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Funnily enough there was an r/ELI5 question (Explain Like I'm 5) about the downfall of Digg literally just over 24 hours ago. I don't think Reddit is anything like Digg when it changed. Not yet anyway.

You want me to give a shit about the "other things" gamergate represents start a new fucking movement. I could give two fucks what that movement has to say at this point.

Hey, I recognize that shitty attitude. It's downright identical to Gawker's . . . right before the FTC got involved in December (in direct response to GG pressure), and Gawker was forced update their disclosure policy (and tons of articles that were then clearly in violation). And things have only gotten worse for them since. Read it and weep:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...

The section of the FTC's website that deals with disclosures was updated late last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...

Some of this new guidance directly reflects the language and particulars of the concerns GamerGate asked the FTC to address.

"Is “affiliate link” by itself an adequate disclosure? What about a “buy now” button?"

Consumers might not understand that “affiliate link” means that the person placing the link is getting paid for purchases through the link. Similarly, a “buy now” button would not be adequate

Does this guidance about affiliate links apply to links in my product reviews on someone else’s website, to my user comments, and to my tweets?

Yes, the same guidance applies anytime you endorse a product and get paid through affiliate links.

The revised webpage contains a great deal more language that needs to be analyzed but these two examples in particular reflect specific complaints GamerGate had about how Gawker Media handle their affiliate link disclosures. I know of no other group of people who were vocally complaining about this specific practice to the FTC. In addition, the FTC emails from my previous posts confirm that, yes, the FTC tailored part of their new guidance because of frequent complaints sent by GamerGate.

That's only scratching the surface of the FTC guideline updates directly attributable to Gamergate (follow that link for plenty more), but you get the idea.

Yes, you're free ignore the disclosures on Gawker articles if they bother you, or don't care . . . but they will be made available to you, by law . . . just as Gamergate wanted from the very beginning of the journalism scandal. Deal with it.

You want me to give a shit about the "other things" gamergate represents start a new fucking movement. I could give two fucks what that movement has to say at this point.

Hey, I recognize that shitty attitude. It's downright identical to Gawker's . . . right before the FTC got involved in December (in direct response to GG pressure), and Gawker was forced update their disclosure policy (and tons of articles that were then clearly in violation). And things have only gotten worse for them since. Read it and weep:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Kotaku...

The section of the FTC's website that deals with disclosures was updated late last month:

https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advic...

Some of this new guidance directly reflects the language and particulars of the concerns GamerGate asked the FTC to address.

"Is “affiliate link” by itself an adequate disclosure? What about a “buy now” button?"

Consumers might not understand that “affiliate link” means that the person placing the link is getting paid for purchases through the link. Similarly, a “buy now” button would not be adequate

Does this guidance about affiliate links apply to links in my product reviews on someone else’s website, to my user comments, and to my tweets?

Yes, the same guidance applies anytime you endorse a product and get paid through affiliate links.

The revised webpage contains a great deal more language that needs to be analyzed but these two examples in particular reflect specific complaints GamerGate had about how Gawker Media handle their affiliate link disclosures. I know of no other group of people who were vocally complaining about this specific practice to the FTC. In addition, the FTC emails from my previous posts confirm that, yes, the FTC tailored part of their new guidance because of frequent complaints sent by GamerGate.

That's only scratching the surface of the FTC guideline updates directly attributable to Gamergate (follow that link for plenty more), but you get the idea.

Yes, you're free ignore the disclosures on Gawker articles if they bother you, or don't care . . . but they will be made available to you, by law . . . just as Gamergate wanted from the very beginning of the journalism scandal. Deal with it.

Highly offensive, but still running full speed ahead! If you know any journalists, be sure to tell them about this delightful part of reddit!

http://www.reddit.com/r/CoonTown/

NSFW it's highly offensive!

That means Reddit as a whole is popular (and fairly large) but popularity != influence.

Especially when you consider that even the largest subreddit is but a fraction of that traffic - much of the traffic is spread across thousands of subreddits (many of them quite small, even though they're popular among their habitues). It's essentially a collection of independent websites (though bound by a common interface and portal) ranging from fairly small (in terms of the overall web) to infinitesimally tiny.

Looking at this list of subreddits that have gone dark is instructive. Relatively few break the 100k subscribers mark, most are under 10k. And unless Reddit is very unusual in it's counting, the number of subscribers is a significant multiple of the number of active users.

