Posts made by Coin

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

See, I'm in the camp that thinks that cheating is fucking horrible, but that doesn't give hackers a blanket pardon for breaking the law and then leaking people's private lives all over the internet. It's not "okay" just because the people you're targetting may be cheating on their spouses.

That was never an issue though. The hackers didn't do this for moral reasons. They did it to blackmail the company for money. It was when the blackmail didn't work that they released the data - publicising the issue ahead of time was just an extra method to apply pressure on them.

This isn't a morality hack. This is a (fairly standard) data extortion scheme with some morality sprinkled on top.

... Having said that, it's hilarious, and getting some statistics out of the service because of this actually helps answer certain questions about the demographics of all such sites, even the less sketchy ones.

Fair enough,. I amend: fuck the hackers for being greedy shits who violate people's privacy because they didn't get money.

@Arkandel said:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/hackers-theyve-leaked-massive-database-ashley-madison-users-101012586.html

First of all, what kind of absolute moron uses his work address for this? Especially people in the military/government.

But also no, the leak isn't what's threatening all those people's marriages, the rampant cheating does.

You're right. But.

See, I'm in the camp that thinks that cheating is fucking horrible, but that doesn't give hackers a blanket pardon for breaking the law and then leaking people's private lives all over the internet. It's not "okay" just because the people you're targetting may be cheating on their spouses.

• I bet tons of people use it and lie about being married; or alternatively are in really bad marriages that they can't get out of and the website provides some (now provably false) sense of security as they try to find an outside recipient of their passions--this can be anything from someone in the closet to someone whose marriage is dead in the water to someone who is treated badly by their spouse and uses this as a getaway;
• I suspect a lot of the spouses don't want this stuff out in the open and would legitimately prefer to keep their private affairs private;
• This creates a double-standard where it's okay to violate people's privacy--despite them not having done anything particularly illegal--as long as what they did isn't morally ethical in mainstream society.

I think cheating is fucking stupid and a dick move and all that stuff; I don't support it, I don't abide it, and the times I've been cheated on have been definitive ends to relationships. But that doesn't mean anyone in this entire fucking mess is guilt-free, except maybe the families--particularly the children--who might get seriously affected by not only their family being torn apart but it happening publicly.

So fuck Ashley Madison for providing a morally shitty service, fuck those clients who made use of said service for being at best people in bad situations who made a bad choice or mistake, and at worst cheating jacknockers, and fuck the hackers for deciding they get to play moral police over something that is none of their business.

@Insomnia said:

I would say that if you have to make a skin called Readable, there may be a general issue.

And honestly even that fix is not the best, but tolerable.

So ew, still.

Except usually the names for skins and themes are all but random, and I am using Readable right now and the only difference it has from the one I was just using (Spacelab) is a font change. So this isn't really an argument to put stock in, I don't think.

@lordbelh said:

Damn this is horrible. I'm on the ew I don't like wagon, too.

@Cobaltasaurus If it fixed legit problems, fair enough. It fixed 'em while making the forum look like utter shit in the process. But I can accept the idea that it might be a necessary trade, even as I despise it. I don't think its hysterics, its just my opinion. The new layout has that utterly transient feel of youtube/facebook comment sections. Where nothing said really matters, its just an accumulation of white noise. That said I'm sure I'll survive and adapt. After all, its not like we say all that much meaningful here, either.

There is a difference between saying 'ew, i don't like it' and 'this is utter bullshit/trash we didn't need how dare you etc. etc.'.

@WTFE said:

I know that nodebb is dedicated to the latest and greatest in hipster tech, which thus means "eventually consistent" databases and their ilk, but this is getting a little preposterous:

This is a(n obviously) annotated screenshot of the "unread" section:

Can you see a problem? (Hint: Sesame Street did many segments on this very issue!)

For the record, this was after a full refresh and waiting for everything to settle down traffic-wise.

This happened to me before the update all the time, and if you hit the Unread button, it should get fixed. So this is not a product of the update.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Fuck this 25+ page history paper. Fuck it in the head. Also fuck myself for putting it off until I have, uh, 6 days to do it.

Procrastinators Unite.

Tomorrow.

Aren't you a teacher ?

WE HAVE A SPY HERE, GUYS!

• I was a student long before I was a teacher.
• Teachers procrastinate so much, you guys, you have no idea.
• All teachers have access to a secret website where we can see any academic record in the world. In the world. Trufax.

@Cobaltasaurus said:

Fuck this 25+ page history paper. Fuck it in the head. Also fuck myself for putting it off until I have, uh, 6 days to do it.

Procrastinators Unite.

Tomorrow.

Functional, yet stylish.

@Admiral said:

"alternate universe, where technology evolved differently than in our own."

Still sci-fi.

@Misadventure said in Shadowrun!:

So define sci-fi in a way that makes it clear that cyberpunk isn't sci-fi.

Except it is. lulz.

@silentsophia said:

@Arkandel Underaged TS in the middle of mage combat.

You can't just cold-mention it. You gotta give deets!

@Bobotron said:

Hopefully related to the future of this topic.

