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Sad to see pipedot disappear

I quite like the RSS view...

Agreed. A great deal of effort is required to mangle many of the user submissions we've received into something that is high enough quality and worthy of being published. Of course, the hundreds of stories already published by evilviper/zafiro17/etc set a rather high bar of quality. :)

Over 5 years ago, a growing rift in the green site set in motion a movement for a "better" news for nerds site. The result was not only a split into the new red and blue sites, but also reforms in the original site as well. The feared "beta" was shelved and calmer heads prevailed throughout. Although some rumors have suggested that Pipedot is dead, and I can hardly blame them, there simply doesn't need to be so many forks of the same thing. As for product differentiation, we still have plenty of technical features the others do not (editable comments!) but other features that we pioneered (colorized new vs old comments) have even made it into the others. Rest assured, if the other sites decide to self-destruct again, we will be waiting; this time with an easier turnaround. As an abandoned user of iGoggle and Reader, I'm still a huge fan of the RSS features of Pipedot and still use it daily. Others have suggested that other site features, like the internal mail system, could be expanded to include full web-email abilities - which may still be explored in the future. Suggestions for improvements are welcome!

As always, if an enterprising individual wants to step up and help as an additional editor or help in other ways, send me a message.

Damn, now I think we need a Disagree mod. Just for this occasion.

Fuck off.

DudeI like where this is goingbut not hereUrls posted here may end up in real time block lists.Try posting a technical news article

Great article. Kodi is a great cord-cutting tool, and it’s really easy to use streaming Movies or TV shows and watch live TV on Kodi with it on your favorite Android. Kodi has become very famous computer app. It is open source software that can be installed on each movable running devices Android, Mac OS X, BSD, iOS, Linux, or Windows operating systems. It is also known as XBMX (Xbox Media Center).

This makes me sad.

Long live pipedot!

pipedot is....alive? found an old reference on soylentnews and thought I'd take a look. No pipedot is dead and waiting for the hosting contract to run out.

So, you're saying you only read it for the RSS. Perhaps what this place needs is a lolcat forum? Then people can come here just for the pictures.

The linked article has interesting information about the different approaches to building applications for mobile devices... but we need more than just a hyperlink as the story.

Outsourcing!

In the case of Sierra Leone elections, the system built by Agora allows the voters who are registered within the system to see these public ledgers but only authorized people can make any changes, thus reducing the chances of fraud since the information is available to all blockchain users enrolled in the system.The agencywhich enabled the elections with blockchain,Agora, a Swiss foundation offers digital voting solutions and uses a permitted blockchain. Agora monitored the manual votes cast in the western district, the most populous, of the country, using the technology.

Windows 10 has a print to pdf function in office products etc. Windows 7 users had cutepdf.

Haven't looked over here in some time, but I'm a very happy user of the Pipedot RSS page -- thank you for keeping it going.

On SoylentNews:
> ... Just HuffPo with user comments...
This seems a little harsh to me. I'm seeing plenty of tech articles there, but often they don't draw many comments (or only draw off-topic comments).
On the down side, there are a few high volume posters who take standard sides in "political" discussions. But the number of interesting AC posts are still fairly high.

I agree.

Must be an anime

Serious hardware and forethought are required now for mining

IMHO the green site is utterly worthless at this point. Most articles are politics and flame bait. The few technical articles are massively inaccurate. The discussion is nothing of value EXCEPT for the handful of people who explain why the article is BS.

The red site was never what I wanted. It's not a tech site, or particularly intelligent at all. Just HuffPo with user comments...

To get a little fix of tech news I hit up The Register, but something has really been lost in the downfall of /. and the failure of anybody else to fully pick up the torch and run with it. I certainly haven't been commenting anywhere, and I'm sure many thousands of other knowledge people are keeping their insights to themselves these days, too. A real shame.

With the red site doing well, and even the green site getting bought out by a new benevolent dictator, the need for another alternative has diminished considerably. If the other two sites self destruct or start a new "beta" fiasco, I'm sure we'll get some some renewed interest - but for now, yes, we are sleeping. I still use the site quite a bit every day to read RSS feeds so the site is definitely not dead. I also have a pretty big backlog of code changes to push up (probably around the release of the next Ubuntu LTS in April.)

Of course, I would not be opposed to a new editor volunteering and posting some fresh stories. Send me a message if interested!

http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/malcolm-turnbull-to-discuss-trade-with-donald-trump-after-us-president-reopens-door-to-tpp-20180126-h0one3.html

"Australian farmers will be able to sell more beef, cheese, wheat and rice to Japan and more sugar to Canada and Mexico."

The Greens are still against it: "The original deal gave multinationals the power to override the will of the Australian people by allowing corporations to sue governments, even when a government is acting in the interest of the community," the party's trade spokeswoman Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. "It has no protection for local content and Australian creative industries. If this zombie TPP is anything like what was originally proposed, it should have been left dead, buried and cremated."

and we still don't know what we're getting into http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-opinion/how-about-showing-us-the-tpp-deal-were-about-to-sign-20180124-h0ntni.html

"Australia's national income would eventually be 0.5 per cent higher, a gain of less than half of one-tenth of a per cent per year."

