Fuck. Thanks for the clarification.
I hope it’s possible for another “framework” group to rise without federal funding. I’m well aware of the dangers of “new management”, but the knowledge and skills that are going to be lost is insane.
It is currently a hidden setting in Firefox’s about:config. They are removing it from there and no longer controlling it within Firefox itself so it will follow the setting set in you window manager (probably have the wrong term here, haven’t had my coffee yet), which is (generally) not hidden and available through a settings GUI. So you won’t have a web browser having different functionality than elsewhere on your machine.
If it’s hidden at that point, blame the window manager/desktop environment/whatever it’s called.
I thought that most of their funding wasn’t federal.
It gets better. Both in the “PTSD” and they got what’s coming to them sense. Some additional context: This was a switchover from one system to another.
They agreed to a specific special solution that my team would set up for them, different from our standard switchover for everyone else. We just needed some incredibly basic info from them that any member of that team should have been able to provide in 30 seconds.
They got the info to us two days before the deadline.
So, some stuff happened and while we had everything switched over to the new system, we didn’t actually shut down the old system for a few more weeks past the deadline we had shared. Before we shut it down I did a final scan and notified any person/team that still appeared to be using it. These problem children were, because of course they would.
Sent them the “Hey guys, you didn’t turn off your old shit pointing to the old system when you were supposed to. You’ll need to find an alternate solution now” email on a Monday. One member of their team puts in a ticket about something only tangentially related, but definitely caused by the old system shutdown, not working on Wednesday. It doesn’t reach me personally due to lack of any useful details, instead just sitting in my team’s generic queue.
That Friday, 30 fucking minutes before we close for the week, I get a response from the next manager up the chain from the one that played games with this shit earlier. Clearly the shitty manager is trying to play politics now by bringing in his own manager, who hadn’t been in the chain. “Thanks for letting us know, we’ve been trying to troubleshoot this all week! How do we resolve this?”
So, their team ignored my email. Still didn’t understand anything from any of the previous emails in the chain or else they wouldn’t have had anything to waste time failing to troubleshoot. You tried to send data to a system/server that no longer exists. Then this power play right before closing in what I think was an attempt to be able to blame me for being a week behind on something.
“You would need to follow the instructions I’ve attached from my first email about this sent to [shitty manager] on [over a month ago]. Please let me know if you jave any questions!”
Last I heard from them. Hooray!
They are setting this as an optional feature. They are not just disabling it.
You’ve critically misunderstood my post, and a few seconds looking over my previous posts and comments would make it abundantly clear that I speak/write English. To make things crystal: It’s my first language. No machine translation has been used.
Almost all of your posts, especially the titles and the display name of the community you made, use emojis in ways very similar to output from LLMs. In ways that I honestly have never seen an actual human do, unless they were doing something fucky like trying to game youtube video titles for higher views.
They are very long winded while not saying a ton, and have some questionable turns of phrase. “Mother tongue” is an immediately present one I can point to. It’s not wrong, but quite less commonly used than “first language”.
They match up with a pattern seen in other posters that used to spam up other free software communities on the fediverse using LLMs and machine translation.
You have a ton of posts with very few comments, which also matches with spammers.
I’d suggest that the large amount of downvotes this post received, as well as the upvotes my comment received, indicate that I’m not the only one who had this assumption about your post.
I spoke of privacy because I assumed you had privacy concerns. This community is on the infosec.pub instance, and cybersecurity and digital privacy tend to be a focus of posters here.
Also, I didn’t think that someone would refuse to use a bug tracker entirely as a boycott of the company hosting it. That’s extreme. At that level of “acting purely on the principal of things” than you really should make peace with not being able to use or interact with projects hosted on github, instead of looking for some way to make an end-run around the dev’s preferred bug tracking chanmel.
Regarding my suggestions of workaraounds?
Those were for your benefit. I’m not the one who clearly refuses to use github and has strong opinions about it.
I’m not surprised by the fact that devs have different priorities. And they’re allowed to.
whether it was a brain malfunction or technical.
That sort of attitude, as well as the one demonstrated up and down your comment, are a big part of why people find people who treat FOSS as a religion objectionable.
That is not the “best” you can do. It’s the least you can do.
My point was that, as you seem to be aware through experience, you can’t make other devs abide by your own principles.
Go do it the right way yourself, demonstrate it works better. Keep doing that. The more projects doing things the right way, the more momentum will shift away from github being seen as the easy standard.
Anyway, especially with this response, it seems clear that you weren’t posting looking for any options, you were posting to complain about other people “doing it wrong”. You already know there’s no way to force devs off Github, by your own admission.
Don’t bother responding further on my account. I have no interest in arguing about this sort of shit and I’ll be blocking you.
I’ll say it again: You’d get more engagement if you laid off your odd usage of emoji. It screams LLM output.
Yep. To anyone saying it takes up time that they need to get work done, remember the magic words “What would you like me to prioritize?”
Oh my god. Spend time making shit clear and concise, send the email to the manager. No response. Multiple other teams already responded to the initial email and moving smoothly.
