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by zamnos 1207 days ago
As if https://xkcd.com/979/ wasn't bad enough, people are deleting posts and submissions now? Am I old and getting out of touch, or are kids these days not just not thinking through things before they post?
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ffgh 1207 days ago
FWIW, I've never posted anything on SO and none of my GitHub comments/issues are going to be deleted. It's not so much what I post, it's more of a conscious thing, knowing I have stuff online for the world to see. It just doesn't sit well with me anymore. I'm not by any means a public figure or popular it's just tinhat things I guess.
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scarface74 1207 days ago
Exactly. My earliest still available posts on the internet are from 1994 on Usenet. You can still find them.

I can confidently say that nothing I’ve ever posted on the internet would be ruinous to my career or personal life.

My spending time on *.advocacy in the 90s would be more embarrassing in a teenage high school picture type of way.

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ffgh 1207 days ago
Shout out to my teenage self for not using real names back in SMF and phpBB forum days
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