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It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around - and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.

The community here is great - but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age - and especially in this group - there are still such hate filled people.

But this poses a question - how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?

So my first submission ever was accepted (Including /.) and posted yesterday. Unfortunately, all of the comments were lambasting the actual security of the tool I talked about, being from the DOD, almost everyone mentioned that it probably has backdoors strewn about in every crevice of the OS. They are probably right.

I guess I really just wanted to help SN to have more content without just copying some news article that people have already seen. I suppose I should stick to something I actually know, and try to find something in the astronomy/science field. Oh well, now everyone probably thinks I am a DOD/NSA shill.

BEST FIRST SUBMISSION EVER.

Day 7 has disappeared in a fog. Not sure if fog is real, or due to too much Grog.

Day 8 - the rain has penetrated through our skins and soaked every last crewmember. some have even taken additional time in the bilge to get away from the relentless downpour. the winds have slacked off, but without the stars to navigate by it is hopeless to maintain a heading.

This is not the journal you are looking for.

So you finally fixed a couple of the problems I bitched about.

Too bad it took me getting banned and making the promise of utilizing said vulnerabilities to get you to get off your ass and do something, like any RESPONSIBLE programmer would do.

So are you going to listen to me, or am I going to have to break out the kernel-level exploits?

CentOS ain't shit compared to MenuetOS. I can hack both. Better migrate to BSD if you want half a chance of surviving me.

Oh, to ad, the fact you think I'm a 'credible threat' belies your ill-education in programming. Go back to school.

As the title says. An injury two days ago apparently requires surgery. I will be on hiatus for as long as I need to be.

Mattie_p

EDIT: surgery is complete, she is in recovery right now. She and I are both pretty tired right now. I'm home to care for my son and my wife took over at the hospital. I'll try to keep everyone posted but there is a lot I don't know at this point.

https://github.com/crutchy-/test/blob/master/karma_published.php

bacon+
(only single +/- to differentiate from bender)

~karma bacon

~rainbow pretty text

etc

todo: quotes

no more searching

reset color:

~color -1

bold white:

~color 00

change color per mirc values: http://www.mirc.com/colors.html

~color 01

thru

~color 15

requote last in weird and wonderful ways (or show about):

~

bot doesn't quote itself (shows about)
atm only verbs ending in "ing" and a small set of nouns recognised, but this will grow

if you're interested in contributing (even just to the arrays) have a squiz at:
https://github.com/crutchy-/test/blob/master/bacon.php

anyone new to git, have a squiz at http://wiki.soylentnews.org/wiki/User:Crutchy#Git.2FGitHub
you can also edit directly on github (ideally only for simple changes such as additions to arrays).

todo: add collective noun substitution
todo: add ability to append arrays from within irc

thanks heaps mrbluze... ideas man and english extraordinaire

https://github.com/crutchy-/test/blob/master/crunch.php

designed to quote either the last thing said by a nick or the last thing said by a nick containing a search query

usage:
~
quotes a little about string including github source link
~q or ~quit
tells bot to quit
~find nick
quotes last thing said by nick (in local recorded log files)
~find nick query
quotes last thing said by nick that contains query (in local recorded log files)

code is fairly short and (hopefully) sweet. no comments sorry.

TODO: search online logs @ http://logs.sylnt.us/