Immature and smug admin response did not help either http://www.reddit.com/r/Subred...

https://www.reddit.com/r/techn...

With the Internet about to become so readily available in Cuba so quickly and after so long, I don't doubt at all that many Cubans will jump at the opportunity to use it as soon as they can.

Given Cuba's proximity to the United States, and its low labor costs but comparatively high education levels, it may become a preferred destination for software development outsourcing.

But are Cubans ready for this? Will these new Cuban computer programmers be able to deal with burnout?

Today I read about an awful tragedy affecting a programmer. This poor soul wrote

I'm currently in a state where I litterally just can't write code. At all. I get dizzy, headaches, I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor.

and

A little over a month ago, only 3 years into the project, I blew up. One day I woke up, sat in front of my computer and broke up in tears. Called the boss to tell him I couldn't work for a few days. To this day I still can't code. I'm not even sure I will ever be able to code again either. For now I'm looking at applying for Walmart for an undetermined amount of time.

If something as awful as that can happen to programmers in other nations, it could happen in Cuba, too. How will they prepare for this?

It isn't just depression. Burnout is a serious problem, too!

For example, today I read this awful description of burnout. In that case we have a programmer writing stuff like

I'm currently in a state where I litterally just can't write code. At all. I get dizzy, headaches, I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor.

and

A little over a month ago, only 3 years into the project, I blew up. One day I woke up, sat in front of my computer and broke up in tears. Called the boss to tell him I couldn't work for a few days. To this day I still can't code. I'm not even sure I will ever be able to code again either. For now I'm looking at applying for Walmart for an undetermined amount of time.

That type of story makes me very sad. You know things are bad when an adult man is brought to tears, and is potentially never able to code again. This is a serious problem, but it goes completely unrecognized or unacknowledged so often!

Do playing games like Ultima Online help with avoiding or treating the burnout that some programmers face due to the stresses of their jobs?

Today I read about the harrowing experience of one programmer. He wrote that

I'm currently in a state where I litterally just can't write code. At all. I get dizzy, headaches, I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor.

and

A little over a month ago, only 3 years into the project, I blew up. One day I woke up, sat in front of my computer and broke up in tears. Called the boss to tell him I couldn't work for a few days. To this day I still can't code. I'm not even sure I will ever be able to code again either. For now I'm looking at applying for Walmart for an undetermined amount of time.

I know he is probably not alone. So when a programmer is in a similar situation, will playing an online game like Ultima Online help at all? Will it provide an escape and a way to relieve some of the stresses and burdens that have built up? Is participating in a MOOC a better idea?

There are people with real work problems.

Seriously, read what was written in that comment [emphasis added]:

I'm currently in a state where I litterally just can't write code. At all. I get dizzy, headaches, I've even cried a few times just at the sight of my text editor.

Have one of these unionized scientists ever started crying just by looking at their lab coats?

Then there's this [emphasis added]:

One day I woke up, sat in front of my computer and broke up in tears. Called the boss to tell him I couldn't work for a few days. To this day I still can't code. I'm not even sure I will ever be able to code again either. For now I'm looking at applying for Walmart for an undetermined amount of time.

That, my friends, is real suffering.

Grandparent commenter loves to kiss somebody's ring before being allowed to run any new particular software on his pocket computer. It's a Total Power Exchange deal.

The idea that there are other people out there in the world who don't fetishise ring kissing raises his ire.

The color orange or red is frequently used by the U.S. Navy as well as other agencies to increase visibility of the unmanned aircraft, and is typically not a concern for hobbyists.

One user in the subreddit post pointed out that the El Mirage dry lake bed is approximately 10 miles from the fire area where allegedly

"there is a UAV/Predator testing site/company there".

While this is by no means conclusive, I'm inclined to call "Bullshit" given the scarcity of information. The lack of an arrested individual to publicly shame/ridicule (it's easy to follow a 4 foot wingspan bright orange drone back to it's controller...), ambiguous "facts" (actual elevation?, distance of separation?) and the proximity to a military unmanned drone testing site within 10 miles leads me to believe this was a military drone.

Leaving all of these media articles cropping up about this incident nothing more than F.U.D. designed to whip up hysteria about a topic that is somewhat controversial.

Google was paying Firefox $300M a year. http://www.reddit.com/r/techno... http://www.computerworld.com/a... Wonder what Yahoo is paying?

That's what I thought until someone on Reddit corrected me.

