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The State of Slashdot: Https, Poll Changes, Auto-Refresh, Videos, and More
As of yesterday, Slashdot now serves over https. In addition, the polls have been moved exclusively to the right rail, and will not show up with the other stories any longer. We've also disabled auto-refresh, and fixed various issues with search and other features. In the last few weeks, we've also discontinued videos, and removed the "Jobs" section of the site. You can follow all of the changes on the Slashdot blog.
When connecting to Slashdot, I'm now cryptographically guaranteed to be talking to (drumroll please) Dice Holdings, Inc!
So... are we being MitM'd by Dice, trying to get their old property back?
When I connect to wifi hotspots in things like Coffee shops, they intercept the web access and route the connection to their "accept our stupid legal thing you didn't read".
If I connect to a https web site, this doesn't work, because the redirected endpoint doesn't present the correct cert.
So I always start by connecting to Slashdot, because it's not https. Now I'm going to have to find a different non-https web site.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
Not the same AC. The groupthink is a problem. There are also inherent biases in Slashdot. Misleading anti-Microsoft posts are often modded up disproportionately to factual posts that portray Microsoft in a more favorable way, even in the same article. An example is the debate over Windows 10 telemetry. Xenophobic and ultranationalist posts are moderated much more positively if the source appears to be European rather than American. There's also an inherent liberal (American definition of liberal) bias to Slashdot users. That's the nature of the site. The problem is when people use moderation to silence views they don't like and posters who hold those views. When someone throws five overrated downmods to five posts from a user, some of which are a few days old, it's clear they're using moderation to silence that user. It happens even to good users, and I recall reading at least drinkypoo and BarbaraHudson complaining about this. Posting as AC limits the ability of someone to abuse moderation in that manner. There are enough immature logged-in users willing to abuse moderation in that manner to make AC posting worthwhile. You're most likely to be a target of that abuse if you hold views that are contrary to the biases of Slashdot.
I don't want to disable my adblocker, but do want to support all the work you guys are doing! Adding a "tip jar" or subscription for a few bucks a month would be awesome to support all of your hard work. THIS is the type user-driven community I want to be a part of!
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I really don't want to learn yet another proprietary markup language. So can we please keep it a standards based markup instead of flavor of the month? Thanks.
Does anyone actually want Unicode, or just a small subset of features missing from whatever encoding they now use, in the dominant encoding of the era? We've lived with parsimony for a long time now, just scrub everything in Unicode that isn't obviously a feature with a minimal down-side.
Here's a sane approach. Go to the New York Times or The Atlantic or the WSJ or The Economist, download the top 1000 articles from the last 100 days and include every character you consistently find there (plus obvious gap fillers). That's all I ever wanted. Few or none of these characters will facilitate injection attacks. Then people can suggest other parts of Unicode on a case by case basis.
Good grief, why would anyone adopt the whole seething enchilada all at once?
"News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" is no longer in the headline.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I'm a centrist who believes that there should be a lot of compromise, and your party currently hates compromise, so from my perspective if you're giving a "conservative viewpoint" that is the same as the Republican talking points, I'm going to down-mod for 2 reasons; it isn't actually your perspective, just party-flag-waving regurgitation, and it is probably not a reasoned viewpoint that allows other views to exist.
I down-mod people on the left for the same reason, usually from the Green Party. Democrats at least support compromise and their views don't exclude Republican views; they are openly and explicitly willing to compromise.
So I can see that depending on the actual common views in each party over time, there would be a different balance of down-mods for not being constructive, and just asserting conclusions, etc.
A lot of slashdot users are actually quite conservative, but they're not Republican Party flag-wavers and they don't regurgitate talking points. They're conservatives who still believe in compromise, in civic duty, in honesty.
What percent of modern "conservatives" will even agree that Democrats love America and love the Constitution? 1%? 2%? "They're tryin' to take er guns!" "Who?" "Them their liberaaals!" "But they say they support the 2nd Amendment too, and you can keep your guns." "FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS YOU HIPPIE!" That is basically how the conversation goes.
--Your efforts are appreciated. Keep up the good work :-)
--Aside: A few weeks back I wanted to get in contact with you to recommend something, but it didn't coalesce - so at the risk of going a bit offtopic I will post it here. You may want to see if you can work a deal with O'Reilly books to sell at a discount to Slashdot users. It's tech-related and would seem to be a good match for the site. Just a thought.
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== WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??