That's not much considering the cost. "enforced protections for the owners of pharmaceutical patents and extensions to copyright law." which is what America wants as it moves away from primary industries.

Waiting for an editor to be nominated, it does seem.

We could do with a sandpit. Thanks for pointing it out

Don’t throw your old computer just yet! Use a lightweight Linux distro and revive that decades-old system. Itsfoss has a list distributions to bring an old computer back to life. The distros mentioned in the article, which provides an overview of each with minimum machine specs needed, is: Peppermint, Lubuntu, Linux Lite, LXLE, CrunchBang++, Bodhi, antiX, SparkyLinux, PuppyLinux, TinyCore.

Version 2.49.1 won't download.

You think that is not possible with non-self-driving cars?

Does your car have any sort of internet connection? Then it is hackable.

Yep, I mean it's much better than the green site and certainly no worse than SoylentNews.

That would certainly block incoming data to the phone at that moment, but what's to stop software on the phone logging undesired information locally for later upload next time you do use it? OK you could monitor the memory and card free space but some data could still be stored in an existing fixed length file.

Downvoted as this is off topic.

I don't think per capita consumption numbers are very relevant. The whole EU is behind the US in numbers of cattle:

http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-ranking-countries-0-106905

Per capita, the U.S. only ranks 16th in milk consumption. Finland is number 1. Are they working on this?

From the looks of it this should have been forked some time ago

Amit Malewar - some guy you know?

http://netflix-australia.com/movies/
http://netflix-australia.com/series/
http://www.allflicks.net/
https://www.finder.com.au/netflix-australia-vs-netflix-us-tv-shows
https://www.finder.com.au/netflix-australia-vs-netflix-us-movies
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/hometech/how-the-australian-netflix-differs-from-the-us-service-20150323-1m60g8.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1rLXhTvs9sfnQEGoKFjlOT0wmDLbQwcodwk5DRxWZWsA/edit#gid=0
and many more

Sounds Great! I also really enjoy netflix the free way :-). It's great to watch netflix and even better free.

Me too, I think the author here has done a fabulous job of the site, we just need a constructive community to move in and build up the submissions and comments.

To put this level of noise and power in perspective our fast dry hand dryers (in around 10 seconds) have a decibel level that never goes above 75. 80 is pretty load and powerful!

http://www.news.com.au/finance/business/retail/amazons-impending-arrival-means-australian-shopping-centres-have-to-shape-up-or-risk-shutting-down/news-story/66ecd48160d3e9c47c8e684409241513

When eBay goes down people will move to the local Amazon. Easy.

http://theconversation.com/google-trumps-apple-for-australian-mobile-payments-but-for-how-long-52429

despite initial enthusiasm for Apple Pay, persuading US consumers to switch from using physical cards or cash to using Apple Pay has been tough going. A recent survey found Apple Pay use was declining.

Imagine going into your local café to buy two coffees, using Apple Pay via your American Express card, say at $3.80 per coffee. Total cost to you $7.60. If the café charges a 2% surcharge for accepting American Express, then you will pay $7.75. Why pay 15 cents more, when you could use your MasterCard or Visa, credit or debit card? You can easily avoid the surcharge and still “tap and go”.

Oh well

Submitting to The Pipe is free. Give it a try! I am!

I love that this story has more posts. Slashdot is unbearable these days, and I've always held a candle for Pipedot, with fingers crossed that it gains more readers, more stories, and more comments...

Posting this as I am happy to hear that the 3.5mm jack will stay, ambivalent about USB-C, worried about not being able to replace a mobile phone battery or take it out for a force reset if need be, and seriously annoyed with smart phones with virtual buttons in the past. They are a pain in the ass, the touch screen eventually dies, the physical button isn't accidentally triggered, and there must be a market out there for people who like the three physical buttons?

Or never. That link is now dead.
Or the ACT government has been dismantled.
Or the ACT government is highly dysfunctional.
It could be anything really.

Vibrator maker pays out after admiting to tracking users with online app

Come on.
Try harder.

Manufacturer of vibrators involuntarily puts out after tracking user orgasms

Vibrating sensation not tickled by data breach lawsuit loss

Company caught red handed with users private data in class action

Class action against vibrator specialist after hacker string erupted

How did porn come into this?

You can also set each team to start with different specific weapons if you want to test a theory that you could defeat a well equipped military force with your bolt action rifle or crossbow.

That's... cool.

Download is an ISO, which is different for Linux games. A torrent would be good - few trust SourceForge these days.

Consider writing an article about the Linux Game Database - https://lgdb.org/ - because some of us have not ever seen this before

Do we need a tag for #pipevertisements ? :-)