@danilo@josh Our librarians in Canada are very sensitive to privacy: years ago they guided my university computing services department to understand privacy and confidentiality
The way a bank refuses to let you put a comma in a value, subverting an an attempt to cut-and-paste the correct amount, yet in the confirmation screen for the transfer formats the value with the comma reinstated.
Most software is just so shitty now. Was it ever better? I dunno, but I blame the vast open source packaging ecosystem for outsourcing quality.
@robpike It was definitely better, even in the CP/M erra with people swapping home-made software via BBSs.
The fall in quality was coincident with MS starting to semi-publicly say "let the customer debug it"... though to be fair, Bill wasn't the only person shipping startlingly bad programs.
I fear it was a fast-spreading disease of that era (-()
@shoq@Green_Footballs@marisakabas
Have a lawyer write a letter to the chief counsel at meta, pointing out their error. If they don't reply in a reasonable period, a cease-and-desist letter
OH: “None of these galactic fuckheads seem to realize YAML’s a goddamn data exchange format, not the fuckin’ language of the spheres, forged by the seraphim at the dawn of time, held securely in its place of honor in this one directory that’s checked into git”
It's trying to deal with factions, which the derogatory name that the US founders called parties, and hoped to avoid.
What it is doing is broken, and need to be fixed. Just like Canada expected parties, but did not expect extremists who wanted to do a hostile takeover of parties and thereby become government.
I'm talking about you, "Reform". I'm talking about you "MAGA".
follow up question: are there any of these mistakes where you USED to make them but found a trick to avoid making the mistake that worked? what was the trick, and which mistake did it help you avoid?
(as usual, only interested in tricks that you have personally used successfully)
One of the biggest things that's made a difference as I've gotten more experienced as an engineer is learning the difference between solving problems and implementing solutions.
I don't solve obvious problems anymore, I implement obvious solutions
Maybe I need a little guidance. I've been trying out the Samsung Z Flip 5 for the last few months, after 15 years on iPhone (other than a few curious toe-wettings in Android).
I love the hardware. I do not understand the software. In particular, the interfaces (if I can call it that) around settings, privacy, and app dates are impenetrable and a little scary.
@robpike I remember an interop conference in which Microsoft and a round dozen of other network vendors each said "migrate to us, we import email from the other folks. We send only to our customers".
I have a flip 5 too: I avoid using anything that does not swear to interoperate. In public.
I have 13 apps that work: I don't need the other 65 that Giggle and Uncle Samsung "gifted" me with.
As my legal friends say, "not suitable for the purpose sold" , (qv)