“Osama Bin who?” And in a similar vein, “Jihad? That’s a Dune reference, right?”
“I’ll cash in on my Beanie Baby investment when it’s time to pay for my kid’s college tuition.”
“The internet is just a fad.”
“I’m so excited for the next The Matrix sequel.”
“Two bedrooms and a walk-out basement. $300 a month rent.”
Them: “The API requests I’m making aren’t working.”
Me: “Ah. That behavior means your request has such-and-such header wrong.”
Them: “Can you help me figure out why the server is acting incorrectly?”
Me: “Well, the server isn’t doing anything incorrect here. But sure. Let’s jump on a Zoom and work out what’s wrong.”
Them: “I’ll let you know when I have time.”
A couple of days later.
Them: “Can you request that the server admins fix the incorrect server behavior?”
Me: “Well, as I said, there isn’t anything wrong with the server. Here. Here’s an API request that works properly and doesn’t exhibit the issues you’ve been having.”
Them: “This error happens on every request I make. I think the server is acting incorrectly.”
Me: “If this was a problem on the server, we’d be flooded with support requests. But when I use the client tool which works via the API, everything works perfectly, see? Can you give me an example API request that’s been giving you issues?”
Them: “I can’t work on it right now.”
Me: Goes and gets requests from the server logs. “Ah. Ok. I see the issue. See this header here? The way you’re using this header isn’t correct. There’s extra stuff in the header that shouldn’t be there. That’s probably what’s causing your issue.”
Them: “Maybe.”
That’s as far as the conversation has progressed so far. We’ll see how it progresses next week.
This individual has been pestering other folks on my team. Always comes across as putting blame on whoever they’re talking to and not taking “the problem is X; fix that and if it’s still an issue, we can talk further” for an answer. Really has a way of bringing out the defensiveness in folks.
Ha! Nope. Or at least if it is, I don’t get the reference.
I first used “TootSweet” when I signed up for Mastodon (where posts were called “toots”, at least at the time – I think there have been moves to stop calling them “toots.”) Aside from that, it’s just a play on “tout suite” which means “immediately” in French.
I’ve given Reddit basically zero of my traffic since I quit it during the “Big Reddit Boycott Of 2023.”
But there’s definitely stuff I miss. Probably my favorite subreddit was /r/BestOfLegalAdvice. There’s a !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online here on Lemmy, but all the posts link to Reddit. There would have to be a thriving /c/LegalAdvice on the Fediverse for any /c/BestOfLegalAdvice to thrive without linking to Reddit. So, !bestoflegaladvice@lemmy.online most definitely doesn’t scratch the same itch.
Not the only example, but the most poignant for me.
I’m not planning to go back, though. I just can’t squint hard enough to justify ending my boycott of Reddit to myself. And how are we supposed to get the big companies to quit enshittifying unless we punish them when they do stupid shit.
I don’t think it’s fair to put the blame on individuals not reducing their carbon footprints. It’s big industries that are fucking the climate. (Oil being likely the biggest one.) And the solution isn’t to incentivise individuals to bicycle more. It’s to regulate industry to stop taking oil out of the ground.
The idea that the individual citizen is the problem and and the solution to climate change and other environmental issues is propaganda invented by industry to get the focus off of them. “We oil companies aren’t the problem. You need to drive less.” “We plastic manufacturers didn’t put tons of plastic in the oceans. You need to recycle more.”
“Voting with your dollars” is similarly a con.
The reason you vote (with your… you know… votes) is so that the administration that isn’t going to gut the EPA gets the next term. And maybe they’ll enforce regulations on special interests that actually make a positive difference in emissions.
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