d33tah - Slashdot User

Submission + - What "news for nerds" sites should I use? 8

Submitted by stderr_dk on Monday February 17, 2014 @05:02AM

stderr_dk writes: I used to visit Slashdot quite often, but if Dice Holdings decide to switch the interface to what is currently known as "Beta", I'll have to find another site for my "stuff that matters"-fix.

So, Slashdot, what sites can you recommend for a "maybe-ex" /. user?

Submission + - Community-sourced news site, soylentnews.org, goes live 18

Submitted by umafuckit on Monday February 17, 2014 @01:57AM

umafuckit writes: soylentnews.org is the new way of taking the pulse of the nerd community. Soylentnews is a grassroots-based platform with the content feeds are powered by readers like you. The objective is to highlight news stories of general importance to everyone, but especially nerds. News about technology, art, science and politics: it's all there. Soylentnews is the new kid on the block and will adapt quickly to satisfy our community's needs and and push boundaries like never before. This is a real community site: no changes in format without a general consensus from the community. Stop by and see what you think of the freshly-launched site.

Submission + - Slashdot beta sucks 9

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @08:04PM

An anonymous reader writes: Maybe some of the slashdot team should start listening to its users, most of which hate the new user interface. Thanks for ruining something that wasn't broken.

Submission + - Once Slashdot beta has been foisted on me, what site should I use? 3

Submitted by buswolley on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:45PM

buswolley writes: Just asking. Because we do not want the Beta site.

Submission + - The nmber of users that SLASHDOT will lose with new interface? (slashdot.org) 3

Submitted by jackb_guppy on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @07:37PM

jackb_guppy writes: SLASHDOT today started to push users from the old interface to the ugly, slow, new interface. Any guess on the number of users that will be leaving SLASHDOT. So much for market share.

Comment Not DDoS? (Score 0) 133

by d33tah on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @10:06AM (#46161759) Attached to: Britain's GCHQ Attacked Anonymous Supporters With DDoS

And there's already a comment there: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014...

Comment Re:Too many puddings (Score 1) 225

by d33tah on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @09:12PM (#46157599) Attached to: UK Council To Send Obese People 'Motivational' Texts Telling Them To Use Stairs

...or just stop treating the obese. It might turn out to be a cheaper option.

Comment Re:NOOOOOOOOO (Score 1) 293

by d33tah on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @12:08PM (#46150387) Attached to: Satya Nadella Named Microsoft CEO

Agreed. For one, I hoped that Microsoft was took over by a woman, which could mean that finally someone who cares about the look-and-feel is in control of the company. By the way, he's Indian, so it looks like it's a normal name there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Comment Apache 2 License? o.o (Score 2) 90

by d33tah on Tuesday January 28, 2014 @09:55AM (#46090199) Attached to: Microsoft Joins Open Compute Project, Will Share Server Designs

I'm surprised to actually find that they chose Apache License for the project instead of their GPL-incompatible MS-PL. I have no idea what Chassis Manager is actually useful for (and a skeptic inside of me tells me that probably nothing unless you pay for their other products), but it's interesting to see that they actually released 36k lines of code as free software.

Comment Re:Obligatory (Score 5, Insightful) 533

by d33tah on Saturday January 18, 2014 @07:55PM (#46001637) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What's the Most Often-Run Piece of Code -- Ever?

Personally I think that the biggest problem with Slashdot is the abundance of comments like this. Seriously, it might not meet your standards. I understand. Now get over it and stop wasting my time writing it for the thousandth time or actually submit an article that raises the bar. Whining is not really going to change anything. Sorry, but I really had to.

Comment Re:remotely? (Score 2) 177

by d33tah on Thursday January 09, 2014 @01:28PM (#45907923) Attached to: EU Committee Issues Report On NSA Surveillance; Snowden To Testify

They already kind of did that on 30C3 when Assange spoke: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzhtGvSflEk

Comment Re:Classic... (Score 5, Insightful) 85

by d33tah on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:25PM (#45755699) Attached to: Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found

There's no such thing as proper architecture at the first try. By programming, you explore the problems you have to face. In "The Mythical Man-Month", Fred Brooks says that it's not first or second system that is correctly design, but usually the third. Rewriting is a part of a process.

Comment Re:Classic... (Score 5, Insightful) 85

by d33tah on Saturday December 21, 2013 @04:21PM (#45755677) Attached to: Kdenlive Developer Jean-Baptiste Mardelle Has Been Found

You forgot that refactoring might decrease the maintenance costs. It's possible that the developer just found it too hard to add any new functionality to the existing codebase and figured that refactoring is the only way to go. Seriously, it's not always enough for a project to work. Actually, it usually isn't.

Comment Re:End of certificates, please? (Score 1) 80

by d33tah on Sunday December 15, 2013 @04:21PM (#45697531) Attached to: IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications

Seriously, guys, go watch any Moxie's talk and you'll understand the issue much better.

I can't find a link to that in TFA nor in this thread. If you have one to hand, would be much appreciated.

There you go: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=moxie+marlinspike+ssl

Comment Re:End of certificates, please? (Score 3, Interesting) 80

by d33tah on Sunday December 15, 2013 @05:36AM (#45693803) Attached to: IETF To Change TLS Implementation In Applications

I agree. But that's what makes this model useless. We shouldn't outsource trust to CA's, but push it to the users. Let them decide who do they trust. If, after the VeriSign fiasco they don't trust VeriSign anymore, they should be able to revoke the trust without losing the ability to view 1/4 of the internet. Seriously, guys, go watch any Moxie's talk and you'll understand the issue much better.

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