predates reddit. the first word I ever heard for this was "slashdotted" (https://slashdot.org) and that's from ~1998. same principle- popular website mentions another website and immediately causes a swarm of traffic.
The state of gaming journalism has been crap since we were arguing about unethical reviews <u>on Slashdot</u>, fifteen years ago. I remember reading people argue on the internet about this repeatedly in the early 2000s. What changed in fall 2014?
Saying "Well, I'd been upset about ethics in game journalism for a while but nobody was going to take me seriously until the Zoe post" is sort of like saying, oh, "Well, I'd been upset about the two-party system for a while but nobody was going to take me seriously until Trump ran". Gaming journalism sucks. The two-party system sucks. Latching on to Gamergate or Trump as a vehicle for conveying this is not getting your cause any attention, it is abandoning your cause to give some other cause attention.
Yeah, sometimes good human-focused design has to ignore what people think they want and give people want they actually want.
Our brains are wired in a way that makes whitespace essential for parsing and engaging with information. Dynamic transitions and animations don't just look pretty - they establish continuity between views.
Maintaining a slashdot-type esoteric design will only exclude people in the future. People still whine about the "Ribbon" in Office but it's objectively improved the software for users.
Please don't be afraid of the Reddit "power user" bandwagon that's going to throw a fit over this. Create something that the science, and good design, supports. I can't wait to see what you all come up with. :)
This would be great for the news and politics subreddits. I really wish that Reddit were more open to experimenting with the basic functionality: we could do a lot better than just upvoting & downvoting, as there are all sorts of meta moderation schemes that could be possible. I guess it comes down to the problem of scale. Now that Reddit's massive, changes to core functions probably carry greater technical risk.
I remember all the "Is 200x the year of the Linux desktop?" articles.
I said it wasn't going to happen and all the people on Slashdot called me names.
Here is a really old copy pasta troll from 2004 on Slashdot.
But yeah people were so absolutely shure Windows was done for and Linux was going to replace it on the desktop in some circles that anyone who couldn't see that was either 1) a complete idiot or 2) a paid shill for M$
IBM are so hardcore patent trolls, that they event tried to patent patent-trolling.
https://slashdot.org/story/11/01/02/1534223/ibm-files-the-patent-troll-patent
We shouldn't have to. Who the fuck needs desktop notifications from superherohype.com or aintitcool.com or slashdot.org ? Just fucking stop! When I want news I will seek it out!
So every time i install a browser on my different machines I need to install ad blockers, setup my sync account, setup my search engine preference, and now disable desktop notifications....just one more thing.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26776&cid=2896625
> by StoneTear ( 469183 ) on Thursday January 24, 2002 @04:38PM (#2896625)
> I'm contracted to a state government, and let me tell you, everyone here saves EVERYthing for cover-your-ass purposes.. it's really sad to see every little memo back to 1997 in someone's inbox taking up PHAT amounts of disk space on the GroupWise server ... sigh
Well, not everything, as it turns out.
"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote... All the substantive new ideas in the movie... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."
https://slashdot.org/story/05/04/26/1952248/hhg2g-exec-producer-robbie-stamp-answers
So before Reddit you had Digg and before Digg you had mainly scattered forums and very few news aggregator websites that let you leave comments. One of the first was slashdot.org and a few years ago I dug through some of their archives and found the posts made on 9/11 and it was an interesting ride to read through the comments so many years later.
It also reminds me of someone digging through the old BBS archives and finding user comments about Return of the Jedi when it came out and basically seeing people complain about the ewoks.
Here is the slashdot post in question:
https://slashdot.org/story/20235
If you dig around you can find other posts made the same day and a few the next.
A tech-dominated social news forum that predated Reddit. In fact, Reddit was originally conceived as a hybrid of Slashdot and del.icio.us, a social bookmarking website.
It was an innocent but funny ULR-hack: when ordering products from the Sears website you could invent your own categories for the stuff you were ordering simply by writing them into the URL.
So if you wanted you could manipulate the URL and buy your saw from an apparent product category 'Tools Yo -> Fucking Big Ass Saws -> Fuck Yeah'.
It didn't change anything vital, such as the actual product or price, just gave it a mirage category.
A relevant entry in the Reddithistory Wiki: http://reddithistory.wikia.com/wiki/Fuck_Sears
At the time what I found strange about it all was how eagerly redditors blamed Sears and how little they considered the implications of what Huffman had just done, and how carelessly Huffman handled the issue. Basically he said yeah he removed it, promising more details later, and then silence as if nothing had happened.
It was all handled very differently from what happened few years earlier in Slashdot when they were forced to remove a user comment with the full Scientology book in text:
> This is the first time since we instituted our moderation system that a comment has had to be removed because of its content, and believe me nobody is more broken hearted about it than me. It's a bad precedent, and a blow for the freedom of speech that we all share in this forum. But this simply doesn't look like a case we can win. Our lawyers tell us that it appears to be a violation of Copyright law, and under the terms of the DMCA, we must remove it. Else we risk legal action that would at best be expensive, and potentially cause Slashdot to go down temporarily or even permanently. At the worst, court orders could jeporadize your privacy, and we would be helpless to stop it.
