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I have to agree. And I prefer them to be divergent. I left /. because I didn't like what they were doing to the site. I left SN because I found only about 10% of the content interesting. I found |. and thought I had finally found a place to my liking: something as close to the old, old /. as I could get. And now |. is becoming a reader for SN. This is not what I am looking for and if the trend continues in the wrong direction then, alas, I will have to start my search again. I really want a site that honestly is "news for nerds" and "stuff that matters" and not all of the other junk we get on SN (including the "off the deep end" comments). Please turn off the feed.

I wouldn't mind reading more articles every day of the same quality as the one-a-day pipedot one, on the other hand don't forget quantity != quality

As for submissions, I'm unfortunately more of a "late" reader: whenever I see something interesting on one of my favorite tech sites, it's already been posted here or at SN :-/

I'll happily submit the day I'm first on the ball though ;-)

I think we need to focus on how to get get content on Pipedot. Maybe feedstreams like the Soyfeed (I love that word!) are one approach, but there may be others? This isn't my site and I'm not doing the coding, but just to get the party started, what about things like:

• submit articles by email, using some kind of protocol (first paragraph is the title, second is the intro, third is the link or something). Spam wouldn't be too much of a problem because all articles have to go through an editor anyway
• what about some easy way to go from an RSS reader to a submittal form, like Android's awesome "share via" system that allows you to build various bridges. Or does this mean getting someone to develop an app or equivalent, which would be a totally different and maybe cumbersome coding effort? (but cool/awesome nonetheless)?

I wanted to add that even if two-way communication would not be possible, I like this feature as it brings more sites into one. People like me, mostly lurking and seldom commenting do not need two-way communication.

I hadn't checked PD in a couple of days due to hectic schedule and found.. a WHOLE PAGE of articles. Didn't even realise it was SN.. until I hit the article about pipedot cannibalising SN :P

bwhahahahahaha

Good one Brian. Funniest event so far this year.

Still, I'd like to be able to filter out SN articles via the GUI, an option box on the front page to hide/show news from SN perhaps? Pipedot has a different feel and while the two are aligned they are not the same.

I definitely like it! I hope this will lead to two way cooperation so soylent would also get the comments here.

I have to say I already see them diverging. SN, IMHO, is much more general news it includes a lot of politics and general interest articles. |. is definitely more tech focused, and I like it that way. Problem being, there isn't really much opinion involved with straight up tech news so there's not really all that much to say about it. The few pieces I see on |. that do have some opinion involved are also posted to SN, which has a lot more off the deep end people to argue with... http://xkcd.com/386/

I noticed it because I read both after about the third article I started noticing the comments on the stories were also the same. I kind of like the idea that if I wanted to make my own personal news aggregate I could have it point to different sites, but it's probably not a great idea... I don't remember reading the experiment was going to take place, sorry if it was noted somewhere, it would probably be prudent to make it well known if something like that is going to take place in the future and not before hand you have the proper permissions.

A couple of thoughts from one of your volunteer editors:

1. Our current poll shows most of us also read Soylentnews. That's good news - we should be sister sites, not competition, and it's my preference to avoid duplicate content. That's sometimes impossible but I have noticed any article that has also been submitted to Soyent gets no comments, so maybe we should avoid multiple submissions.
2. Pipedot flipped the switch on the Soy feed after (A) the pipe had been dry for a whole week, and (B) I was too busy with my day job and a database project to be able to provide content. If no one submits articles here there aren't going to be any to read. Thanks to the handful of you who do provide content.
3. I noticed the soy feed instantly killed discussion at Pipedot. Because you could comment on the article over at Soylent and have them replicate here, that's what everyone - including yours truly - did. It seems with the Soy feed turned on, Pipedot became nothing more than an alternative GUI to Soylent (like a reader). That makes Pipedot not very useful, particularly because you could read but not comment on articles, or if you did comment, they wouldn't be replicated back.

In general, I like having both Soy and Pipe, and i like it that they're separate. That allows both groups to develop their own personalities and focus, and it allows everyone to see how the differences in moderation etc. lead to different characters of site. I don't see these two sites as competition, as I contribute to both. But I would like to see them diverge a bit, and that will probably happen over time.

Other unintended effects: everyone stopped commenting on Pipedot because if you commented on Soylent they'd replicate to Pipedot, but not the reverse. Also the flood of articles/comments kind of drowned out the Pipedot faithful. This was an interesting technical feat but I'm not sure it benefited the site.

Fixed. And keep up the good work ^^; I'm pretty sure a lot of ex-TrueCrypt users will love being able to flock to using this project.

