There’s this idea I’ve been considering for a long time.
Imagine putting a remote controlled firework smoke bomb under the tailpipe, hidden from sight. At best a really stinky one that smells like burned rubber or something.
When someone follows to closely, just fake an engine issue or something by activating the smoke bomb and fill their AC air intake with the smell of burned rubber for weeks. Just to teach them to not follow too closely again.
This.
Just from the features and the convenience, Reddit is better. It’s bigger, it’s got more content, it’s easier, it’s more stable (or at least used to be). You don’t have to worry about your instance going under or anything like that.
The reason for the devs to invest their time to make lemmy and the apps and for admins to invest money and time into hosting and running the instances and for users to use this instead of Reddit is mainly the politics of wanting to have your own space with your own data.
The problem is that people just accept a continuous drop in quality.
I once had a conversation with an old woman who told me that it would be unheard off for someone with some level of status or self respect to wear ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing back in the 50s, and nowadays even TV news anchors are wearing cheap off-the-shelf suits.
The same thing applies for everything. When I was a kid, the transition from small, independently owned shops with qualified stuff who’d give you proper consultation to chain stores in malls was just under way. Old people would complain all day that the staff in chain stores had no clue about the stuff they were selling. And yet everyone went to the chain stores in the mall because they had a bigger selection and were cheaper.
And now there’s the same thing happening with the chain stores in malls getting replaced by online shopping, and now not only is there no one to consult you on your purchase, you can’t even trust the product listings because they are riddled with errors.
For a while you could trust reviews, but that time is long gone, but still everyone just happily shops and consumes away, because online shopping is cheaper, there’s a bigger selection and it’s more convenient.
The same process is happening all the time everywhere. Stuff just gets gradually shittier, but we just accept it, because we get used to it.
Yeah, especially in peace time. When war heats up and resources get scarce, you use the cheapest thing that does the job. But in peace time you feed your military contractors to keep them happy and to keep them researching and developing so you don’t lose out on modern technology development.
(For clarification, with “war time” I mean “being in a war that actually threatens the country”. The US hasn’t been in a war like that for a very long time. They’ve essentially being in “peace time” while having military training and testing facilities in the middle east.)
Well, you said you only have experience from the outside.
I don’t think so. We’ve all been happily having discussions with bots online for a long time now. People just don’t notice that the person they are writing to isn’t a human.
We went from talking in person to talking via computer and no talking with a computer. It’s not getting better.
This.
The old forums are often still up, and there are still actual humans there, sometimes. But nobody goes there, because nothing’s happening there.
There was this programming forum (blitzforum.de) that I loved when I was a teenager. I spent so much time there and learned so much. I actually attribute a lot of my career to getting an early start there. But the forum is mostly dead nowadays. People still open the page every once in a while, but nobody posts there.
Trolls actually saw themselves as an art from. Everyone else saw them as annoying cretins.
I agree with your comment.
Again, support is not development. Experiences with support does not allow conclusions on development.
And having no experience in development doesn’t qualify you to make statements about development.
10 years ago I got into RC planes for a summer, and me and the guy were talking about how ridiculous it is that the milirary is spending so much money on simple drones, when they could just strap some explosives on a cheap hobbyist RC plane/drone for a fraction of the price, and just create swarms of them.
The technology had been widely available for some time already back then. Turns out, it was just lacking a war to do so.
(Just to be clear, we were all anti-war in general, this was just idle speculatiok back then. But if our country was attacked at that time, I’m sure some of us would have ended in a newly created drone force like what happened in the Ukraine.)
And what’s TCP/IP?
It seems like you don’t have a very broad exposure to closed source development.
Probably not. 15 years is not that long, what do I know, I’m just on senior expert level.
Companies run skeleton crews on crap products that don’t make money. Stuff they give away for free or that’s only used by legacy customers. Stuff they can’t shutdown because of contracts or because it still making a bit of money.
You might notice if you get escalated to development enough that it’s always like the same guy or two. It’s because they might only have a couple of guys working on it.
This is where your lack of knowledge about products like that shines through. It’s common to only get the same guy or two, because that’s the people designated (or willing) to talk to customers.
In real life, OpenSSL was run by a single person. That’s not a skeletton crew, that’s abandonment.
From what you are writing you aren’t a programmer and you haven’t worked in a software corporation before, but instead just extrapolate from your experiences with customer support.
I’m perplexed.
Are they going to keep replacing whatever software they use?
OSS on the other side has the downside of being free.
That means it’s:
If stuff like OpenSSL was CSS, it would be at least a mid-sized company making lots of revenue (because it’s used everywhere, even small license fees would rack up lots of revenue), with dozens of specialists working there, and since it would go through procurement there would be SLAs and 3rd party security audits.
But since it’s FOSS, nobody cares, nobody donates and it was a singular developer working at it until heartbleed. Then some of the large corporations which based their whole internet security on this singular dude’s work realized that more funding was necessary and now it is a company with multiple people working there.
But there are hundreds of other similarly important FOSS projects that are still maintained by a solitary hero not even making minimum wage from it. Like as shown with the .xz near miss.
Just imagine that: nobody in their right mind would run a random company’s web app with just one developer working in their spare time. That would be stupid to do, even though really nothing depends on that app.
But most of our core infrastructure for FOSS OSes and internet security depends on hundreds of projects maintained by just a single person in their free time.
If the teacher was so wrong, explain to me how a majority of the students would have understood that question and been able to figure out the correct answer and provided the correct format?
But did they? How do you know? Have you seen the other students’ assignments?
Most likely, this specific task wasn’t actually a homework task at all but created just for this meme.
But teachers like this exist, and I stand by that that these teachers are wrong. Understanding and actually thinking about a problem are much more important skills than to obey blindly and follow pre-set directions without even reading what the question actually says.
I’d say, a student that answers the question as expected is failing in regards to reading comprehension.
And from my experience, if a question is worded as wrongly as the one in the meme, then half the class will have it wrong and there will be a group of parents at the next parent-teacher conference complaining about it.
True, even with the “Is this possible?” the student’s answer should have been ok. But with the “how” the teacher’s answer is plainly wrong.
In my country, the written final exams include a Q&A section in the beginning of the test, where the teacher and the headmaster are present, and where they present the tasks and students are allowed to ask questions. After that section, the headmaster leaves and students and teachers aren’t allowed to talk for the rest of the test.
I noticed a missing specification in one of the tasks. It was a 3D geometry task, and it was missing one angle, thus allowing for infinite correct results. During the Q&A section I asked about that, and my teacher looked sternly past me to the end of the room and said “I am sure the specifications are correct”. If there was an actual error in the specifications, the whole test would have been voided and would have to be repeated at a later date, for all the students attending.
As soon as the headmaster was out of the room, he came to me and asked where he made the mistake. He then wrote a fitting spec on the whiteboard.
I liked that guy. He was a good teacher.
That’s not what it is, no.
Teachers make mistakes, like any human being, and a good teacher can deal with the fact that they made a mistake and that a student found said mistake.
A teacher who insists on being right over being correct is a bad teacher, because a teacher is supposed to teach a child understanding and knowledge, not blind obedience above anything else.
That’s how you end up with a population who agree with the leader even if he tells them the sky is green.
Yeah, if the question was “Is this possible?” then the teacher’s answer would be reasonable.
But the “how” in the question implicates that it’s actually factual and the student should come of with an explanation how. Which they did perfectly.
90% of the things that Japan introduced according to comment sections on the internet never happened (or never made it past the prototype stage) and the rest was actually introduced in Korea, not in Japan.
The Japanophilia is strong with a lot of people on the internet.