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posted by on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:02AM   Printer-friendly
from the yes-it-WOULD-help-if-you-got-out-and-pushed dept.

Yeah, so life has managed to delay our December Update until February. Things happen. The only change to what's in it is that I wrote up a simple plugin to syndicate content to Twitter, which is very much preferable to our current situation since we're pushing stories from a hacky little script on my desktop at the moment and I'd like to be able to boot Windows 7 for some vidya once in a while.

Downtime should be five minutes or less starting around 2:00AM UTC (an hour and forty minutes from now).

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Meta: A Quick December Update 59 comments

Seems we've hit one of those rare days where circumstances have conspired to keep all the eds busy enough that the story queue ran dry, so I figured I'd go ahead and tell you lot about the upcoming December site update just so they have a little less time to fill now that a couple of them have appeared and started refilling the queue.

It's mostly just a minor bug-fix update, stuff I could get coded quickly and didn't require extensive testing that martyb doesn't have much time for right now, so don't get your hopes too high. Most of the good stuff is currently slated for spring of next year. Here's what we've currently got up on dev for testing with an expected release date of between Christmas and New Years Eve:

  • Add an admin-configurable minimum karma requirement for a journal entry to show up in the Most Recent Journal Entries slashbox. Should eliminate having to see journal spam by folks who don't otherwise contribute anything to the site.
  • Fixed the <spoiler> and a couple other unnoticed tags to work properly in journal entries.
  • Removed the size limit on Editor Notes (the admin page ones, not the ones Eds add to the bottom of a story). Should make takyon happy.
  • Put a link to the submission queue on the left sidebar.
  • Fixed the spacing around <ol> and <ul> lists.
  • Made chromas have to work harder to post comments with no apparent subject or text.
  • Fixed an annoying bug in the admin interface that was trying to use a comment mode no longer in existence.

Like I said, not a whole lot there on account of us not having time to thoroughly test much what with the holidays coming up. Here's the list (using tinyurl due to a Rehash bug that will definitely make the Spring 2018 cut) of what we'd like to get done for this spring if you're curious though.

Them of you of the disposition to celebrate Christmas, have a merry one. Them of you who celebrate otherwise, happy whatever you're celebrating. Them of you who don't celebrate at all, have a happy rest of December.

[Ed note: I nudged the time this story was due to be released by just a few minutes so that it coincided with the beginning of the Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere... and the Summer Solstice for those of you who are south of the equator. Maybe we can get the next release out at the start of the equinox (2018-03-20 @ 16:15:00 UTC). --martyb]

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:27AM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:27AM (#632724)

    Valentines is cumming, but The Flighty Uzzard is a loveless bastard who can't find a bird who will let him eat her. So he spends his sexy frustrations going down on SoylentNews instead.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:02AM (9 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:02AM (#632732) Homepage Journal

      You make me sad. Grown-ass men should have learned by now the difference between getting some pussy and love. Hopefully they also learned to not let their hormones turn them into a little bitch too but I know that's a lot to ask.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:16AM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:16AM (#632740)

        The Fuckless Uzzard is a pussyless bastard....

        • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by Gaaark on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:09AM

          by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:09AM (#632765) Journal

          Little boy is a little boy: thinks he's acting like a man, can't even man up as much as a woman.

          Sad, sad little boy.
          Here's his little boy face. :(

          --
          --- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
      • (Score: 5, Insightful) by black6host on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:38AM (6 children)

        by black6host (3827) on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:38AM (#632794) Journal

        Hey TMB, thanks for the work you do. I don't always (hardly ever) agree with your posts but I do believe you would make the same points in person, with a nice beer, and be respectful all the same. If I got it right, I hope our paths cross. If not then stay the hell away from me you crazy ass fuckin' carrion eating, well I could go on but I jest!

        • (Score: 5, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:32AM (4 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:32AM (#632826) Homepage Journal

          Yeah, that's more or less accurate. I'm about as easy-going as it gets. Everyone's got the right to be as ate up and wrong as they want to be, just don't try convincing me up is down if you don't want some quality arguing.

