When did they change the #vegemite recipe?!!?!?!1? It spreads like motor oil and tastes like nothing!
I never thought vegemite -- of all the things in the world -- would change like this. It's been around for over a hundred years!
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New #jobs are scary.
Especially when I happen to be working somewhere all of about a quarter mile from a place where a guy tried to mug me, and I ended up in an emergency room with a broken nose, and bleeding face.
They really don't warn you how much they glue stings when they seal your eyebrow shut with it do they?
Oh well.
It's a place with armed security guards I have on speed dial.
All should be fine unless the wrong security guy got hired.
New #jobs are scary.
Especially when I happen to be working somewhere all of about a quarter mile from a place where a guy tried to mug me, and I ended up in an emergency room with a broken nose, and bleeding face.
They really don't warn you how much they glue stings when they seal your eyebrow shut with it do they?
Oh well.
It's a place with armed security guards I have on speed dial.
All should be fine unless the wrong security guy got hired.
My mother was telling someone earlier today that every time there is technological advancement people start dying en-masse. The reason, she said, is their professions become obsolete and they can't adapt quickly enough. This (she says) is what is happening with AI: that there is just gonna be a lot of death between the "old world" and the "new." Just like all techological advancement.
I'd like to help um... console her, by pointing out that most of the time when technology starts killing people, we stop using it, and all mass slaughter in the time of technological advancement has come at the hands of a military power, forcibly advancing the technology on us at pain of death. But I don't really have any sources on that, and she certainly won't believe me just because I feel like it's true.
I'd also like to console her that AI is absolute and total complete hype, and there is no technological sea change going on right now. Just armies of assholes in construction vehicles building data centers on top of our farms. But again... how do I make that obvious to someone who sees the profound effects seemingly caused by the omnipotent machine intelligence that's surely just around the corner now, when in reality it's just caused by the fact that we are not organizing against rich fucks? How am I supposed to know what would result if people did anything at all about rich fucks? I've never seen it happen!
#help #rant #politics
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I just observed this in the Github repo and on the forums of a reasonably popular open source software. I am not going to name the software at this time because the pattern described is not unique to it.
A person has a question about a particular issue, and does what is often recommended to do, or observed, when people have an issue with OSS software. They ask on the relevant Github repo.
The response: please use our forums, this is for bug reports only.
So the person goes to the forums and asks the same question.
Response: fill out the help request template, it’s in our forum rules.
Person replies with more (and sufficient) relevant information.
Response: you didn’t fill out the help request template. It’s against the forum rules to not use the help request template. Thread closed.
The help request template: Describe your problem. Add error messages or log output. Name the version you’re using. Describe how you installed the software. Provide the complete config file. Link relevant resources you’ve used.
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Most of this template was completely irrelevant to the question the person had. But the forum rules state that if you don’t completely fill out the template, you can’t expect to be helped.
If you do this, FUCK YOU. This is gatekeeping of the worst order. The user may be unfamiliar with your software, Github, your forum system, and what you’re doing is the equivalent of spitting in their face and slamming the door on them because they didn’t intuitively know the secret door code. And now you’ve likely not only put them off using your software, but also from seeking help with other OSS projects in the future. In other words, you’ve left a lasting - and detrimental - impression of OSS. Congratulations.
I get it, you get a lot of requests for help and you don’t want people to waste your time. So you cook up these templates to make people give you all the relevant information upfront. But the thing is: sometimes someone really just has a question, and making them provide all this information is not only unnecessary friction, but makes you no more able to help them than you were without it. You're raising the barrier to entry without tangible benefit.
Yes, you’re a volunteer. You’re doing this in your own time, for free. You get a lot of the same requests. News flash: that’s the nature of the game. You want people to spoon-feed you so you can avoid repeatedly spoon-feeding them - but the difference is, you know (or should know) how to spoon-feed people; they may not. And it’s always better to help and provide gentle guidance for future behaviour, than to… not.
Do better, so they can do better.
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I don’t use Trivago because those ads feel like a dental jump scare. I just want a hotel, not eye contact with a man whose teeth look federally regulated. I refuse to be judged by a hallway ghost with perfect veneers.
#ads #travel #marketing #trust #rant #trivago #soccer #teeth
https://ericfoltin.com/trivagos-real-product-is-psychological-warfare/
I don’t use Trivago because those ads feel like a dental jump scare. I just want a hotel, not eye contact with a man whose teeth look federally regulated. I refuse to be judged by a hallway ghost with perfect veneers.
#ads #travel #marketing #trust #rant #trivago #soccer #teeth
https://ericfoltin.com/trivagos-real-product-is-psychological-warfare/