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You're obviously very frustrated by how people see the service, but you can't blame them.

The GIMP incident made pretty big news, and for many people, the name "SourceForge" will stay equivalent to a malware-injecting host. Anyone who decided to keep the name should have anticipated that.

It may be increasingly hard to find because employees see things differently now. It's a job market. My employer wants me to put in overtime and go out of my way to improve the company? Great, let's go. But I demand appropriate compensation.

I think that's a reasonable position. My company treats me as a human resource, I treat my company like my client who writes checks for the work I put in.

What I find interesting is that people who like those mate drinks are quite brand loyal (at least in my experience).

I've tried at least 10 different brands since I had my first Club Mate 15 years ago, and I hated every single one of them. A few friends hate Club Mate and only like a single other brand.

I'd like a dead-simple and globally accessible way of donating.

Like github/gitlab/etc allowing to easily deposit money via CC, Paysafecard, Google Wallet et al. The projects could have a "donate" button by default.

I often clone and browse projects and absolutely wouldn't hesitate to donate a few dollars here and there if it's just a click away.

Is safety a real concern here? I would have never viewed Kinder Eggs as dangerous in any way.

I haven't found a single case of a child getting hurt in Germany. Only news reports about them being unhealthy (big surprise).

There was a time where is discovered the speedrun and tas communities and binge-watched everything it has to offer. I was constantly amazed by what the players achieved, and I especially liked the ones where the gap between tas and human player closes.

SethBling made an elaborate, frame-perfect glitch exploit run of Super Mario World where he warps from the first level to the end credits - absolutely unbelievable.

https://youtu.be/14wqBA5Q1yc

Illegal prime 8 years ago

I always felt that that "illegal numbers" is a misunderstanding of data.

There are no illegal numbers. But if you provide context, they can become illegal data. Let's take child pornography for an example, because that's universally accepted as illegal. I could come up with a formula which translates a huge number into a bitmap. I could post the number (i.e. the input for the formula) online, because it is absolutely meaningless to anyone else. But when I publish my formula, it is no longer a number. It's data which can be interpreted as something meaningful, an image.

Everything is just a number without context.