          --
          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Monday February 05 2018, @09:38AM (3 children)

            by fakefuck39 (6620) on Monday February 05 2018, @09:38AM (#633213)

            no one is trying to convince you of anything. people are simply making fun of you on your rowboat. i do love how when you post an article you reply fifty times to comments within that article.

            and just so you're clear - no one thinks your replies are "quality arguing" or is "ate" up 'boot notthing. that would be like conversating with a special ed kid - whatever he says, it's not an argument. he's there to entertain everyone around. from his boat, where salary and career is not important. i love it when the special kids with jam on their face tell me they don't need to work and they're so very successful. i laugh. then i laugh some more when i hear they don't define success by how the world defines it, and that by their own definition, they are the most successful. that's quality arguing from those special ed kids. because they've redefined "quality arguing" so the definition is what they do.

            you and the other 10 idiots here who talk to each other always say the dumbest shit. seriously you idiots are the only reason i've been on here for so many years. it's seriously relaxing.

            shit, forgot to ask. how's your little boat?

            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @12:22PM (2 children)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @12:22PM (#633252) Homepage Journal

              that would be like conversating with a special ed kid - whatever he says, it's not an argument.

              Yes, this would be why I don't generally reply to you. Thank you for clearing that up for everyone.

              --
              My rights don't end where your fear begins.
              • (Score: -1) by fakefuck39 on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:07AM

                by fakefuck39 (6620) on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:07AM (#633638)

                you live in a funny little world. you win at life by redefining "win at life." you redefine "don't generally reply" as "I've replied to you literally every time except that one time." keep replying or not. I'm enjoying myself either way loser. and by the way, I define 'loser' as the rest of the normal people. it's defined by pretty much everything you've described in your posts about your life, mighty buzztard.

              • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:47AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 06 2018, @05:47AM (#633654)

                Reply: "I don't reply" - oh the irony. What a magical imaginary world losers have to create for themselves to not shoot their brains out from depressing reality.

                Have you ever had sex with a white trash disgusting prostitute because not even the fattest ugliest bitch won't fuck you, and told her when you got done crying: "You're an ugly unsuccessful loser nerd - that's why I won't fuck you"

        • (Score: 2) by SpockLogic on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:04PM

          by SpockLogic (2762) on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:04PM (#632923)

          Hey TMB, thanks for the work you do. I don't always (hardly ever) agree with your posts but I do believe you would make the same points in person, with a nice beer, and be respectful all the same. If I got it right, I hope our paths cross. If not then stay the hell away from me you crazy ass fuckin' carrion eating, well I could go on but I jest!

          I concur.

          --
          Overreacting is one thing, sticking your head up your ass hoping the problem goes away is another - edIII
  • (Score: 2, Troll) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:30AM (6 children)

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:30AM (#632726) Homepage Journal

    This is the one where they hide the journals of the people who don't have Karma. Or don't have enough. They're moving very strongly against our white nationalist bloggers. Like Aryanx277 and Jondraper88.

    • (Score: 5, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:55AM (5 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:55AM (#632729) Homepage Journal

      Yep, that's it exactly. It has nothing to do with douchebag SEO companies posting link farm garbage as journals.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:50AM (#632759)

        He's in the process of making it. I heard he's following the recipe. He's utilizing it.

      • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:27AM (3 children)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:27AM (#632825) Homepage Journal

        I don't know what x277 means, maybe nobody knows. But everybody knows what Aryan means. And a lot of people know what 88 means. It means they're proud white nationalists, daring to dream. Everybody needs to earn a living. Me, you, everyone. And there are amazing ways to earn a living in cyber. Being a professional blogger, starting an SEO company, porn, and many more. Finally, white Americans are discovering SoylentNews. Because of me. And some great guys on the staff, who have been working very hard on this for many years. Some white guys come on to tell us about a sexy live chat. To warn us about drinking too much (very foolish). And maybe, probably, make some money for themselves. So the ban hammer has to come down. All of a sudden. It's very sad.

        • (Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:35AM (2 children)

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:35AM (#632829) Homepage Journal

          Some white guys come on to tell us about a sexy live chat. To warn us about drinking too much (very foolish). And maybe, probably, make some money for themselves.

          Huh, I would have guessed Indians (dot not feather). The grammar's usually bad in the wrong ways to be Americans.

          --
          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
          • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:02AM (1 child)

            by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:02AM (#632840) Homepage Journal

            So many people from India pretend to be Americans. They didn't fool Columbus. But maybe they fooled me. President Andrew Jackson said, "the Indians are bothering us too much, let's put them in very special areas." Before we even had an Internet. Smart guy!

  • (Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:03AM (5 children)

    by edIII (791) on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:03AM (#632733)

    It would not have been me to put off video games in order to post shit to Twitter.