Wish me luck guys. I'm sending in my freelancer stuff this week to OPP, after my friend who writes for them does a first read for me. I'm sending in some 'after the Withering' post-Gehenna setting information for my fluff section, and a combo Discipline for the crunch stuff that I need.

Are you actually freelancing for them or are you submitting something in hopes of..? Either way, good luck.

@surreality said:

Sphere staff unto itself isn't so much a bad thing in that it means there's one person with a final call that is expected to know what the hell they're talking about, and have at least passably reasonable judgment.

That is more necessary than it may sound; even staff teams that get along very well may have vastly different ideas about which direction to go on any given issue -- from a basic 'goddammit OP left this totally nebulous again and left it up to the ST to make a call so we should probably post somewhere how the game handles this scenario for future reference and consistency' (which comes up all the time) to more serious concerns, like 'the sphere is in shambles and everyone hates everybody else in it and nothing is happening and dogs and cats are living together and... and... and... ' final calls on how to handle it -- revamp, scrap, overhaul, close for repairs, etc.

Everybody is going to have a different idea about those things, and while it's great to have a variety of opinions pouring into the idea pot for consideration? It can be argued and voted on until doomsday, which is a common recipe for burnout, frustration, flaring tempers, and hostility in too many cases for it that to be a good thing.

There's a hell of a lot of problems with the sphere staff model -- but not everything about it is a bad idea. 'Everybody does everything' is not the best solution for consistency or all the details working out; considering the density of the source material and all of its quirks, not everyone is going to be as competent at certain tasks. The 'all admins are general admins + there is a sphere expert/authority available/poor son of a bitch stuck standing right where the buck stops' model is considerably better than either, really.

"Everyone does everything" isn't a good model. "Anyone can do anything [if they're knowledgeable about it]" is much, much better.

@Ganymede said:

@HelloRaptor said:

I'm up for jury duty in Federal court in a couple of weeks. I'm mostly just wary of my ability to stay awake the whole time. My sleep schedule is pretty fucking erratic for a number of reasons, so having to be awake and alert during the day every day if I get called will be problematic. I imagine falling asleep during a trial would probably get me in trouble.

You'd be surprised how difficult it is to fall asleep when people are yelling at each other.

You may be surprised how easy it is for some of us to fall asleep while people yell at each other.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

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@HelloRaptor said:

@Miss-Demeanor said:

AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.

So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!

Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.

Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?

Que te recontra por las dudas.

No, your mom.

Y la tuya tambien.

You can't advertise for a harem, man. You have to be sneaky about it. Collect them like trading cards and then hope they don't freak out when you try to get them to TS with you in the same scene together.

You're fucking with tradition, here.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

@Coin said:

@tragedyjones said:

Just watched the latest Mr. Robot. It might be the best show of the summer.

The level of mindfuckery last night was truly fucking great. It blew their Down the Rabbit Hole episode out of the water. I hadn't been that impressed with it, but last night I was like WTF.

I'm really enjoying it. The guy who plays Elliot is awesome. I'm at the point where I won't even be disappointed by the inevitable "Fight Club" reveal, though I'm still hoping they do something different. Somehow.

After this latest episode, I think we can definitely see something similar, but different, popping up. Which is great.

@tragedyjones said:

Just watched the latest Mr. Robot. It might be the best show of the summer.

The level of mindfuckery last episode was truly fucking great. It blew their Down the Rabbit Hole episode out of the water. I hadn't been that impressed with it, but last night I was like WTF.

I am actually watching TSCC for the first time now. I guess Genisys reignited some Termintor love in people after all.

@Wizz said:

Someone I used to be close with -- and almost had something romantic with -- just revealed publicly on Fbook that she found out her piece of shit boyfriend cheated on her, again. This was a dude who stole money from our very small group of friends and regularly invited other pieces of shit over to our "parties" (seriously, like five of us) without permission, and we had been pretty sure at the time that they stole from us as well. I haven't seen or talked to her in a couple of months now because of some unrelated bullshit between her and a mutual friend I met her through. I wish I could reach out to her, but I can't be sure what my own motivations are for doing so and I feel like she's probably being swamped anyway by a core of desperate dudes who have followed her relationship a little too closely since I first met her. I don't want to be one of them.

I wish I knew what to do about feeling angry and confused, but ultimately more I just wish I could help.

There is no good answer to this. I would just PM her with "if you need to talk, let me know" and leave it at that. It's not creepy, and it leaves the ball in her court so if she wants to talk and decides you're the one to talk to, the invitation's there. But you aren't, like, sitting down in a virtual couch too close to her wrapping your arm around her and going, "are you okaaaaaaaaaaaaaay?"

@HelloRaptor said:

@Coin said:

@HelloRaptor said:

@Miss-Demeanor said:

AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.

So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!

Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.

Eu não entendo o que você está dizendo, você poderia explicar?

Que te recontra por las dudas.

@HelloRaptor said:

@Miss-Demeanor said:

AT&T has an option for unlimited data, too. So it isn't just T-Mobile. Pretty sure Sprint has something like that as well.

So @Ark is just crazy. Crazy!

Or he doesn't live in the States... so maybe it's different.