Kinda like this story on slashdot. 95% of workers plan on changing jobs? Oh, as reported by Monster.com. Okaaaay. . .
This story is highly suspect ! The Murdoch media is the only source for the article , the articles only source is (based on information "provided by an international partner" that was "potentially significant but still in need of further investigation and additional corroboration") .
Be alert this stinks of something off.
>Do they expect the average customer to drop almost $2k on a phone ? This is not the future of smartphones .
Yeah, seriously. Also, no one is going to pay $1.2 million/lb for a plant based burger. LMAO that thing will never even see one customer! Prices of new technologies NEVER go down, after all!
Seriously, there's literally one person in every thread with new technology claiming it's too expensive and will never catch on because of that. Case in point:
https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod
>Unfortunately $400 is about twice as much as I'd want to pay for something the size of a pack of cards. Too bad, it's an otherwise well-designed product.
The USA has Germany beat: turn it into a stealth lottery
https://slashdot.org/story/54858
Tldr: the eula said "we know nobody reads this so if someone out there is reading this deeo and paying attention, contact us at this address and we'll give you $1,000."
My first name is Frédéric, I received dozens of mails and emails with Frdric, Fridiric, Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric, Fr[]d[]ric, Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric, and so on.
i am a member on /. for 13 years, and with their latest change, I cannot access my userpage anymore at https://slashdot.org/~Frédéric
I also have problem when I fill my taxes online because of this...
Blizzard literally had the same problem a couple years back. They were able to reverse the incorrect bans and adjust their anti-cheat to not detect Wine.
This has probably happened a dozen times or so over the years. They fix the issue, reverse the bans and issue apologies.
Blizzard has done it with at least 3 different titles that I can personally recall.
https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/09/17/overwatch-linux-mistaken-bans/
https://www.geek.com/games/blizzard-is-banning-diablo-iii-players-who-use-wine-and-linux-1500811/
https://slashdot.org/story/06/11/15/1652222/linux-users-banned-from-world-of-warcraft
I think this capability/ability discussion is a huge red herring.
Take indian programmers:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1p0flr/behind_the_bad_indian_coder/
"95% Engineers in India Unfit For Software Development Jobs". https://slashdot.org/story/325199
Can you imagine the hell storm if the same anecdotes were told about women?
"Two third of female engineers can't write compilable code"
"We made the mistake to outsource a core project to women and it doomed the company"
"tl;dr not all female programmers are bad, but the situation as a whole is sad."
It is so ridiculous outlandish, that even the biggest misogynist wouldn't even dream of it. But here is a group facing these widespread huge negative stereotypes, and they are thriving in the industry! Sillicon Valley loves, absolutely loves, hiring Indians! Because if they are crappy they are at least cheap. And if they are not cheap they are actually quite decent. And even if not, then throwing a warm body on a pile of work is still better than not.
> A final option, which I will go ahead and discuss but flat-out tell you we do not recommend is to sacrifice security for performance almost entirely. Weakening the encryption protocol and dropping the authentication protocol entirely—AES-128-CBC/None—resulted in 51.25 Mbps throughput on my R8000.
First, unless you work with anything related to government, AES128 is perfectly fine if performance is an issue. Just use any digest ("--auth" in OpenVPN) stronger than SHA1, e.g. RSA-256 etc.
I can understand his motivation for not recommended anything other than the reasonably optimum security available case as default, so that there's no possibility newbies can screw up with that specific setting. But the rest of his technical essay is not really for anyone new to software configuration.
Second, as we were all recently disquieted to learn, despite their great open source support, Netgear is now adding support for "analytics data collection" in their consumer routers.
So, if you do recommend Netgear routers for VPNs, you really should absolutely recommend taking full advantage of that open source support ... while it lasts ... or their corporate routers.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
for you youngsters, slashdot actually had some weight back in the day. this was one of their seriously bad calls.
Should be fine. A solar flare is basically a power surge followed by a blackout for them. If they are ready for that they are ready for a solar flare.
The people in trouble in solar flares are anyone who runs really long wires, like power and internet wires. We will all have to sit on our hands while they rebuild those when it happens.
It wont be pretty but your bank's systems will keep the data safe just fine until they can be reconnected so long as the bank isn't totally inept. It's basic practice to keep regular backups to a storage medium that keeps data even when unpowered, like a hard drive.
https://slashdot.org/story/12/08/16/1450216/ask-slashdot-protecting-data-from-a-carrington-event
> Sounds like an athlete's foot powder or perhaps a vitamin additive.
- Slashdot comment, day before the launch of the Athlon
As long as the performance is there, that is what the name will come to mean. Not whether it seems hacked together at recess.
Also the competition's naming scheme is Xeon [Platinum/Gold] [numbers that completely fail to indicate core count, clock speed, or the product of the two].
This has been a recurring theme. Ages ago, NS answered questions and this came up a*lot!
This was my favorite phrasing:
Is there such a thing as an ending consultant? Could you perhaps employ one? I'm sure that your books would sell much better if the author line was "Story by Neal Stephanson, Ending by Whots Hisname.”
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=125200&cid=10494217
(Whole ask NS thread: https://m.slashdot.org/story/50609/outstanding)
TL;dr: NS likes his endings. Says so on his faq . Is a bit touchy about it.