Obligatory:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BN...

From:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Progra...

Somebody should try this on Melody Hensley.

Is there a good reddit area for slashdot refugees to have tech discussions?

Well, /r/linux is pretty good for Linux wanking.

SourceForge hijacks Firefox project

I hope this is not true:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/39x7w5/sourceforge_hijacks_firefox_project/

I know I'm flogging it, but http://www.reddit.com/r/talesf... would love to hear from you. :)

have a read of http://www.reddit.com/r/talesf... I'm sure you'll appreciate it.

Don't be a douche and have a read of some of these.

Then again I am ever hopeful you were being sarcastic, though there's always the possibility that you are not.

At Reddit /r/linux is pretty good.

see what it can do.

Yup, Javascript's == operator is just as fucked up.

* http://strilanc.com/visualizat...

> PHP developers would be wise to read that to see what warts PHP shares with some other popular languages.

You and I wish that but sadly that will never happen based on their past apologists. Too much ego and stupidity at stake such as having a broken ternary operator ?: as opposed to C. (WTF!?) And then you get stupid bugs like this memory leak ... *sigh*

This post sums up the problem with the design of PHP:

http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp...

The only way to "fix" PHP is to throw it in garbage can where it belongs and start over.

I'll probably be downmodded but I'm going to call horseshit on that cliche. While it may be PC to be in denial over crappy tools, the fact remains some tools (programming languages) are well designed and others are not. So yeah, um, no, I don't buy that argument that a poor craftsman blames his tools. It is the good craftsman that is able to spot the crap tools DUE to experience of having used good ones AND crap ones that they can tell what is complete shit.

Second, just because you CAN write code in Brainfuck doesn't mean you _should_; It is _still_ a crappy language for programming. PHP is no different. It was designed (LOL! Ya, right) and implemented by someone who didn't have a fucking clue what they were doing.

The problem with a shite language like PHP is two-fold:

1. The language is inconsistent with too many hidden gotcha's. The == operator is broken that, seriously, you can't make have this dumb shit up. When the official docs has a page called Inconsistent Behaviours you know there is a bigger problem ... PHP was released in 1995 about 4 years after Python. Ruby was around 1995 as well. It is like PHP made every beginner Comp. Sci 101 mistake AND failed to learn from it.

2. The quality of programmers tends to be extremely poor because they are too busying being apologists for their PHucked uP language.

We have a name for people who like suffering: Masochists.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are laughing our asses of at their self-induced suffer over their choice of stupid tools.

Indeed. PHP is one of the shittiest languages ever implemented.

* https://wiki.php.net/rfc/incon...

It tends to bring out all the language apologists who are in denial over how shite it is:

* http://www.reddit.com/r/lolphp...

It makes crappy Javascript look good in comparison:

* http://strilanc.com/visualizat...

all crypto currencies are in fact traceable via their block chain.

Monero has built-in mixing.
https://getmonero.org/home
https://www.reddit.com/r/moner...

I'm guessing he didn't provide a source because SRS harassing people is an extremely well-known fact. It's like asking for proof that most people have five fingers on each hand.

But I understand that search engines are misogynist oppressive tools of the patriarchy, so I did you a favor and found some for you: https://www.reddit.com/r/SRSsucks/comments/1yhswb/a_brief_compilation_of_srs_doxxing_brigading_and/

Let me know if you need any more assistance as a strong independent woman who don't need no man.

you are either a liar, or you don't know a fucking thing about this topic yet feel like acting like an authority when you don't know shit

this is the problem with life: propagandized misinformed idiots who still think they are entitled to an opinion

facts, you lying moron:

http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfT...

The allegations are that users from /r/fatpeoplehate[9] were regularly going outside their subreddit and harassing people in other subreddits or even other internet communities (including allegedly poaching pics from /r/keto and harassing the redditor(s) involved[10] and harassment of specific employees of imgur.com[11] , as well as other similar transgressions.

Important quote from the post:

We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning behavior, not ideas.[12]

To paraphrase: As long as you can keep it 100% confined within the subreddit, anything within legal bounds still goes. As soon as content/discussion/'politics' of the subreddit extend out to other users on reddit, communities, or people on other social media platforms with the intent to harass, harangue, hassle, shame, berate, bemoan, or just plain fuck with, that's when there's problems. FPH et al. was apparently struggling with this part.

this little exchange sums up the problem with american politics (or politics anywhere i suppose). people don't know shit, they are propagandized and lied to, they never bother to investigate themselves, they simply accept whatever is handed to them, then they shriek and spout uninformed ignorant opinions with great authority

prideful ignorance

http://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfT...

