> no budget for reporters that can only afford intern level experience glorified bloggers
(Edit: apparently I didn't quite understand the parent; see dylan604's comment below.)
Do you mean the NY Times? They have a large budget and if you read the bios of their reporters and opinion writers, you will see they have extensive experience, the top of their field.
I have been a financial journalist for more than a decade. I began my career at a magazine called Risk, digging into the details of legislation introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, from rules around how much capital banks should hold to changes in the market for derivatives that had helped inflate the credit bubble that led to the Great Recession. I moved to The Financial Times in 2015 to cover the more complex corners of markets, such as sliced and diced structured bonds, before branching out to write about interest rates, debt and the stock market. I left the FT as the paper’s deputy U.S. markets editor and joined The Times in 2022.
I graduated in 2010 with a degree in philosophy, logic and scientific method from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s foreign affairs Opinion columnist in 1995. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989 and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent.
Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He has written several other books, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” an international best seller.
Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a master’s in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. His column appears every Sunday and Wednesday.
wow, from just this one side of the story, it definitely paints the journalist as a total scumbag.
however, the replies here to my comment make it come across like i was attacking the journos. i was actually making commentary on how the corpMedia companies have been treating the newsroom in favor for the new hotness of social platforms
Thanks for clarifying. Still, do you see the NY Times as corporate media? They are independent, if I understand your meaning. I'm not out to defend them - I have no particular interest in the Times - but there are so many misconceptions about journalism.
Even if it’s true that Urbina scammed all those musicians (he claims he didn’t make any money which is believable considering how little an online stream pays), it has nothing to do with the NYTimes considering the actions in question were after he left the newspaper and started his own company.
If anything, the NYTimes itself is a victim of the scam (and definitely bad IT practice) since the musicians claim he sent the mails from his NYT address even thiugh he wasn’t employed by them anymore.
There seems to have been no direct involvement of NYT in this beyond lax IT policy and a lack of desire to expose the reporter's actions. If hundreds of artist were affected should they not have reported on it? They chose to not do so and even kept the reporter's writing on the website. For a longer list of less than glorious accomplishments, have a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...
I think not. Even as someone who lives in a country that is arguably becoming less democratic by the day, most of Friedman's ideas still prove themselves to me everyday.
Pretty great. First like, other than Internet Archive related activities, thing I've seen using Ruffle. Resurrecting broken content across the web, especially a major archive source like the NYT is pretty great.
Out of curiosity a couple months ago I wondered if I could play my old Proximity flash game on Newgrounds from the browser within the Quest 3 VR headset, and it worked great!
That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.
I'm glad these people are out there, getting these things working again. There's so many great animations and games that didn't deserve to disappear because Adobe decided it was a prudent business move to just drop all Flash support.
Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.
EDIT: Just realized Proximity is 20 years old this year. Huh. Probably needs a 20 year anniversary edition.
That “someone” who made the fix for Proximity is Mike Welsh, who created Ruffle! He has done a lot of work for flash preservation and truly cares about Newgrounds and it’s community. Back in 2013 (when he was actually an employee of Newgrounds) he was the sole programmer on Swivel, probably the best swf-to-mp4 converting tools ever. Every animator I know that uses flash STILL use Swivel to get an MP4 export.
Oh man I loved the podcast you did with Mike for Newgrounds. I had never stopped to think about the fact that Mike had to actually write an entire flash emulator to get Castle Crashers to run on the xbox. It's so clever and genius, shipping users an emulator like that.
To anyone who isn't familiar, here's a link to the podcast:
haha thanks! Yeah Mike is a real programming wiz and he’s super inspiring! I’ve gone to him for programming help many times but he always tries to get me to learn it on my own than handholding me… lol. He’s one of the nicest people I know :)
That's really awesome. I don't follow these things often enough anymore, so the name didn't look familiar to me. But I'm glad he's put so much effort into Flash preservation.
There are quite a bit of limitations, though I haven't looked in much detail besides the quick/casual try to see if they work for some of the works done in ActionScript 3.
I tried running an MMS creator/generator, built for the teams at Nokia (2004-ish, I think), and it didn't work beyond the initial interface. I also tried a K6 science lesson builder app done for teachers backed by Pearson Publishing -- it worked to the extent of some interactivity, but the audio sync, etc, was not. So, I gave up.
I might be missing something, or some setup but I'm not too keen on it, anyways.
Flash was discontinued because Adobe couldn't keep up with the security problems. Is there any expectation that the same won't be true with Ruffle? Perhaps Ruffle doesn't try to do all the powerful/unsafe things that Adobe tried to have Flash do?
The main way Rust helps with security normally doesn't especially apply. The main feature of Rust that Ruffle takes advantage of is just that it can compile to WebAssembly. So it runs in the same browser VM other modern web content does. Thus inheriting all that sandboxing and security. So idt Rust deserves the credit here.
I know, but it also exists as a native desktop app. And I suppose if there are any remaining native plugin interfaces in modern browsers, it can also potentially become a browser plugin.
I’m too young to understand how plugin architecture worked for old browsers (flash, java, what else am I forgetting).
I’m guessing it was some horrible unsafe C interrop mess with close ties to the kernel. Or maybe there was no samdboxing and security built in like there is these days.
Anyone able to shed some light on how it worked and why it was so easy to exploit flash and therefore the whole system? Was it the same for Java applets?
