What on earth does a car need curl for?
Probably libcurl, to access websites such as weather or manufacturer.
“I have toyota corola”
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Re: “I have toyota corola”
#62As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…
Yeah you would, but you're on Hacker News and not stupid, like 99.999999999% of users are.
To them a reply and it doesn't matter what's in the reply as they're not reading it anyway, means they have somebody to vent to. And if Daniel doesn't solve it. T-mobile is a bad company. DO NOT ever understimate the stupidity of people. No reply is best reply in cases like this!
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#63As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…
The article says:
> I’ve learned over the years that just trying to explain how I have nothing to do with the product they’re using is often just too time consuming and energy draining to be worth it.
Responding to emails can be way more draining than you'd expect.
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#64What on earth does a car need curl for?
REST APIs on the automotive intranet highway gonna blow your mind piping JSON to your nodejs eval like a doll on stilts this message overpassing makes your microkernel look like a toothpick
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about quietly forwarding the email to the legit tech support mailbox for Toyota, if such a thing exists? Are there problems with that approach (other than the tech support people replying to you instead of their customer).
It's a lot of effort and one which you wouldn't expect businesses to do this so I don't really see why open source projects should be any different.
If there's a limited amount of car companies, why not just compile one email with a big list of contact numbers, and use that reply template whenever you get such an email.
I suppose you could even send it out automatically based on filter conditions?
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#66I have had a similar problem for about two decades now in regards to eCards (virtual greeting cards). I own youknowwhat.com and one of my email addresses is youknowwho@youknowwhat... Turns out that thousands of people every year think they are being super clever by putting my email address in the "From" field. So of course I get zillions of "receipts" for these eCards. "Sister, I hope you feel better soon" ...is the…
Sounds similar to the problems test.com endures. http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm
It's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#67What on earth does a car need curl for?
curl somedomain.foo/latest_car_software.sh | sh
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
At that point, the damage is done. Why is this better than just not replying, again?
Because some people will understand the first reply.
I'd venture to suggest that the overlap between the set of people who will understand the first reply and the set of people who understand that daniel@haxx.se (or whatever it was) is not a tech support address for Toyota, is very small.
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds similar to the problems test.com endures. http://contactx.test.com/contactX/contact-spam.cfm
It's a surprisingly hard task to educate developers and testers to use the designated test domains (example.com and example.org) in automated or manual tests.
Surely example.com has these problems too, although to be fair they don't really need to receive any email.
Re: “I have toyota corola”
#70As somebody who has written to companies about bugs in their products (and almost always ignored), I would really appreciate a response even if it was some form letter thing to the effect of "I just make a small component that happens to be used in your car, kind of like the people who make the screws in your car. Please contact your car manufacturer directly." I personally just like knowing somebody read my letter i…
Yeah you would, but you're on Hacker News and not stupid, like 99.999999999% of users are. To them a reply and it doesn't matter what's in the reply as they're not reading it anyway, means they have somebody to vent to. And if Daniel doesn't solve it. T-mobile is a bad company. DO NOT ever understimate the stupidity of people. No reply is best reply in cases like this!
No. 99.999999999% of users are not "stupid." They are just not educated or interested in technical arcana like you possibly are. I could say more but that's probably sufficient. Grow up.