PhilipTheBucket

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 17 hours ago

The Iranians attacked an American base during Trump 1 and injured some soldiers, and Israel had been killing Americans periodically since the USS Liberty. No one’s going to give a shit, in any way that matters.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Yeah 100%, it's all Docker's fault at the end of the day

[–] [email protected] 10 points 18 hours ago

I sort of suspect that, on Reddit, there were malicious people who got skilled at drumming up big vicious controversies to help to drive away people (especially moderators) who they didn't want to have around. There's a pretty popular reddit post where someone who did this professionally (so as to make it possible to shill for particular products in a non-Reddit forum, being paid by the people who made the products) explained some of the details of how it all worked and how little effort it took overall to make it work.

I have no idea about this, I don't even know if Draconic NEO is a mod or what types of things they get up to. But any time I see senseless unhinged drama, especially if it's aimed at one particular person, I think of that reddit post.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 19 hours ago

One of the .ml users down below volunteered to put in the PR later tonight if no one else has, so it sounds like both bases are covered now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds great. Thank you, it sounds like a good idea.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like a genuine miss, contrary to what the comments here would have one believe,

You might be right. I looked at the history and the way it came in, and it's not as wildly anomalous to the rest of the file when looked at in context. Maybe it's just a mistake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Let's not get carried away. Shared software systems are about more than the software. If you're looking only at the software, and that was literally 100% of what is important here and nothing else, then yes, you're right.

But you want it fixed less than you want it publicized

100%. Yes. Correct. I also want it fixed, but that's completely trivial, with or without the pull request.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

See the edit to the post.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Would have been nice with a link from the start.

Yeah, 100%. I edited the post to add more of the details.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 19 hours ago (12 children)

I mean probably I should. There are a bunch of people accusing me of being dick headed and petty and they're not completely wrong. Honestly, I just don't feel like helping the Lemmy devs. Dessalines, at least, is totally unapologetic about being a dickhead to people he has power over. That puts me in a mindset where, mostly, I want to talk to other people about potential harm he's in a position to do, and not really in a mindset where I want to do even a small amount of extra work on his behalf.

I'm going to tell other people that he's in a position to take their passwords. If he wants to see that and put himself not in that position anymore? Great, I think he should. If he gets his feelings hurt because I'm not being super friendly about it? Well.. okay. I'm not trying to be malicious about it or do anything other than clearly communicate the problem. But it seems like the lemmy.ml "in charge" crew in general has a lot of a mentality that's kind of like, "Well, I'm in charge, and you're not, so fuck what you think and fuck your rights. Ban." (or whatever). The way I operate is that really makes me not want to be extra friendly or courteous to people. I used to have a regular donation to Lemmy development set up, I used to take it seriously the idea of getting involved in contributing to the code, and then I observed how they operate, and ... like I say I'm mostly talking to the other people involved who I think should be aware of this. If the devs want to react, fix it, or get involved in the conversation, then sure, sounds good.

The fix is in the comments below, if someone else wants to contribute it and do the very small amount of work of getting it in.

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