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posted by on Sunday February 23 2020, @03:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the anything-not-illegal-is-compulsory dept.

Bleh. Apparently not caring what you do on other sites or even requiring any personal information isn't good enough for the state of Confusion^WCalifornia, so we have a shiny, new, temporary Privacy Policy posted on every page and linked at the top of the nav bar.

If you feel like prettying the language, layout, or whatever up before I get around to it, feel free to do so and submit a pull request.

 
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  • (Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Sunday February 23 2020, @04:56PM (8 children)

    by gtomorrow (2230) on Sunday February 23 2020, @04:56PM (#961453)

    If you feel like prettying the language, layout, or whatever up before I get around to it...

    I don't have any problem with the language: it says what it's gotta say and, strangely enough, reads in a voice that reflects this site. Nice and Aspergery!

    My beef is why is it so huge? It's as big as the article titles, bigger than post text! It eclipses the neighboring fortune! Law say you gotta display it/link to it, not that it's gotta be in your face! Then again, with a privacy policy like soylentnews.org's, why not display it prominently?

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 23 2020, @05:25PM (7 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 23 2020, @05:25PM (#961460) Homepage Journal

    Because I was too lazy to style it at all.

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    • (Score: 2) by gtomorrow on Sunday February 23 2020, @06:12PM (6 children)

      by gtomorrow (2230) on Sunday February 23 2020, @06:12PM (#961477)

      WOW! Lazy or not, you're fast! It's already reduced and styled nicely.

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 23 2020, @06:58PM (5 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 23 2020, @06:58PM (#961499) Homepage Journal

        Minor changes to live templates are simple and fast. I haven't committed any code yet though.

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        • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @07:37PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @07:37PM (#961518)

          Yup, what is in the codebase repo does not match what is actually being used. Good thing you're totally trustworthy *eyeroll*

          • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday February 23 2020, @08:18PM (3 children)

            by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday February 23 2020, @08:18PM (#961534) Journal

            If you've ever done live maintenance, that's just part of the job. Otherwise you end up spending so much time on synching with the repo that the job doesn't get done.

            But here's the thing - if you don't trust him, why are you here? And what do you base your skepticism on? Anything specific, or just the "everyone lies" thing?

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            • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @08:40PM (2 children)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 23 2020, @08:40PM (#961541)

              Go back to taking care of your eyesight, don't waste time on other people's arguments if you're too lazy or uninformed to properly participate.

              • (Score: 2) by barbara hudson on Sunday February 23 2020, @10:57PM (1 child)

                by barbara hudson (6443) <barbara.Jane.hudson@icloud.com> on Sunday February 23 2020, @10:57PM (#961610) Journal
                I've had to recompile c code remotely on a FreeBSD server multiple times while it was getting 100-800 hits a second. I know what it's like with a server written entirely in c with loadable modules also written in c, no easy peas scripting language. And if I got it wrong it meant a trip 500 miles away for a manual reinstall on the crashed server because (that's what I was told - because).
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                • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 24 2020, @01:08AM

                  by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday February 24 2020, @01:08AM (#961638) Homepage Journal

                  I'm just enjoying myself a day off of church work. I had to pull several muscles to score it, so I plan on making the most of it by doing as little as possible.

                  On top of which, which branch production servers currently match up precisely with (dated release? a couple hotfixes beyond? emergency rollbacks? something usefully cosmetic but a dirt simple merge?) is not a fixed value in the real world.

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