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What Have We Created?

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: 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]

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  • (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.