Journal gmhowell's Journal: APK is a trip 23
Everybody still having fun with APK? I notice that damned near every post I made last week has been responded to, questioning my educational bona fides. The hysterical thing is that some AC responded to his inquiries. Now, to about half of those, he responded, accusing me of being the AC. The really hysterical thing: I haven't visited
So APK spent a day or two running around and accusing people of sockpuppetry who had forgotten his existence hours before APK posted. Classic. How long until he goes all Hans Reiser?
Just follow people's advice (Score:2)
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I was a bit worried that I had gotten in on it late, but it seems that uber-hacker has plenty of time on his hands to carry on a net-hate for a lot of people.
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I’m actually a little bit disappointed. His attention is getting pretty divided... I think he spread himself too thinly and now he’s took a break from it.
It’s rather entertaining when everything you post on Slashdot gets anonymous harassing replies.
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1640392&cid=32094144 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1636846&cid=32082384 [slashdot.org]
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639534&cid=32081728 [slashdot.org]
APK? (Score:1)
Stands for?
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To add to what the AC said, AFAICT, he wrote his crapware just about a decade ago, and is continuing to sit on those laurels. I really have no knowledge about the guy except what I've read here. I got bored last week and trolled him. In all honesty, he probably needs some therapy or some serious psych meds. Or both.
But, I have to get in my fun before trolling people is made a criminal offense.
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Alexander Peter Kowalksi.
Google has all sorts of interesting stuff to say about him. [google.com]
According to the White Pages [whitepages.com], he lives in his 65+ year old mother’s basement in Syracuse NY.
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Whoops, clicked Submit instead of Continue editing.
I was going to proceed to describe what he’s best known for:
- his hideously ugly posts [slashdot.org] (that was before anyone had replied to him... that’s just his natural style, I guess)
- his hideously ugly software (link: screenshots) [jeremyreimer.com]
- trolling either Opera or Firefox fanbois (however the situation might permit)
- advocating [pcreview.co.uk] his “CUSTOM HOSTS FILE (as I have been doing for years now, with approximately 828,342 entries of known bad sites &/or servers
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- stalking people by checking their posting history and replying with harassing, off-topic replies to everything they post (which he has done to myself, Falconhell [slashdot.org], gmhowell [slashdot.org], squiggleslash [slashdot.org], and tomhudson [slashdot.org])
Whoops. Forgot Red Flayer [slashdot.org].
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Yeah. It’s pretty standard coming from him and he’s been around for a long time. I had other run-ins with him in the past that were basically the same as this one has been, albeit I remember them to be slightly less craptacular (or maybe I’ve just forgotten).
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Wow looks like he's been known about on Ars Technica's forums since 2002.
Hosts File blocking is of limited usefulness, it is not fine grained enough to allow through some desired ads. Occasionally flash games will require you look at an ad before they start, and on some websites I enable ads to support the site.
His software is rather hideous, but to be fair it looks like they are power utils and not meant for end users, lots of techie utils are ugly, so long as they work...
Acting an ass isn't nice though.
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Yeah. He’d be perfectly welcome to voice his opinion if he could manage to do it without being troll, flamebait, or offtopic, and then didn’t fly off the handle completely when somebody else had a different opinion.
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I rather wish he would sue me. I just about guarantee I've been to court more than he and have a great deal more apathy over the process. The only downside would be if he brought up an issue with my employer, but given his failing Internet detective skills, I doubt he knows who that is. After all, his biggest concern is my degree or lack thereof, which is not exactly obfuscated. If he can't answer that for himself, he certainly isn't suing any time soon.
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Are we just feeding into it?
Probably. Which is fine by me.
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You assume, incorrectly, that I have something better to do with my time.
I did in fact consider that he might be the actual troll, but given his past, it seems unlikely.