If only they did this in response to the Shutterstock lawsuit

OTTAWA, June 29 (Reuters) - Google said on Thursday it plans to block Canadian news on its platform in Canada, joining Facebook in escalating a campaign against a new law requiring payments to local news publishers.

Alphabet-owned (GOOGL.O) Google will remove links to Canadian news from search results and other products in Canada when the law takes effect in about six months.

Facebook-owner Meta Platforms Inc (META.O) made a similar announcement last week after the passage of Bill C-18, or the Online News Act.

Canada's media industry has called for tighter regulation of internet giants to allow news businesses to recoup financial losses suffered in the years that Facebook and Google gained a greater share of the online advertising market.

The independent budgetary watchdog in Canada estimated last year that news businesses could receive about C$330 million ($249 million) per year from deals mandated under the legislation.

Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez, who introduced the bill last year, has said the platforms have no obligations under the act immediately and that the government was open to consulting with them on the regulatory and implementation process.

Facebook and Google said the proposals were unsustainable for their businesses and for months signaled possibly ending news availability in Canada unless the act was amended.

Canada's federal government has pushed back against suggestions to make changes, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in June accused the companies of using "bullying tactics."

"Big tech would rather spend money to change their platforms to block Canadians from accessing good quality and local news instead of paying their fair share to news organizations," Rodriguez said in a statement on Thursday.

"This shows how deeply irresponsible and out of touch they are, especially when they make billions of dollars off of Canadian users."

Google's president of global affairs, Kent Walker, said in a blog post that the law remains unworkable and that the company did not believe regulatory process would be able to resolve "structural issues with the legislation."

"We have now informed the government that when the law takes effect, we unfortunately will have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada," Walker said.

The news outlets affected by Google's decision would be based on the government's definition of "eligible news businesses" when rules are finalized for implementation.

Google will also end its News Showcase program in Canada, under which the company has agreements with 150 news publications across the country. Reuters has a contract with Google to produce News Showcase panels, including in Canada.

The law forces online platforms to negotiate with news publishers and pay for their content. A similar law passed in Australia in 2021 prompted threats from Google and Facebook to curtail their services. Both struck deals with Australian media companies after the legislation was amended.

Google has argued Canada's law is broader than those in Australia and Europe, saying it puts a price on news story links displayed in search results and can apply to outlets that do not produce news.

The search engine giant had proposed that the displaying of news content, rather than links, be a basis for payment and that only businesses that produce news according to journ*listic standards are eligible.

Other articles:

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/29/1185087587/google-says-it-will-start-blocking-canadian-news-stories-in-response-to-new-law

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-canada-law-online-news-c-18-bill-news-links-rcna91882

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66056742

Reddit threads (mild canadian malding):

https://old.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/14mhmrz/google_set_to_remove_news_links_in_canada_meta/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/14mdalq/google_to_remove_news_links_in_canada_in_response/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/14mc3ub/google_to_remove_news_links_in_canada_in_response/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/14mawzm/google_set_to_remove_news_links_in_canada_over/?sort=controversial

Disgusting sexist pigs.

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/xoqwat/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/xorcak/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xos2r4/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/xop17l/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/xos9uk/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/MarchAgainstNazis/comments/xor193/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frickthealtright/comments/xor100/pennsylvania_school_district_bans_girls_who_code/?sort=controversial

Generated from TLDR This:

A school district in Pennsylvania has banned the Girls Who Code book series for young readers, according to an index of banned books compiled by the free expression non-profit Pen America.

The Girls Who Code series features a group of girls who become friends in their school’s coding club.

Saujani said that the group Moms for Liberty, a conservative non-profit formed in 2021 that has been pushing book bans through local chapters across the country, was responsible for the Central York district’s ban on the series.

According to Pen America’s banned books report, many of the titles being banned deal with LGBTQ+ themes or have non-white characters.

An author of one of the Girls Who Code books, Jo Whittemore, said on Twitter: “Some people choose not to focus on how awesome and empowering and inspiring these books are but instead choose fear.”

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2023-40

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4863

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2023/09/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_11.html

A significant vulnerability in the WebP Codec has been unearthed, prompting major browser vendors, including Google and Mozilla, to expedite the release of updates to address the issue.

⚠️ Important: Let me make it perfectly clear that this vulnerability doesn't just affect web browsers, it affects any software that uses the libwebp library. This includes Electron-based applications, for example - Signal. Electron patched the vulnerability yesterday. Also, software like Honeyview (from Bandisoft) released an update to fix the issue. CVE-2023-4863 was falsely marked as Chrome-only by Mitre and other organizations that track CVE's and 100% of media reported this issue as "Chrome only", when it's not.

The root of the issue lies within the "BuildHuffmanTable" function which was first introduced in 2014, the function is used to verify if the data is accurate. The vulnerability can occur when more memory is allocated if the table isn't sufficiently large for valid data.

Hope you updated your browser before loading rdrama today, bros.

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— cts🌸 (@gf_256) October 7, 2023

If this means a lot of communities will go back to old school forums I will be happy but it's possible they will just make servers pay for file hosting.

