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I’m not deciding anything. I’m saying that if credit is all you care about, OSS isn’t the best place to hang out, because credit is not guaranteed.

Yeah, I’ve contributed to OSS. And more often than not, I haven’t received credit. I couldn’t care less.

> to make these kinds of comments imo they should be working completely for free. Salary is a form of recognition for contribution.

No, that’s a different scenario. Where employment is concerned, the employer and employee have an agreement where work is performed in exchange for compensation.

If you walked into a company unannounced and started doing work no one asked you to do (which is a far more accurate analogy to what happened to the OP), very few people would argue you’re entitled to compensation.

> In practice he got the permission to modify their copy.

I wouldn’t consider it common property if permission is required. It seems like our definitions of common property differ, but I’m not sure there’s any value in trying to align ourselves on this.

> No, definitely not. They got a "reported-by" tag, which means "somebody told me that something is not working, so I did all the work to find why, did all the work to solve, did all the work to implement, did all the work to commit."

Got it. Yeah I agree this is not the same. However, I still stand by my original stance which is that no one is owed anything, especially when they do something no one asked them to do.

> Free software is common property. This the rule 0. It's everyone's. This is why four freedoms exist, and The Kernel is GPLv2. i.e. Free Software.

Just because something is free, it doesn’t make it common property. Being able to use the kernel and modify _your own copy_ is not the same as the kernel itself being common property. The four freedoms don’t grant us permission or rights to alter other people’s copies of the software, so those copies are not common property.

> The maintainer didn't have to accept the patch per se. He could have just written "This bug is discovered, dissected and fixed by $THE_PERSON. Patch is implemented and committed by me. Thanks a lot, $THE_PERSON!".

That’s basically what happened, yeah? The author got credit for reporting it.

> Their work needed this. The company needed this to work better, and they deserve the credit for doing the work. This is not open for discussion in my opinion.

Why is it not open for discussion? I can’t just fill in a pothole or cut my neighbours grass and expect credit and/or compensation. OSS isn’t common property. You can’t just do whatever you want and expect to receive credit.

Yeah, their work needed a fix and they got a fix. That’s already a better than average outcome.

This isn’t even remotely close to what I said, and I can’t even see how it could be misinterpreted so badly. Did you reply to the correct comment?

If receiving credit is your primary motivation, over actually solving problems that affect people other than yourself, I don’t think that’s a great attitude towards OSS. I’m genuinely surprised this is even considered a hot take.

My point (which I didn’t convey properly) is that the combination of the two isn’t all that productive, ie “I’ll only work on problems that affect me and only if you give me credit”. I get that true altruism probably doesn’t exist, but I’ve contributed to dozens of projects where I haven’t received credit, and I didn’t care because I helped fix problems that affected thousands of people, which I felt was more important than whatever label was placed on me (or not).

The problem is the combination of the two. Ie, “I’ll only contribute on problems that affect me personally and then only if I get credit”. I’m not convinced this mentality is productive in the OSS community.

If someone is more interested in receiving credit than fixing bugs, OSS might not be the best place to hang out.

I can’t empathise with the author. It seems like they’re only interested in OSS when a) they get credit, and b) for only fixing problems that affect them.

> instead he implemented his own version of the fix. I told him that I would really appreciate if he could accept a patch from me, so that I could receive credit for fixing this issue and become a kernel contributor.

In other words, you asked a maintainer to accept an inferior fix just so you can put “kernel contributor” on your resume.

> My company and I should have received proper credit for solving this issue, especially considering how much effort we put into it.

No one asked you to do this. You aren’t owed anything when you do an unasked favour for someone else. Also, the only reason you put so much effort into this was to fix your own problem. Which, from my understanding, is now fixed. You seem to have no interest in fixing other problems (which you were given an opportunity to do). IMHO this attitude doesn’t qualify for contributor status.

I’m also now past the 128gb mark. I rarely go back through my old photos, and the more time that passes the less connection I feel scrolling through my library.

Occasionally I post to Instagram (with an accompanying caption), and I like going through that more because each post is highly curated and annotated with my feelings at the time. Not too dissimilar to a physical photo album. So even if you did that privately, it’s worth a go.

Other than that, I figure that one day I may want to look at them, eg when I no longer have any mobility. The cost is so low that it doesn’t make sense for me to delete photos.

Which password manager are you using? There shouldn’t be any sharing of a master password; each individual should have their own account and own master password.

> It's not worth the risk. You want to self-medicate? Do it with chemicals produced inside your body. Meditate, do a triathlon, lift weights, become a health-food nut, get some sun, find some opportunity for socialization, do that sauna + cold plunge thing, whatever.

Wow, silly me! If only I had’ve known that my crippling depression, anxiety, and fuck knows what else could be solved by lifting weights and getting some sun.

It’s evidently clear you aren’t, and have never, suffered from severe mental illness. With all due respect, please step off. You don’t have the slightest clue what you’re talking about.

I went vegan. Got jacked. Ran 20 miles a week. It didn’t help in the slightest. I was fit, healthy, and depressed as fuck. None of that had anywhere near the same effect as a single bump.

So forgive me if “safety” isn’t my paramount concern when every waking moment is a nightmare.

I wonder how much market there would be to tour the sewers? I’d pay for that, I don’t know why but I find underground engineering so fascinating. Perhaps I’m in the minority and it wouldn’t make financial sense.

I love my Corolla. 22 years old, 200k miles, runs perfectly fine. Never broken down on me. Even the interior is pristine, no rips in the drivers seat upholstery - something I’ve seen happen in a matter of years in other cars.

I felt bad when that story came out about Toyota engineers pulling the panels off a Tesla and being in shock. Sure, Tesla has done some amazingly innovative engineering. But the interior of a brand new Tesla is more rickety than my clapped out Corolla. Toyota engineers shouldn’t feel bad, they build cars that last, and that really matters to a lot of people.