Sure. Just be aware that this discussion has been going on forever. I remember this thread from a while back which had a few good options:
https://slashdot.org/story/03/12/05/163243/gerrymandering-by-computer
One of the links (Still works!) from that thread that has some stuff I like. http://www.westmiller.com/fairvote2k/in_prop.htm
Of course both parties have been in a position to reform the system and instead have shown they would rather twist the system to benefit them.
Yup. Here's John Carmack himself explaining it:
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=27412&cid=2951313
I'm seriously skeptical about his claim that an 800MHz CPU and a Geforce 1 could run this game. Did anyone try at the time?
As the article states, Youtube will sometimes show the error “An error occurred. Please try again later.” in the place of an ad.
The article [currently] makes no mention of uBlock, but have a look through the comments of this slashdot post and you can find several uBlock Origin users with the same experience (also, me).
This particular comment confirms that as well as gives more background about it's potential cause and symptoms. Youtube, obviously, is unconcerned.
The most infamous comment about the iPod was undoubtedly this by Rob Malda (CmdrTaco) from Slashdot:
> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Which you’ll notice was referenced by some wag in the comments to the iPhone:
> Wireless? More space than a Nomad? Cool!
Here is the actual article that was quoted.
Immediately preceding the quote it says:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN
Then, you'll notice the very next paragraph begins with:
the 'best estimate' is extremely optimistic
This user repeatedly posts misleading information and is manipulative with their sources.
And same thing happened in Slashdot (I was there for a long time https://slashdot.org/~xtracto/journal/121088 ). I used to read /. and only /. as my tech-news sources. I was young and idealist, so reading slashdot made me "hyper pro open source" and anti everything else, even despising Apple and whatnot. Now I use Macs for my home and job haha.
Lettura interessante:
TL;DR i manager di amazon percepiscono bonus sia in base a quante persone assumono ma sopratutto in base a quante persone licenziano/non rinnovano.
In fact, the opposite is true:
https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2007/01/8602/
https://www.neowin.net/news/porn-industry-chooses-hd-dvd
https://slashdot.org/story/78370
I was paying attention to this at the time
Not everyone can vote things up or down. You won't get any "moderator points" unless you've been registered for a while, so new accounts can't be used to push one particular article's discussion around. You'll also have to have positive karma.
When you do get moderator points, you get five, ten, or fifteen. They have a time limit, after which they expire if unused.
You are not guaranteed to get moderator points at any time, or ever.
You can only vote something up to +5 or down to -1. Any further mod points are wasted.
You cannot moderate comments in a discussion if you have posted under your own name in that discussion, and posting under your own name after doing so will eliminate any moderation done by you in that discussion. You don't get the points back, either. If you want to comment and moderate in the same thread, your comments will have to be anonymous - you can't get credit for them.
While you have karma, it is both capped (you can only get so much) and not directly visible (you can't get better than "excellent").
You can't delete comments, or edit them after you've hit "submit".
Mods are somewhat specific: it can be funny, insightful, interesting, overrated, underrated, offtopic, or a few other things - but you have to specify why you are voting up or down, and that decision is subject to metamoderation, in which people vote on whether or not your mod was a good one.
All of these (well, except #7) have underlying reasons based on experience with what worked and what didn't. In short, it is very hard to downvote things into oblivion. It's hard for people with a specific agenda to know when they will get mod points. Brigading is nearly impossible. Status competition for "highest karma" is impossible.
It's not a flawless system, but it's pretty resilient.
The first iPod was 5GB: https://slashdot.org/story/21026 And a notable feature was its ability to act as an external hard drive in addition to being a music player. (USB flash drives had just come out and were in the 8MB-32MB range.)
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.. I remember sharing that sentiment, and being underwhemed by it. A teacher at the time pointed out what it did right: Charge and transfer over a single cable, easy music management, etc. It admittedly did polish a lot of things that were frankly shit.
I ended up waiting another year or two, and bought an iRiver iHP-120, which had a better feature set than the iPod for years.
> This was not the case before.
oh really?
2001: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod
2001: https://www.itprotoday.com/macos/apple-powerbook-titanium-g4-review
I'm a late riser, and I was reading Slashdot after waking up for work when this story was on the front page. I didn't really process it for at least a minute, when one of my neighbors in college sees me sitting in the room and asks what I'm doing up here and not in front of the TV. That's when it hit me that this was real and a moment that would change the country.
It's the only time I ever no-call, no-showed to work, and my boss was completely understanding. I spent a lot of that morning in a sort of daze where I didn't really process how serious everything was. Not until one of my Pakistani neighbors predicted that the US was going to war (probably in Afghanistan or Pakistan) after this. He explained why he thought that, and everything got very scary at that moment.
The practical problem with developer mode on a Chromebook is that it's too easy to wipe by accident. If someone else turns on your developer mode Chromebook, presses Space as prompted, and presses Enter as prompted, your developer mode OS and all your installed apps and data are blown away.
Reminds me of a story someone posted on slashdot years ago about a proto-SJW's response to the poster saying they "don't integrate well" after taking a calculus test.
