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emoji posted:I'm Jon Hendren's 'really good' GED score and demanding job that precludes making 5 posts per day on a forum but allows 24/7 Twitter.
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it's almost as if the comment about his ged was an exaggeration almost like he wasn't being serious, perhaps intentionally so... hrm hrrrrmery
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Apr 7, 2017 21:29
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humour? no. never seen anything like that 'round here.
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Apr 7, 2017 21:36
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I only consume half a deck of cards worth of humor in a single day, anymore than that is gluttony
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Apr 7, 2017 22:12
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just tried setting up discourse, and holy hell it is the worst kind of duct-taped together over-engineered under-thought crap. a million random dependencies, a ton of details that must be "just so" for it to work, and horrifying performance and resource use for what it actually does one can safely conclude that either forums software is very complicated business, or that idiots are everywhere
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Apr 13, 2017 14:07
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:and horrifying performance and resource use for what it actually does well ya, the backend is ruby lol
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Apr 13, 2017 15:11
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:just tried setting up discourse, and holy hell it is the worst kind of duct-taped together over-engineered under-thought crap. a million random dependencies, a ton of details that must be "just so" for it to work, and horrifying performance and resource use for what it actually does six course, by chef fatwood of snack overflow
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akadajet posted:https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gently caress-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful looked for a comment section to post the permabanned forums user niggerstomper58 quote. there will never be a better time
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i think it's going pretty good op
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Syllables posted:i keep forgetting i basically made my account 6 years ago i was here before the registration fee. i used to wish i remembered my original account info, but now i wonder if i'd feel embarrassed about the registration date Gazpacho posted:the last bells & whistles improvement to IRC I saw was yahoo chat and that was enough to convince me that irc doesn/t need improvement there's a working group doing its best to modernize it. today's irc is full of tags and other hacks, and there have been exploits that took advantage of broken parsers. the working group wanted to implement a json-based wire format so developers could use common parsing libraries and add new features more easily, but lovely nerds from hacker news and reddit who never wrote more than a trivia bot invaded the github issue to complain that their "simple" protocol was changing to something trendy and ended up shelving the effort
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Toady posted:there's a working group doing its best to modernize it. today's irc is full of tags and other hacks, and there have been exploits that took advantage of broken parsers. the working group wanted to implement a json-based wire format so developers could use common parsing libraries and add new features more easily, but lovely nerds from hacker news and reddit who never wrote more than a trivia bot invaded the github issue to complain that their "simple" protocol was changing to something trendy and ended up shelving the effort they're not wrong that switching to "a json-based wire format" would be changing to something trendy I wish the IETF had decreed Access Protocol to be the basis for all new protocols, as it was intended to be, since it distilled out the common functionality from IMAP, ICAP, ACAP, and so on, being both easy to safely parse and easy to extend I tried to push for it as the basis for IETF's instant messaging proposal but that whole effort turned into a complete shitshow because some people (telecom people) insisted everything had to be UDP since mobile phones would never support anything but small lossy packets and certainly not TCP connections, so whole additional layers of abstraction were proposed, and other people (the trend wankers of the day) insisted that everything had to be XML-based because XML was the next big thing, so all we really got out of it was BEEP and the only thing to ever really use that for anything real was Apple's Xgrid distributed computing system
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Apr 30, 2017 00:01
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:I do not think the forums rewrite is going well
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i hope that it is going well and wish the best to lowtax, zen death robot and the other something awful staff members
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eschaton posted:they're not wrong that switching to "a json-based wire format" would be changing to something trendy the goal wasn't to be trendy, of course. in the past, parsing vulnerabilities have been exploited in not only IRC clients but also networks like Efnet, where a carefully crafted message would cause the daemon to call strlen(NULL). the point of using a JSON wire format, which would have been optional via the existing CAP system, was to enable the use of widely-supported parsing libraries and to make it easier to evolve the protocol: "The reason for this proposal, and this entire working group in general, is to extend the IRC protocol to make it more feature rich, and improve its extensibility. The current RFC1459 based protocol is very limiting, as you can only extend existing messages by tacking on parameters to the end of commands or numerics, or adding new ones (which becomes a mess in coordinating the additions). This JSON proposal opens the field for a lot more extensions that would have been limited or difficult to do within the limits of RFC1459 (though I'm not sure on whether one cap can require another cap). As an example, WHOX is a major pain to handle, as the numeric it uses (354) doesn't have a fixed format. The creators of WHOX worked around this by allowing you to specify a 3 character tag which would come first, and allow you to identify which WHOX you asked for so you know what parts translate to what, but it's a bit of a hack. With JSON, a proposal could easily be made to say WHOX replies are just objects, and everything you asked for is a property of the object, so you can just iterate over the list of properties, and pull out that data in a simpler fashion." someone posted the github issue to hacker news and reddit. the top-rated comment on reddit was knee-jerk snark about how a trendy bloated JSON message was clearly so much better than something like "NICK foo". most of the other comments ran along the same lines, insisting that RFC1459 was so easy and simple
