It’s so cool and strange to think we have examples of tools that literally predate humans.

If only there was a system of computers on the Internet that was distributed across the world where we could host things instead of all in one location. We could call it the "cloud".

We could connect distributed computers on distributed networks together using some form of internetworking protocol.

Like some kind of interconnected network. We could call it connetwork or connet for short. We’ll be rich!

Good, now do YouTube. That crap wakes me up.

Indeed seeing ads almost feels like I’ve been physically assaulted. Using YouTube in our streaming devices reminds me of the old Cable days where you watch 2minutes of something and get slapped in the face with 5 minutes of ads.

It really feels like being assaulted. Watching chill content only to have some ad scream at you, does not make me want to buy your product. I actively go out of my way not to buy things advertised to me on YouTube.

I don’t care for furries myself but I think so long as it’s legal and doesn’t harm anyone. I don’t care what an adult chooses to spend their own money on.

And neither should payment processors. They have no business being gatekeepers for anyone’s money. My money isn’t and shouldn’t be subject to their shareholders interests.

> as it’s legal and doesn’t harm anyone

Porn harms everyone involved.

That’s a personal opinion not a fact with any merit. And as a personal opinion has no bearing on what an adult should be allowed to spend their money on.

It’s not worth debating if you dissolve everything to a black and white argument. In your definition someone sending a cute sexy picture via text to their significant other is tantamount to rape and slavery.

The argument is ridiculous on the face of it and just not worth discussing at that point.

Payment processors aren’t taking a stance against slavery and human trafficking by blocking the sales of X rated games on Steam and itch.io and you know that.

And payment processors certainly have no right inserting themselves into any transaction period. They are not the money police. For any other issues between a person and a product there are other infrastructures in place that should have intervened before it ever got to the point of “supporting human trafficking”.

Ridiculous.

> Tell that to the sex trafficking victims.

“Slavery hurts everyone involved” is true, but is not a reason to ban work that is not slavery. And that is just as true if you limit it to sex work as it is more generally.

How much poison has to be mixed into the egg salad before we avoid eating it?

Precisely the same amount that's in each of the other metaphorical sandwiches in the metaphorical buffet that is all other labour.

If you really care: normalize sex work, regulate labor requirements, and support sex worker unions.

Oh, please.

I advocate for strong anti-trafficking and consent requirement laws and regulations on how porn sold in the US must be made and you bring up fictional "open drug markets" in SF?

I'm advocating for OSHA and labor unions for sex workers. Guess what, those work.

And you know what never has? Prohibition on alcohol, prohibition on marijuana, or forcing women to wear burkas for modesty. For their safety, of course.

I'm sorry, did I miss something? You and them said "furries" and now, suddenly, you're talking about porn.

Or are you immediately proving everyone critical of the payment processors right by showing that the "undesirables" will have their existence marked as sexual and then have access to the basic requirements of modern living shut down?

Every single reply you have given is a non-sequitor or wildly misreads what someone has said.

Payment processors are a basic requirement of modern life.

All that’s being banned is sex work. If people obey the rules they still have recourse to payment processors.

There’s cash, bitcoin, etc., your argument is invalid.

Their username has "poast" in it. This should be the only breadcrumb you need to realize you're replying to a troll.

To be fair, it's not uncommon to see accounts with usernames like "throwaway_84723" on here. The barrier to making accounts is low and the site invites a more "don't remember me" crowd.

Yeah, I just wanted to gently let you know you're wasting your time hoping for good faith discussion out of them is all.

If ideas can’t stand on their own outside the echo chamber then they are wrong.

I am not trolling. There are gaping holes in these arguments.

I am a founder who cannot stand what weak discourse passes here.

What I would like to know is why is it any business of VESA or any other payment processor, what I am buying with my own money. vESA has no business knowing what game I’m specifically buying. They just have to give money to Steam in my behalf and that’s it.

Can confirm, I prefer to stew in silent rage unless I absolutely need others to know.

Dpaint III was amazing. The ability to do calculated animation was way ahead of it's time. Too bad I couldn't get anything exported from my Amiga 500 :(

eh, even if he did chances are pretty good most states won't put him on the ballot. He can bluster all he wants but no amount of bullcrap will allow for a 3rd term.

Indeed, if you attempt to look for modern windows/mac UI development tools it's either Visual Studio/C# or nothing. It's like development in that direction has ceased. Modern languages require complex tooling to get from zero to a UI, IE Rust/Go/Python, etc.

Rider supports AvaloniaUI and Uno. And both also ship extensions for Visual Studio Code.

You are not tied to Visual Studio or Windows (as in, you can target Windows and Linux when using macOS, or Windows and macOS when using Linux).

Rust is generally anemic if you need a visual editor. Go and Python are in even worse state (there are no production-ready frameworks for Go to do cross-plat GUI app dev).

The biggest alternative so far is Flutter.