That post was from 2003, and the guy was telling a story from when he was in college. So some things never change. Unfortunately what has changed is that a larger percentage of the population take these people seriously.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about Debian. Re Devuan and the Systemd freakout, I just think these people are driven by ideology and are just asking to make things difficult for themselves. People pursuing that route ought to brace themselves for breakage and uncertainty.
Here's Linus on systemd:
>I have to say, I don't really get the hatred of systemd. I think it improves a lot on the state of init, and no, I don't see myself getting into that whole area. Yeah, it may have a few odd corners here and there, and I'm sure you'll find things to despise. That happens in every project. I'm not a huge fan of the binary logging, for example. But that's just an example. I much prefer systemd's infrastructure for starting services over traditional init, and I think that's a much bigger design decision. https://slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/0058243
I like systemd as well. I think it's easier and more straightforward. Not having it would be a dealbreaker for me. Fortunately most distros use it now, so I have a lot of choice.
> I think you need to speak for yourself.
Both of them poll in the single digits so it's quibbling over degrees.
> I like Temple of Doom better than Last Crusade.
You and a very few other people. I think an argument can be made for Last Crusade being at times even better than Raiders.
> Just to play devil's advocate for a moment, do you really need your privacy?
Yeah, you really fucking do. Labor is cheap, and companies fire based on minor indiscretions these days. The twitter effect means that small indiscretions can blow all out of proportion. The stress of maintaining a 100% presentable image 24/7 is harmful, and the idea that we should do that on a society wide scale is the fuel of subtle dystopian nightmares.
Everyone needs time to let their hair down without worrying what impact that might have on their career, their family, their finances. It's objectively ok to occasionally get completely smashed and chunder in a garbage bin, and you shouldn't have to worry about prats with cell phones recording it and shotgunning it to the internet at your expense so they can collect a few reddit-points.
People may not have a right to privacy in public, but they should have a right to non-celebrity.
>Sure, but that philosophy is becoming more and more of a fringe ideal.
Observation bias. The people who disagree with you don't use facebook or twitter or any of the other non-private mediums you use. They exist, and are strong among tech users, but you don't see them because you exclusively use privacy invading mediums to talk to everyone in your life.
It's happening to society at large as well. Successful people who like celebrity go on TV and twitter and whatever and make a big deal of themselves, successful people who don't like celebrity don't.
Result: it appears that success and celebrity are synonymous, because you never see the people who are successful but remain anonymous because, and this is important, they aren't drawing attention to themselves.
That's incredibly revisionist, not to mention the ad-hominem attack.
To anyone with any doubt, read this Slashdot post from that time.
https://slashdot.org/story/07/10/16/207205/format-standards-committee-grinds-to-a-halt
https://slashdot.org/story/02/01/23/0819236/buy-john-romeros-ferrari-on-ebay
I don't know that you're talking about one of the john's from ID, but your post made me remember this.
What the fuck are you even talking about there was no internet in 2003?
2003 was 3 years after the dot com bubble crashed. It was the "web 2.0" already by then. 2003 is when 9800Pro came out. And when Hammer wrecked Intel. Sure reddit may have not been a thing back then, it was slashdot, and later digg, and there were forums like hardocp and anandtech.
Check this out: from 2001: https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/24/1626225/more-details-emerge-on-amds-hammer
Just because an old AOL disk found its way to your house at some point in 2003 doesn't mean the rest of us were in the dark ages.
There are a lot of strange rules about crediting screenwriters but here is what the producer had to say about Adams' involvement:
"The script we shot was very much based on the last draft that Douglas wrote.... All the substantive new ideas in the movie ... are brand new Douglas ideas written especially for the movie by him.... Douglas was always up for reinventing HHGG in each of its different incarnations and he knew that working harder on some character development and some of the key relationships was an integral part of turning HHGG into a movie."
No, it's always been Uber's policy to hide where the ride's destination is. In fact, they stopped doing it temporarily in California to try to continue classifying them as independent contractors, and now they want to reverse it because it was hurting their business.
If niggas had their way they would only cart rich stockbrokers around Midtown.
I personally like slashdot's system where mod points indicate more than just a popularity contest.
Options like these really help: "normal", "offtopic", "flamebait", "troll", "redundant", "insightful", "interesting", "informative", "funny", "overrated", or "underrated"
> If memory serves, I was on fark.com at the time following the discussion as it all unfolded.
I followed on /. because the vast vast majority of news-site crashed under the load. Even things like the BBC website were down, or broken for most of the day.
I see your distinction, but it seems to me that if you believe in an ethical duty to contribute back when one offers a service that's a wrapper around X, you should also believe in such a duty when Y is essential tooling for one's business. Theo de Raadt has indeed been complaining for decades about companies that he feels take advantage of OpenSSH without giving back.
Funnily enough, I just read an article the other day about a vertical farm run by AI that produced WAY more than traditional flatland farms run by people.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=16973983&cid=60402673
>2020: Duo an Meet merge to become Duet
>2021: Allo splits into Hola and Hi
>2022: Duet is discontinued as Hi takes over
>2023: Message merges with Hola and is discontinued
>2024: Mingle comes out, it like Hi and Hola combined, but all three coexist (but are incompatible with each other)
>2025: Mingle turns out to be really great, it is discontinued
>2026: Hi merges with YouTube and becomes YouTube Talk. It also supports eBooks.
