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The response should be "you're not a good fit for the company. Collect your stuff."

> Unfortunately this doesn't scale

Correct. I used to report them, but 3/4 years ago they made it more difficult to report anything because you have to explain what's wrong even when it's very clear.

Are these already available? I regularly read these announcements and years later I still don't know where to find them, or are not actually functional.

I'm not scolding, I'm explaining what happened. The post uses the word "abuse" for something that was the expected outcome.

It's like saying "my motorbike was stolen" when you let the key in the ignition for a day in the favelas. What did you expect exactly?

You told your NS to forward any request to GitHub, a platform you don't own.

I think this is the expected outcome.

It's good you noticed and shared your findings, but to me this "works as intended"

We occasionally get traditional SPAM PRs pointing to their product. In that case it is very useful to clear out title, PR body and reset the commits as well, so none of that appears on the repo.

This is time consuming.

Unfortunately the PR and the PR author will forever be listed there and linking to their product anyway.

In the future, when you're looking at past PRs, you'll end up with a list of closed PRs that look legitimate from their titles. You'll waste time opening each one to figure out why it was closed.

This is particularly annoying because PRs also show up in the issue and in the issue list as "this issue has 3 PRs that will close it", when it's all. just. spam.

This has two good points:

- add "Pull Request requests" that operate like Friend requests. You can't open PRs until you've been whitelisted (temporarily or not) or are proven to be a good OSS citizen (TBD)

- add a "Burn it with fire" action in new PRs that deletes all comments and PRs opened by the user across the repo, as well as blocking the user.

Organizations already sort of have this, but the action does not delete/close PRs.

If the PR exists on my repo, it's already too late.

Either you let me block 6-month old accounts from opening PRs, or you let me delete them.

PRs, draft or not, show up in searches and spammers can continue opening new ones as well as leaving comments on them.

This doesn't help with PR spam if that junk still shows up in regular "is:pr" searches. I don’t think unrequested unmerged AI PR spam is useful for compliance, just like deleted comments and issues aren't.

They do have ways to limit interactions already, but they work on a whitelist level rather than dynamically based on user "score" (account age, contribution history, etc). If a user gets their comments deleted and blocked from organizations, GitHub should already know it's a spammer.

Who do you add as a contributor though? Wannabe-contributors? Then they appear in the list of contributors before you even see if they're capable of producing an acceptable PR.

Your solution would be great if GitHub would also allow me to whitelist specific users, but unfortunately this still won't block "implementation plans" in comments.

You can fork and push all you want. The problem is specifically when you show up in my notifications with your junk PR.

Possibly the worst idea I've heard this month.

No one, meat or chip, would just set aside $10 "for the opportunity to contribute"

This is "let them eat cake" level of out of touchness.

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I'm a big hater of Tailwind but also know that most CSS out there is an absolutely clusterf of outdated rules and !important wars. There's no winning when some dude jumps into the codebase and fixes a bug by adding margin-right to "p"

CSS linters never really picked up steam and even with them, what's lintable is quite limited.

GooBook? Sounds obvious to me. Or just Bookgle. Lap Goog. aiPad. OogleNote. Infinite possibilities.

The last time I bit into a nice juicy spicy pepper in the morning, I had to crouch in pain for 5 minutes as I felt stabbed right in the heart. The pepper wasn't even spicy like a bonnet, but I had an empty stomach.

So yeah no more peppers without rice for me.

I think one of the greatest issues of the last generation of developers is that they never learned about links. They think `div onclick` is equivalent. It pains me that `a` makes up 50% of the HTML acronym but devs don't use it.

I bet that LLMs will actually help generate real links going forward.

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That's news to me https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...

Websites cannot use Bluetooth anywhere. The QR codes shown in the blog post are not passkey QR codes, which is likely what's confusing you.

That's passkey QR codes generated by the browser, it has nothing to do with random QR codes offered by websites.

No browser supports Bluetooth.

Unless you live in the desert, most likely you can have better local seasonal fruits than apples, you don't need to transport them from across the globe.

It's really quite unfortunate because the overabundance of apples and oranges means that nobody cares about the local seasonal fruits and they risk going extinct.

I don't understand why the west is so focused on apples. There are thousands of fruits and people just stick to apples, bananas, oranges and grapes. They're not bad, but, like, it's like going to a restaurant and ordering sausage every time.

The Mac Mini starts at $800 now. How many false information will you include in your comments?

https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/mac-mini

Really? What does checkout and fast-forward means? This is why people don't like git. Basic operations that have arcane naming.

> starts at $599, which is over $1000 in 2005 dollars

That's not how money works

> Ridiculous

You can say all you want and you'll come back to this comment in 2028 when the price is set at +100 or +150.

Ok what do you suggest? Every feature ever written should be supported in perpetuity even if 3 people are using it? Clearly you didn't think this through. Should 2026 computers have a ISA interface as well?

Supporting old hardware and software has a substantial cost that only grows exponentially. Companies exist to print money, not to cater to the smallest niches.

It would be great if they could support things, but I most definitely understand why they don't.

It's crazy to me that most people don't get it. This is not a "who knows the exact name of this hex color" game, it's "more blue or more green?"

Orange is its own color, but is this hue it 51% red or 51% yellow?