mattiasb, 9 months ago

@ebassi That can't be real! I should check if freshmeat.net is still up.

mattiasb, 9 months ago

@ebassi Well, it links to sourceforge.net so I guess "no?".

ebassi, 9 months ago

@mattiasb that’s why I was wondering if slashdot had finally suffered the same fate of netbsd, cmdrtaco, or Beowulf clusters of hot grits

mattiasb, 9 months ago

@ebassi Ah, the legendary Beowulf cluster. But yeah, the assumption that it would have silently disappeared is one I held til now as well.

Totally unrelated, loved your talk on oxidizing rust btw. Was Riga good?

ebassi, 9 months ago

@mattiasb yes, both the conference and the place were lovely

alatiera, 9 months ago

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ebassi, 9 months ago

@alatiera and the person that posted the link to slashdot didn’t even read the original blog post that the slashdot story mentioned with a link, which is perfectly on point for somebody who reads slashdot.

ebassi, 9 months ago

Yep, still slashdot, except while once it was a bunch of edgy teens and young sysadmins, now the demographic skews geriatric

ebassi, 9 months ago

I checked, and the author of the comment has a 5 digits UID

jannem, 9 months ago

@ebassi
I had a 4-digit UID, and give me current gnome any day, not that old janky stuff with crap UX and a million unfixable bugs.

Maybe that's why I've not felt the need to visit that site in over a decade.

lendo, 9 months ago

@ebassi
Oi! I skew geriatric myself: nothing wrong with that :) Also, that comment in Slashdot has absolutely nothing to do with age. There are special people of aaaaall ages ...

peteriskrisjanis, 9 months ago

@ebassi quite a lot actually. Not all topics interest me, but still...reddit might have bigger noise to signal ratio for lot of topics.