Call me a chud, there's no way I believe this

About 2% of the total went to alcohol, cigarettes and drug expenses

Any homeless camp on the sidewalk with open drug use definitely has more than $15/mo spend on drugs, alchy, and cigs. Isn't a pack of cigs in the west coast like $10 for a single pack alone?

I think a lot of productive hardworking people's money has been spent on propaganda whose sole intention is to ensure that people equate homeless people to "mentally ill drug addicts" rather than, say, "private equity real estate buyup refugees"

Is private equity in the fentalnyl business and are we really back pedaling so hard we are going to ignore mental health issues and homelessness?

But not into Soren. How could that be?

!schizomaxxxers !codecels

https://adventofcode.com/

Advent of Code is an annual coding competition/event with daily challenges. Even complete beginners can keep up for the first few days as the difficulty slowly ramps up.

Join the rDrama leaderboard and see how you compare to your fellow dramanauts with the following code:

632268-20c7d1d5

Enter it here https://adventofcode.com/2022/leaderboard/private

To change ur house go here:

https://rdrama.net/settings/personal and scroll down to "your aesthetic"

Tldr there wasn't a confirm button before so if u scrolled it changed houses instantly ( ) but there is one now

Ppl have been complaining about this for over a year at this point and I haven't coded in a while and Aevann was gracious enough to unban me from so I added the needful

@JoyceCarolOates @gigakitty @Aurora !schizomaxxxers !codecels discuss

i dont actually care about this shit so i dont care to do the due diligence to learn the jargon or whatnot, but the tldr is that reddit had an official blockchain token that was paid to posters based on their involvement in subreddits, and theyre discontinuing it. some third worlders like venezuelans were "earning" several dollars per day by shitposting in /r/cryptocurrency and farming these shitcoins by getting upvotes, but now thats over because theyre no longer being issued and theres no plan to use them for anything. as such, the price has tanked by 85% in the past day, and the tokens are likely to go to $0 because who the frick wants these things?

oh also, there were several wallets that sold significant numbers of MOON either slightly before or right around the linked post, leading many r-slurs to speculate that the mod team of /r/cryptocurrency was privy to this announcement before it went public and sold at a higher price than the poors could. theres also a few wallets that have been speculated to belong to kraken that are feeding another wallet that is selling MOONs off in batches of 500 at a time, likely trying to liquidate the millions of them owned without instantly cratering the price to $0.

extra sneed and feed to be found:

/r/CryptoCurrencyMoons

/r/ethtrader

lol even the fardnide sub is affected

https://old.reddit.com/r/FortNiteBR/comments/17a34ss/sunsetting_community_points_beta_and_special?sort=controversial

funne maymays and schadenfreude:

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/17ad742/must_see_spez_does_a_funny_comment_meltdown?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/17a419i/so_moons_just_got_rugged?sort=controversial

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/after-three-years-on-mars-nasas-ingenuity-helicopter-mission-ends

NASA's history-making Ingenuity Mars Helicopter has ended its mission at the Red Planet after surpassing expectations and making dozens more flights than planned. While the helicopter remains upright and in communication with ground controllers, imagery of its Jan. 18 flight sent to Earth this week indicates one or more of its rotor blades sustained damage during landing, and it is no longer capable of flight.

Rest in power little guy

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39134349

I recently built a browser-based word game with my friends called Sqword (sqword.com). I'm proud to say that we've been able to maintain a steady group of daily active users over the past 6 months or so despite not doing any real advertising.

Vultures will even pick at modest success stories.

Yesterday one of my collaborators googled "sqword" and to his surprise, there were tons of first-page results that weren't the sqword.com domain. These sites are "game aggregator" sites that host your app inside of an iFrame so that they can steal ad revenue from your product.

This made me angrier than it should have - not because Sqword is a cash cow - we don't run ads on the site and don't make money from it, it's just for fun - but because it was a passion project with friends, something pure and intentionally free to play WITHOUT ads. It's against my ethos as a developer, there are banners and popups everywhere. If I build an app, I believe it should either be free or it should be up-front about what the subscription or purchase price is (and then not upsell you).

I couldn't abide seeing my code monetized in this way.

The mature and responsible thing to do would have been to add a content security policy to the page. I am not mature so instead what I decided to do was render the early 2000s internet shock image Goatse with a nice message superimposed over it in place of the app if Sqword detects that it is in an iFrame.

It has been one of my greatest achievements as a dev: to live-deploy a massive goatse image to at least 8 domains that aren't mine.

Let this be a lesson to you - if you are using an iFrame to display a site that isn't yours, even for legitimate purposes, you have no control over that content - it can change at any time. One day instead of looking into an iFrame, you might be looking at an entirely different kind of portal.

https://joshcsimmons.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

Not sure where @RedNose is so I'll just post this. Post ur solutions below or whatever idc

Advent of Code is an annual Christmas themed coding challenge that runs from December 1st until christmas. Each day the coding problems get progressively harder. We have a leaderboard and pretty good turnout, so feel free to hop in at any time and show your stuff!