Depends how sophisticated the attack is. Plenty of attacks aren’t. I could have been clearer in my comment, but what I meant was “can protect” not “guaranteed protection”, I apologise if it was taken that way.

On the topic of phishing and OTPs, storing the OTP in your password manager could actually help with phishing (opposed to storing it in an authenticator), because it will only autofill on the correct domain. This can be the difference between compromising a password or the whole account.

> I reached out to this company, and they’re basically saying that I have to prove without a doubt that these hundreds of tickets aren’t mine

> He had given them an example of a specific ticket he had gotten that implicated a Honda. Online, that record had been changed to an Infiniti with Taranto’s VIN

This needs to be regulated or outlawed. Private companies shouldn’t have the power to fine individuals, let alone treat them as guilty until they prove their own innocence, or retroactively modify fines to suit their agenda.

Storing OTPs in your password manager is like 1.5FA. It still provides protection against phishing, brute-forcing, socially engineered password resets, so it isn’t totally useless. But it doesn’t protect against your vault getting compromised.

I keep super important 2FA codes (email, github etc) elsewhere, and for less important services, I store the OTP in my password manager.

I’m really confused. You’re in communication with your fiancee, you’ve been able to get engaged, yet neither of you have any way of contacting each other when they leave the black site? You don’t know each others home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social media accounts?

Based on the information you’ve provided, it definitely sounds like a romance scam. Have you met them in person?

Good for him. Now it’s time to make it illegal to gather and/or sell personal information without explicit consent.

Agreed.

Whenever I suggest adults should be in control of their own lives, I get a response along the lines of “we’d see mass suicide if people had an easy option to end their life”.

Ok, so let’s think about that. There may be thousands of people whose lives are so bad they’d take an easy way out if it were available. So the idea is to keep that option off the table, so those people are forced to live out the rest of their lives suffering?

To anyone who holds this opinion, I’d really like to know why. What reason could you possibly have to prefer someone you don’t even know to live in suffering opposed to them having control over their own life?

What’s the size of a photon? You seem to be suggesting that the limiting factor is the physical size of the sensor, which is totally absurd. Photography optics are not even close to approaching the limits of physics.

I ditched all my cameras 5 years ago in favour of convenience. I’m a bit disappointed that the difference is still so large. I was convinced phones were going to approach crop sensor quality but it’s not even close, the 80D completely smoked it.

> There is a notable drawback for the iPhone 15 Pro Max in the 3X to 4.9X range (~72mm to 119mm full frame equivalent), as it’s stuck using the main sensor, rather than switching to the telephoto.

I’m super glad Apple couldn’t figure out the tech to get the 5x lens in the non-Max models. I make way more use of 3x than 5x. Cropping the main sensor up to 5x is a bad call IMHO. This is the equivalent of walking around with a 24mm and 120mm prime. Who’s doing that? MaxTech dropped a vid today and the 4.9x shot is atrocious; the 3-5x range is basically unusable on the 15 Pro Max models.

Most new builds in Melbourne are already of low quality. I lived in an apartment built in 2013 with water leaking in from the roof three levels above, and the sound insulation was so bad I could hear my neighbours putting cutlery away. And the elevator broke down daily.

The difference is that these apartments require the vast majority of your income (rent) or a 30 year mortgage.

So PIK doesn’t sound too bad to be honest.

> Something iffy with that cooking method

It’s anything but iffy; the science behind microwaves is well understood. What part exactly don’t you trust? The laws of physics that govern this particular universe we happen to exist in?

> No way it is healthy.

That’s a bold claim. How did you come to this conclusion? Do you have any scientific literature you can point us to that proves microwaved food is unhealthy?

Depends on the individual, and for what reason they went vegan. I know many who would, and many who wouldn’t.

I think a better question is how many non-vegans would choose such a product. Because that’s what’s going to move the needle on reducing emissions from animal ag.

I get being busy. But it’s been three years, and he keeps saying the project isn’t dead, so he hasn’t lost interest. Also, he asked for help then largely ignored the help and/or started bike shedding the PRs. He’s 100% across everything that happens in the repo, investing a lot of time replying to every comment immediately.

I’m pretty sure people offered to become maintainers and he declined. Forking has its own set of problems, but yeah you’re right, this is at least a possibility.

ljharb is an extremely interesting person. There’s no doubting the positive impact he’s had on the OSS community and the work he’s done.

However, there are some things he does that are incomprehensible.

For example, Enzyme. Over three years ago this issue was opened for Enzyme on React 17: https://github.com/enzymejs/enzyme/issues/2429

Nothing moved for a while, and I think he said something along the lines of “if you want React 17 support, stop complaining and help”. So the community got involved. There are multiple PRs adding React 17 support. Many unofficial React 17 adapters. A lot of people have put a lot of work into this, ensuring compatibility, coverage etc. Yet to this day, none of them have been merged. Eg https://github.com/enzymejs/enzyme/pull/2564

Given the amount of time that has passed, and the work the community has put in, something is amiss. It feels like he’s now intentionally avoiding React 17+ support. But why? I don’t understand why someone would ask for help then ignore the help when it comes in. That isn’t much better than the swathe of rude/entitled comments he was getting on the issue before he locked it.

I ended up migrating to RTL, but this made many of my tests more complicated (especially compared to shallow rendering).

> One of the best-known examples relates to heart disease, where a woman’s symptoms are twice as likely as a man’s to be simply written off as mental illness

Or “that time of the month”. It’s incredible, in this day an age, a huge number of doctors will immediately ask if it’s “that time of the month” in response to literally any mental or physical issue. Ask your female friends. I guarantee they have all experienced this.