>2027: Hola is discontinued, YouTube Talk now requires you to use your credit card number as an identifier, support for ride sharing is added.
>2028: Because YouTube Talk is now a 50GB download and takes 5 minutes to start up (the flight simulator feature didn't help), there is now a lightweight app called Text that is only able to sent 64 character text messages using ASCII characters to residents of the same country.
>2029: Because of the limited success of their offering, Google buys successfull startup Showtime and discontinues YouTube Talk, purchases you made with YouTube Talk will be lost unless you register on December 24, between 11pm and midnight.
> This is a glorified forum.
Was going to say exactly that. I've never considered Reddit to be "social media". In terms of structure and functionality, it has more in common with traditional forum-based websites like Slashdot (which have been around since the 1990s^*) than with most commonly-accepted definitions of "social media".
Reddit is discussion-centric, not person-centric. (No-one comes here to interact with me specifically, for example, and vice versa).
Granted, Reddit is orders of magnitude larger, and that size- and the fact it was born into the age of social media- does influence some of the culture. But fundamentally, it's still just Slashdot et al on steroids, not Facebook.
^* And were in turn obviously influenced by the structure of Usenet newsgroups (back when Usenet was still used for its original purpose of news and discussion rather than just a means of distributing binaries).
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches" - Steve Balmer (2001)
Why Microsoft is Wary of Open Source (2002)
Never mind OpenGL or OpenXML. MS was actively hindering adoption of open standards and sowing FUD about open source software.
Wasn't there a concerted effort at MSFT to make NT4 POSIX compliant so that they could seek certification?
The landscape was different then, but I seem to recall a story about it...
https://slashdot.org/story/01/02/06/2030205/david-korn-tells-all
Here is the actual article that was quoted.
Immediately preceding the quote it says:
>An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN
Then, you'll notice the very next paragraph begins with:
>the 'best estimate' is extremely optimistic
This user repeatedly posts misleading information and is manipulative with their sources.
This is really bad, of course. However, some of the comments I've seen regarding this aren't exactly helping.
Some pople in the various support threads are claiming that BTRFS is the standard Linux FS nowadays, other are saying Ubuntu enables (incompatibles types of) encryption by default and so on. And at the top we have actual FUD like this Slashdot post. Spreading false information like that doesn't really help to get Dropbox to change their mind.
I really liked the way slashdot mod and metamod points worked. Every day, some random users would be given a few points to mod up or down posts (which went from -1 to 5). Some other random users would be given metamod points to rate how well the modpoints users did. It worked pretty well before the mass exodus.
I’d love to see this in tildes.
https://slashdot.org/moderation.shtml https://slashdot.org/faq/karma.shtml
AOL had XMPP support back in 2008. I used it.
Anyway, my point is, Apple supported XMPP for years back when it mattered, but it just failed to catch on. Other than Google and AOL, nobody would federate, so you ended up having to sign in with multiple accounts anyway. I kept on using it until the various providers — including Google — dropped it. I even tried using it with OTR encryption, but it turns out that getting XMPP to match the functionality of iMessage is genuinely difficult.
It was a tactical error to make so much core functionality rely on XEPs, because it killed interoperability. Hopefully systems like Wire and Riot have learned the lesson and will set a baseline that allows them to provide the functionality they need to, in order to compete with proprietary offerings.
Slashdot also has a more realistic and useful moderation system.
When used as intended (either contributes or does not contribute to the discussion) Reddit's voting system can result in minority opinions rising to the top, giving the false impression that Reddit (or a subreddit) as a whole agrees with that minority opinion. This happens more often with self posts and not as much in the comments.
And when used incorrectly (most often in the comments) comments that are popular rise to the top of a post, and those that are unpopular sink to the bottom. (Note that even unpopular comments can contribute to a discussion.) And this is funny when people say things like "Reddit comments are full of salt" when literally all the salty negative comments are at the bottom and the generally more positive or reasonable comments are at the top.
You'll even see negative, salty, or unreasonable self posts at the top of the subreddit, but the highest rated comments on the post itself will be ones that *disagree with the post.
True, but I think Gosling kind of embellishes a bit with the history of Sun. Example:
> At the end of days for Sun, our software business was really successful. It was really quite amazing how well we were doing.
Except that it wasn't. Sun was doing well in the 90s, but they never really had a strategic plan after that. Were they a hardware or software company? Why did they focus on Solaris when Linux was becoming the clear leader? This wasn't exactly a surprise as people had pointed this out back in 2003.
http://www.bearcave.com/misl/misl_tech/demise_of_sun.html
https://slashdot.org/story/03/10/17/0419246/sun-posts-increasing-loss
> They have their app server, and everything is about making their app server as successful as possible. One (inaudible) spent on helping other app servers doesn't make any sense to them.
Again, the reason why we ended up with tons of app servers was because everyone hated the complexity of J2EE. That's where struts and spring came about.
I like to take the geometric mean of Shadowstats and the BLS CPI. https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8805769&cid=51598143
It's about 5%/year. But that's 50% over 8 years. And likely more for Millennials as the fastest growing components are housing, education, and healthcare.
