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It was probably, intellectually, an interesting and challenging project. But that guy has just wasted his summer - and his code - building something no one actually wants. Have a look here - http://pipedot.org/story/2014-... where there's reporting about a growing systemd boycott taking place.

People don't like or want systemd and are increasingly organizing to avoid it. Non systemd distros - gentoo, slackware - plus FreeBSD, where I'll be migrating my home computer tonight after work - are starting to look pretty darned good to people again.

It's true there is a need for something more dynamic and responsive than the old init script system, but systemd is not it.

PS: Sorry, the Polish are worried that if the Russians invade then millions of Ukrainian refugees will come to Poland.

PPS: Anyone else notice how absolutely fucking retarded the Slashdot commenting system is in regards to minimising posting frequency. How are we meant to have a discussion if we are rate limited like that? I know there are dickheads like GNAA out there, but this is essentially DRM: inconvenience for the legitimate posters, with minimal impact on the trolls...

Time to go to PipeDot I think.

Try pipedot.org, it's awesome.

I completely agree with the message behind your post.

Personally I gave up on humanity when I realised that people were still buying battery eggs. This is a very simple situation regarding animal welfare, and yet so many continue to choose the cheaper option. I think it says a lot about the values of our society, for what else makes us human than an active choice to protect those around us who are unable to protect themselves? This includes, in my opinion, being humane to the animals and livestock that we farm and harvest for food.

If people won't even pay a few cents per egg, then they certainly won't pay a few cents per gallon (or litre) for fuel.

Sigh. if I'm allowed to rant a little more, my PS to this post is that the thing I hate even more than people buying battery eggs, are those who buy non-battery eggs (also called "free range" or "cage free" depending on where you are from) from the same companies that also sell battery eggs. For fuck sake. I don't want to buy any egg (or meat, or fuel...) from any motherfucker that is engaged in behaviour that I don't want to support.

PPS: Dear SlashDot. Your posting "security" is stupid beyond belief. I started typing this while connected via my VPN. While typing this post I disconnected my VPN and now I want to submit the post. Instead I get a "your resource is no longer valid" error message...WTF! I'm not even logged in. If anyone wanted evidence that Slashdot is logging all user activity (for state security, or marketing "partnerships" reasons) then this is it. ...fuck this site. I'm outa here.

It's free.

But it's not as good as you think it is.

Go check out this alternative, built recently on a much much better code base: http://www.pipedot.org

PipeDot has a *fantastic* interface which leaves this place for dead. Period.

https://pipedot.org/

Check it out!

I log in. I still get the beta pages (about 2 out of 5 articles) even though I've specified classic view. You can see in the comments how I'm dealing with it. There are alternatives.

Another alternative

At the time of writing http://pipedot.org/ has 58 comments in the first 10 stories.
http://squte.com/ has 69
http://soylentnews.org/ has 247
slashdot has 1043

There are other alternatives to slashdot: http://squte.com/ http://pipedot.org/ and http://soylentnews.org/

Thought it was a dupe at first, then remembered that this had been posted already to one of the other sites.

also made it to FP at:

SN: http://soylentnews.org/article...
PD: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-...

C'mon, posts about freakin VHS tapes on the FP at least twice in the same day but this news is ignored?

So chronologically ...

2012-06-?? Video filmed
2014-03-05 arXiv.org submission
2012-03-07 Video published on TED
2014-03-07 wired.com article
2014-03-08 pipedot.org story
2014-03-10 slashdot.org first story
2014-03-14 economist.com article
2014-03-15 slashdot.org second story

So, someone may have filmed the video a few years ago, but the video was only posted online recently. Afterwards the story made the rounds on various news sites over the next few weeks. Hardly that old of news...

Also here: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-03-08/3d-printed-paper-microscope-to-help-combat-malaria

Slashdot spin-offs for beta-haters:
http://pipedot.org/
http://soylentnews.org/

Try: http://slashdot.org/?nobeta=1

Better yet, people should be moving to:

https://pipedot.org/

Modern features like UTF-8. Fast clean interface. Its what beta should have been. Keeps everything good, throws out the bad. Plus, better name than solyant. Less drama.

See you at

http://soylentnews.org/

and

http://pipedot.org/

then

If SoylentNews wasn't so shit I'd be tempted to move over there.

I think the other sites have better stories on average, but there are better comments on /.

Aren't they imploding over some ego tantrums? You could check out, http://technocrat.net/, http://squte.com/ or https://pipedot.org/ if you're looking for a site that actually works.

There are a number of options, as well as http://soylentnews.org/ there is http://pipedot.org./ There are a lot of ex-slashdotter on the comp.misc newsgroup. http://squte.com/ (my own site) provides a slashdot-like interface to newsgroups.

Don't forget the other sites that have popped up post-beta as well: Technocrat and Pipedot Choice is good.

What do you think about these sites?

When all the news source belong to big corporations, how can one be surprised that press freedom is disappearing ?

One solution

Looks like altslashdot.org and SoylentNews have joined forces, since they resolve to the same site.

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When all the news source belong to big corporations, how can one be surprised that press freedom is disappearing ?

One solution

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Don't forget pipedot.

Yep, just launched: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-...

Plus, the more you distribute the data, the more backups you have. I'd hate to loose gigabytes of family photos to a single hard drive failing. There are a few companies, like pogoplug, producing consumer friendly storage devices that are inexpensive ($20) and hide all the complex software pieces behind a nice web interface.

Also, I plan on making a slashdot-inspired site. The website will be called "Pipedot" and be reachable at pipedot.org or pipedot.com. The motto will be "News for nerds, without the corporate slant." Get it? A pipe character looks like a slash without the slant!

I'm committed to providing a free and independent resource without the influence of a parent corporate overlord. The site will be decidedly non-profit and have zero advertisements, zero adobe flash, zero google analytics, etc...

As a special bonus, the site can now be reached at fuckbeta.org! Stay tuned for more updates...

Looks like someone already had this idea.

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