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[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

I thought "whitelist" got cancelled for being racist? I distinctly remember being forced to rename everything to "IP Allowlist" and having to rename all my branches to "main" from "master". Jenkins is 3rd party software, so it still has slaves... πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It did, and I was also doing that in some of our software in a previous job. Other terms we had to stop using were black sheep, white washing, and even gorilla.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7dd3d/we-need-to-stop-saying-blacklist-and-whitelist

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How much have you been drinking today, my friend?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I wouldn't visit these sites if you paid me. Much less forced me to watch ads.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Just disable JS if you are going to read texts.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Read as giving them ad revenue allows them to write without doing sponsored articles

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago

I wonder which content blocker you're using, because with uBlock Origin (with a fairly aggressive config and custom blocklists) I do not get that "disable adblock" pop up.

Not like I'd visit this site at all, I just tried to see if I could create a uBO filter for you to remove the paywall.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Free speech doesn't mean a compelled audience.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Just because you can say it doesn't mean I have to listen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Reminds me of Microsoft's "1,000,000 PCs can't be wrong" or whatever it was when they started pushing windows 10 to 7 users

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

If you’re trying to get paid based one someone’s views or clicks, it’s not free.

[–] netchami 5 points 9 months ago

Makes sense lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

wow, the balls of the folk who came up with this 🀑

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Free speech also entails how willingly you are to put that speech out there. If you want to cover it with a paywall of any sort, you are most welcome to do that. Keep in mind that free speech and its actions also have consequences. If your content is good enough, people might pay to see it. Free market and all that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This might be a mildly infuriating moment

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Ummm... That's the wrong freedom for them to be trying to invoke. They have their own. It's called Freedom of the Press. But they don't seem to want to invoke that one when they know it is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Free speech for corporations and advertisers. For users is the paywall as adblocker. For this screenshot, Memes is a better place.

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