Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-25:/2490585] "Windows 10 quietly gets one more year of support and updates"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490339] "GitHub shouldn't be a dependency for publishing Rust on crates.io"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490244] "Boffin claims Microsoft’s “quantum leap” is invalid due to “basic Python errors”"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-24:/2490124] "LineShine Debuts at No. 1 as the TOP500 Enters a New Global Exascale Era"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-22:/2489670] "Steam Machine"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-18:/2488796] "What was nice about the UI of Windows 2000"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-17:/2488496] "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-16:/2488199] "Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-15:/2487839] "Fox is buying Roku"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-14:/2487662] "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere."

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-19:/2489115] "I used sound waves to make espresso"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-10:/2486637] "German court rules Google is liable for whatever Google’s “AI” generates"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-01:/2484373] "Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019/2021 installations"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-06-01:/2484272] "Nvidia's Grace Blackwell superchips are officially coming to the PC with RTX Spark notebooks"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-30:/2483921] "Adding Linux support back for the BASIC (free) version of Vivado"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-30:/2483835] "Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-27:/2483228] "The exemptions in age-verification laws for open source operating systems are bad, actually"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-31:/2484064] "Mysteries of the Griffin iMate"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-23:/2482255] "AMD (Xilinx) is Excluding Linux From the Free Tier For Its FPGA Dev Tool"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-19:/2481210] "The Virtual OS Museum"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-19:/2481121] "Google changes its search box"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-15:/2480224] "Windows 11 tests an adjustable taskbar and resizable Start menu"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-15:/2480167] "Send the arXiv AI-generated slop, get a yearlong vacation from submissions"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-13:/2479471] "KDE Receives $1.4 Million Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-12:/2479155] "Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-07:/2478063] "Canvas is online again after ShinyHunters threaten to leak schools’ data"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-05-07:/2477845] "Aramark, University of Kentucky to end partnership, eliminating more than 900 jobs"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-29:/2475951] "Apple gives up on Vision Pro, disbands Vision Pro team"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-27:/2475199] "National Science Board eviscerated; Trump admin fires all 22 members"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-22:/2473947] "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-22:/2473882] "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-20:/2473234] "Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-17:/2472794] "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-15:/2472147] "Academic fraud may be the symptom of a more systemic problem"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-14:/2471801] "Why Aren’t the Kids Out Protesting Against Trump?"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-04-08:/2470398] "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-27:/2467289] "Author of Red Mars calls 'bullshit' on emigrating to the planet"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-25:/2466758] "Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-25:/2466743] "Tracy Kidder has died"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-23:/2466208] "FCC updates covered list to include foreign-made consumer routers"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-23:/2466050] "The OpenBSD init system and boot process"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-22:/2465869] "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-22:/2465853] "Building an FPGA 3dfx Voodoo with Modern RTL Tools"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-20:/2465513] "Our commitment to Windows quality"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-19:/2465298] "Minecraft Source Code Is Interesting"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-19:/2465184] "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-18:/2464917] "FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-18:/2464827] "Forgetfulino 2.0.1 – never lose your Arduino sketch again"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-13:/2463634] "Digg is gone again"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-05:/2461309] "The great license-washing has begun"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-05:/2461226] "The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-03-04:/2460816] "Government grant-funded research should not be published in for-profit journals"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-26:/2459140] "FTC declines to enforce a kids privacy law for data collected to verify users’ ages"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-26:/2459011] "Burger King will use AI to check if employees say 'please' and 'thank you'"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-25:/2458760] "Bcachefs creator insists his custom LLM is female and 'fully conscious'"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-25:/2458733] "The Misuses of the University"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-24:/2458494] "If you’ve been holding on to a phone for a while, current phones are really disappointing"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-23:/2457958] "Elsevier shuts down its finance journal citation cartel"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-23:/2457921] "My journey to the microwave alternate timeline"

Diag| Considering item [tag:pappp.net,2026-02-19:/2457227] "A beginner's guide to split keyboards"

Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic | PAPPP's Rambling

Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

Posted on 2019-08-12 by pappp

Source: Hacker News

Article note: Another step in the saga. They're keeping the porn ban, so it's still worthless, meaning Automattic now has a pile of toxic fandoms in addition their pile of toxic PHP (I'm aware of the irony of ribbing about Wordpress on Wordpress, I'm wayy too lazy to do my own web front-end shit, and I value self-hosted comments, so I'm pretty stuck.)

Comments

This entry was posted in News. Bookmark the permalink.

Verizon to Sell Tumblr to Automattic

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Web Presence

Page Navigation

Meta

Recent Posts

Random Quote

Categories

License