Send a short follow up a week later with the rest of the team cc’d. Manager responds to the initial email, dropping the “hey fuckface, do your job” email from the chain.
“Please schedule a meeting with my team to discuss.” (Literal words. Nothing the fuck else.)
(Putting the dropped email and the full team back in) “According to calendars, your team is not available as a full group for two weeks. Given the tight deadline on this, if you or your team have any specific questions, I’d be happy to discuss over email.”
Nothing for two weeks, in the meeting it’s clear that none of them even attempted to read any of it.
It’s also sometimes a necessary tactic to cover your team’s ass. Very often, the people holding things up will blame another group on the project. Getting everyone on the same call so the bullshit can be called out in front of everyone can be necessary to protect your team’s reputation.
Holdups: “Well, we can’t start testing until Infrastructure builds our servers!”
Infrastructure: "You asked for a 3TB server. The largest in our environment is 1TB, and it handles [heavier thing than this]. Two weeks ago we suggested a smaller size to begin with and that we would increase it as need was demonstrated, asking for your confirmation before we continued. We also asked [group owning the vendor relationship] to see if we could schedule a chat with a technical resource at the vendor to help us better understand the need for something so far outside our standards.
We’ve not seen a response regarding our suggestion. Can you confirm that our suggested solution is acceptable during this meeting, or do you need to confer with other people in your department?"
Happens all the fucking time. Instead of admitting that the timeline isn’t possible, or rightfully blaming the vendor for absurd requirements (no, we aren’t giving you fucking domain admin), teams will just play pass the blame all the way to whatever department owns the deepest part of the tech stack or access management.
The easiest way to push back is to state how unambiguously bad their request was, and that they’ve not replied to you, in front of everyone. If you’re lucky, all that takes is an email. If it’s a project involving people who think they’re too important to read email, then you need the call/meeting. Unfortunately those “too important” people are also the ones who have the biggest sway on the business.
It’s stupid, but as long as people are involved in business, there will be people problems to solve. Those often don’t work in the realm of “most efficient” or “most sensible”.
Whatever your level of digust at it is, the soomer you learn to start looking at the “business politics” side of things the better you’ll do.
This is also what good project managers are for. Unfortunately those are rare.
Not that lever!
Do they wash their human-skin-suit by hand, in a laundry machine, or get it drycleaned?
Or maybe it’as not. Either way, being upset about it isn’t going to stop the bombs if they come.
If your apocalypse comes to pass, then what? You get to feel smug while you die of radiation poisoning?
Work on what you can impact, be aware of the rest, and most importantly don’t worry about what you can’t change.
Their outfits too. Bratrice is wearing a floral patterned more casual thing. Margaret is wearing something black and white that communicates “office job” a lot more directly. Could be taken that Margaret is just on break from work, or that she doesn’t have outfits that don’t double as work clothes.
At the very least, Beatrice has casual clothes.
It’s not self defeating, it’s an implicit understanding of unstated social context. In the comic, the direct leadup was talking about jobs when the question was asked. In the comic it was as direct context as possible without wording the question better.
99.99% of the time, people mean “What do you do for a living?”, and if they don’t and you wrongly assume they do, they can easily follow up with “Cool, and what do you do for fun/in your free time?”. Conversation stays flowing with no hitches.
If you want to change the general unstated social context (and I agree that we definitely should) don’t be abrasive/elitist/well ackshually with a person making small talk. Don’t introduce that hitch where you talk down to your conversation partner. That’s a great way to slam the brakes on any conversation.
If I was the asker in the comic, I’d be sorely tempted to start talking about the bodily functions that I do. If we’re gonna have a pedantry competition, I’m gonna win.
Anyway, you can introduce or specify the context of your answer with statements like “Well, to pay the bills I […], but I just do that so I can […]”. You can even reverse the order there so what fulfills you is the first answer. Keep things smooth.
That works for asking as well. I avoid the generic “What do you do?”. For me it’s always “So how do you spend your free time?” or “What do you enjoy doing?” for what brings them fulfillment. “What do you do for a living?” for what their job is. I specify.
Your job is still something you do, so just set the subcategory.
And like so many of these “and then everybody clapped” style of comics, that are pretty obviously a creator imagining a version of a real life event but where they were “cooler”…
If anyone was knocked silent by that response, it would only be from shock that you missed the context and then willfully doubled down on it.
That look wouldn’t be a moment of epiphany or something. It would be “Well great, I’m talking to someone lacking in social graces.”
Most people would respond by taking the conversation in the new direction of hobbies, or just correct the misunderstanding and ask what they did for a living to continue the original track.
Lol, this is why we don’t tend to give software engineers local admin, and why most places hire separate UX designers.
Don’t even need to go that far. Pro and using Group Policy covers most of it. A registry entry here, a powershell command for uninstalling some bloat there… LTSC just saves uninstalling some of the bloat still on Pro.
If your laptop doesn’t have enough ports built in.
I don’t know what this guy is smoking. Copilot had administrative controls before it rolled out, through Intune and Group Policy.
Thanks for the clarification!