I haven't browsed the orchards thread all day so I'm not up on new developments, but from what I was reading yesterday he just had semi-normal conversations with her while she was 18 and they didn't fuck until she was 22, aka the "grooming" allegations are a bit overstated. Just another post-metoo "I fucked an eceleb and regretted it" roastie overblowing shit on twitter.
after pissing on his fans for years, the only people left are his dicksuckers.
Kingkiller 1 and 2 are p good, but Rothfuss is far from a writing god that he thinks he is, and it's hard not to feel strung along after all these years.
actual answer? if you're in the cloud and doing anything controversial you're probably going to yet yeeted. there are some boutique hosters like joshua moon's "1776 hosting" (joshua is a bad person, but not for political reasons) designed specifically to host controversial shit but they tend to be more expensive and limited.
if you're at all worried, buy a cheap used server from buisness surplus and host on your own metal. unless you get a shitload of traffic its unlikely your home connection will get saturated. remember to proxy to hide your ip tho.
china's army is larp-tier running equipment half a century old. theres a reason they haven't taken back taiwan: they realistically couldn't. that and Chinese wealth is mostly based on trade with the west (that they give up the second the war starts).
there's a reason China sticks with posturing and espionage. without it, they wouldn't be taken as seriously.
I used to have a google home in my flat and after moving I never set it up again. After the honeymoon period you quickly realise that the only thing you can really do with it is set alarms, timers, and ask it dumb questions. Once you get bored of that you just find yourself not using it.
Maybe some cool IoT smart home shit could change my opinion on that, but even that is limited. If I turned on my oven and it sent an alert across my flat that it's up to temp that would be super useful, but the way Google Home and Alexa are designed means that you have to specifically ask for them to give you feedback instead of them coming up with feedback on their own, which isn't a natural interaction. In the end, you just kind of forget they exist as they collect dust and eventually end up in the bin.
Of all the awesome tech made in the last decade, smart assistants are genuinely the biggest overhyped disappointment to me.
I come from an IT background (like a lot of people here), so I guess I have a different perspective on things. I think it sucks that some stuff will be lost, but I don't really know what they expect anyone to do. Projects that run flash games in a sandbox app have popped up to archive a lot of flash-based content so there still is a record of it's existence at least.
Maybe open sourcing Flash Player is an option, but a lot of the flaws that make Flash bad are architectural. This is the only way I can see this ending.
No, those alternatives came because Flash was being used for things it was never designed to do. Remember Flash Player was originally designed as a web frontend for animations made using Adobe's "Flash" animator product. It's ease of use made it popular for web devs to use for animated web pages, which garnered an install base. People then leveraged that install base when designing complex apps like streaming applets and games, even though that was beyond the scope of the Flash player project.
Adobe themselves made a better framework called Air but nobody used it because it was already established that W3 was getting involved. There was no saving Flash because, like all middleware of its type, it goes against the idea of the internet as a concept. If the internet is to be truly open and free, relying on proprietary software from shitty licence trolls like Adobe is absolutely not the way to do it.
No, the reason no one uses is anymore is because there are much better alternatives that are baked right into web standards. Back when it was popular if you wanted to stream video or add interactive animations to your site, Flash was the only way to build that functionality. As the web consortium realized that these were high demand features, they implemented them directly in web standards themselves so you no longer needed a heavy middleware library. Once that happened, it was only a matter of time before flash faded into obscurity.
Its two competitors, Java applets and Microsoft's Silverlight framework, have similarly faded away.
Whether they like it or not, this will cause issues for legacy use cases and people will likely just resort to using out of date versions of the extension.
If people do this, the results are on them. Adobe wants to wipe their hands clean of Flash and for good reason. It's an infinite money hole to maintain, nobody even uses it anymore, and creates more problems than it's worth.
Flash is really garbage and full of security holes. They're killing it to prevent people from relying on it as the only way to force change in a lot of ways is to make bold moves like this.
This announcement of retirement happened years ago so if your business is still relying on Flash in some fashion it's on you or your retarded superiors.
damn I heard that all the way from 12 south. 2nd ave has been entirely closed due to wuflu, and early morning and it being Christmas and all means foot traffic would have been non-existent, so at least no-one got hurt.
ED is already dead. Too many shithead sysops have left the site in ruins and their userbase has entirely dried up.
Joshua Moon has wanted to bail on Kiwi Farms and ghost for the last year at least, just is too much of a pussy to do it. This is just the excuse he needs to finally pull if off.
Reposting my take from plebbit:
mmk, if anyone actually cares about this drama, this is everything I could piece together
Byuu has had a dedicated group of haters on 4chan's /emugen/ topic for a decent while. Sometime earlier these haters doxxed some of the people he was friends with using the Kiwi Farms as an outlet and convinced them that Byuu was to blame (or that he was at least sympathetic to the site, having admittedly owned up to his cringe-posting past). Now isolated from his online friendgroup, he had probably gotten fairly lonely, exasperating his already existing depression and mental illness. I'd guess he went to Moon with the offer to delete his thread as some kind of way to redeem himself to those around him, even if that desperate plan was never going to actually work.
To be honest, I don't know if he's still alive or not, as there isn't really enough evidence to conclude. I hope he is, but still. I can't really conclude what Twitter has, and don't think the Farms is to blame. Joshua handled that email to a decent degree, and I genuinely dare you to on the spot come up with a better response it. The real culprits behind this are, imo, are the /emugen/ a-logs and his shitty friendgroup. The Farms, in reality just by existing, was just an easy target to place the blame on (explaining why it was worth being upset over such an unremarkable thread).
As for the google doc, either that was published by himself posthumourously (or to help sell his supposed death) or was written by a sick opportunist. Theres no way thats real. I also doubt the conspiracy theory about fencing off the rare Nintendo game collection people donated to him is legit either because if he had $120k lying around in the bank I doubt the $40k at best of video games was worth faking his death over.
If you care about this (which, tbh, you probably shouldn't. Shit is depressing), best place to look is the source: his emails he sent to Joshua.
The reason nobody posted about it here is because it really doesn't effect us in any way. It's just pointless drama.