theevocater

shout out to your casual misogyny:

> Great. Then the relatively physically weak, the infirm, the elderly, the women, will be at the mercy of the strong

as if women are somehow magically incapable defending themselves.

Well, if women are leaving faster than men and often cite reasons of being bullied or otherwise forced out by men... why would women desire to enter that workforce?

This is the most patronizing thing I've read in a while. Women don't magically have some (ableist) disadvantage that prevents them from participating.

The thing that keeps them from participating is men bullying them and forcing them out.

What you are missing here is that the trolls friends still show up in the original persons mentions. So rather than the troll disappearing and interacting stopping it allows the abuse to spread.

The new system put the onus on the person being abused to keep blocking, whereas the old one general just stopped it.

Yeah Houston (I'm assuming you are talking about Houston) is a really progressive place. I do love Austin (its a young city and I'm a young person) but its not some shining light in the center of Texas. It's really not that different than any other big city in Texas.

Just, why is everyone focusing on the smokescreen of he said/she said? Who cares! He broke a federal law!

So wait, this guy was smoking some weed (I assume) in the middle of a con and got banned. Why is this even questioned? Whether you agree with smoking weed or not, he committed a crime during a PyCon event.

also, cmd-l (go to the awesomebar) and start with a ? to always search.

you can also have different engines

    ?cat 

will search your default engine for cat

i have one for ddg so

    ddg cat

searches duck duck go for cat etc. its fantastic

While I happen to agree with you, I'm trying to make the point that even people emotionally invested in their hatred of pornography should see that this law is faulty. Even if we happened to disagree on the specifics of obscenity, this law is wrong.

Just what citizens need: a the government watching everything you do! Regardless of how you feel about pornography or other "obscene" content, this kind of power will be abused. Even if Iceland, arbiters of good taste, manage to use it entirely within the given bounds, that kind of information could be pilfered and used by more malicious people. Even big tech focused companies are not immune to data theft, so why would Iceland do any better?

As the saying goes: let's collect data on how everyone in Iceland browses the web; what could possible go wrong?

Talk about playing right into the pirate bay's hands. The Pirate Bay can sue the CIAPC and put on a show about how even copyright's defenders mess up.

This would be the one sticking point for me: it seems Apple has never really cared about games, so it is unclear they will start caring.

I wish it well but my assumption is that it will fail :(

Hardware is hard; software is hard; distribution is hard; but they want to do all of it all at once. I wish them the best but I don't see them lasting unless they get acquired