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Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies.
-- Charles D'Hericault
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 02 2019, @01:34PM (17 children)
Pipedot for the win
(Score: 4, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday April 02 2019, @03:49PM (9 children)
I got nothin against our fellow Fuck Beta site but they haven't posted a new story in over two years. No news is good news, eh?
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2, Disagree) by martyb on Wednesday April 03 2019, @01:21AM (1 child)
No good news is not-bad news?
No bad news is not not-good news?
=)
I'm curious if that is going to be modded "Interesting", "Touché", or "Funny."
Wit is intellect, dancing.
(Score: 2) by Pslytely Psycho on Wednesday April 03 2019, @02:18AM
Wow, I had to check, I can't believe the site is still up. I thought the server contract would of expired long ago. ( been well over a year since I last checked it)
Alex Jones lawyer inspires new TV series: CSI Moron Division.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Wednesday April 03 2019, @10:27PM (3 children)
I love Pipedot. Maybe if more people bothered to comment there, they might be motivated to post stories a bit more often. I still check it every few months or so.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 5, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 04 2019, @12:24AM (1 child)
There is something very zen about it. Kind of like intentionally fishing without bait.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday April 04 2019, @01:34AM
You've nailed it and somehow managed to be simultaneously funny and insightful, but I had to pick one.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday April 05 2019, @02:51PM
Same here. It's ... parallel but different. I'm glad it's not dead, even if it's dormant. Who knows, the need may come again, and there it is.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 04 2019, @04:43PM (2 children)
What are you on about? They continue to post new stories every day. They often don't fit the old "news for nerds, stuff that matters" banner, but there are new postings every day.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday April 04 2019, @05:13PM (1 child)
See a shrink, you're hallucinating. Their last story was posted 3/14/17 and the last code update was 5/15/16.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday April 06 2019, @06:14PM
Moreover, new stories can no longer be submitted. [pipedot.org]
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Informative) by acid andy on Thursday April 04 2019, @06:26PM (6 children)
Pipedot is just sleeping, apparently [pipedot.org]
Submissions are currently closed [pipedot.org] but they say they'll wake up again if this site and the green site lose it in future.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday April 04 2019, @07:44PM (1 child)
That's interesting.
Why don't we gamma? I guess we could omega, instead, but that's probably less fun than gamma.
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 05 2019, @03:49AM
Gamma's only fun if we have any female lawyers in the community. Can't have any guys involved because they'd just go around smashing things and breaking stuff is martyb's job.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 05 2019, @04:05AM (3 children)
Good on em. I'd prefer they were active still but even being willing to reactivate is good to keep us honest.
I'd like to say anyone who wants to could just fork either project but rehash isn't currently in a state that installs are anything but very painful. After I get that solved, I'm seriously considering dropping Apache and mod_perl entirely and going with a perl application server (so the vast majority of the code can remain the same) fronted by nginx, because mod_perl has become extremely unsupported over the past decade (no updates in the past two years or so with known outstanding issues) and nothing else Apache has can get the performance out of perl we demand.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Friday April 05 2019, @02:59PM
SN is, to me, a basic news source. I'm here dailyish, depending on when the daily mailers catch my eye. Quite often because I want to see what various folks have to say about whatever, cuz they ensure a perspective different from the article.
I like both daily mailer formats; both are useful. In the long format, tho, it would be a lot more useful if the email had internal links, so I could hop down to the full story instead of having to scroll-and-search.
BTW they used to come together, but for some time now the long format has arrived first, and now it's coming several hours before the short format email. This is kinda annoying, given both are useful but in synergistic ways, so I prefer having 'em arrive together so I can conveniently hop from one to the other without the bother of filtering or hunting for the laggard.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 07 2019, @03:29AM (1 child)
You make it sound like we were honest on the first place.
Com'on, admit it, one simply can't be honest in Perl.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday April 07 2019, @06:49AM
Sure you can. Just because someone misunderstands what you meant due to lack of fluency doesn't mean you're being dishonest.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Snow on Wednesday April 03 2019, @03:27PM (1 child)
I'm here most of the workday. I check in when I'm waiting for things (just waiting for a call back from a field tech now), or when I don't have anything to do, or I don't want to do the things I should be doing.
On the weekends and weeknights I'm usually too busy to check in frequently. On weekends I'll usually check in once or twice over the entire weekend. Weeknights I rarely check in.
This place is mostly a pleasant work distraction for me.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday April 04 2019, @04:42PM
I wish there was a Me Too mod.
To transfer files: right-click on file, pick Copy. Unplug mouse, plug mouse into other computer. Right-click, paste.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday April 03 2019, @03:51PM (1 child)
I'm going to knock this post off the front page with a (late) book poll later, and then return it to the front page in a couple of weeks.
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(Score: 2) by acid andy on Thursday April 04 2019, @01:40AM
Don't forget to transpose this poll's insensitive clod option. Two consecutive polls about reading--double the cloddery. It's clod-tacular!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 05 2019, @06:36PM (1 child)
Not much at all anymore and probably not at all very soon.
The signal to noise ratio has only been getting worse over the years even as I kept increasing the comment score threshold.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 06 2019, @07:44AM
The ratio has been steady for a while now. Maybe even improving.
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