TFA actually suggests Adblock Plus would still work because it uses more primitive blocking that would still be possible under the new API, not because of some secret API.
Reporting of the initial App ban seems to agree that it was about child porn making it past Tumblr's filters, it is hard to characterise that as an "SJW" only issue.
Letting them back in requires that they are seen to "fix" the issue. Tumblr can't fix it technically, so it has to fix it politically. Letting the app back in after a high profile ban looks a lot like endorsement. Apple doesn't want to be seen as supporting porn, so Tumblr has to appease those likely to make such an accusation... that suspect group looks pretty conservative. Notice how Apple loudly trumpets their progressive HR policies and LGBT+ lobbying, but is almost silent about their porn ban.. they know it is inconsistent. The porn position in iTunes/AppStore is a commercial branding decision, not part of a policy platform.
Assuming those who seek the social justice for marginalised groups are the "fun police" is naive in the extreme.
Would your "SJW" be for or against topfreedom & sex worker rights?
Lots of groups have taken a ride on the "think of the children" train, but conservative politics is its home station. Every time I have looked into the background of a lobby group claiming to be feminists "protecting" women from exploitation in porn & sex work it has turned out to be run by religious conservatives using feminist language as a smokescreen.
BS, fascists always talk about safety, Tumblr are using "SJW" language specifically to try and deflect outrage from progressives. Tumblr's userbase has many feminists, most of whom are incensed at the idea female nipples are offensive. Slashdot mods need to learn that "insightful" does not mean "full of incitement".
This shit-show (unseemly hurry, with highly unreliable auto classifier) is down to Tumblr trying to virtue signal to conservatives: they lack the technical capability to really clean up (child porn & spammers), so they are coming down as hard as they can hoping they will get credit for trying if they make a big enough mess (were probably worried many others would blacklist/attack them following Apple's lead if they didn't act "decisively").
Still not using on my main machine though.
Initially I was thrown because it is so different; personally I think it looks like unification with phone/tablet OS is the source of the changes (not copying MacOS as much as converging with iOS and Android).
But issues like launching a terminal window as mentioned in TFA when I actually took a hard look at how to solve them turned out to have simple solutions.
eg type windows key to activate launcher, then type "terminal" (focus is automatically in search) - then enter - you can launch the terminal with out even having to use the mouse (or the multi-modifier gymnastics of ctl-shift-n), and I have to admit better than my gnome2 solution of of having the launcher in the panel.
If I can get all my launching working this way (keyword conflicts may make for more typing that I like) then I would consider it a gain over navigating menus.
I'm still not entirely happy (what is with the giant title bars?! can be fixed with config hacking, but why have them at all?; what is that stupid dock/favourites thing good for, and no doubt many issues that will come when I upgrade my main box), but in view the above example I will reserve judgement until I have really tried it out. The issue that annoys me the most is actually the task switching that stacks up same app windows together (but I am aware that ballooning window counts is an issue that needs a solution).
If you can backdoor the system by working over port 80 then your security policy isn't doing it's job. An internal server is an internal server whatever port it is listening on. A firewall ensures that you only expose what you "officially" intend to expose (a firewall that simply filters port without checking IP is only half a firewall).
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TFA actually suggests Adblock Plus would still work because it uses more primitive blocking that would still be possible under the new API, not because of some secret API.
Reporting of the initial App ban seems to agree that it was about child porn making it past Tumblr's filters, it is hard to characterise that as an "SJW" only issue.
Letting them back in requires that they are seen to "fix" the issue. Tumblr can't fix it technically, so it has to fix it politically.
Letting the app back in after a high profile ban looks a lot like endorsement. Apple doesn't want to be seen as supporting porn, so Tumblr has to appease those likely to make such an accusation... that suspect group looks pretty conservative.
Notice how Apple loudly trumpets their progressive HR policies and LGBT+ lobbying, but is almost silent about their porn ban.. they know it is inconsistent. The porn position in iTunes/AppStore is a commercial branding decision, not part of a policy platform.
Assuming those who seek the social justice for marginalised groups are the "fun police" is naive in the extreme.
Would your "SJW" be for or against topfreedom & sex worker rights?
Lots of groups have taken a ride on the "think of the children" train, but conservative politics is its home station.
Every time I have looked into the background of a lobby group claiming to be feminists "protecting" women from exploitation in porn & sex work it has turned out to be run by religious conservatives using feminist language as a smokescreen.
BS, fascists always talk about safety, Tumblr are using "SJW" language specifically to try and deflect outrage from progressives. Tumblr's userbase has many feminists, most of whom are incensed at the idea female nipples are offensive. Slashdot mods need to learn that "insightful" does not mean "full of incitement". This shit-show (unseemly hurry, with highly unreliable auto classifier) is down to Tumblr trying to virtue signal to conservatives: they lack the technical capability to really clean up (child porn & spammers), so they are coming down as hard as they can hoping they will get credit for trying if they make a big enough mess (were probably worried many others would blacklist/attack them following Apple's lead if they didn't act "decisively").
Still not using on my main machine though.
Initially I was thrown because it is so different; personally I think it looks like unification with phone/tablet OS is the source of the changes (not copying MacOS as much as converging with iOS and Android).
But issues like launching a terminal window as mentioned in TFA when I actually took a hard look at how to solve them turned out to have simple solutions. eg type windows key to activate launcher, then type "terminal" (focus is automatically in search) - then enter - you can launch the terminal with out even having to use the mouse (or the multi-modifier gymnastics of ctl-shift-n), and I have to admit better than my gnome2 solution of of having the launcher in the panel. If I can get all my launching working this way (keyword conflicts may make for more typing that I like) then I would consider it a gain over navigating menus.
I'm still not entirely happy (what is with the giant title bars?! can be fixed with config hacking, but why have them at all?; what is that stupid dock/favourites thing good for, and no doubt many issues that will come when I upgrade my main box), but in view the above example I will reserve judgement until I have really tried it out. The issue that annoys me the most is actually the task switching that stacks up same app windows together (but I am aware that ballooning window counts is an issue that needs a solution).
If you can backdoor the system by working over port 80 then your security policy isn't doing it's job. An internal server is an internal server whatever port it is listening on.
A firewall ensures that you only expose what you "officially" intend to expose (a firewall that simply filters port without checking IP is only half a firewall).