The allegations are that users from /r/fatpeoplehate[9] were regularly going outside their subreddit and harassing people in other subreddits or even other internet communities (including allegedly poaching pics from /r/keto and harassing the redditor(s) involved[10] and harassment of specific employees of imgur.com[11] , as well as other similar transgressions.

Important quote from the post:

We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning behavior, not ideas.[12]

To paraphrase: As long as you can keep it 100% confined within the subreddit, anything within legal bounds still goes. As soon as content/discussion/'politics' of the subreddit extend out to other users on reddit, communities, or people on other social media platforms with the intent to harass, harangue, hassle, shame, berate, bemoan, or just plain fuck with, that's when there's problems. FPH et al. was apparently struggling with this part.

just a note: it's not my responsibility to educate you as to the basics of the topic at hand, even though i have just done so, that's me being generous

it's your responsibility, no one else, to educate yourself as to topics you comment on, BEFORE you comment. why do you assume other commentors here are automatically correct, without attribution, while i am automatically wrong? that just speaks to your prejudice

if you see two conflicting depictions of events, go research it yourself

this applies to all topics in life: what's happening in ukraine, what obamacare actually means, who broke the cookie jar in your kitchen: if you just go with your assumptions and prejudices and trust a random voice in the room without verification, you've failed yourself. you are open to being lied to and deceived easily

educate yourself. research yourself. don't depend on others to hand you opinions on a silver platter. you will simply be a misinformed, propagandized idiot in life

Sorry, you don't get to set the topic. What are you, some kind of Reddit Admin? And, if you're right, why's this listing other subreddits too? Or this, where it's apparent the CONTENT is being banned, not the behavior. Otherwise they would give a 'sucessor' subreddit a chance to proove the mods there would keep a lid on behavior. /not stupid enough to use an account on a site //old school

Sorry, you don't get to set the topic. What are you, some kind of Reddit Admin? And, if you're right, why's this listing other subreddits too? Or this, where it's apparent the CONTENT is being banned, not the behavior. Otherwise they would give a 'sucessor' subreddit a chance to proove the mods there would keep a lid on behavior. /not stupid enough to use an account on a site //old school

Improve your understanding:

https://www.reddit.com/user/Te...

I know you're a master-race sort of guy and are thusly severly biased but not for $450 it won't, and it it will run Windows, which comes with it's own issues.

Yeah, actually it will. What? You're shocked that consoles built on hardware that's already two years out of date will be beat by a previous hardware generation? It'll run windows? Gee, why do all those builds have no OS as a requirement. I mean it's like a mac where you can't install another OS unless you pay them to do it right? And of course forget about modifying the OS on your console.

The builds ignore the fact that the PS4 uses DDR5 as main memory and the XBOX 360 has 32MB of on-die ESRAM. They also ignore the dedicated sound cards, video-decoders and other chips to offload the CPU's. On the software side of things, the standardized hardware and low level API's allow for performance optimizations that would simply be unthinkable in the PC world, allowing developers to squeeze every bit of theoretical performance out of the systems. Something else to take into consideration is that cross-platform games are almost always developed for the consoles and then (often badly) ported to PC. The hardware requirements for similar levels of performance are usually much higher than the hardware on the consoles would suggest is needed.

I know you're a master-race sort of guy and are thusly severly biased but not for $450 it won't, and it it will run Windows, which comes with it's own issues.

Yeah, actually it will. What? You're shocked that consoles built on hardware that's already two years out of date will be beat by a previous hardware generation? It'll run windows? Gee, why do all those builds have no OS as a requirement. I mean it's like a mac where you can't install another OS unless you pay them to do it right? And of course forget about modifying the OS on your console.

Yeah yeah, we all know PC gamers are cheap bastards and euro-pirates. Wasting money on hardware and not wanting pay for software. So they play some F2P FPS or MOBA and play a single map like de_dust or the Warehouse over and over and over or they mod some single player game and play that for 10 years and buy nothing else.

Yeah, since we know that console piracy is rampant, and we can buy exactly the same games at half the price. What? Did you miss the FO4 announcement, where consoles will be paying $59.99-79.99, and PC gamers can already get it at $40 or there about.