Yeah its hard to say, though I think the stolen account thing is real- here is one example where I called out a user that had an unusual history: https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=15011676&cid=59306680
I am pretty old, I have been on /. since the late 90s when I find it in college, I can't see how just being a few years older can somehow make you go hard right, but who knows? Even more so, even if I did go that way, why would I let those views bleed into a tech discussion site outside the threads that waded into politics?
I went through periods where I posted on the site maybe once a year. The technical discussion become minimal, and usually low hanging fruit type of stuff. I got a lower stress (IE more free time to read /. job) and started reading the discussions more around 2015ish, and was shocked at just how much the discussion had changed. I tried to participate more for a bit to try and see if the standard could be upped, but it just seemed that anything on topic was ignored and on topics that could somehow be crossed into a political issue, they were. I even emailed the admins a few times when I saw suspicious account activity similar to the link I posted above, with detailed reports with quotes about their technical postings, their dormancy, and then their sudden interest in the site all of a sudden and talking about politics... but I never heard back on any of them- in hindsight I should have tried to correlate those accounts with those that had been exposed in breaches as well. Comment activity is so far down on the site at this point, that if they removed all of what I suspect is bot activity, they might have almost no engagement at all- at least in the short term.
Guys/Girls, DONT do structural long days. its really bad for your health; both physically & mentally.
If its an incident; i'll make a longer day. 2 in a row is a NONO for me; then they can rent/hire a temp if the workload is too much.
If the work does not get finished in 40 hours; then thats a problem for management; its NOT a problem for you.
There is NO reason to do this. if you have a management that expects this; say NO. Tell them to hire more FTE's.
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its your health that is at stake; & there is NOTHING worth more.
WHO opinion on structural long hour weeks:
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Take care of yourself. The analogy i usually tell myself is that you cant build a house if the foundation (your physical & mental health) is rotten. DONT GO THERE!
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Take care; get your rest; & then see how much time you want to invest in your work.
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/u/lotekness - Cool post; cool that you keep replying; so THANKS! Made me smile (even though i dont need the post now; its nice to see someone put the effort in!)
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Keep it up everyone; we're proud of you!
The scale of China's cyberwarfare and counterintelligence went up significantly since the early 2010s. There was at least one incident where they countered an attack on their own computers, captured the code (likely via a network sniffer) and repurposed it to attack Western governments and companies.
Chinese Spies Got the NSA's Hacking Tools, and Used Them For Attacks
> can we please talk about downvotes? It's wayyy too easy for downvotes to affect what people see when we comment. Bot armies can do whatever they want. I'm just throwing an idea out there. That you can vote without commenting, but you can also vote on another tier if you comment, with an up/down/neutral, and you can sort comments by either.
That's a problem with Reddit's moderation/voting system and not people within the system.
Slashdot actually has the best moderation system the Internet has seen thus far. Limits to the "max score" a comment can have and, like you said, a choice between either adding a comment or moderating scores (but not both!) helps create a better experience for all.
Linux runs on almost any goddamn thing. It's been a trope that at some point someone is going to get Linux running on their toaster. NetBSD got their toaster in ‘05.
Basically yeah — can’t risk stopping their telemetry.
https://slashdot.org/story/378606 has links (talks mostly about the software firewall issue but it has issues with VPN as well in some of the articles)
I first heard about it on Slashdot back when they reached dollar parity. I did some research and thought it was a hilarious idea and decided I'd purchase 1000 bitcoins. Since it was so early, the only way to buy them that wasn't meeting a random person under a bridge and exchanging cash was through the First Internet Bank of Louisiana. The website was so sketchy I just dropped it (and they got raided and shut down for fraud eventually), and then the rest is history. Being realistic though, if by some divine providence I didn't cash out quick in the early days, there's no way I would have survived the 2018 crash.
The comment that mentions it:
> There's a further layer beyond agnosticism, called apatheism, the indifference towards the existence of gods.
> Agnostics still care for the subject. They do affirm there's no evidence, or that the evidence is ambiguous, or that it tends weakly towards theism or atheism, but if they do keep a focus on it, and if the evidence changed in any decisive way, they'd promptly move towards either theism or atheism. Therefore, the three, theism, atheism and agnosticism, fall under the shared umbrella of patheism (no "n" in the word), the care for the existence or not of gods, which is evidenced by the fact they keep discussing it.
> An apatheism, on the contrary, absolutely doesn't care. They may think gods exist (apatheistic theism), or don't exist (apatheistic atheism), or that there's no way to know (apatheistic agnosticism), but any of those options is utterly indifferent, so whatever.
> The difference can be better illustrated by possible reactions during, let's say, an Abrahamic apocaliptic scenario:
> * Theist: Either happy, for he drew the right number in the loterry of religions, or terrified, because he got the short end of the stick;
> * Atheist: Crestfallen, for it was so obvious deities didn't exist, and/or outraged, as that arbitrary megalomaniacal superpowered SOB is real and is now going to begin torturing humanity, including themselves;
> * Agnostic: "Ohh! Now I know for certain!"
> * Apatheist (the three kinds): Looks up at the commotion, rises eyebrow Spock-style, shrugs, balances head, and goes back to whatever they were doing before.
Here is the actual article that was quoted.
