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SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

And the reason companies actually give a poo poo is because the fines they have set up are amazing. In a worst case scenario they'll demand 4% of your company's wordwide revenue the previous year.

Revenue, not profit.

For facebook that would mean a 1,626,120,000 usd fine, worst case. Based on their 2017 revenue.



Of course, it remains to see how diligent the EU will actually be with managing this, and actually fining + punishing companies.

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SubNat
Nov 27, 2008


What loving game was 3D, with audio, and fit on a floppy disk, with space to spare?

Transport Tycoon was ~3-5MB. And that was a 2D game.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

tactlessbastard posted:

What's the female presenting nipples aspect of Tumblr committing suicide

One of the specific aspects they ban is 'female presenting nipples'.

quote:

What is "adult content?"

Adult content primarily includes photos, videos, or GIFs that show real-life human genitals or female-presenting nipples, and any content—including photos, videos, GIFs and illustrations—that depicts sex acts.

Though their current, terribly designed bot would likely flag any and all nipples. And also anyone even mentioning a nipple in any kind of conversation.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

A GLISTENING HODOR posted:

But don't worry, tumblr still happily allows its many, many nazi recruitment pages.

I think you will find there is nothing adult-contenty about FREE SPEECH.
It's amazing that they never went after any of that, but it just proves how their 'safe area, comfortable clean space' bullshit is just lip service, since they never did anything to cut down on harassment.

Space Cadet Omoly posted:

Also anything that kind of looks like a nipple, and by that I mean all circles.

And also anything that has any kind of skintone in the image.
And anything that isn't a flat colour with no details.

But yeah, Tumblr is just utter garbage.
And it's hard to see this takedown as anything other than a way to kill the company, especially since as people point out, nearly everything will just get automatically flagged.
Especially anything using LGBT language or terms.

It's bizarre how they claim they'll support erotica, but if you as much as whisper 'gay' in a text post it'll get flagged.

The future of tumblr:

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

euphronius posted:

Why did tumblr kill itself. This makes no sense.

Because Apple kicked their app off iOS.
Because tumblr have given 0 shits about moderating the plague of pornbots, and the plague of child porn getting posted + reposted + shared.

So instead of even trying to fix it, they're just banning all adult content.
And are mostly using a terribly made bot to try to autoflag things for when the ban goes into power.

After this, tumblr will also be unusable.
Because you'll post a pic, it'll get flagged as NSFW.
And then you have to spend a week waiting for it to get reviewed + appealed, since they've probably just got 2 interns slowly manually appealing NSFW flags.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Sockser posted:

Servers hosting petabytes of video with no meaningful revenue stream are a problem when dumb investors stop barking at your door

It's kind of hilarious, because if they had bothered to say, handle advertising on their adult pages, they would probably have been one of the largest sites on the web in regards to adult ads.

Instead they just locked down and hid all their NSFW content, meaning that every single user primarily using the site for porn was a pure monetary loss for anything other than per-day pageview statistics, or active usercounts.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Phlegmish posted:

Age of Empires 2, my dude. Released in, uh, 1999. It's inexplicably popular in 2019 with a bunch of people streaming multiplayer matches and the HD version on Steam getting regular updates and overhauls.

It's even gotten a new, full expansion, I think?

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

JcDent posted:

:stare: link please

For the last couple of decades now, insect populations have been falling by as much as 2.5% year over year. A German nature reserve that's been keeping track of (flying) insects have had populations decline by 75% since the 90s.
Puerto Rico's lost ~98% of it's ground insect population the last 35 years.