Well since they give you other things besides the multiplayer, you're technically paying for those. I'd have a PS+ subscription even if I didn't play multiplayer the instant game collection is worth the $49.95 a year.

Well, I guess the hundreds of free games on the PC are worthless then, and of course we can't forget the wide amount of emulation either, or thousands of abandonware titles out there. After all, you're paying $50/year, and likely going to be getting another credit card next week(just a guess), since Sony's security is at 1999 levels, but I guess if you have to spend 8 minutes searching for legal free games, that's too difficult.

You're probably looking at the wrong page.....there are a lot of them in the summary. I believe this is the relevant page: https://www.stopfasttrack.com/. Note they've already added an SPF record.

Except any old SPF record isn't the same as a correct one.

for i in fightforthefuture.org blackoutcongress.org stopfasttrack.com;do dig -t ANY $i|grep '$i\|spf';done fightforthefuture.org. 299 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:spf.dynect.net ~all" fightforthefuture.org. 299 IN TXT "v=spf1 include:sendgrid.net include:spf.dynect.net include:_spf.google.com include:salsalabs.net ~all"

stopfasttrack.com does not have an SPF record.

The SPF record for fightforthefuture is wrong

No DKIM, no DMARC, no fucking idea what they are doing - 'cause email administration is not counter-intuitive. Right? (sigh)

And it's not like the top response to his Reddit whine didn't point out why Google dumps his email - or how to check the SPF record.

But WTF, you don't need to be competent to lead a revolution (good intentions is all that counts when you're paving the road to a better world, right?)

Note also that in some (enlightened?) parts of the world unsolicited commercial (you want money?) that is not opt-in IS spam.

Kind of wrong, multiple xboxes is broken on some routers due to bad/old upnp implementations: Excerpt from: http://www.reddit.com/r/xboxon... With a good UPNP implementation: The first Xbox asks for port 3074. The second Xbox asks for port 3074 and is told by the router that that port is already in use. The second Xbox then asks for an alternative port. With a bad UPNP implementation: The first Xbox asks for port 3074. The second Xbox asks for port 3074 and the router then either ignores the request (because 3074 is already in use) or forwards 3074 to the second Xbox, which boots the first Xbox offline.

Knew about it 3 months ago, release name Skynet: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/...

Went to reddit and they chased me away with this thing they call "The Motherforker".

> If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water.

That's not true. There are tons of people who play vanilla.

> Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers ...

Probably

> .. and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game.

Nope. Go read Reddit's /r/minecraft if you want a sense of how many people play with mods. It is far lower then what you think it is.

From what I know, the people who write these modifications tend to keep to their specific communities on Github or on their self hosted sites. You don't seem them in a place as public as Reddit, not with how crowded it is. In addition, since so many modifications are server side nowadays instead of client side, many of the newer players have no idea that they're not playing purely stock Minecraft.

I'll concede that I may have been wrong on how many players use the modifications. I don't know for sure - Reddit's not really a very objective sample of the community. But still, I don't think it has a chance of seriously challenging Minecraft, not without some kind of miracle. The biggest hurdle is that it doesn't have multiplayer, Minecraft's biggest allure, and I can see it failing compared to Minecraft for that reason and that one alone.

> If this doesn't have Minecraft's extensive modding community, it's dead in the water.

That's not true. There are tons of people who play vanilla.

> Nobody plays Minecraft longer than a week or so because of the gameplay: it's the social aspect of the servers ...

Probably

> .. and the (actually quite amazing) quality of the modifications and plugins available fro the game.

Nope. Go read Reddit's /r/minecraft if you want a sense of how many people play with mods. It is far lower then what you think it is.

Why won't slashdot cover the sourceforge malware scandal? Oh, yeah, that's why. SHAME ON YOU DICE!

You've been spamming every single article today with a completely off topic comment. You're doing way more harm to your story's reputation than you are helping it - this belongs on a blog or something, not in the comments section of another story.

I wish I was professional ... no one wants to pay me. Certainly not Dice.


Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

I know my friend...

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?
So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!
SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

No, he is not trolling, he is merely pointing out the power of propaganda as mentioned by the OP. I believe it should be more considered irony given the context off this story

Why did Dice buy Slashdot? So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals! SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Are you trolling?

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!

Why did Dice buy Slashdot?

So they could suppress discussions about their own scandals!

SHAME ON YOU DICE!