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alegenon Linode DDoS continues – Atlanta down for 16+ hours

Twitter is not that relevant to be honest. I assume many customers are not active on Twitter either. I do not see why it is so important to have activity on the account when there is a dedicated page for informing customers of what is going on.

Also, if you look at the medium post, the tweets are mostly sorry/thank you/everything should be fine soon. No actual information on what is going on. How could you put relevant technical details in a tweet? How does a short, uninformative tweet help you more?

edit: also, there is up-to-date technical discussions taking place on the irc channel #linode on oftc

alegenon GNOME Developers Hate the Mouse, Remove Middle-Click Paste

well, it depends on what terminal emulator you use but both guake and terminator support ctrl+shift+c / ctrl+shift+v. i agree though that using the middle mouse-button is much easier

alegenon Visual Studio 2013, ALM, and DevOps

i don`t even... what?! since when is it cool and trendy to write code?

alegenon Dear Europe, please help Bulgaria

let me help you there a bit

Uh, and while your at it, basically all of eastern Europe...

alegenon RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

I agree it is easy but are you the kind of person to kill a dog without any reason? This statement implies that it is ethical to do so.

The people behind this project say that it is for educational purposes, but really now.. how many people will use it that way?

alegenon RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

Quote: "even kept them trapped in bowls and cages purely for my own amusement."

Well, I`m just not that kind of person :)

Later edit: the things you list are completely unrelated to making a living organism do something -without its consent-.

alegenon RoboRoach: Control a cockroach with a smartphone.

Showing this article on a board filled with hackers who value free speech and free will more than anything else is a bad idea. Doesn't matter if it is a cockroach, a rat, a rabbit or a human being.

I do not agree with giving 10 year-olds this "toy". That cockroach (no matter how disgusting it may be for some) is a living thing! The ethical aspects of this project should me taken more seriously and not just "OMG cool gadget buy it".

alegenon Jordanian citizen was denied re-entry to the US on eve of his PhD defense at JHU

VERY CORRECT! I really wish more people thought like this...

alegenon AppGratis Is Nothing More Than A Black Hat Marketing Company

"And I want Apple to decide that [what apps are good] — not another company that takes (large) kickbacks from app developers."

That's where I stopped reading...