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boreacrat··on Reddit bans The Atlantic, Businessweek, others in major anti-spam move
According to a Reddit admin they contact the offenders before banning.

This type of action would merit some type of direct contact with the individuals or company who run the domain.

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/v03qc/physor...

boreacrat··on Linus Torvalds won't do github pull requests
That was in response to

  pirtlj commented on pull request 17 on torvalds/linux a day ago
  I did not realizes that Linus' shit does not stink. Thanks for clearing that up...
boreacrat··on [dead]
yes.

original: http://members.dandy.net/~mrbooks/23800.jpg

edited: http://natestpierre.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/newspaper....

boreacrat··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
In my experience most open source tools like this have a sentence-long description on their sourceforge page or a brief introduction on their github repo, which puts this miles ahead in terms of design effort.
boreacrat··on Gmvault: gmail backup. Liberate your emails
they said it _is_ working for them:)
boreacrat··on I have 404,772 users. Now what?
Wouldn't http://www.pledgemusic.com be the Kickstarter for musicians? I didn't think Kickstarter involved themselves much in projects beyond the screening process.
boreacrat··on Why French Parents Are Superior
salad recipes, what Bill Murray is doing, and lolcats don't really gratify one's intellectual curiosity though:)
boreacrat··on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda's Resume. Anyone interested?
http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/
boreacrat··on Should I Change My Password?
well, if it was actually safe to do, a password tester would be smart for a lot of people.

you might think that the phone number of that cute girl in that movie combined with her initials is a safe password, but if you check out some of the password lists that have popped up the last year you'll see that alot of people thought the same way.

boreacrat··on HTTP Status 418 I'm a teapot
Which means you'll have to use NAT to control your teapot from the office.
boreacrat··on An USB plug that goes both ways
Not really, cause with a PS/2 connector you know you're probably inserting it wrong. With a USB-connector you think you're right, but you're not.
boreacrat··on I got a bad review from TechCrunch, lessons learned
I really liked your site, however while browsing a couple of things struck me as odd:

1. The yellow "we're in beta" alertbar. The alertbar usually tells you that the website is trying to do something fishy you don't want it to, like popups.

2. The inconsistent menubar. On the front page, if I just want to check out your site without signing up, there isn't one. When I click "Browse MinuteBox" a menubar shows up, but it disappears when I click "Profile" and forces me to hit the back button instead of going to another page.

On another note, I know you're beta and everything, but I see no requests. Which means I can't really check out what that (the most important) side of your site is about. I don't know what you could do about it besides making fake requests, but I can't really see what your site is about at the moment.

boreacrat··on Google’s decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search
Just got a mail from Duck Duck Go that they're already working on that one:)
boreacrat··on My server's been hacked
I basically agree with all the advice given, but the easy-fix-guy in me realizes that it's most likely just replacing a weak password and deleting an easily found botnetscript, and he'll can have the box up and running again.

I guess that's the difference between fixing my private boxes with no sensitive informastion and fixing this guy's 600-site serving box:)

boreacrat··on WakeMate review
I thought this was a gadget to help you wake up at the ideal time? Seems the author of the review didn't leave this much thought and didn't write about it before commenters asked for it.

I agree with the reviewers scepticism towards the usefulness of the statistics, but I am interested in buying this to make my mornings better, not analyzing my sleeping patterns.