Whether you have a single line monstrosity or a beautiful phone book sized stack of OOP code, you can export it in a nice little image for sharing at https://carbon.vercel.app

What did you think about today's problem?

https://adventofcode.com/2023

Our Code is 2416137-393b284c (No need to share your profile, you have the option to join anonymously if you don't want us to see your github)

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Check out the FAQ as well. Shit's gonna break in like two months of use. https://www.clicks.tech/faqs

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!codecels !r-slurs who is the target market for this?

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— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) June 5, 2023

>be me, day 16 of AOC

>write a solution to part one that only considers nodes with values > 0

>runs pretty quickly, could be better

>get to part two, considering two players

> obviously it is equivalent to a single player playing the game twice and not visiting previously visited nodes, right?

>try solution on test input, doesn't work

>shit, forgot about the case where the players run out of time before reaching the end

>rewrite algorithim for two players (tedious af)

>press run

one eternity later

>shit, guess I need to improve the algorithim

>rewrite the algorithm to use a matrix of distances instead of recomputing the distance each time

>part 1 runs 21x faster

> surely this is the correct implementation

one eternity later

>what the frick do they want from me

>how could i possibly do this any faster

>wonder if there is a linear time solution i'm missing

>scrawl a page of nonsense with matrices, realize that none of it matters because it would be running slower than my interpretation

>fine, i'll check the solution thread on rdrama

>see a comment from @ihsoy

I solve part two simply by dfs through the part once, and then if time gets to zero, i restart the dfs.

>wtf, that doesn't work, i already tried that on the test input

>try it on the actual input

>mfw it works

>mfw i wasted hours because the test input was nothing like the actual input

I'M GOING TO KILL YOU SANTA CLAUS!!!!!!!!!!!

To nobody's surprise, Gab's "unbiased, uncensored" chatbot is specifically instructed to take a number of right-wing stances. Here's a quick comparison across around a month of them tweaking it, both to change its behavior and to try and cover their ass wrt the prompt https://t.co/o6ITFP60bd pic.twitter.com/jKAuIIod5W

— alexa! (@frog89348645) March 4, 2024

tl;dr

A guy found a bug in kernel on an obscure architecture no one cares about (PowerPC32) and submitted a patch. The maintainer decided the patch was no good and fixed it by himself, crediting the guy with "Reported-by" tag. A year later, the guy wrote a blogpost crying that wasn't enough.

Links

Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/16tf5ne/how_i_got_robbed_of_my_first_kernel_contribution?sort=controversial

HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37671991

A lie in the blogpost

I was also open to working with him, addressing his feedback and sending subsequent versions of patches. He said (paraphrasing):

Sorry, I like my version better. If you want to be a Linux kernel contributor, here's an issue you could fix.

I found this really perplexing and insulting.

The funny thing is, the above "paraphrase" is actually a lie and the kernel maintainer was very polite and respectful. This is what he actually said:

Hi Ariel,

I've added Christophe to Cc who works on ppc32.

I haven't actually reproduced the crash with gdbserver, but I have a test case which shows the bug, so I've been able to confirm it and test a fix.

Thanks for your patch, but I wanted to fix it differently. Can you try the patch below and make sure it fixes the bug for you?

I've also attached the test case I've been using.

Christophe are you able to test these on some 32-bit machines? I've tested it in qemu and on one 32-bit machine I have here, but some more real testing would be good.

If the patch works then I'll need to do manual back ports for several of the stable kernels, and then once those are ready I will publish the patch.

cheers

Comment spotlight

The maintainer did exactly what they usually do, I see absolutely nothing unexpected here, note that this was an unsolicited patch sent to a security mailing list.

If this is what the maintainer usually does then the maintainer is a wanker. If they leave the project, the project won't be losing a good person.

Indeed, maintainers are disposable. It's easy to find a codecel willing to put years of quality work into an obscure part of the kernel, for free.

Random users and drive-by contributors are much more important to the health of the project. They are much more likely to be a good person. We must not let them feel unwelcome, at any cost.

Agreed. I see the job of an experienced maintainer as a facilitator who should bend over backward to help other people's contributions land cleanly. The help often involves feedback on style and architecture consistency, but a sign of a great maintainer is someone who credits others, and mostly stays behind the curtain making sure everything goes smoothly.

You WILL bend over backwards for random people sending their shitty patches and you WILL love it.

Amazing how the hostility is perpetuating all through HN here as well.

I have seen (and sadly self experienced!) this kind of story way too often. And let me tell you this: This guy is now burned by this bad interaction and is successfully shooed away.

And some folks wonder why "nerds" and "geeks" are seen as socially inapt...

I don't even think that Mr. Ellerman had any malicious intents. But it just shows again, that the so called people skills are nothing to be neglected when choosing leading figures.

To paraphrase George Carlin: "It's a big club. And you're not in it!"

The maintainer should be immediately removed from his position and replaced with someone with good people skills. Ideally from an underrepresented demographic.

Funny how it's the small contributors that inevitably end up being the ones who have to set their ego aside and not the well known committers. Sounds very much like an old boys club.

Yeah, it's shocking that established contributors set the norms for the project.

Orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38643348

Roddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/Ubiquiti/comments/18hs684/no_official_announcement_on_security_breaches?sort=controversial