Moderation Log


Date/Time Moderator Thing, Action, Reason
2025-03-01 10:37 pushcx Comment by insanitybit on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by ahelwer on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by insanitybit on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by ahelwer on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by insanitybit on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by ahelwer on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by insanitybit on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Pruning off-topic political argument.
2025-03-01 10:36 pushcx Comment by icefox on It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Trying to win a point by bringing up historical atrocities has never actually led to a topical converation.
2025-03-01 06:56 pushcx Story: An update on our Terms of Use | The Mozilla Blog
Action: merged into de2ab1 (Firefox adds terms of use)
Reason: Merging update.
2025-02-28 18:48 pushcx Story: Response to Teammate App's Notification and Disclosure
Action: merged into hfrpwt (New Zealand Company’s ‘Impossible-to-Hack’ Security Turns Out to Be No Security at All)
Reason: Merging update.
2025-02-28 16:07 pushcx Story: Enough with all the Raft
Action: changed title from "\"Enough with all the Raft\" by Alex Miller" to "Enough with all the Raft"
Reason: Please don't include speaker names in titles.
2025-02-27 21:16 pushcx Story: Meta is firing about 20 employees for leaking
Action: deleted story
Reason: Business news is off-topic.
2025-02-27 17:37 pushcx Domain therankwizards.org
Action: Banned
Reason: Backlink spam.
2025-02-27 17:36 pushcx Domain drpc.org
Action: Banned
Reason: Backlink spam.
2025-02-27 16:02 pushcx User sur
Action: Banned
Reason: Voting ring setup owned by spammer.
2025-02-27 16:02 pushcx User Mamma
Action: Banned
Reason: Voting ring setup owned by spammer.
2025-02-27 16:02 pushcx User srijancse
Action: Banned
Reason: Alt of mohanpierce99; already seen abuse from this user's invites.
2025-02-27 15:20 pushcx User mohanpierce99
Action: Banned
Reason: Spammer.
2025-02-27 15:20 pushcx Story: Solve CAPTCHAs with AI Tool
Action: deleted story
Reason: Spam.
2025-02-27 11:41 pushcx Story: What's new in fish 4.0
Action: merged into ym7xhm (Release fish shell 4.0.0, now ported to Rust)
Reason: Merging alternate link, thanks @fanf.
2025-02-27 07:59 pushcx Story: Introducing the Framework Desktop
Action: merged into oblb9x (Framework (2nd Gen) Event)
Reason: Merging into same topic.
2025-02-27 06:34 (Users) Story: Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables
Action: changed title from "Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables - The Go Programming Language" to "Faster Go maps with Swiss Tables"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-26 19:22 (Users) Story: iMac G4(K)
Action: changed title from "iMac G4(K) - joshua stein" to "iMac G4(K)"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-26 16:48 pushcx Story: Tech and the climate crisis
Action: deleted story
Reason: Article does not relate to computing.
2025-02-26 16:47 pushcx Story: What is "founder mode"?
Action: deleted story
Reason: Entrepreneurship is off-topic.
2025-02-26 09:30 pushcx Story: A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer
Action: merged into hdj2q4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust)
Reason: Merging update.
2025-02-26 08:31 (Users) Story: A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer
Action: changed title from "A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer [LWN.net]" to "A change in maintenance for the kernel's DMA-mapping layer"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-26 06:49 pushcx Story: Useless Use of Cat Award (2000)
Action: changed title from "Useless Use of Cat Award" to "Useless Use of Cat Award (2000)"
Reason: Tagging year.
2025-02-25 11:06 (Users) Story: Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers
Action: changed title from "Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers · V8" to "Turbocharging V8 with mutable heap numbers"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-25 10:41 (Users) Story: zlib-rs is faster than C
Action: changed title from "zlib-rs is faster than C - Trifecta Tech Foundation" to "zlib-rs is faster than C"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-25 09:35 pushcx Comment by pushcx on Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code
Action: used Sysop hat
2025-02-24 15:36 pushcx Story: DigiCert makes threat of legal action regarding CA programme Bugzilla discourse
Action: deleted story
Reason: Don't link into projects' issue trackers and discussion spaces to brigade Lobsters readers into their arguments. Can you find a writeup? (also see /c/v2dfj4)
2025-02-24 12:14 pushcx Comment by pushcx on Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code
Action: used Sysop hat
2025-02-23 19:47 pushcx Comment by jamesnvc on Removing Jeff Bezos From My Bed
Action: deleted comment
Reason: Political arguments aren't topical here.
