Which operating system forum or programming languages do you regulary read.

drhowarddrfine said:
… a redditor and I fart in your general direction. …
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I do like references to Monty Python, but the obsession with Reddit is a concern.

drhowarddrfine said:
… I don't think I've looked at the place in five years or more …
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Are five years not enough to begin getting over things?

drhowarddrfine said:
I would always look at any reference to something on reddit with a jaundiced eye and tend to violently vomit after viewing such things. Never, EVER trust anything from reddit.
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It's unusual for a divorcee to be so repeatedly spiteful so long after a divorce; and it's debatably bad form to bitch about an entire family, if one or two people alone caused offence.

Show me, on the dolly, where Reddit touched you.
 
grahamperrin said:
the obsession with Reddit is a concern.
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It's not an obsession despite the recent references. I never think of the place in my daily life or mention it till someone else does. Fortunately, I've gone years without seeing it referenced on this forum which is what makes this place so peaceful and educated.
 
I read suckless website.
I watch iBSD on YouTube (I can not follow because I don't have Google account.)

drhowarddrfine said:
80% of all users are kids under 18 years old with no work experience or knowledge of the subject. 80% of the rest are incompetent boobs sitting in their Mom's basement typing nasty responses while watching porn.
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This let more interesting post than in a pub... The missing beer is maybe the reason.
 
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Hakaba said:
… The missing beer is maybe the reason.
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Maybe, although I'm more a gin person.

The majority of Reddit users have either some college education or a degree, I'm happy to be tarred with this brush. Not as happy as when I'm drunk but hey, for now I'm tipsy with glee with the sentiment that /r/freebsd is amongst the better subreddits. It doesn't make me more educated, but if /r/freebsd places me in better-educated company than the majority of Reddit users, I'm satisfied.
 
List of stuff:

https://forums.freebsd.org - but seriously, my favorite forum
https://distrowatch.com/ - It keeps me up to date on most releases Linux and BSD
https://www.osnews.com/ - habit, but used to have all of the best alternative os news - these days 1/2 left wing political rant 1/2 tech news

As for programming languages:
Don't read them, but use them all the time: C, Python, Perl.
Can't stand them, but use them quite a bit: C++, C#
Like 'em but don't use 'em much anymore: Java, Ruby, PHP, ASM, BASIC
Learned them, but couldn't find much practical use for them: Lisp, Scheme
All time favorites: C, Perl, BASIC, Ruby
 
I used to frequent linuxquestions.org but haven't been there in months because there are too many a$$hats acting like jerks. Some folks are OK but many are not so to me, it was a toxic environment and I chose not to hang out there. Other than that, this forum is the only one I ever visit.
 
It is a bit vague a$$hats acting like jerks. Toxic envrironment. Is it possible to mention an anecdote you have read ? So I can understand what you mean ?
 
Sorry, that was English slang and probably not appropriate. I mean some of the answers are not friendly and many of them are dismissive. When people try to answer a question, some members berate them or dismiss the answers, creating an environment where people don't want to even ask questions. It's the electronic equivalent of an argument, if that makes sense. I did not think it was a friendly place.
 
Has anyone seen the movie, "Internet's own boy"? It's about Reddit's founder, he also is the guy who came up with the RSS idea...

But as for usability, I agree, reddit can be frustrating to dig through for usable information. If reddit is like street-level market noise, then FreeBSD forums are more like 'College on a hilltop'. Yeah, a college will occasionally have some bad apples who never learned to actually behave, but on average, the college-educated population tends to be polite company (as opposed to street-level market). Same with FreeBSD forums - we do have some bad apples, some people who could benefit from learning about FreeBSD or forum etiquette, but on average, it's easier to find useful info on FreeBSD forums than on reddit. This is at least in part thanks to mods who do put in more effort to moderate than what I see on reddit.
 
I find the report button in the forum funny. Mainly because i have never to reported something or I probably never will, nor will i probably ever need to report. I know forums where the report button is misused by rotten apples. Not here.
 
astyle said:
… mods who do put in more effort to moderate than what I see on reddit.
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https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/moderators just one moderator. Two, maybe three conversations with me – about sidebar content (not about any person).

This, for example:

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If a person bothers me enough, I'll ignore or block.

Two people ignored here in FreeBSD Forums.

Of the few people blocked at Reddit (a much larger place), I recognise only one name, I blocked him around a month ago for being unnecessarily disruptive (more towards other people, than towards me). It's hard to tell, with forgotten names, but I guess that three of the blocked people were /r/freebsd participants.
 
A drawback of rust is that the description is large. So it more for bigger projects.
For something small i first try ruby, then python and then Dlang.
Ada is not a bad language when you don't need object-orientation. Because that is ugly.
 
astyle That's similar to something I said years ago. Completely agree.

I'll never forget the time I got fed up over there and said to someone, "What are you? Fifteen?" To which he replied, "I'm turning 16 tomorrow!". After that, I started asking people their age and found out the majority in the subs I was getting frustrated with, at that time, were kids under 20 years old.
 
astyle said:
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Search engines are our friends.

<https://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/+expression&tbs=li:1#unfucked> and so on.

As far as I can tell, Reddit search is simply not designed to seek comments, which I hate, but hating does not change a site with something like fifty-two million daily active users. In any case: if comments (from so many users) were publicy indexed by Reddit, then search results there could become worse.

ELI5: Why is reddit's search engine so bad : explainlikeimfive
 
Once we were all under 20. And sometimes I which i would be under 20.
But as as former teacher i know we can have very productive conversations with younger persons.
 
Alain De Vos said:
But as as former teacher i know we can have very productive conversations with younger persons.
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Well, you still gotta do your "Think before you speak" thing, and set a positive example with that. And yeah, it's on you to do that, and steer the conversation to where you want it to go - otherwise you'll end up with something like a reddit thread.

Oh, and responding to the topic of this thread - I do read Phoronix, a bit of Distrowatch. I used to read ZDNet and extract interesting tech news from that (ZDNet is where I learned about an obscure embedded OS by Google - Fuschia). But recently, ZDNet has not been that interesting for me... too much news about corporate acquisitions, large-scale stuff (that usually turns out to be snake oil), and work culture, even if the focus is tech companies.
 
astyle said:
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Years ago I subscribed, via e-mail, to content by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols <https://www.zdnet.com/meet-the-team/us/steven-j-vaughan-nichols/>. I can't recall what drove me to subscribe but I still click through to some of what he posts.

Close to home, this 2012 series of twelve articles was memorable: SharePoint 2010: A migration odyssey | ZDNet … the links from one article to the next are now broken, if anyone's interested I can share a working set of bookmarks (away from this topic).

I'm no longer with Brighton Business School, but one of the current researchers spent around six years (mostly in the 1990s) with Ziff-Davis/ZDNet. Things then were … quite different :)
 
I only go to Hacker News and see what the headlines are. If it doesn't apply to me (and the vast majority doesn't) I move on. I don't even look at the comments except if I'm unsure of the importance of the link and want to see what others are saying.

I've found, over the years, that almost everything I read online has nothing to do with me. It doesn't affect me. I don't care. And all that is probably true for you, too, if you think about it. I come to this forum because it's specific to what I use for work.

The social angle here is better than anywhere else I go except when I used to belong to a professional cinematographer's forum (an entirely different side of me you don't know about). It was about the same way there as this place except we had to use our real names to join (and, yes, they checked you out).
 
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