My guess: Flash required installing a native host and browser plugins, while this runs in the browser sandbox which is generally considered very safe (much safer than Flash)
Well, the linked article references Ruffle and "Ruffle is an Adobe Flash Player emulator".
On the other hand "emulator" is usually some hardware emulation. Whereas the flas player was basically a runtime / vm for Flash files. And Ruffle is a different runtime implementation.
It's like saying any non-oracle Java is a "Java emulator".
Scummvm for example follows that line of thought: "ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator."
Anyway, given what Ruffle says I would probably side with them....
I mean, but it is a Java emulator.. I was actually thinking of that in my head as an example of an emulator that's non-hardware when I read the first part of your comment. Wine technically Is Not an Emulator by name, but they felt the need to make that distinction despite emulating a piece of software..
New projects can run just fine using ruffle, provided you use the APIs that are currently supported by the project (IIRC it's not feature-complete yet for ActionScript 3 and such).
I think instead of learning Flash you're better off learning something like Haxe, which originated from an AS2 compiler and is often used to port old Flash projects. A lot of people who used to use Flash to develop games just moved onto Haxe + OpenFL.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 87.4 ms ] thread(Edit: apparently I didn't quite understand the parent; see dylan604's comment below.)
Do you mean the NY Times? They have a large budget and if you read the bios of their reporters and opinion writers, you will see they have extensive experience, the top of their field.
Edit: As a random selection, here's the first name on the top headline: https://www.nytimes.com/by/joe-rennison
I have been a financial journalist for more than a decade. I began my career at a magazine called Risk, digging into the details of legislation introduced after the 2008 financial crisis, from rules around how much capital banks should hold to changes in the market for derivatives that had helped inflate the credit bubble that led to the Great Recession. I moved to The Financial Times in 2015 to cover the more complex corners of markets, such as sliced and diced structured bonds, before branching out to write about interest rates, debt and the stock market. I left the FT as the paper’s deputy U.S. markets editor and joined The Times in 2022.
I graduated in 2010 with a degree in philosophy, logic and scientific method from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Here's the currently top listed opinion author: https://www.nytimes.com/by/thomas-l-friedman
Thomas L. Friedman became the paper’s foreign affairs Opinion columnist in 1995. He joined the paper in 1981, after which he served as the Beirut bureau chief in 1982, Jerusalem bureau chief in 1984, in Washington as the diplomatic correspondent in 1989 and later the White House correspondent and economic correspondent.
Mr. Friedman was awarded the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Lebanon) and the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting (from Israel). He also won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for commentary.
Mr. Friedman is the author of “From Beirut to Jerusalem,” which won the National Book Award in 1989. He has written several other books, including “Hot, Flat and Crowded,” an international best seller.
Born in Minneapolis, Mr. Friedman received a B.A. in Mediterranean studies from Brandeis University in 1975. In 1978 he received a master’s in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. His column appears every Sunday and Wednesday.
however, the replies here to my comment make it come across like i was attacking the journos. i was actually making commentary on how the corpMedia companies have been treating the newsroom in favor for the new hotness of social platforms
If anything, the NYTimes itself is a victim of the scam (and definitely bad IT practice) since the musicians claim he sent the mails from his NYT address even thiugh he wasn’t employed by them anymore.
Does anyone know what "upset" this is referring to? Wondering if it had to do with what the data showed or, rather, how it was presented.
0: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008...
That led me to do a little searching, and I discovered that originally the game didn't work in Ruffle, as I apparently did something with the play game button that wasn't normal. But someone put a fix in it back in 2020[1] in order to get my game working again. That was pretty neat. Felt kind of nice that people still cared enough about my old game to make sure it still works in an emulator.
I'm glad these people are out there, getting these things working again. There's so many great animations and games that didn't deserve to disappear because Adobe decided it was a prudent business move to just drop all Flash support.
Still working on a more in-depth sequel (using Monogame), and I'm way overdue to make a new web version of the original. Might knock that out once I get closer to getting the sequel out there.
EDIT: Just realized Proximity is 20 years old this year. Huh. Probably needs a 20 year anniversary edition.
[1]: https://github.com/ruffle-rs/ruffle/pull/1024
To anyone who isn't familiar, here's a link to the podcast:
https://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/935322
I tried running an MMS creator/generator, built for the teams at Nokia (2004-ish, I think), and it didn't work beyond the initial interface. I also tried a K6 science lesson builder app done for teachers backed by Pearson Publishing -- it worked to the extent of some interactivity, but the audio sync, etc, was not. So, I gave up.
I might be missing something, or some setup but I'm not too keen on it, anyways.
I’m guessing it was some horrible unsafe C interrop mess with close ties to the kernel. Or maybe there was no samdboxing and security built in like there is these days.
Anyone able to shed some light on how it worked and why it was so easy to exploit flash and therefore the whole system? Was it the same for Java applets?
On the other hand "emulator" is usually some hardware emulation. Whereas the flas player was basically a runtime / vm for Flash files. And Ruffle is a different runtime implementation.
It's like saying any non-oracle Java is a "Java emulator".
Scummvm for example follows that line of thought: "ScummVM is a complete rewrite of these games' executables and is not an emulator."
Anyway, given what Ruffle says I would probably side with them....