Immediately preceding the quote it says:
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN
Then, you'll notice the very next paragraph begins with:
the 'best estimate' is extremely optimistic
This user repeatedly posts misleading information and is manipulative with their sources.
I wrote this yesterday, as part of a reply on another forum, and figured it fits in here perfectly:
>If we want to stop the Republicans from having power, we have to start winning back over some of their voters. It doesn't mean Democrats have to be more like them, just more empathetic. We have to understand that improvements on aggregate look good on a report, but the folks who are standing in the unemployment line because you've shut down their fracking job can't use that report to feed their families. You give people the choice to move to a single-payer-system and let them experience for themselves how much better it is; forcing it upon those who don't want it will just make them resent you.
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>You can truly have the most noble intentions in mind for the future of this country, but if you don't express a willingness to see where those who disagree with you are coming from, they'll never give you the chance.
...and it can start with something as simple as a few slices of pizza.
and in Vostok cores measured paleoclimate, CO2 rise follows, not leads rises in temperature by ~800 years, which means the rises in CO2 are reactive to increasing temperature. As I've tried to point out usually in vain.
When you look in the Pi-Hole query log or tail the pihole log, are you seeing the requests for the domain slashdot.org or the www version of the same? If not, then that DNS traffic is not going to Pi-Hole.
https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-determine-what-domain-an-ad-is-coming-from/1522
Honestly I've always thought slashdot's mod points system was a way better idea than karma. Modpoints are a time limited resource. Upvoting or downvoting costs a point. Make them scarce enough, and people will be more considerate of how they are used.
The comment was posted three years after the iPhone launched in jest as part of a secret Santa riddle.
It's a slight homage to Slashdot's infamous iPod launch comment.
There was a slashdot article a while back about a strategy where players recognize team members through a series of interactions; then one player always defects while the team member it is playing against always cooperates:
> Southampton's programs executed a known series of 5 to 10 moves which allowed them to recognize each other. After recognition, the two Southampton programs became 'master and slave': one program would keep defecting and the other would keep cooperating. If a Southampton program determined that another program was non-Southampton, it would defect.
This strategy won, and bears an eerie resemblance to workplace strategies ...
You're basically describing Slashdot's moderation system.
Users are essentially randomly given moderation points that they can use to moderate comments up or down, along with a handful of tags for why they're moderating how they are (i.e., a comment can be flagged as insightful or funny, etc.).
Users with moderation points are not allowed to moderate in a thread they've commented in, so it prevents someone from just downvoting someone they're arguing with. You're also unable to see your actual karma score, although the site keeps track of it and lets you know generally where you stand (whether your karma is "good," "bad," etc.). So there really isn't any incentive for karmawhoring.
Yeah how old are you? I remember them being applauded for giving so much storage compared to the competition...it was a huge game changer. I recall almost everyone I know transferring their email to gmail as soon as they were able to obtain an invite, don't you? People weren't even mad or concerned about the advertisement angle.
edit: https://slashdot.org/story/04/04/01/0038200/googles-gmail-to-offer-1gb-e-mail-storage
> alleged danger of Artificial Intelligence by peter303
> Some computer experts like Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Ray Kuzweil think A.I. will be a great gift to Mankind. Others like Bill Joy and Elon Musk are fearful of potential danger. Where do you stand, Linus?
> Linus: I just don't see the thing to be fearful of.
> We'll get AI, and it will almost certainly be through something very much like recurrent neural networks. And the thing is, since that kind of AI will need training, it won't be "reliable" in the traditional computer sense. It's not the old rule-based prolog days, when people thought they'd understand what the actual decisions were in an AI.
> And that all makes it very interesting, of course, but it also makes it hard to productize. Which will very much limit where you'll actually find those neural networks, and what kinds of network sizes and inputs and outputs they'll have.
> So I'd expect just more of (and much fancier) rather targeted AI, rather than anything human-like at all. Language recognition, pattern recognition, things like that. I just don't see the situation where you suddenly have some existential crisis because your dishwasher is starting to discuss Sartre with you.
> The whole "Singularity" kind of event? Yeah, it's science fiction, and not very good SciFi at that, in my opinion. Unending exponential growth? What drugs are those people on? I mean, really..
> It's like Moore's law - yeah, it's very impressive when something can (almost) be plotted on an exponential curve for a long time. Very impressive indeed when it's over many decades. But it's still just the beginning of the "S curve". Anybody who thinks any different is just deluding themselves. There are no unending exponentials. [slashdot]
An alarming amount of IoT devices do incredibly stupid things like leaving telnet open (yes, telnet) with a simple factory-default root password. To the point that we're starting to see IoT botnets.
Komenttini oli ns. parodia Slashdotin uutiseen alkuperäisen iPodin julkistamisesta. Tajusin nyt myös että hyvin moni tällä foorumilla ei ollut vielä syntynyt tuolloin.
I can be biased, but the AWS clients can always move on, if enough outages happen in a single year (and although marketing says it's indestructible terms and conditions might apply) -- it's not about catastrophic events, but a series of unlucky regular events.
I'm sure Google, Microsoft, DigitalOcean and others can compete without a problem with AWS.
