But it seems that it was a flash site (of course), and archive.org seems to replace Flash Player with "Ruffle" [1]. Either that, or someone of Tobin's team replaced Flash with Ruffle >= 2019.

[1] https://ruffle.rs/

You might want to refresh your memory of HN's guidelines. Link at the bottom.

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Our company was targeted by Oracle Sales because they detected mere _downloads_ from our IP range. They couldn't prove any installations, but of course wanted the company to pay for commercial licenses.

Im not sure about the details, but in the end I think we bought a couple of licences & then blocked all URLs for the extension pack company-wide.

Probably not. But how would you feel about going up against Oracle's legal team to make the point? They, and other large companies, rely on this a lot when deciding upon whether or not to use dubious practises. I think Oracle's main business has become litigious & licensing arse-hole-ary, with everything else in their portfolio existing to support those functions, so they are rather good at it.

> After such an intrusion I wouldn't ever want to have anything to do with Oracle.

This sort of thing is why many people are wary of Oracle. The company has considerable form for this sort of thing and worse.

For instance Lead Forensics, but there are others in this space as well.

"My name is <name> and I am part of Oracle Open Source Linux & Virtualization team. I have got an internal notification from my team that you have shown interest in Oracle Virtual Box... I would like to schedule a time with you to discuss the use cases in your organization, our recent version 7 announcements, and how Oracle can assist you in getting the maximum value from this offering..."

It does not work if you actually want to send emails, for instance notifications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhL0xQzPSy8

For those that don't know: Datasette is the author/curator of https://musicforprogramming.net

That said, in my opinion people working in such a workplace reading a post "Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022" should be savvy enough to not click links, or read the post in the first place.

Also, ironically, the fact that we have to mark such links (to Wikipedia!) as NSFW is exactly what this particular comment chain is about, no?

It was definitely a valid remark, and in this case, it was useful at least for me.

This is more to say that this is a disagreement between you two at the object level, not someone overthinking a simple matter.

Boobs on the screen isn't the greatest look at work or any public location, and I don't really think it requires going any deeper than that. I can appreciate the pointless debate here and there, but this isn't some great philosophical question we have here lol.