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Funding Goal
For 6-month period:
2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30
(All amounts are estimated)
Base Goal:
$3500.00

Currently:
$3500.00
100.0%
Stretch Goal:
$2000.00

Currently:
$1254.52
62.7%

Covers transactions:
2020-01-01 00:00:00 ..
2020-06-30 21:00:33 UTC
(SPIDs: [1207..1407])
Last Update:
2020-07-01 02:02:58 UTC
--martyb


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Site Funding Progress

Funding Goal
For 6-month period:
2020-01-01 to 2020-06-30
(All amounts are estimated)
Base Goal:
$2000.00

Currently:
$126.74
6.4%

Covers transactions:
2020-01-01 00:00:00 ..
2020-01-31 06:46:05 UTC
(SPIDs: [1207..1216])
Last Update:
2020-01-31 12:48:47 UTC
--martyb

posted by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday April 28 2017, @09:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the fuck-fuck-fuck dept.

This is a line of text.

This is a <quote>

This is a blockquote

This is another line of text.


Original Submission

posted by martyb on Saturday April 01 2017, @04:59PM   Printer-friendly
from the Have-fun! dept.

Test story created at 20170228_001952 UTC for paulej72 to have a place to play around with comments.

some more.

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posted by martyb on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the a-noble-place-to-play dept.

Created at 20170228_014015 UTC to provide a place for NCommander to play around with the new commenting code.

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posted by martyb on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:27AM   Printer-friendly
from the have-fun! dept.

Created 20170228_005306 UTC for TheMightyBuzzard to have some comment he can moderate and/or add to as he sees fit.

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posted by paulej72 on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the move-the-filters dept.
test for spoiler paulej72

Test for multiple1

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Original Submission

test for spoiler paulej72

multi line test for spoiler

line 2

paulej72
<sarcasm>me is fine</sarcasm>
<sarcasm>kill me now</sarcasm>

posted by Bytram on Sunday March 26 2017, @08:26AM   Printer-friendly
from the unspecified dept.

Bytram's Bored Room -- 20170320_143211 UTC

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posted by charon on Saturday March 18 2017, @08:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the found-by-Mars-rover-during-testing dept.

In Chile a woody vine, Boquila trifoliolata, has been discovered to change the shape of its leaves depending on what tree is is climbing.

Further, the same single vine can drape from one tree to different species of tree, and it will match the shape and size of its leaves to those of each host only along that portion of its length.

Other vines are known to mimic one species of host, as a defense against herbivores, but this vine can mimic many, along its length.

Biologists say "It is unclear how B. trifoliolata vines discern the identity of individual trees and shape-shift accordingly." Speculation is that chemicals or microbes might trigger gene-activating signals that trigger leaf differentiation.

But left unsaid is how would the vine "learn" match the shape of its new host's leaf, how it would know it had succeeded, where it would acquire the genes to do so, and how many different trees it can mimic.

Don't you need eyes to copy someone else's look?


Original Submission

posted by cmn32480 on Saturday March 18 2017, @06:57PM   Printer-friendly
from the your-momma-wears-combat-boots dept.

Research has shown that smartphone sensors leave trackable fingerprints. Due to imperfections in the hardware manufacturing process, it is possible to distinguish different devices just from sensor data.

The researchers tested more than 100 devices over the course of nine months: 80 standalone accelerometer chips used in popular smartphones, 25 Android phones and two tablets.

The accelerometers in all permutations were selected from different manufacturers, to ensure that the fingerprints weren't simply defects resulting from a particular production line.

With 96-percent accuracy, the researchers could discriminate one sensor from another.

"We do not need to know any other information about the phone—no phone number or SIM card number," Dey said. "Just by looking at the data, we can tell you which device it's coming from. It's almost like another identifier."

Maybe this explains why Facebook would be interested in a fitness app.


Original Submission

posted by paulej72 on Tuesday March 14 2017, @11:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the new-lines-are-nice dept.

