Underestimating your own children never ends well.

…and then they’ll never trust you fully again. Ever.

This is the most shortsighted shit I’ve seen in a long time.

That was an interesting read, thank you.

That number doesn’t really tell us anything about the amount of post/content generation that was lost. One or two persons could change the general tone of a smaller sub easily, and often did so.

If only those two hypothetical posters left it could very well lead to a downward spiral into whatever bullshit is going on over there now.

Some of the smaller more specialised subs I frequented simply don’t exist anymore due to what happened.

He’s the only reason I ever managed to get into any sort of coding at all.

This hit a lot harder than I feel comfortable with.

You’re both completely correct. The biggest tell is probably the fact that the sheet is essentially floating above the tray.

The man is a swedish speaking Finn originally, it kinda comes with the territory. We might technically be a minority but we’re still as Finnish as the rest of them (to a certain degree at least).

He’s not a giant asshole, he just doesn’t sugar-coat everything he says.

It’s sort of a defining trait in people where he is from. If we say something we tend to say it straight. He might be a more extreme example than most, but I had a good friend from the same neighborhood and he was the same.

We grew up a few years later when he had already moved to the US, but we used to sneak smokes in the park right outside where he first made Linux. My friend lived in the same building as he had done, but he was so computer illiterate that he had no idea who Linus was. I did, though, because Linus described that place pretty well in what I believe was his first book.

Fuck, didn’t know Mitnick died. Just married and with a child on the way, too.

He was arguably at his best at social engineering, too. Don’t know if it’s a real quote, but I remember reading about him saying it can bypass all your electronics, firewalls included.

That typo made me chuckle way harder than it should’ve, too.