    We salute you! :)

    --
    Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
    • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:26AM

      by jdavidb (5690) on Sunday February 04 2018, @08:26AM (#632847) Homepage Journal
      Very appreciated here, too! Thanks, TMB!
      --
      ⓋⒶ☮✝🕊 Secession is the right of all sentient beings
    • (Score: 2) by frojack on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:17AM (1 child)

      by frojack (1554) on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:17AM (#632859) Journal

      Well, it's his time to waste.
      I appreciate most of the work TMB does, but wasting any time on Twitter is minutes of one's life gone for nothing.

      Why?

      --
      No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @11:43AM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @11:43AM (#632881) Homepage Journal

      Yeah, I wouldn't have made it either if Linux gaming weren't as passable lately as it is. This past week it was all Endless Sky [github.io]. It's an amusing little game though it's not remotely got enough content written for it yet.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 2) by edIII on Monday February 05 2018, @08:37PM

        by edIII (791) on Monday February 05 2018, @08:37PM (#633414)

        Thank's for the link. That game looks very interesting.

        --
        Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:06AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:06AM (#632748)

    Thanks for the update!

  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Apparition on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:44AM (9 children)

    by Apparition (6835) on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:44AM (#632756) Journal

    Thank you for this update, especially hiding the spammy journal posts.

    May I make a suggestion? Preferences still asks for AIM, ICQ, and Yahoo! IDs. Amusing as that is aside, perhaps replace those with space to add Telegram and Wire IDs? Of course that is an extremely minor thing and I know y'all have much bigger fish to fry, but just something to take into consideration seeing as AIM and Yahoo! are dead, and the only people I know of that still use ICQ are Russians.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:50AM (2 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:50AM (#632760)

      In Soviet Russia, ICQ uses YOU!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:58AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:58AM (#632762)

        Why else do you think the acronym is pronounced "I seek you"?

      • (Score: 2, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:46AM

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:46AM (#632835) Homepage Journal

        They're not soviet any more, we don't call them soviet. They stopped being soviet when they lost -- they lost very badly -- the Cold War. When they got rid of Mikhail Gorbachev. Very smart move. I invited the guy to Trump Tower fro dinner, he says he'll come, right? Never calls, never shows up. And he thought he could run the biggest country. He couldn't run it, he ran it into the ground. If he'd listened to me, he could have done great things. With the Cold War, he could have ended it much sooner. Much better for Russia, maybe they would have won. But he flaked on me. And gave Russia a bad reputation. But they got rid of him, they got a much better guy. I think maybe it's time to give Russia a second chance. But some people are afraid, they want to block the ICQ because it has Russians. Because a Russian might find SoylentNews. Believe me, you could do worse than to have some Russian people joining up. A lot worse. It's a witch hunt, folks.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:02AM (1 child)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:02AM (#632782) Homepage Journal

      Thought about it. I just never remember it when I go to code stuff.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:40PM (3 children)

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:40PM (#632896) Journal

      https://github.com/SoylentNews/rehash/issues/430 [github.com]

      If you think of any better ones, add it here or mention in a reply to me somewhere.

      --
      [SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
  • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:52AM (9 children)

    by stretch611 (6199) on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:52AM (#632761)

    we're pushing stories from a hacky little script on my desktop at the moment and I'd like to be able to boot Windows 7 for some vidya once in a while.

    Assuming that you have the script on linux...

    You realize that there are plenty of games that run on linux.

    After all, once I was doing all my dev work on linux did I really stop using windows. Even for games. Granted I used wine, but that is far from perfect... there were always a few windows games I would duel boot for... However, dual booting can be a pain in the ass... Saving everything, waiting for the reboot.

    What really stopped me from using windows for games was off hours support calls. If I was in a game, I would have to save the game (assuming I was at a point I could save), spend the time rebooting into linux, fix the problem, reboot into windows and restart my game. Most of the time, fixing the problem was by far the quickest part of the whole process.

    Back then... there were few linux games... but enough... The cross platform Humble Bundle was a godsend and one of the very few places for linux gaming. Since then, Steam, GOG, and others now support linux gaming. While some major publishers still ignore linux, plenty of others do support it. I have more games on linux than I have the time to play... I have no reason to use windows at all anymore, and I have not used it in 10 years.

    --
    Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:26AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:26AM (#632769)

      Swords or pistols?

      dual booting

      After the other thing, that just sounds boring.