I thought I was an imperialist once, then I was kind of anti-state, at least anti-modern state, then I read silentcoder's response on Slashdot at https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=9818411&cid=53156649#comments and now I don't know where I fall.
They once distributed software on vinyl records. (Scroll down to "Floppy ROM"; it was sent out in a magazine.)
Sound is sound. Anything that can store and replay sound can be used to store software. Maybe not very practically, but, Hell, we used to use long-persistence phosphor in CRTs as RAM! Anything can be "practical" if it's the best you can do at the moment.
More information about distributing software on vinyl, including patents, because why the Hell not.
I think this quote from the article puts it in the right context:
> as it never managed to gain any traction
Nobody can predict the future, not even technical folks. Quoth https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-ipod
> No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
I think Mozilla's response of moving more of this sort of thing to Test Pilot where traction can be shown first is a solid improvement to the "surprise drop new features onto toolbar" approach, but that doesn't mean that a promising new feature won't fizzle out somewhere down the line.
Trying new things mostly leads to mistakes, but it also leads to progress. The opposite is stagnation. Mozilla has and will continue to make lots of mistakes, and hopefully keep learning from them too.
Man, I am sick and tired of retards assuming unending linear or exponential growth.
Reminds me of Linus Torvalds on AI. https://slashdot.org/story/15/06/30/0058243
The population growth story (globally, watch hans rosling ) is already trending towards an S curve and every two days there is a whole doomsday scenario whining on this sub.
That was one of the first nerd forums, slashdot.org. They were big enough at one point that when they would post an article, 'the slashdot effect' would happen and essentially DDOS the website.
For tech news, har slashdot.org været min goto i mange, mange år. Den er et socialt medie i den forstand, at man kan kommentere osv., men mere sammenlignlig med et forum fra præ-2007-æra-Internettet.
'Karma' is a term invented by the Founder ("Cmdr Taco") of one of Reddit's predecessors 'SlashDot', which was sort of a micro-Reddit, begun in 1998, oriented around tech topics. Like Reddit's karma, people gained karma there by having their comments upvoted -- although there, you could only get a max karma of 5 on any given comment. But the higher your karma, the closer to the top of the thread your comment appeared; it was designed to reward 'good' commentary. Here, though, there is no upper end limit; an individual comment or post might get several thousand in karma: we tend to refer to these 'karma points as 'upvotes', though.
Some people at r/SluttyConfessions have found that certain elements in stories tend to send the karma that they receive for a post soaring; thus they try to find ways to insert those particular elements into their tales. This is particularly obvious with 'fake' stories: lies posted here just to accumulate a lot of karma quickly; that's what I mean by 'exaggerated for karma-gaining effect'.
When considering the TPM requirement, I dug up this ancient /. thread https://slashdot.org/story/02/06/27/125227/analyzing-palladium that had a fair chunk of prescience in the comments.
And this old gem https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html
Found a discussion on the topic for the frontend framework I'm using. https://github.com/vercel/next.js/issues/3303 seems a lot of people have the same issue, and none of the proposed solutions worked out of the box for me. I'll have to put it on the backlog and possibly develop a custom solution. Sadly native browser behaviour like on slashdot.org will not work correctly for SPA's.
Submitted the story to Slashdot. Feel free to upvote to get mod attention.
https://slashdot.org/submission/13181934/google-bans-federated-chat-app-element-from-the-play-store
LasikPlus with Sonny Gohl (I've heard he moved on to another). Both my wife and I did it. Mine was back in 2003 and I am still glad I did it. That said, there might be better technologies out there now, so I can't speak to that.
I have needed glasses to drive / see far for 3-5 years now, but it's still better than needing them 24/7, and I definitely was sufficiently warned this would be the case (I'm now 45 y/o). A pair of regular for night and sunglasses for day when out hiking etc. I can still legally drive w/out which is a nice fallback.
Fun fact: When dialing used tones someone attempted to copyright every set of tones -> https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/04/0142222/copyright-claimed-on-telephone-tones
Fun fact to me: My once-important city had the first phone numbers in the world -> https://getvoip.com/blog/2012/11/15/a-brief-history-of-the-telephone-number/
Yeah, the Windows 2000 source code leaked back in 2004 (period-appropriate Slashdot link), and it's largely the same operating system as XP. ReactOS ended up doing an audit of their code base to prove that the project was clean.
Relatedly, Wine explicitly bans contributions from anyone who's seen Windows source code.
Check https://news.ycombinator.com and slashdot.org (I personally don't like slashdot too much though - they tend to be a bit racist/focused on US) for job posts - you will see job posts on these sites.
Also check the websites of the various VCs. They generally have a job posting (sub) site on their various webpages - meant for their investees.
Best.
Didn't find many media stories besides this.
https://slashdot.org/story/14/05/07/0410242/nasa-france-skeptical-of-spacex-reusable-rocket-project
Even this one is just a link to a removed article.
It's possible that the articles were removed once spaceX became successful, OR more likely, it's not that articles were written about how "they'll never do X" It was more the public sentiment
I thought this anecdote and musings by Neal Stephenson was a funny and interesting read on the differences between what he calls Beowulf and Dante writers.
ETA: Section starts near the beginning, at: 2) The lack of respect... - by MosesJones