Take your pick of articles to read, they're all equally depressing.
There are arguments that a lot of the worst falls are location-dependent, and don't exactly spell out worldwide armageddon. But it isn't exactly good news either way.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-insect-populations-decline-scientists-are-trying-to-understand-why/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/germany-s-insects-are-disappearing
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-02-12/insect-species-in-decline-and-facing-extinction/10804094

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

The Bloop posted:

What the gently caress is a .webp


Did you just hack my firewall with a virus

.WEBP IS THE FUTURE*

*According to google.
It's a mediocre new* image format they've been pushing, which uses the same kind of compression used in video files (WebM, I think?), theoretically making it more compact and efficient.
Their stated goal is to make files with a better quality than jpg at a lower size.
They did not achieve this, yet pushed it as a format anyhow. :eng101:

*The fact that it was introduced nearly a decade ago yet is still almost unheard of says a lot regarding how impressive it is.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Heath posted:

Literally the only thing I've ever seen of any of the Hobbit movies was a big flood of molten CGI gold and I was stunned at how bad it looked

Ignite Memories posted:

It doesn't even change color

Thank you, it's basically the only thing I really remember from the ... 2? of them that I watched.
Uniformly terrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9nD5sBojhA

Now that I've seen it again, I particularly like how the gold just randomly jets out like burps at the start.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Hihohe posted:

got a new version for you



Fuckin' :yeah:. That is good.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Dungeon Ecology posted:

what are the meanings of each of these?

to cont that:
'Don't walk around the porridge' = Say what you mean, don't talk around it / beating around the bush.
'Now you've hit on the big drum' = Been egotistical and self-inflating? Making a big deal out of yourself / exaggerating for your own benefit.

Alternate versions of that is:
Turning a feather into 7 hens.
Turn a mosquito into an elephant.

A bonus one for you:
'Shooting sparrows with cannons.' - Overdoing something significantly.

As mentioned by Vlex, the cat, bathroom, elle melle are just kinda nonsense rhymes.
The Cat one is
'Vil du høre en vits? Katten med slips!'
Much like say, 'See you later, Alligator'.

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SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Zetsubou-san posted:

i am saddened that right click->unmute did nothing

:effort: edit:
https://i.imgur.com/rqkEnh4.mp4

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Maigius posted:

Where is that from? It seems like it's a clip from some old video game, but I'd love some context.

It's made with 3D movie maker, I think? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_Movie_Maker

It's from a short film someone made.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Benagain posted:

Counterpoint: the omegaverse

I see someone brought a gun to the knife fight.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008


SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Humphreys posted:

Who did that awesome wednesday meme video megamix?

Sorry, I dunno what you're referring to. The creator who's made a ton of the original ones does have one, though. Is that what you were thinking of?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-RbOVJNtBs

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

RFC2324 posted:

Wonder why?

Like seriously, what planetary evolution quirk made this happen?

It's more a quirk of things flowing around, so you'll get periods of landmass being mostly in the northern hemisphere and periods of it being in the southern, just depends on when you check/measure.

Hop back to the Pangea-days and the distribution was pretty different.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

flavor.flv posted:

You left out Jack loving Black



These are wonderful, there was one with the kid setting up Euro Truck Simulator for his uncle too, wasn't there?

e: Ah, that was you as well:

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

ASDFGASDFASDFASDFASDFSDFASDFDGKJFHJFSDDGFHLJKGJ i can't even

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Who What Now posted:

Two of those are clearly purple

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Elviscat posted:

Her jelt is still white.

Gotta break it up with some jeantrasts to make the jelue stand out, same for the jop jutton. (and kneepads(non-jean)?)

LifeSunDeath posted:

what about her Jong?

?

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

It sounds a bit like Pangzai?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOdkoFeppyg

Dude got pretty viral for a while just smashing drink and food, and there's a ton of videos of him.

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

I think you might be overthinking it.
They might mean Gen A as in the logical start if you start assigning letters to each generation, aka the 1500-1600s-ish?

Which maps to the whole 'haha we might die whenever, maybe a plague? hey bb u want sum fuq'

e: fb^

SubNat
Nov 27, 2008


I mean, they did manage to actually screenshot their result, instead of taking a photo of their screen.
So absolutely in the top 87, as opposed to the bottom 13.

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SubNat
Nov 27, 2008

Hooplah posted:

good book

Yeah, I'm looking forwards to checking it out myself. Heard a lot of good about it, but finally got around to ordering it today.
Of all things, a doom wad is making it have a sudden spike in popularity.

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