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Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by Ajedi32 »

roncesvalles wrote: post #329
dionidium wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

Lascivious pictures of clothed children count as CSAM in many jurisdictions. Free speech is fine but did they not have lawyers until 2015?

This is partly why I now prefer the term "free exchange of ideas" over "freedom of speech". I believe it more closely captures the essence of what makes free speech worth protecting, while also conveniently excluding stuff like this (among other things, like spam or antisocial behavior).

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by evandale »

norrland4ever wrote: post #240
garciasn wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789

What is /. ?

Slashdot

https://slashdot.org

I've started looking at that and arstechnica for my tech news replacements.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by KnobbleMcKnees »

leetharris wrote: post #59

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Really though, if you have such a primitive understanding of the situation as this, why comment to begin with?

Using restaurants as an example when there are companies all around the world that have achieved profitability as UberEats perpetually circles the drain is, frankly, dripping with irony.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by MivLives »

norrland4ever wrote: post #240
garciasn wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I deleted Apollo and the official Reddit app (which I used to post posts) and I'm done. I had been a user for ~12 years and had 150K+ comment karma. They fucked up and now I'll spend more time on here and /., is my guess. Unless there are other strong dork communities I should be looking into. Edit: Ask HN thread showed up on my last question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36293789

What is /. ?

Slash dot, an older tech site news that was popular pre digg/reddit

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rspoerri »

rozap wrote: post #359
pyeri wrote: post #137

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But this time it's different because most high traffic subs have already gone dark, so the traffic must be minimal as there will be very few posters relative to what the server can handle. And yet, I'm getting "You broke reddit" when I try to visit which is quite ironical.

Maybe it's expensive to generate the 403 for a private subreddit. A place I once worked had a 404 handler that was extremely expensive, but nobody noticed for a while because 404s are relatively rare. One time a vulnerability scanner took down the site because it was just hitting known vulnerability paths which all 404'd. The code that executed during a 404 was n^2.

As long as n=1 it‘s no problem :-)

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by rimunroe »

comprev wrote: post #304
norrland4ever wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is /. ?

As others have said, it's Slashdot - which got it's name from trying to spell out the web address over the phone. Silly and confusing... h..t..t..p..colon..slash..slash..slashdot..dot..org When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!)…

My brother writes xkcd. In 2006 I was living at home while attending community college. At the time, his site was still hosted on the old HP desktop that used to sit in our family room and now sat in his old bedroom. One day I was playing in an unofficial Counter-Strike tournament when one of his comics (possibly "Pi Equals"[1]) got posted to either Slashdot or Boing Boing. My ping immediately went from probably ~25 ms to over 300, and then I timed out completely. I think it took us a couple hours to get our connection back, which I assume involved getting a new IP address.

Sadly, I didn't win the tournament.

[1] https://xkcd.com/10/

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by nkohari »

comprev wrote: post #304
norrland4ever wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is /. ?

As others have said, it's Slashdot - which got it's name from trying to spell out the web address over the phone. Silly and confusing... h..t..t..p..colon..slash..slash..slashdot..dot..org When you see "Hacker News Hug" on here (recently due to Cloudflare's issues) or Reddit's "Hug of Death", the original was "Slashdotted", when tech people hosted personal sites on their _own_ home DSL (even Dial-up via Dynamic DNS!)…

Isn't Slashdot a reference to the current directory in Linux?

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by wwtrv »

scubbo wrote: post #336
dionidium wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

I mean, define "endorsement". Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise is a mild form of endorsement. A commitment to free speech is, to an extent, an endorsement of all the speech that results.

> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise

That's an excewptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.

Re: Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

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Post by wwtrv »

scubbo wrote: post #336
dionidium wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it would in turn be worth noting that the creators of reddit had a philosophical and political commitment to free speech that drove their light-touch approach to moderation. It's not like the existence of that subreddit is evidence of an endorsement on their part.

I mean, define "endorsement". Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise is a mild form of endorsement. A commitment to free speech is, to an extent, an endorsement of all the speech that results.

> Permitting something to exist when you have the power to do otherwise

That's an exceptionally broad definition and would sound pretty scary with no context.

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