2025-02-23 19:11 pushcx Story: Memory hell
Action: changed title from "Memory hell · Nova" to "Memory hell"
Reason: Please don't include site names in titles.
2025-02-23 19:09 pushcx Story: Explaining an apparent 17:1 female to male population question during the Neolithic
Action: deleted story
Reason: Not a lot of computing happening during the neolithic, so this is probably not topical.
2025-02-23 11:43 pushcx Story: Three questions about Apple, encryption, and the U.K
Action: changed tags from "cryptography privacy" to "cryptography privacy ios law"
Reason: Adding tags.
2025-02-23 08:25 pushcx Story: Against Must-Haves (Part Three)
Action: deleted story
Reason: Management is off-topic. Review the guidelines on self-promo.
2025-02-23 06:17 ianopolous User ianopolous
Action: Doffed hat "Peergos creator": Open source developers are not welcome here.
2025-02-22 11:55 pushcx Domain lkml.org
Action: Banned
Reason: Blocking a common target for brigading, see https://lobste.rs/about#guidelines and https://github.com/lobsters/lobsters/commit/dca5f5674997d6d39172490d623d48b65996ebab
2025-02-22 11:40 pushcx Story: Bookmarklets (and Custom URL Schemes) Are Criminally Underrated
Action: changed url from "https://silly.business/blog/bookmarklets-and-custom-url-schemes-are-criminally-underrated/#footnote-reference-1" to "https://silly.business/blog/bookmarklets-and-custom-url-schemes-are-criminally-underrated/", changed last_edited_at from 2025-02-22 10:40:38.951695000 CST -06:00 to 2025-02-22 11:40:58.217234000 CST -06:00
Reason: rm anchor
2025-02-22 11:23 pushcx Story: The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived
Action: changed description from "Obviously blockchain-adjacent, but not an on-chain attack, and may be interesting to folks." to "", changed markeddown_description from "<p>Obviously blockchain-adjacent, but not an on-chain attack, and may be interesting to folks.</p>\n" to "", changed last_edited_at from 2025-02-22 11:03:42.250997000 CST -06:00 to 2025-02-22 11:23:13.740724000 CST -06:00
Reason: Please don't use the story text to explain why you posted it.
2025-02-22 09:40 pushcx Story: Start a computer club
Action: changed title from "START A COMPUTER CLUB" to "Start a computer club", changed last_edited_at from 2025-02-21 18:15:30.407242000 CST -06:00 to 2025-02-22 09:40:20.018480000 CST -06:00
Reason: Chill.
2025-02-21 15:34 pushcx Story: Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code
Action: merged into hdj2q4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust), changed last_edited_at from 2025-02-21 10:22:22.014195000 CST -06:00 to 2025-02-21 15:34:32.701532000 CST -06:00
Reason: Merging update.
2025-02-21 07:28 pushcx Story: Linus replies to R4L controversy
Action: deleted story
Reason: Don't link into projects' issue trackers and discussion spaces to brigade Lobsters readers into their arguments.
2025-02-20 22:52 (Users) Story: Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs
Action: changed title from "Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs ·" to "Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-20 18:37 pushcx Comment by pushcx on Crustacean for Lobste.rs
Action: used Sysop hat
2025-02-20 10:26 (Users) Story: What I Saw at the Evolution of Plan 9
Action: changed tags from "unix" to "unix historical"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions
2025-02-19 18:08 pushcx Story: Updates on Mozilla's Leadership and Growth Planning | The Mozilla Blog
Action: deleted story
Reason: Business news is off-topic.
2025-02-19 12:11 (Users) Story: Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees
Action: changed title from "Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees | Peter Horne-Khan" to "Relaxed Radix Balanced Trees"
Reason: Automatically changed from user suggestions