One of the goals of this site was the self-hosting ability of the software. Ideally, anyone should be able to fire up a copy of Pipecode on their own web server and immediately have access to the existing collection of stories and comments submitted by the community. Similar to the venerable Usenet of that long lost September, the canonical website (Pipedot.org, SoylentNews.org, etc..) is simply a "viewer" of the underlying network. If all the users in the community have access to the entire database, problems such as the recent "beta" debacle simply cannot occur. If any one site becomes obnoxious towards its users, the users can simply switch to a different portal of the network.

Ok, this is pretty funny. It's a joke right? A post submission doesn't seem to me like proper notice. Also, on behalf of John Doe? :D

Anyway, I will say though that the automatic content scrapping of pipedot has brought soylent news comments with it. I'd rather these be kept out, honestly.

It is my experience that people interested in tech news kept reading slashdot or went to other sites, while people interested in drama went to soylent. Let's keep this place clean.. even if it means less content.

Thanks for posting this. The download link is broken, the correct page is here

I posted anonymously because I can't be bothered to register when I can post without registering.

Windows may well be more secure than a Linux or a BSD, but without the source, how can you tell?

n/t

Oh, yeah - I often use pipedot.

You are absolutely right, and quite insightful. Hoping the comments section will lead to discovery of some of those interesting blogs and less-known sites. The world doesn't need another site that simply aggregates content from the biggies - if you want to know what ArsTechnica is doing, you can go there yourself, methinks.

- IEEE Spectrum
- Wired (.com and .co.uk). Although tainted by sensationalism and sometimes a bit off the mark, I find interesting stuffs there.
- pipedot ( error: recursive path ;-) )

BBC News, tech section
Although I usually hang at the Sci/Environment and Health sections.

I think the value of a news site that doesn't have original content is in finding articles that I wouldn't otherwise have seen. So I would recommend to not monitor the popular sites, but look for articles on less known sites, blogs etc.

You're right. But try it - it works! It resolves to .org. But face it, that place hasn't been a dot-org for at least ten years now. If the rapaciouscorporation TLD ever becomes available, I'd be tempted to register it and then assign links to a couple of companies I know. How funny would it be to own exxon.rapaciouscorporation and have it autoresolve; repeat for other companies that seem more interested in making money than in offering decent, customer-based service?

A non-free OS can never be secure. This isn't trolling or fanboyism, it's just plain obvious.

Backdoor? Phone-home routine? There is just no easy way to tell without the source. Plus, there is no way to fix it without being able to legally modify and run your own fixes.

lol at the .com at the end of slashdot.

No wonder you posted anonymously. I'd want anonymity too if I'd posted such a weak attempt at trolling. I'm no fan of Windows but I'm also not blinded by fanboyism, thinking by using a niche OS I'm safe. You might be *safer* on another OS, but you're not *safe.* Security takes a lot of effort, no faint amount of smarts, and a bit of annoyance to the user. Windows has problems, but there isn't an OS out there that doesn't have vulnerabilities or can be/has been cracked.

There are a hell of a lot of busted Linux installs out there, and that's just the start of it. This DoxBox sounds pretty neat.

Think about laptop theft.

If you care about your security and are still using windows you are doing it wrong.

There's some excellent commentary over at HackerNews. Looks like the UI is universally hated (I didn't think it's so bad).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8212885

Within that thread is a link to a LWN article worth reading, about some security flaws and the project owner's somewhat arrogant refusal to fix them. Looks like calibre may be open source in that you can see the source code. But the project owner isn't overly open to taking bug reports, it seems. Oh well, a one-man project! He's not the only one!

I was looking for epub software. Will give it a try.

Can I ask what CPU?
Also how many books do you have in your library?

Although I tested both IPv4 and IPv6 geolocation lookups, my own IPv6 addresses merely report back "United States" and lack the normal City-level precision of the IPv4 records. Because I'm using MaxMind's GeoLite Free database, I believe that the IPv6 portion isn't nearly as complete as the IPv4 portion.

Somebody - maybe you? - mentioned this on an earlier post. I'm surprised! I don't have a great machine - Intel Core Duo, I think, with 2G of RAM. It runs just fine. I wouldn't want to run it on a Pentium 4 I'm sure. I'm not disputing your experience, just surprised. I think it runs a huge number of complicated Python scripts behind the scenes.

On a middle-aged machine (a little low on CPU but plenty of RAM), Calibre can take up to two MINUTES to start. It can take equally long to load a 1mb PDF or a 500k epub. (It does somewhat better on .mobi files.) When I go to page down, it often stalls for up to half a minute. I like the fact that it's capable of handling so many file formats, but lordy, the patience it's extracted from me in return...

