Linus Torvalds
Bye bye, nytimes.
When the only thing that continues to work on you ad-filled web site is the captcha, I’m not interested in supporting your journalism any more.
Ironically, another pet peeve of mine was the “you can sign up online, but you have to call and talk to a human to cancel”.
But with apparently nothing but your main page (and your ads - surprise surprise) working, that was actually good for once.
Linus Torvalds
@brianstorms Shh! Keep this private between just the two of us, but I actually have and use an ad-blocker. But I see those ads on my tablet, and I find them unreasonably annoying.
Don’t charge me, and then also show page-wide stupid and annoying ads. The news I can get elsewhere with less annoyance, and I’ll probably miss wordle and the new math game in beta the most.
Brian Dear
@torvalds You see ads on the NYTimes website?
uBlock Origin is your friend.
Linus Torvalds
@juancnuno it’s not hard to cancel. It’s just really annoying. I at one time tried to use a pre-paid credit card just because I despised that practice so much, but that didn’t work.
If you rely on that kind of behavior to keep your customers, what does that really say about you?
The fact that they have some technical problems right now, and you can’t actually read the articles without going into soem endless captcha hell - who does that idiocy any more anyway - was just the last drop for me.
I didn’t mind subscribing per se.
Juan C Nuno
@torvalds I was pretty close to subscribing but didn't because I've heard horror stories about how hard it is to cancel
Morgthorak the Undead
Linus Torvalds
@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.
Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.
I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?
I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.
And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
Linus Torvalds
@powellnathanj lovely. They fixed it at some point since I originally subscribed. Except today I couldn’t actually even get to my account since I couldn’t prove to them I was human.
Maybe they’ve fixed whatever went wrong by now, maybe it was just the smoke in the newsroom, but it’s all moot by now. The phone worked fine.
Matt Daemon
@torvalds If your subscription was digital only (and some home delivery), you can cancel online.
https://help.nytimes.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003499613-Cancel-Your-Subscription
Erik Uden :verified:
Their proprietary and paywalled journalism is horrible, but what got me first is them being funded by oil corporations and often run their ad campaigns:
They call me Spitfire :pepeOK:
Parker Banks
Leaf Lord
EdBoatConnoisseur
@torvalds @morgthorak Linus, i write that out of respect for your mind as you can see how those without respect answer, i trust you can read, look and think by yourself, tho i hold no hope of anything for i have learnt from the world hope alone is as useless as it gets, anyway have a shark i got some crudely cobbled together software that i must work on.
Rusty Crab
EdBoatConnoisseur
@torvalds @morgthorak oh come on, use your head and think, the woke communism is the weapon wielded by the cosmopolitan capitalists to keep the populance poor, to transfer the wealth right from the pockets of the hard workers into their own, for the classes struggle is mostly a lie, the middle class has never existed, they are just the poors who keep poor because they burn their money on pretending they are rich, and the cosmopolitan capitalists who make up the rich class come up with amaxing tricks to keep the people poor and stupid, the race and gender fights all created to distract the masses from the hands stealing their ever lower wealth.
The values and “basic human moral principles” so vehemently pushed by the regime aren’t pushed from a place of moral highground but of calculated complex interest gain, for the ideologies and ‘brave people breaking paradigms’ are just products and consumers for the rootless oligarchs to market, package and sell for their personal profit.
Fediverse Contractor
Some Purple Cat
Parker Banks
Parker Banks
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nano :blobcat:
@torvalds never thought i would witness linus fucking torvalds destroying a poastie on the fediverse
チャノさん
@ehhh @torvalds @morgthorak It is now
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I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.
Because your “literally a child” comment makes me think you’re a dipshit of the first order.
I strongly suspect I am one of those “cunny connoisseurs” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?
I’m a card-carrying lolicon, I think a loli’s right to get snugged and fugged is very important, I think that “plap plap plap get pregnant get pregnant” means that lolis should be lovingly knocked up and not be subjected to the tragedy of birth control, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to lewd the dragon loli or decided you’d rather forcibly correct a smug mesugaki.
And dammit, if that all makes me a “lolicon”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
cyberpunklord420
Alex Gleason
clacke
Zero :zt_think: :artix:
翠星石
Hoss Delgado
MattZ
Some Purple Cat
Rwoeidk
Some Purple Cat
Kit Rhett Aultman
@torvalds Wow. Linus using that belly fire on a quality target today. Not what I expected from a Thursday but I'm happy to see it!
Lichelord Godfrey
@SuperSnekFriend @Elliptica @Mark @torvalds @morgthorak the only reason I don’t use linux is because I play vidya gaems. I never had problems running it though.
Unless you wanna run some obscure bullshit it’s real easy to install and use the major flavors of linux.
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