Cactus Codex

Pony blogger, actual cactus, artist, writer, computer scientist, and linguist. New Jersey / Pennsylvania | 21 | male, he/him/his | asexual hispanic | Cereus repandus, or Peruvian apple cactus

Is it so somewhere in new Jersey?

Asked by Anonymous

Nah, man. I’m a wild cactus who need to travel a lot otherwise, I wither up.

(‘Cause cacti obviously work that way)

And since some of you actually asked, my uni is Penn State. =2=

wheatley-blogs:

I think most people just agree to the EULA without reading it because if you don’t agree then you can’t install the program, there’s no point to reading it if in order to install the program at hand you need to agree to the EULA anyway

plus those things are like 9 miles long

That’s pretty obvious, no doubt.

Of course, it’s always a good idea to read the EULA or TOS of whatever program or service you’re using at some point. Especially of those programs that you use very often. Just so you’re aware of what you can or can’t do, and what the company will or won’t do.

Imagine any guy getting a driver’s license and blindly agreeing to follow the rules of the road without knowing what they are.

Same idea. Hence, “End User License Agreement.”

If you don’t like the terms, then don’t use the software. That’s the point in reading it.

A PSA for those who want Tumblr to add a more restrictive blocking feature that prevents users from even viewing their blogs.

See, that’s not viable because there would have to be a a way to discern the blocked user from the thousands of people who view your PUBLIC blog. Sure, an IP ban can work, but that’s easily bypassed by using another device or using a proxy.

I mean, you could accept that yourblog.tumblr.com is on the public web that can be accessed by anyone regardless of your beliefs, but that’s too hard.

What Tumblr can do is make a visibility setting between public and private blogs. A login-only blog. People signed out of Tumblr are confronted with a log-in page and must sign in to see the page. If the user is on a blocked list or has no account, then the page won’t load and boom, you’re happy.

Of course, this can be worked around by making an account, and it makes your blog harder for other people to discover. But hey, that’s the idea.

Tumblr, hire me.

My job in a nutshell

  • Child 1: Can you grade this now? I have to go.
  • Me: Mmk.
  • Child 2: *two seconds later* Can you grade this now? I have to go.
  • Me: Later.
  • Child 2: Okay.
  • Child 1: Are you done yet?
  • Me: Not yet; it's literally only been 15 seconds.
  • Child 2: Are you grading mine yet?
  • Me: No.
  • Child 2: Why nooooot?
  • Me: Because I'm grading his.
  • Child 2: But I need to gooooooooo
  • Child 1: Are you done yet?
  • Me: I have 2 more pages left just sit down please
  • Child 3: Can you grade this now? I have to go.
  • Me: Bleehhh.
  • Child 4: Hi I've been gone for two weeks; here's my homework that I didn't grade at home please grade it all here right now pleeeeeese
  • Me: BLEEEEEEEEEHHH.