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1. How Did GitLab Scale Up for the Slashdot Effect? Point and Click
(English/Linuxtoday)

DataCenterKnowledge: Evidently, there's still an ample number of open source devs who don't want to have anything to do with Microsoft Read all

2. Error'd: Trick or Treat? Smell My Feet
(English/WTF)

... privacy dispute!? Thanks Slashdot!"   "Why yes, it's the first time that I've see this network at the workplace," wrote Wouter.   Adam L. writes, "And here I thought you ...

3. On Slashdot's 20th anniversary, cofounder Rob Malda reflects on the site's early days (Rob Malda)
(English/Techmeme)

Rob Malda: On Slashdot's 20th anniversary, cofounder Rob Malda reflects on the site's early days  —  I registered the domain name ‘Slashdot.org’ 20 years ago today.  ...

4. Slashdot is 20
(English/BoingBoing ibag)

Destinyland writes, "Slashdot turns 20 years old today [Ed: here's my post from Slashdot's 10th birthday!], and to celebrate they've gone back to look at how some of the highlights -- like the time they ...

5. Senate Passes Bipartisan Energy Bill To Develop New Technologies, Improve Cybersecurity (Slashdot)
(English/Security)

Slashdot Senate Passes Bipartisan Energy Bill To Develop New Technologies, Improve Cybersecurity - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Post: The U.S. Senate acted in a bipartisan fashion ...

6. Linux Mint Online Site Spread Malevolent ISOs
(English/Security)

... slashdot.org, February 21, 2016. Linux Mint task leader Clement Lefebyre admitted that the first.... Read all  ...

7. Linus Torvals says we shouldn't fear AI
(English/Betanews)

... during a Q&A session with Slashdot users. "We’ll get AI, and it will almost certainly be through something very much like recurrent neural networks", he said in response to one user’s question. "And ...

8. The SourceForge Controversy, and the Ongoing Fall of Slashdot Media, Explained
(English/HackInTheBox)

... misleading its users. Then its sister company, web news aggregator Slashdot, was attacked for seemingly hiding these allegations. It’s the latest chapter in the decline of Slashdot, once an important corner ...

9. Did Slashdot bury negative stories about SourceForge?
(English/Linuxtoday)

 ITworld: Some folks might not know that Slashdot and SourceForge are both owned by the same parent company, Slashdot Media. Read all  ...

10. True password confessions of a security expert
(English/Betanews)

... many online services *deep breath* for a long time. It wasn't a big deal at first, I only used it on slashdot, then eBay, then Yahoo, then Apple then a plethora of other systems until I simply lost control, ...

11. Announcements: Survey Results & Site Redesign
(English/WTF)

... with a new look on the OMGWTF2 Contest Mini-site, and got some pretty positive feedback. In an effort not to pull a Slashdot (or worse, the rename that shall not be named) , we wanted to ask you, the ...

12. Error'd: A 43 Year Long Cruise
(English/WTF)

... wrote, "I think Slashdot and I have different ideas of what the word 'disabled' means."   [Advertisement] BuildMaster 4.1 has arrived! Check out the new Script Repository feature and see how ...

13. Error'd: I Love a Good Food Poisoning!
(English/WTF)

... it had just shown me...but it did find a Related Item."   Neil B. wrote, "I guess alphabetic sorting is one more problem another thing Slashdot's beta is having problems with."   ALSO ...