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sethauruson Twitter cut off the ability to read a tweet by fetching its URL with a HTTP GET

It’s been received wisdom until now that Google penalizes websites which behave differently when scraped by the Googlebot. Is that no longer the case?

sethauruson The demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis

Could you elaborate on this? Are you saying that being unconcerned about how one appears to others is a sociopathic trait? Which aspect of the GP would make someone a "loser"?

sethauruson Google disabled my husband's account

> "Google decided to arbitrarily ban a specific account among billions in order to target one of their employees."

Nobody is claiming that. Malice is not the issue here; the issue is the effect of having an account banned without recourse or transparency.

sethauruson Apple Disabling 'Sign in with Apple' for Epic Games on September 11

> Shoot, they even rolled back some big privacy change in iOS 14 because Facebook complained about it.

I must have missed that news — could you share a link?

sethauruson Applebot

What would be your desired outcome from this?

sethauruson MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

Is this an accepted view among historians? I'd like to know more about that.

sethauruson Fifty Women Say Salesforce Helped Sex Traffickers Exploit Them

The middle ground is to draw a clear distinction, both socially and legally, between sex and abuse. The criminalization of prostitution only muddies this line, and FOSTA-SESTA has served to marginalize and endanger both sex workers and sex-adjacent industries.

sethauruson Fifty Women Say Salesforce Helped Sex Traffickers Exploit Them

This case is specifically about sex trafficking, which is coercive and distinct from prostitution. If you're asserting that sex-work is inherently unethical, and that developers have an obligation not to lend their services to it, you need to make that case.

sethauruson Interactively Programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript

Firebug pre-dated (and heavily inspired) the native debugger, so the GP is probably intending to suggest doing without either of them.

sethauruson Hacking Hacker News

Past a certain karmic threshold, both are allowed.

sethauruson Gordon: An open source Flash runtime written in pure JavaScript

A custom virtual machine probably isn't necessary. There are plenty of flash decompilers which can emit AS3 source from bytecode — and since ActionScript 3.0 is basically the old ECMAScript 6 draft spec, it can be trivially downcompiled to plain old Javascript using Mascara (http://ecmascript4.com/). Ideally the conversion would take place on a server-side proxy, and its ouput would subsequently be cached, but it could theoretically be done on the client as well. Re-implementing the standard library remains a major issue, but certainly not insurmountable.