      I used wine, but that is far from perfect

      I'd like it better if folks who mention this would give percentages on success/failure.
      Raw numbers would be even better.
      How new the games are would be interesting as well.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Apparition on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:02AM (2 children)

      by Apparition (6835) on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:02AM (#632781) Journal

      As of right now, I own 157 video games on GOG.com. Out of those 157, 49 support Linux. That's less than one-third. Don't get me wrong, that's much better than the Linux video gaming situation was six years ago. But Linux still has a long way to go to be a viable gaming platform.

      • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:45AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:45AM (#632798)

        ...Linux still has a long way to go

        To be a viable platform for any segment of the market, app developers have to get on board with Linux ports of their stuff.
        It's a chicken-and-egg thing.

        ...and for app developers' interest to catch fire, USERS have to let them know they're interested.
        Have -you- let the software providers know that you want Linux ports of things you have used|tried?

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:53AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:53AM (#632800)

        I hope it gets there. It's not just Linux, though - I know a Mac die-hard who only has a Windows system to game. He hates Windows.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:05AM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:05AM (#632783) Homepage Journal

      Yeah, I'm all kinds of informed about Linux gaming. There's just some shat I want to play that it still won't do, unfortunately.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:52AM (3 children)

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:52AM (#632836) Homepage Journal

      Do they have Solitaire? I don't have a computer, some of my friends have computers, they say the Solitaire is amazing. As good as the real thing. Get a computer so you can play Solitaire, they tell me. I don't have time for that. Primarily because of documents. I’m reading documents. A lot.

      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by stretch611 on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:25AM (2 children)

        by stretch611 (6199) on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:25AM (#632861)

        The appropriate computer for you... http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-04-03 [dilbert.com]

        --
        Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
        • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:53AM (1 child)

          by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @09:53AM (#632865) Homepage Journal

          We bought Etch-a-Sketch for the kids. Which according to the news -- I had no idea -- has LASERS inside. My son Barron -- who will be 12 next month -- is so good with computers, it's unbelievable.

          • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:45PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:45PM (#632919)

            You're not supposed to take an Etch-a-Sketch apart and snort the powder inside. The powder inside an Etch-a-Sketch causes early male baldness.

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:30AM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @03:30AM (#632773)

    I've noticed twice now that after posting a comment, the URL that comes back has &amp; in it multiple times.
    That's new.

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:06AM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @04:06AM (#632784) Homepage Journal

      Yeah, I'll look into it in the morning. It wouldn't be a proper rollout without at least one good bug though.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:54AM (1 child)

        by aristarchus (2645) on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:54AM (#632837) Journal

        Perhaps, Oh Mighty Buzzarch, you could use some #freearistarchus!!!? Won't cost you anything, and may help keep off all those trolls inquiring about your booty status.

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:19PM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @12:19PM (#632887) Homepage Journal

      Upon further reflection this morning, I will not be fixing non-breaking bugs this AM. I will be booted into Win7 playing some much delayed vidya since I can now reboot again.

      --
      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:56PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 04 2018, @01:56PM (#632914)

        The place where this could make a difference is when folks re-post a "link" that's actually a URL that gets auto-linkified.
        Those would now be several characters longer.
        (I'm the guy who gripes about extra-long/-wide "links".)

        As long as it's on the list, I expect it will get patched.
        No biggie.
        Hey, if that's the most serious thing anybody's spotted, that kind of goodness earned some playtime.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:19PM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @02:19PM (#632916) Homepage Journal

          The comments preferences page broke as well. Somehow the templates for that page lost its unicode-friendly status and Touché being spelled correctly made everything shit the bed. It's temporarily fixed though.

          --
          My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:21AM (13 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:21AM (#632811) Homepage Journal

    Thanks for both the update and the update notifying us of the update Buzzard.

    Your work is much appreciated!

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 3, Funny) by NotSanguine on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:22AM (12 children)

      by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:22AM (#632812) Homepage Journal

      And if you have a moment, would you mind updating any updates with an updated update?

      --
      No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
      • (Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:49AM (9 children)

        by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 04 2018, @05:49AM (#632818) Journal

        Until TMB updates the update, you can read an outdated update here [soylentnews.org].
        I hope you'll enjoy it all the same

        (grins briefly and runs away - sorry, couldn't stop myself)

        --
        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
        • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:13AM (8 children)

          by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Sunday February 04 2018, @07:13AM (#632842) Homepage Journal

          Thank you for tweeting the link. It's hard to make links, not everyone can do it. I can. Very important, if we didn't have links we wouldn't have an Internet!

          • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 05 2018, @12:35AM (7 children)

            by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday February 05 2018, @12:35AM (#633077) Homepage Journal

            I read my Messages, the Message came about moderation. So much terrible moderation, very unfair. And the Message says about the tweet I'm replying to, that it has been moderated Troll (-1). Which, I'm not surprised, I write something nice, I say a nice compliment to somebody, along come our moderators and say, "oh look, it's a tweet from realDonaldTrump, Troll (-1)!" But I look at the tweet, where's the moderation? There's no moderation. Maybe there's moderation now, I get so much of it. Too much. Why is it called moderation, when there's so much of it? But when I start to reply, there's nothing.

            • (Score: 2) by martyb on Monday February 05 2018, @01:18AM

              by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 05 2018, @01:18AM (#633092) Journal

              I read my Messages, the Message came about moderation. So much terrible moderation, very unfair. And the Message says about the tweet I'm replying to, that it has been moderated Troll (-1). Which, I'm not surprised, I write something nice, I say a nice compliment to somebody, along come our moderators and say, "oh look, it's a tweet from realDonaldTrump, Troll (-1)!" But I look at the tweet, where's the moderation? There's no moderation. Maybe there's moderation now, I get so much of it. Too much. Why is it called moderation, when there's so much of it? But when I start to reply, there's nothing.

              If you think you are replying to a tweet here... ummmm... you need more help than I can offer.

              --
              Wit is intellect, dancing.
            • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @01:23AM (5 children)

              by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @01:23AM (#633095) Homepage Journal

              Gotta report bugs in English, yo. I can't be arsed to debug both the bug and the report.

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              • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 05 2018, @01:36AM (4 children)

                by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday February 05 2018, @01:36AM (#633099) Homepage Journal

                Very simple, I look at my Messages, a Message says my tweet "has been moderated Troll (-1)". With the link to tweet #632842. I look, it's not moderated Troll. It's not moderated anything.

                • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @01:47AM

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @01:47AM (#633103) Homepage Journal

                  Ah, yeah, you got mod-bombed and every moderation in the bombing was reversed. We do that not by deleting the moderation or upmodding the comment but by setting a disable flag on that moderation. So, yes, you were moderated but no, it's not taking effect.

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                • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Monday February 05 2018, @01:59AM (2 children)

                  by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Monday February 05 2018, @01:59AM (#633107) Homepage Journal

                  The same thing happened with my tweet #632865. I get the Message, it "has been moderated Troll (-1). It is currently scored Troll (0)." I go to look, it doesn't say Troll, it doesn't say anything.

                  Another thing. So many down moderations in that Message, it says I got 19 down and 11 up. Not all of them change the Karma -- there was one Overrated and one Underrated -- but you'd think maybe, probably, I lost some Karma there, right? Probably I lost 8 Karma, you'd think, right? I lost a little bit, but it all came back. It totally came back. Like maybe a very crooked administrator did me a favor and canceled some of those down moderations. A lot of people (Dems) will say, "oh, Russia, Russia, Russia." I don't know that it was Russia. It could be Russia. Or it could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:38AM (1 child)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 04 2018, @06:38AM (#632831) Homepage Journal

        You jest but that's exactly what I'll be doing come morning. Stupid bugs that can't be arsed to show up on dev...

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        • (Score: 4, Insightful) by MostCynical on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:02AM

          by MostCynical (2589) on Sunday February 04 2018, @10:02AM (#632869) Journal

          See, dev environments work fine, prod environments break. The difference? Users! Bloody prod users with their prod data and prod meta data. Life would be far easier without the users!

          Thank you for the hard work, and especially for the journal rules.

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          "I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @02:01AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @02:01AM (#633108)

    Reply to This and Parent used to be on different lines.
    Some time back, I suggested putting those on the same line.

    Done.
    (Anything that uses less vertical space, I like.)

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @05:03AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 05 2018, @05:03AM (#633140)

    Thanks for the ongoing work. The efforts are appreciated.

    Is the onion site planned to stay available?

    http://7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion [7rmath4ro2of2a42.onion]

    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 05 2018, @12:27PM

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 05 2018, @12:27PM (#633254) Homepage Journal

      Honestly, it doesn't really get any testing. None of us can be arsed to keep ToR installed and set up properly on our boxes. If you want to volunteer to keep an eye on its status and let us know, I'm sure the other ToR users would appreciate it.

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      My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Monday February 05 2018, @04:34PM

    by DavePolaschek (6129) on Monday February 05 2018, @04:34PM (#633319) Homepage Journal

    It might be a pain in the ass, but it's appreciated. Hopefully the simple plugin will be more maintainable.

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