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detaroon Georgia police officers fired after Flock camera misuse

even if you purely want to frame it is that: is helping to convince large parts of the public that cops are above the law and can't be trusted by covering for the bad apples "looking out for their members"?

detaroon VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage

> (which slipped through testing)

In another comment you say you caught it in testing and didn't think it needed fixing, which is it?

detaroon NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough

and 87k is quite a bit below 125k.

detaroon CDC Pauses Testing for Rabies and Pox Viruses

https://archive.is/3oQn9

> But widespread layoffs, hiring freezes and resignations have shrunk the number of qualified scientists who can assist state labs. The C.D.C.’s rabies and pox virus teams have lost many of their members. By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.

detaroon The RISE RISC-V Runners: free, native RISC-V CI on GitHub

That the "good enough" SoCs will be arriving "over the next 2 years" is what the RISC-V advocates have told us for quite a few years now.

detaroon AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_fluid_dynamics

detaroon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

Again, how should the UK use the Navy here?

detaroon France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app

deploy and do what exactly? Get involved and potentially sacrifice a few UK soldiers to stroke Trumps ego? Sit around and look pretty? Having a carrier there doesn't magically make problems go away.

detaroon Malus – Clean Room as a Service

whoosh

detaroon Zed new terms required to be 18 years old

where?

detaroon /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem

How is it "bizarre" when it even tells you why it needs a Chromium-based browser?

detaroon 65% of Hacker News posts have negative sentiment, and they outperform

It's a very common abbreviation for that

detaroon Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

The CDN/content provider ships servers to the ISP which puts them into their network. The provider is just providing connectivity and not involved on a content-level, so no MITM etc needed.

detaroon Okta's NextJS-0auth troubles

Why is it confusing to you to expect attribution?

detaroon I Worked All over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine

I don't know the exact threshold the software uses, but my impression is that the mods use something in the ballpark of <20 points and <5 comments?

detaroon I Worked All over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine

6 upvotes and no comments isn't enough attention to trigger dupe direction.

detaroon Zig is so cool, C is cooler

It clearly wasn't "refined" using LLMs when it contained commands that plainly don't work. Don't lie.

detaroon End of Japanese community

Not wrong, but that comes with promoting yourself on ideology grounds. If you want support because you are the plucky underdog community project that cares about people and are running ad campaigns how you are not evil big tech, then don't be surprised if people hold you to it. Mozilla is in this weird space where it wants to be both the good little guys and a proper Silicon Valley tech company, and those don't necessarily mix well.

detaroon End of Japanese community

How did you read the post and miss the complaint?

detaroon End of Japanese community

It's a community matter posted in a public place, a non-statement with an immediate attempt to direct it to private conversation reads like trying to avoid attention to your mistakes (e.g. hypothetically you don't have to public admit you didn't do anything to check for guidelines to follow). More vibe-y, it all sounds very corporate, like any PR statement in response to criticism ever, or a manager writing to an employee in a big corp, not "humans working together in a community, and one of the humans is clearly pissed off right now".

Also while it's phrased as a question, it doesn't offer any alternative next step. So a better approach would be writing down the initial questions you have and then offer that you'd be open for a call if the OP prefers that. If they don't, they can immediately engage with your questions, and they are open to everybody else in the community. Whereas right now if they say "no, I don't want to call you" that's all you've given them.

(To be clear I can easily believe the writer of the response is not intending any of that and means well, but that's how it comes across)

detaroon End of Japanese community

Or answer being clear about that if you feel like you need to respond now. Acknowledge there is a problem, say you'll have to look into the details before you can say more, come back with specific questions if you need answers.

detaroon End of Japanese community

If the post gave any acknowledgement to the already stated complaints I'd agree with you, but it does not, and that does stand out and leads to my reading.

detaroon End of Japanese community

Then say so if someone complains about it? "Shoot, we accidentally ran it in the wrong mode, sorry about that, I'll look into someone fixing it ASAP" is a lot better than "We're sorry for how you feel".

detaroon End of Japanese community

Then at least try to sound like a genuine human that cares and not a PR response when reaching out. Offer a "you can call me if you want" vs making the call the expectation (it's phrased as a question but there is no other path offered).

detaroon End of Japanese community

a) don't apologize for the other persons feelings, but for your actions that lead to it

b) don't look like you are trying to take the conversation out of the community space it's happening in and/or hiding details by going to a private call (you can offer a call, but it shouldn't be the expectation)

c) Acknowledge the concrete complaints made. Are you truly "struggling to understand" what someone means when they complain that it didn't happen in a staging environment first?

d) a-c also lead to "don't sound like any cookie-cutter PR response to a complaint ever, people have learned those are not genuine". Especially if you are a project that makes a big deal out of its community interacting with said community.

e) ideally announce some concrete first step, e.g. pausing the bot

detaroon Google suspended my company's Google cloud account for the third time

If scammy GCP users use SSLMate, then GCP should probably ban the scammy users instead of SSLMate?

detaroon KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

The core issue that Chromium was the one major browser not supporting it? Or what core issue?

detaroon KaTeX – The fastest math typesetting library for the web

I assume GP just totally missed that it was added to Chromium 2-3 years ago, thanks to Igalia contributing support for it.

detaroon Email Inbox Inside of Slack

if it's stupid, why did you build it then?

detaroon Affinity Studio now free

And some of us did upgrade and would like to see the software improve further and buy further upgrades making it even better in the future, but now I expect it'll be turned into a subscription or shut down in the next few years, because its a minor side thing for Canva, and that's sad.