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When Stack Overflow Gets Blocked
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When Stack Overflow Gets Blocked

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The image is a photo of a Dell laptop screen showing a browser attempting to open Stack Overflow, with many tabs visible across the top. A centered red-bordered warning says `Sorry, you don't have permission to visit this website.` and explains `You are not permitted to perform this action due to` a blurred company `Information Security Policy`; it also says `Not allowed the use of this system and development site`, lists `Stackoverflow.com`, and includes `See our internet use policy`. The humor is that a company has blocked one of the most common developer reference and troubleshooting sites under the banner of security. For engineers, it captures the absurd productivity cost of blunt corporate filtering policies that treat knowledge lookup as risky behavior.

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Blocking Stack Overflow for security is a bold way to replace copy-pasted answers with copy-pasted despair.
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Blocking Stack Overflow for security is a bold way to replace copy-pasted answers with copy-pasted despair.

  2. @ilovethicktights 3y

    1984

  3. @LastStranger 3y

    It says a lot about society...

  4. @trainzman 3y

    It's like restricting books usage, as they provide information

    1. @Agent1378 3y

      Nope. SO usage is bad. People don't know what are they doing and why - just copy-paste shitty code from the site and let it roll. And then comes imposter syndrome and other problems. Use only official documentation for the tools you're using, maybe some dedicated highly specific forum too. Not SO. Its a way to disaster.

      1. @CcxCZ 3y

        Depends on the type of question. For the basic code monkey tasks absolutely. For more general CS tasks and algorithms where you can't copy paste the result the quality of answers is significantly better. And I'd take serverfault over Ubuntu forums (or Microsoft ones) any day. The issue with SO is that they tried to gamify answering questions and they disproportionately reward the first set which has the worst signal to noise ratio so the more useful questions get little attention.

      2. @trainzman 3y

        I always use the principle, not the solution itself, I've never copied anything from it, it's like an additional step for getting some popular problem's solution before going to docs

      3. @Nefrace 3y

        Why do you think that if someone goes to SO for the answers then they will surely copy-paste code from the answer without thinking? I'm using SO sometimes but i'm doing it by reading the answer and without any copy-pasting.

        1. @Agent1378 3y

          Because too many people do it like ir have described. If you do it once a month, controllably and thoughtfully- then no problem. But, like with drinking or drugs, people tend to abuse it. So it is easier for a company to just block it (like with drugs) .

          1. @CcxCZ 3y

            Like that ever worked.

  5. @trainzman 3y

    It's not 1984

  6. @trainzman 3y

    It's 451

  7. @Grisha_Cap 3y

    Imagine the gigachads who work there

    1. @trainzman 3y

      (they don't know shit)

      1. @Grisha_Cap 3y

        They just search answers on mail.ru

        1. @trainzman 3y

          Where people are ROFLing from questions

          1. @Grisha_Cap 3y

            Mail.ru is the modern day Library of Alexandria

            1. @SamsonovAnton 3y

              Only with regard to it must be burned? 😁

      2. @Agent1378 3y

        As if those who use SO know anything besides copy-paste.

  8. @NIK1357master 3y

    Вот пидорасы (Very bad persons)

    1. @sylfn 3y

      people*

  9. @realVitShadyTV 3y

    Few years ago boss asks me to not visit StackOverflow when I am in work. Not because he was despotic (he was but this is not a point why) but because I often answer to other people questions and only somethimes looking for help stuff for me.

  10. no name 3y

    what if their policy is whitelist based?

    1. @wireva 3y

      then their policy sucks

      1. no name 3y

        from cybersecurity point of view it does great job

  11. @Agent1378 3y

    Well, https://youtu.be/AS3kA_AtRTo

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