad to put a "nutritional" into the title to produce something related to the actual topic?

Comment · 11 years ago
Happily it turns out that these new rules only apply in cases where the EU provides an important service: the legality of the trade itself in the first place.
Comment · 11 years ago
Glory to great leader Gen. Prayuth, savior of the fish!
Comment · 11 years ago
No, but IP requesting certain porn sites \approx user wants to see porn => account holder specifically requesting porn blocker be disabled. The equivalence can be expected to almost always hold, because its simply the easiest way to account for the behavior. Thus the inital objection stands.
Comment · 11 years ago
From those categorical statements I guess you are one of those that objects to sites defaulting to a language guessed from your ip location, or google trying to <strike>auto complete your search</strike> putting words in your mouth.
Comment · 11 years ago
Pretty much sums it up. Instead of a simple form and some "I have an unusual address format" check box that gives a more free form field we have people abandoning all restrictions.

And being burned by the total anarchy tried, there is the usual discussion about localization not being worth it that simplifies to "I don't believe those not like me should get my attention".

Comment · 12 years ago
An excellent example of a pointless data visualisation. I wanted to view a list of titles by date. What I get is a time series of top page visits shown as a faux heat map, with titles written on top.

I get it, a list with 365 entries is quite long, but that's what you commit to if you want "every day". The abuse the simple list gets here is uncalled for, and worst of all even collapsing it into stacked boxes doesn't improve the "too long" aspect enough to make it worthwhile.

Comment · 12 years ago
If you send mail to addresses outside of freenet I can't see why you would expect better anonymity than with any old throw away account.
Comment · 12 years ago
tl;dr. Young ambitious person gets first chance at job she is trained for, feels pressure to work long hours without complaint. Because of too much work, now she can't use her arms half of the time, instead draws with nose and made portfolio site with nose-drawing as central focus.
Comment · 12 years ago
Still, I'm surprised they bother with github being such a specialized website.

Do you know of other surprising examples of sites getting takedown request because of "immoral behaviour" (or whatever the name is)? Does the suicide list when hosted on bitbucket get taken down? On deviantart? Etc

Comment · 12 years ago
So is it your livejournal that is linked to in the "suicide.rst" post?

What's up with the bans on suicide mentions? Is the topic growing because the public feels without hope as the poem seems to suggest, or is Roskomnadzor just tying to keep busy?

Comment · 12 years ago
This is a really strange phenomenon, and I feel like there is a bigger context in which this exchange between the citizens and the state should be viewed.

Looking at the first takedown, there is the conspicuously named account "russian-suicide", which contains a fork of a blog. A cursory look reveals one post just like the other suicide lists, but it notably references a poem about how teenagers should just kill themselves because they have only shit to expect from growing up. (http://mudacek.livejournal.com/720.html)

The poem is prefaced by an assertion the author expects Roscomnadzor will take it down soon. It seems likely that they have been taking down anything with the word suicide they've come across. My guess would be some programmer reads these poems and started putting these silly suicide instructions into repos as a form of protest, and the authorities are trying to kill the protest as well.

Comment · 12 years ago
There seems to be barely more than one person per participating organization, wonder why.
Comment · 12 years ago

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