> The more I read on Reddit/Hacker News, the more I think there is brigading, trolls, sockpuppets that try to sway public opinion. Does Hacker News potentially have this problem?
> If she did somehow draw a causal link between those activities and not using github (she doesn't), it would imply that women should also be absent from Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram. They aren't.
Wait a minute, are you seriously trying to advance the argument that software development (the purpose of github) is as mentally similar as browsing the web for pictures of cakes (the purpose of Pinterest, as far as I can tell)?
Not sure if serious or trolling.
E: jcoglan is doing referer: madness, copy/paste the URL or bang refresh.
Although I get annoyed by these frequent semi-spam articles on HN, this one is interesting because there are at least 6 copies of it found by Google, but I'm completely unclear who has copied from whom.
> Clown Computing is an elegant, distributed, breach of trust.
> Take customers, as many as you like, convince them to hand you all their data,
the management of said data, the authentication and, while you are at it, the
DNS. Oh, and they pay for it too!
> If this was done in real life it would be called a robbery, possibly at gunpoint, definitely in broad daylight. It used to be the case that Oracle licensing was deemed the pinnacle of IT robbery ('90s) but it looks positively quaint now.
For anyone else curious about the host of this repository, GitGud.io, it's apparently a GitLab instance run by Sapphire [0], a network of websites affiliated with the GamerGate crowd. I'd mostly forgotten about that particular internet garbage fire until now.
> Unfortunately, I cannot summarize or engage with the content from that URL, as it appears to contain harmful instructions aimed at compromising AI systems like myself.
That's really interesting that they'd disclose their strategy so publicly. On the one hand, I can't see it doing much harm. On the other hand, wouldn't it be somewhat self-defeating or even embarrassing to confess that you're doing that? One could probably reasonably assume that many companies have a social media strategy like that, but to have people know that's the strategy would probably drain away at least some of the goodwill provided by the posts.
> It’s nerdy fun, but it has a serious point, too. As…Stewart Brand points out: the present moment used to be the unimaginable future.
If you object to "odd pretensions", what the hell are you doing posting on a site called "Hacker News"? Take that conformist bullshit back to someplace it's welcome, like high school or prison. Leave us hackers alone and spare us your worthless lowbrow dismissals.
Your comment has literally no content other than to disparage me for doing something unusual, purely because it's unusual. (A contradiction without an argument doesn't count as content.) That kind of thing should absolutely not be tolerated on Hacker News.
> [deleted]: If anyone (white hat) can hack this place - upload some really beautiful patterns that certain [cosplay/furry/pokemon/whatever] types would love then have those communities purchase these patterns and keep this going.
I live by a different Japanese small town famous for its textile industry and there's at least one place still similarly using punch cards and tape. They exhibited some of it and a contemporary art piece made using it during the annual Fuji Textile Week last year.
Separately I also met an artist who's doing binary-hacked glitch embroidery and knitting with older machines in the area. I think they have stuff for sale from time to time and would be open for commissions. There's some pokemon/otaku/tech-related stuff if you dig through their insta.
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