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posted by LaminatorX on Thursday February 20 2014, @04:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-so-meta-even-this-acronym dept.

jcd writes:

"I'm rather excited to get going with Soylent and to watch it grow. Nay, help it grow. I have lurked in /. for more than a decade (note: I'm not the same username over there, I know, how sneaky), and always wished I could have been involved with the beginning. So this is a great opportunity, and I joined as soon as I saw what Soylent was doing. Not to mention the fact that I felt right at home with the old style. It's very comfortable.

So here's a question for everyone. Are we going to be the same as slashdot? A clone that focuses as entirely as possible on tech related news? Or will we branch out to other topics? I'm interested to see either way. I posted a comment to this effect in one of our two existing polls, and it may be a community-wide assumption, but I do think it merits a discussion."

 
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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by crutchy on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:01PM

    by crutchy (179) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:01PM (#3692) Homepage Journal

    ...it can never be /. without apk :-P

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:15PM (#3710)

    Don't forget the hot grits.

  • (Score: 1) by d on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:16PM

    by d (523) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:16PM (#3713)

    I second that. Given that we finally have some admins who care, imagine how quickly would such spam disappear!

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by isostatic on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:26PM

    by isostatic (365) on Thursday February 20 2014, @05:26PM (#3727)

    I used my hosts file to block apk

    • (Score: 1) by Techwolf on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:58PM

      by Techwolf (87) on Thursday February 20 2014, @06:58PM (#3837)

      What is this thing with the "host file"? I've seen on it /. and it gets to +5 and have no clue as to why it got modded up.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by lothmordor on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:34PM

        by lothmordor (1522) on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:34PM (#3873)

        Yeah, this is off-topic, but....

        Modifying the hosts file is one method for blocking ads, malware servers or any other website by remapping the DNS lookup to the localhost address. Doesn't work for adservers that don't use DNS (you would need to block those with a firewall), and very large hosts files can cause some latency in the lookup process. I think most users just install AdBlock now.

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file) [wikipedia.org]
        http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm [mvps.org]

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:39PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 20 2014, @07:39PM (#3877)

          APK isn't wrong, his attitude and writing style just pisses everyone off.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:12AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 21 2014, @03:12AM (#4139)
            When all you have is a hosts file, everything looks like APK.
          • (Score: 1) by crutchy on Friday February 21 2014, @06:59AM

            by crutchy (179) on Friday February 21 2014, @06:59AM (#4217) Homepage Journal

            don't forget the infamous troll-reversal script... with python indentation bug on line 5 :-P

        • (Score: 1) by Techwolf on Friday February 21 2014, @01:27AM

          by Techwolf (87) on Friday February 21 2014, @01:27AM (#4101)

          The technical part I knew about, but there seem to be a missing joke there somewhere that started on /. I guess I didn't make myself clear. My bad.

          • (Score: 1) by lothmordor on Friday February 21 2014, @05:15AM

            by lothmordor (1522) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:15AM (#4173)

            No worries. I suspected that might be the case, but I wasn't sure. Perhaps someone lurking found it useful.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by TheRaven on Friday February 21 2014, @05:48AM

        by TheRaven (270) on Friday February 21 2014, @05:48AM (#4193) Journal

        APK is someone who has mental health problems and is one of the most persistent Internet trolls[1]. He wrote some little Windows programs in the '90s, including one for managing very large hosts files for filtering ads and known-malware sites. One of the more prominent examples of his over-the-top behaviour was when he threatened someone with legal action because their program detected his software as malware. He didn't provide any information that would let them check it and flag it as a false positive, just went into full crazy mode straight away.

        I had him post the same reply (usually 5 or so times) to all of my Slashdot posts for a couple of weeks. Apparently he took issue with a comment where I mentioned that I'd written a few books (people who pay attention on Slashdot have worked out who I am - at least one person did and posted my name and address in response to one of my comments about anonymity - and so can easily confirm this, but I generally try not to make explicit links because I quite like a little bit of deniability). He then posts pretending to be someone else gloating that APK 'won' the conversation because the person he was trolling didn't respond.

        [1] I don't think he meets the technical definition, because he's honestly writing what he believes, he's just a bit unstuck from reality.

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        sudo mod me up
        • (Score: 0) by crutchy on Friday February 21 2014, @07:02AM

          by crutchy (179) on Friday February 21 2014, @07:02AM (#4218) Homepage Journal

          he gets one kudo cos he likes delphi

          he loses it cos he also likes python