Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

Post by francisofascii » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 12:00 PM UTC

throwaway2037 wrote: post #284

francisofascii wrote: post #116

This story is analogous to a landowner and a group of neighborhood kids. The landowner allows the kids to play baseball in his field, but then the kids complain the grass is not cut, they are playing late into the evening, a few kids vandalize damage his flower bed, and his lawyers tell him he will be sued if he doesn't make all these safety changes, and so the landowner says screw it and puts up a fence.

> his lawyers tell him Is this common in the US? I cannot imagine someone from Italy or France writing a post like this.

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Post by PawgerZ » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 1:47 PM UTC

pxc wrote: post #320

LikelyABurner wrote: post #307

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You can scroll their X page and it's extremely clear that they're focused on the Gaza war ( https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta ) and they openly state that they attacked the Internet Archive because it was based in America which supports Israel ( https://x.com/Sn_darkmeta/status/1844358501952618976 ). We can quibble about whether a "hacktivist" group can even exist at all or if it's a convenient lie the Internet has collectiv…

I don't have a Twitter account, so I can't generally scroll on someone's page to see anything chronological-ish. :-\ (I remember trying at the time of the incident and having less success than now.) Thanks for sharing the direct link to that video. At the time of the initial outage, I only saw some assertion that they were 'a hacktivist group' on some article on Bleeping Computer, and at the same time the only reason…

Post by pjc50 » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:32 PM UTC

fsflover wrote: post #326

account42 wrote: post #312

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And this image does not depict a pipe: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b9/MagrittePipe.... Giving WINE (originally WINdows Emulator) a cute backronym does not change the definition of the word emulator or whether Wine is one. Please check your favorite dictionaries for that.

It actually doesn't do emulation but API AFAIK.

Post by catlikesshrimp » Thu, Oct 17, 2024, 2:43 PM UTC

elcritch wrote: post #253

nine_k wrote: post #196

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Putting anything to a public environment, always assume an actively hostile environment. No matter how many well-meaning users you may have; if it's more then a handful, there will always be enough jerks who would try to ruin the show for everyone. To my mind, premoderation is the way. Any new user's submissions go to the premoderation queue for review, not otherwise visible. Noise and spam can be rejected automatica…

One thing I wish the tech companies would do is to use LLMs for junk moderation. At least to flag potential junk. Meta uses they LLMs to summarize comments already and can do this, yet they choose to allow obvious crypto scammers, T-shirt scams, “hey add me comments”. A simple LLM prompt of “is this post possibly a scam”, especially for new accounts, would do wonders. GitHub could likely do it too.