Hurrah for tzdata!

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Are you sure the tracking works?

I'm pretty sure I have clicked on that short link, but Europe/Copenhagen isn't in the list.

Even if the click went over IPv6, the other end of my IPv6-tunnel is in Sweden, but I don't see Europe/Stockholm in the list either.

I have tried this path. The OS is not ready for full use. On a phone or tablet there are some things which are forgivable especially in light of past phone software. As it is I am annoyed that my phone could function as a PC but doesn't. Having a desktop with the same limitations is highly irritating.

While an excellent idea, note that Commodire Pi is at alpha stage, at best. Not quite usable at the moment. You may be better off with an emulator such as vice if you just want C64.

Or get RetroPie which supports:

• Amiga (UAE4All)
• Apple II (LinApple)
• Apple Macintosh (Basilisk II)
• Armstrad CPC (CPC4RPi)
• Arcade (PiFBA, Mame4All-RPi)
• Atari 800
• Atari 2600 (RetroArch)
• Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon
• C64 (VICE)
• CaveStory (NXEngine)
• Doom (RetroArch)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Final Burn Alpha (RetroArch)
• Game Boy Advance (gpSP)
• Game Boy Color (RetroArch)
• Game Gear (Osmose)
• Intellivision (RetroArch)
• MAME (RetroArch)
• MAME (AdvMAME)
• NeoGeo (GnGeo)
• NeoGeo (Genesis-GX, RetroArch)
• Sega Master System (Osmose)
• Sega Megadrive/Genesis (DGEN, Picodrive)
• Sega Mega-CD (Picodrive)
• Sega 32X (Picodrive)
• Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch)
• N64 (Mupen64Plus-RPi)
• PC Engine / Turbo Grafx 16 (RetroArch)
• Playstation 1 (RetroArch)
• ScummVM
• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (RetroArch, PiSNES, SNES-Rpi)
• Sinclair ZX Spectrum (Fuse)
• PC / x86 (rpix86)
• Z Machine emulator (Frotz)

I didn't know about the short codes or statistic pages. I continue to be impressed by the quality of this site.

This article is related: a list of things youngsters won't be doing this summer (It's a relatively nostalgic look back at England in the 80s/90s). http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/nostalgia/summer-holiday-children-not-doing-7508570 Spending endless time in front of a C=64 to play computer games is one of the items. But actually, I can think of worse things than giving your kid a Raspbi and a soldering iron and a project book, and letting him or her get into electronics. Unless he burns the house down of course.

By the way, FIRST POST! Boo ya.

You'd probably need to throw in a special "Arizona" to the list, considering it's one of the few states that understand DST is a pointless exercise and refuse to change the clocks.

So... it's more like: "Australian government caught requesting browser data without a warrant"

and remember, 2 + 2 = 5

Third party trackers, like Google Analytics, go against the Privacy Statement of this site and will never be seen here.

Amazing!

...but AOL was pretty smart to get itself acquired by Time-Warner, thus turning temporarily hot stock into something with a lot more long term value.

Of course Time-Warner were idiots for going through with their side of that deal.

The Pirate Party of Australia has been lobbying against the proposed data retention laws.

nevergonnagive.you.up.nevergonnalet.you.down<p>
When you write it the way he sings it it has exactly the same effect.

How about piwik then?
For admin use only of course. With deidentified data.

It's much more fun to spoof a location.
You might cheer up the soul-crushed analytics guy by being the one person who ordered a pizza from Rothera Point.

Third party trackers, like Google Analytics, go against the Privacy Statement of this site and will never be seen here.

Of course, that applies more to the third party part than the analyze part. Some parts of pipecode, such as the recently added short code links, do record some statistics and are, in fact, using IP geolocation to plot where people are browsing from. For example, the short code for this poll is: http://pipedot.org/3ZH and it's statistic page is: http://pipedot.org/3ZH+

I prefer the "select a nearby city" method of selecting your timezone. The "GMT minus X" method is off by 1 hour for half the year. But if I select "America/Chicago", I know that I'll always get Central Time as defined by the current political tweaking. Those politicians seem to like to change when Daylight Saving Time starts a lot.

• Eastern: America/New_York
• Central: America/Chicago
• Mountain: America/Denver
• Pacific: America/Los_Angeles
• British Time: Europe/London
• Central Europe Time: Europe/Paris
• Eastern Europe Time: Europe/Athens