User: SteveR

Boycott

On: Cellphones Across the US Will Receive a 'Presidential Alert' at 2:18 pm Eastern Today (nytimes.com)

Turn your phone off at 2:17 pm.

Re:Happy Friday from The Golden Girls!

On: Critical EFI Code in Millions of Macs Isn't Getting Apple's Updates (wired.com)

lol, "cosmonaut"

Pretty sure its "confidante".

Re:Pointless exercise, is pointless.

On: I Bought a Book About the Internet From 1994 and None of the Links Worked (vice.com)

I'm surprised you even found your way back online to report the fact that your internet reference books from a quarter century ago had dead links.

Slashdot is probably one of the few sites in that book that still works.

Chumby

On: Petition Asks Adobe To Open-Source Flash To Preserve Internet History (bleepingcomputer.com)

Open source it. I want to create new widgets for my Chumby, which runs an old version of Flash.

Can Trump undo it?

On: President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com)

Can presidential actions like this be undone by a future president? Or does something like double jeopardy apply? (Not that I want it to be undone, I'm just curious.)

ls(1)

On: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever?

If you're just considering userspace, then perhaps good old ls(1). I must run it hundreds of times a day.

Pluto

On: IAU: No, You Can't Name That Exoplanet

I say we name all exoplanets "Pluto", just for spite.

creat

On: Systemd Ditches GNU C Library for Their Own

'On the bright side "We also renamed the API call creat() to create()..."'

And there was much rejoicing.

MERF

On: Techno-Charities?

donate to MENSA

Or more specifically, the Mensa Education & Research Foundation, which promotes research on intelligence and intellectual giftedness.