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hey remember how lowtax said he was going to get involved with the forums again? i mean the most recent time he said that, just a few months ago? so uh...yeah hmm
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SO DEMANDING posted:hey remember how lowtax said he was going to get involved with the forums again? i mean the most recent time he said that, just a few months ago? he's still settling in to the new office https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS5WLkb_Cxk&t=87s
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Apr 30, 2017 03:14
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last i followed what lowtax was up to, he was complaining on twitter that he couldn't call brianna wu ugly without pushback and that people were hypocrites because they didn't defend right-wing troll ann coulter
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Apr 30, 2017 03:38
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SO DEMANDING posted:hey remember how lowtax said he was going to get involved with the forums again? i mean the most recent time he said that, just a few months ago?
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He's a nice guy but he clearly takes no joy in running the forums so I dunno why he tries to
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Apr 30, 2017 03:48
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:He's a nice guy but he clearly takes no joy in running the forums so I dunno why he tries to as someone who has run forums: the feelings of appreciation you get are a nice emotional high until you realize that at any given moment 80% of people hate you anyway regardless of what you do, including both vanishing and also being more active also some misguided sense of "duty" or "responsibility"
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Apr 30, 2017 03:52
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yeah but gaming garbage is back, in pog form all sins are forgiven richard
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Apr 30, 2017 04:24
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I've started on the complete,t serverless rewrite using react redux saga flow yarn lambda functions kinesics namastę
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Apr 30, 2017 04:27
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please follow along with my progress on my code smasher academy blog cast please retweet
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Apr 30, 2017 04:30
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serverless is the future can you imagine how cool and good it will be when we get rid of all servers
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i have seen lambda run out of capacity. as in all your functions just straight up fail with an error message. its pretty epic
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i watched a vid of lowtax interviewing someone for comic con his abs need a bit of work
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Apr 30, 2017 05:53
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He just had a baby, way to be insensitive
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Apr 30, 2017 07:54
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:He's a nice guy but he clearly takes no joy in running the forums so I dunno why he tries to I can't entirely blame him seeing some of the profoundly stupid bullshit that's gone on here but then this is his business and livelihood and the guy's got three kids so that's where the apathy gets a little weird and concerning
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Apr 30, 2017 14:14
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I want my .jpg spaceship lowtax this is an outrage
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Endless Mike posted:i disagree, sexy parrot. i think it is going very well
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:He's a nice guy but he clearly takes no joy in running the forums so I dunno why he tries to I wouldn't either if all the online communities I spawned were the worst thing about the internet
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My Linux Rig posted:I wouldn't either if all the online communities I spawned were the worst thing about the internet truly is amazing just how much garbage traces back here, isn't it? it's less "the internet makes you stupid" and more like "SA made the internet stupid"
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i can't wait for him to make good on his promise that we can post without fear of someone who's not a cishet white dude reading it
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George posted:i can't wait for him to make good on his promise that we can post without fear of someone who's not a cishet white dude reading it part of the forums conversion is javascript straight-to-gay conversation therapy that will automatically homosexualize any cishet, so the problem will solve itself
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Apr 30, 2017 17:37
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more like gay-to-mome conversion
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Tom Collins posted:truly is amazing just how much garbage traces back here, isn't it?
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mishaq posted:serverless is the future distribute the forums across all members phones and pcs
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:He's done this a few times in the last several years. Barges into the mod forum, says he doesn't like how things are running, promises to be involved again, usually pisses off a bunch of staff who quit, and then he remembers that moderating forums is a bitch and unrewarding and he leaves tbf most of the people who left weren't very good anyway so alls well that ends well
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ConanTheLibrarian posted:distribute the forums across all members phones and pcs already working on a distributed hash (think block chain, or bit coin for the uninitiated) for storing posts just gotta figure moderation out
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