It isn't a chess club's responsibility to investigate crime.

I would disagree. It is absolutely the responsibility of the chess club to investigate crime/potential crime that is committed by someone operating under the auspices of that chess club. Same with any other organization, no matter how far removed from law enforcement. At the least, there is an obligation to contact the appropriate authorities who do investigate crime.

In this particular case, the potential criminal may have access to more victims of abuse because the victims sign up for events due to endorsement by the chess club.

In a similar vein, it would be as silly to say, "Our church doesn't have the resposibility to investigate whether our priests are abusing minors, because it is not the place of a church to investigate crime."

The point of this protest action and the news story is that no action was taken. Even if "a bunch of autists, people with underdeveloped social skills, and emotional growth delays.... are having trouble with social behavior and personal boundaries", their actions need to be looked into, and this wasn't done. If being socially underdeveloped gives a free pass to unquestioned sexual assault, people would live in fear of the socially underdeveloped.

In this case, victims came forward in private to accuse chess grandmasters, and nothing happened. They made public their allegations, and there was a slap on the wrist, and then things went back to the way they were.

By contrast, imagine if someone privately accused some company of making insecure software, and nothing happened. Then they made public the software vulnerability. The company said, "Oh, okay, well it's fixed now. That vulnerability won't be a problem any more." (And also hinted that the fault was the accuser's in making public the vulnerability.) We would be tearing that company to bits in forums like Slashdot. We'd support the accuser even if the accuser didn't have to make sacrifices to his reputation or withdraw from the tech field because of the vulnerability he brought to light.

I'd say alleged victims of sexual assault deserve at least that much, if not more. (Yes, even just "alleged" victims -- they at least deserve a chance to be considered "victims" and not just "alleged victims".)

I think the main thing seems to be that no one did investigating; e.g. the STLCC said "This is not our concern."

It would be one thing to have several people claim to be victims, and then the alleged perpetrator is immediately castigated. I don't think anyone is suggesting that.

It would be an entirely different thing to have several people claim to be victims, and then people say, "Well, there was this case where the accusations were false. So every such case must be due to false accusations," and not investigate anything.

The fact that people are willing to come forward despite having to go through the distress and shame of making their ordeal public lends weight to the fact that they must have a strong motivation to do so. The fact that Jennifer Shahade was a public chess figure, but no longer, does not seem to be because she chose to malign someone else in cooperation with other chess players.

Here on Slashdot, we support people who go through as simple ordeals as losing an YouTube account without adequate explanation. I would say that people who admit details of being victim of a sexual assault, supported by a WSJ article, are more credible than this.

Two people disagreed on the internet. This is NEWS WORTHY!!!!!

Well, I don't agree with you!

I read vitrectomy as vasectomy and wondered how badly the surgery must have went to cause eye damage. Maybe I too should have my eyes checked.

See, you wouldn't have read that wrong if you had installed the Intel Mono One font, where the letters are unmistakeably distinct, and also the emoji for vasectomy and vitrectomy are so different.

Okay, all kidding aside, I'll weigh in on this too. I love the curly braces. Clear, distinct, and stylish.

But when I install the font on GVim, the lines are spaced a bit too far apart. If only I could get it to vertically squeeze out more empty space between the lines, that would be great. It's probably just a GVim thing and not necessarily the font. But I love being able to zoom out and still read the font clearly.

I think the debate about the curly braces will end up rather like I.M.Pei's ultramodern glass pyramid in the middle of Renaissance-era French architecture. It's not what people expected, so people complained, but now the Louvre is iconic for its avant-garde juxtaposition.

What we want is WhatsApp to handle more than one account in the same phone.
What they want is to be able to link multiple phones to the same account.

Way to respond to market needs, WhatsApp.

Does that mean there is a higher chance that people will get to know alternative Android app stores like FDroid? Then, good!

I mean, I don't think Jeri Ryan or Mark Ruffalo are particularly more computer-savvy than us Slashdotters, and they managed to find a server.

It's not about being computer-savvy, it's about users' very low tolerance for complexity (the very reason Twitter succeeded in the first place).
The fact is that Mostodon had it's big moment and it quickly fizzled. Maybe it is the enduring network effect of Twitter, in which case Bluesky is in trouble, or it's that extra bit of complexity that Mastodon has.

Hmm. I guess I should address your point.
s/computer-savvy/tolerant of extra complexity/g

I mean, I don't think Jeri Ryan or Mark Ruffalo are particularly more tolerant of extra complexity than us Slashdotters, and they managed to find a server.

There we go.

Choosing a server is easy. You can pick the same server as Mark Ruffalo, @MarkRuffalo@mastodon.social
Or you can choose the server with Jeri Ryan, @JeriLRyan@mastodon.world
Or you can choose Morgan Fairchild, @morgfair@newsie.social
Or maybe Bradley Cooper, @bradleycooper@stranger.social
Or George Takei, @georgetakei@universeodon.com

In case it wasn't obvious, the servers they use are the part after the @ sign that comes after their name, so they are using mastodon.social, mastodon.world, newsie.social, stranger.social, or universeodon.com

I mean, I don't think Jeri Ryan or Mark Ruffalo are particularly more computer-savvy than us Slashdotters, and they managed to find a server.

Will this dilute the mass effect of Mastodon? Does Damus connect to federated space like Mastodon/Pixelfed etc.?

I didn't mean to contract it through Comcast, but rather to go around them and just have the fiber ran direct to the premises and terminate into the county network. In Kitsap peninsula, mine was thru the Kitsap PUD (public utilities district.) Avoid Comcast altogether.

My only take is that if they're looking at that cost to run Comcast, why not just run fiber instead? I am west of Seattle in the Kitsap peninsula, and my total bill was less than 27k for nearly a mile of aerial and trenched fiber to connect to NoaNet (Northwest Open Access network) - and that's gig/gig fiber. What a waste to spend it on dumb old Comcast.

You realize that VISA *pays* the IOC for the privilege of being the sole-credit-card-sponsor right?

This is a negotiation for every Olympics. If Mastercard/Discover/AmEx paid more than VISA, then the IOC would choose them instead.

So yes there’s a monopoly. One *sold* by IOC to make the most money for the IOC. This “breakage” by China certainly hurts VISA a bit, and hypothetically hurts the IOC in their future contract negotiations.

— But it was probably also a part of the pitch that China gave when they secured the bid for this Olympics event. So if anybody was surprised by this, it was due to sloppiness on the IOC’s part, or somehow China changing the terms after the fact.

In any event, this isn’t “pushing VISA out” in any meaningful way.

Erm?
Seriously?
Why do you post this?
What have chicken pox and shingles to do with each other?

Nothing?

What a snarky reply. Though it contributes nothing to the discussion, you poke fun at the writer.

Unfortunately, it just showcases your ignorance. You are saying, "Hey, people, I don't know what causes varicella (chickenpox) and zoster (shingles)!"

It is better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you are dumb, than to open it and prove them right.

Meanwhile, your homework is to read about the virus that causes chickenpox and shingles. And adjust your attitude.

A lot of what he does is marketing and pushing for ways to utilize cloud platforms. This is a very corporate friendly approach since you have to pay to use cloud platforms. I wouldn't be surprised if they begin moving all emphasis toward everything cloud. It seems like a step backwards as far as enabling people to control their software as you now rely on some corporate entity to allow you to access or manipulate your software.

To the contrary, I think the situation is that the world is moving toward cloud-based platforms, which till now have been synonymous with large corporations who can afford the big infrastructure needed. I welcome the opportunity to have clouds that are run by the masses for the masses.