These are not that old. I was on Usenet in '79. By the 90s is was out of fashion already.
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What a shame. It was a pity because he was heavily used in the first series and was kind of annoying, but that wasn't his fault - that was the writers! I suppose it must be a skill to learn that people dislike your character, not you personally.
15 year old boys tend not to have that “water off a ducks back” skill, even when they’ve been brought up with social media. Still you can always rely on your heroes: https://youtu.be/raGruhb8Qbg
Fascinating, thanks!
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You should definitely get rid of whatever is being used currently. The first group I randomly clicked (alt.alien.visitors) was censoring the word "public" (and "sucks" and "pipe"), multiple times in the same post which, if it happens a lot, especially on innocuous words, is really going to spoil what is an excellent project. Its not a bad idea to filter content though, and/or have a flag button on threads/posts. 300…
I've removed the filtering.
You can also remove the filter for users, but use site maps to make those posts not visible to search engines.
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This is very far off from my millennial experience 1; I’m a 34yo millennial, 2; my siblings are ~40ish yo gen-xers, 3; my parents are 65yo boomers. My genx siblings all bought massive houses around 2008 when I was starting my career which in 2008 meant being lucky to make $40k as a sysadmin. Obama subsidies all over the place if you had 5-10 years to put together a downpayment, though. I don’t think my paycheck becam…
> The people bitching about having to describe how to throw a rock or explain why manholes are round? They’re millennials who got those stupid questions when we were JRs because of a horrible job market that Boomers/Genx allowed to continue as the status quo. I’m a GenX and I got those stupid interview questions. I don’t think that is related to generation.
Oh of course you did, my point was more that you got those questions but also a lot of your peers continued asking those stupid questions. I remember when I was hired after getting a manhole question; the genx managers (i was probably 19) used it as an inside joke, "gotcha" just to see how candidates responded. I always thought it was gross.
So I don't ask those questions to people that I interview, because I remember how stupid they made me feel and how unrelated to the job they are.
It's the genx'ers that were asking me that, probably asked by boomers. I don't know why you'd continue to repeat those biased systems.
Genx isn't exactly well known for standing up for itself as opposed to continuing to normalize trash systems, that's the entire problem.
Be better than those before you, that's it. Make things better for those coming up or going out. There's no reason work should suck.
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Think something like Reddit + Bittorrent. Slight difference -- there would be no main "front page," -- only individual self-hosted hubs that could choose which "subreddits" (newsgroups) they would carry.
“Reddit + bittorrent” would actually be pretty cool...
Secure Scuttlebutt might interest you.
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Wow this, is an insane life story: https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/drum-and-drummer-643105... This guy was apparently a genius drummer as a young man -- jammed with Jaco Pastorius, and a friend of John Medeski. Then a bodybuilder, steroid user (when it was legal), convicted felon, a sufferer of chronic illness, and epic Usenet flamewar participant. And deceased since 2012, but people still flame him on Usenet. h…
The saying is you die twice - once when you stop breathing and again, a bit later on, when people stop flaming you on usenet ;_)
That seems to indicate that usenet can’t die, can it?
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> The people bitching about having to describe how to throw a rock or explain why manholes are round? They’re millennials who got those stupid questions when we were JRs because of a horrible job market that Boomers/Genx allowed to continue as the status quo. I’m a GenX and I got those stupid interview questions. I don’t think that is related to generation.
Oh of course you did, my point was more that you got those questions but also a lot of your peers continued asking those stupid questions. I remember when I was hired after getting a manhole question; the genx managers (i was probably 19) used it as an inside joke, "gotcha" just to see how candidates responded. I always thought it was gross. So I don't ask those questions to people that I interview, because I remembe…
> you’re acting like the victim
Now you’re the victim... of bad interview questions that have nothing to do with generations. There are assholes of all ages. Just because YOU don’t ask interview questions about manhole covers does not make it a generational trend. I still get these questions and you can delude yourself that all the people asking them are GenX or Boomers if you want.
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#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh of course you did, my point was more that you got those questions but also a lot of your peers continued asking those stupid questions. I remember when I was hired after getting a manhole question; the genx managers (i was probably 19) used it as an inside joke, "gotcha" just to see how candidates responded. I always thought it was gross. So I don't ask those questions to people that I interview, because I remembe…
> you’re acting like the victim Now you’re the victim... of bad interview questions that have nothing to do with generations. There are assholes of all ages. Just because YOU don’t ask interview questions about manhole covers does not make it a generational trend. I still get these questions and you can delude yourself that all the people asking them are GenX or Boomers if you want.
You still get those questions because you’re a shitty developer interviewing at shitty development shops. That’s it. Nobody gives one fuck that you’re a boomer, you just act like one.
Stick to your namesake, the “doesn’t talk” part. We don’t want or need your input, bud.
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#320Hm this is making me feel old... because I used to frequent certain music newsgroups around 1995-2002, and the earliest one they have is from 2003. https://usenetarchives.com/threads.php?id=rec.music.makers.p... Google does have some from 1998. It is this weird mix of people from 2016 replying to threads from 1998. The organization is very confusing which I'm sure contributes to the low quality. https://groups.google…
Anyone else remember alt.sex.cost-benefits-accounting ? I swear it existed (around 1995?) but I've never been able to find any evidence for it.
Newgroup and rmgroup control messages at ftp.isc.org /pub/usenet/control/alt/alt.sex.fetish.cost.benefit.analysis.gz. See also misspelled variants alt.sex.fetish.const.benifit.analysis, alt.sex.fetish.cost.benifit.analysis.