So the Dev Team has been hard at work fixing up issues with with the 17_02 release. We compiled all of your comments from the 17_02 Meta stories into a large bug and feature request list. We have been working on getting these issues fixed as soon as we can.

You may have noticed some changes over the last week that went out to fix some issues, and we just released some more fixes today.

Here is a list of the major fixes since the last story:

  1. Comment titles now act to trigger actions as well as the buttons.
  2. New icons for the buttons that are bigger and spaced out a bit more.
  3. Removed extra spacing for some of the modes when buttons are hidden. (Still needs some more work, but much better than before.)
  4. Changed how we set states for hidden threads so that the individual comments are not set hidden as well. This will lessen the number of clicks needed to open a comment in this case.
  5. Flat comment mode will now show a comment's children when look at comment (cid is set).
  6. Temp fix for Content Security Policy eating CSS when not on https://soylentnews.org.
  7. Domain Tags now show in comments.
  8. Fixed broken messages when looking at them from messages.pl.
  9. Fixed for @user: shortcut links that would eat a character after the ":".

Continuation of:
Site Update 17_2
Comments Redux
Site Update: The Next Episode
Site Update - Taking a Breather
Outstanding Issues

So if you see any new bugs that you think are related to these changes, or just want to let us know about an ongoing issue, please feel free to comment below.

Here are the currently known bugs that we are working on:

  1. When viewing the list of messages you have received, the "Select All" checkbox has stopped working because we removed Javascript.
  2. There are still features of the old "Nested" display mode that are not reproduced in the new "Threaded-TOS" / "Threaded-TNG" display modes.
  3. Issues with Expand/Collapse comment tree versus Hide/Show comment tree.
  4. We are aware of issues with our (stricter) Comment Security Policy (CSP) support; especially accessing the site from TOR/Onion and from the deprecated https://www.soylentnews.org/ URL — one should use: https://soylentnews.org/ instead, but we are still trying to handle that automatically.
  5. Pagination and Redirects; there are known issues with implementation of the "&page=" parameter in the URL, especially when "&cid=" is also specified. For example, I have my page size set to 20 comments, someone else has the default of 100 comments, and I refer to a comment on my page 4, which is still on page 1 for the other person.
  6. In URLs, we currently use "&noupdate=" to toggle when the "*NEW*" flag and comment dimming take effect. has nock-on side effects that were not anticipated. Are planning to change to the reverse sense: "&update=", instead.
  7. Lost functionality during upgrade: Sort order by comment score.
  8. User Journal link missing in details bar
  9. Pick sane default for AC mode and for Threshold/Breakthrough
  10. Some people are still having issues with previously-seen comments' dimming. Not so much that they are dimmed, but in how they are dimmed. Maybe dim the only the title? Maybe change the color?
  11. Spoiler tag needs to be triggered by text.
  12. Buttons on phones might still be too small since mobile browsers like to resize the text larger making everything else too small
  13. bug chrome/android phone when previewing comment messes up text size in edit box -- actually, slashboxes on RHS disappear after submitting comment or performing comment moderation. Resulting display area is much wider, so displayed font size is reduceed by approximately 40%.
  14. Possibly add date and time to collapsed comment title.

And here are the feature requests:

  1. Create moderation feeback as a modal dialog box via CSS (med term project).
  2. <code> tag support and styling.
  3. Edit after post (with limits).
  4. Markdown support for comments. (long term project)
  5. Button to reset all comments to unread (should be a quickie).
  6. New tags should not display for the first time a story is shown (may be a complicated issue to resolve).
posted by martyb on Sunday February 19 2017, @09:05PM   Printer-friendly

At the moment, no matter what Breakthrough/Threshold setting I choose, every Top Level Comment (TLC) is displayed fully expanded.

See: https://dev.soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/02/16/0222248&threshold=5&highlightthresh=5&commentsort=0&mode=threadtos&page=1&noupdate=1#commentwrap

Consider what the "Deuteronomy child bride", "Penis Bird", and "Cheap Canadian V14gra" users would make of knowing that they can make sure that their TLC will always appear in full.