Another shadowbanned user here. Used to be an occasional poster, made posts if I had something meaningful to add.
At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think much of it, continued posting. Then, one day I looked at my profile while I was logged out, and surprise - the the posts for the last few months are no longer there.
Like OP, I went through a few accounts. They worked for a bit, and then responses dropped off. Eventually, I realized that apparently, my new apartment's IP is toxic.
Not sure who a shadow ban is supposed to punish since any spam bot can check just as trivially of they're banned. On the other hand, legitimate users have no idea keep wasting their time submitting their comments to /dev/null.
By now I have given up on trying to comment on HN. I can use my time on better things.
Ironic that a the site like HN can't get a proper quoting markup, can't fix the pre-block scroll, took forever to add support for mobile and comment collapsing, and used blanket IP bans...
That's a really strange phone you're describing. Did it have a single hole on the dial? Where are you from?
I too used rotary phones - I'm 28 (if it makes a difference) and I grew up in a former Soviet republic. The phone had a dial with 10 holes in it: 1-9 followed by 0 (just like on a modern phone keypad, by the way). You stick your finger in a hole over the digit and rotate clockwise until the the stop. Then, take the finger out and wait for it to rotate back to the original position. Then you dial the next digit.
In this case, not necessarily. For example, here's a de/re-compiled version of Starcraft for the ARM/Linux-based OpenPandora, with no help from Blizzard:
> Finally, when you drink your calories instead of eating them, your brain doesn’t get the same “I’m full” signal that it does from solid food, even though you wind up consuming far more calories in the process. […] on the day they ate the apple, they ate fewer calories at the meal than if they consumed the same number of calories from applesauce or apple juice. The chewing really counts.
> Do you really think he should be in prison for intellectual property infringement?
This is loaded language.
When you say "intellectual property infringement" people think of implementing something that violates some vague patent somewhere, or some other frivolous thing.
This is completely different - he stole gigabytes worth of documents from his employer. It's not "infringement". It's theft, plain and simple.
My old manager wanted me to install WhatsApp. WhatsApp wanted to access my phone's address book so that it could upload all of my contact info to their [Facebook's] servers. I denied it, and it refused to work. I didn't want to share my contacts - I just wanted to communicate with a specific set of people. The only workaround I could find is back up and delete all my contacts before letting WhatsApp rummage through my address book.
I wouldn't say this practice is very "consensual".
I've always assumed Claws is the more full-featured fork of Sylpheed, but seeing that they've diverged over a decade ago and are both still in development I'm curious how they compare.
At some point I noticed that I never got replies, but didn't think much of it, continued posting. Then, one day I looked at my profile while I was logged out, and surprise - the the posts for the last few months are no longer there.
Like OP, I went through a few accounts. They worked for a bit, and then responses dropped off. Eventually, I realized that apparently, my new apartment's IP is toxic.
Not sure who a shadow ban is supposed to punish since any spam bot can check just as trivially of they're banned. On the other hand, legitimate users have no idea keep wasting their time submitting their comments to /dev/null.
By now I have given up on trying to comment on HN. I can use my time on better things.
Ironic that a the site like HN can't get a proper quoting markup, can't fix the pre-block scroll, took forever to add support for mobile and comment collapsing, and used blanket IP bans...