A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

#1

Post by mcovalt » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:18 PM UTC

A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle
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Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

#2

Post by astrea » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:52 PM UTC

Man if this is a joke then my whole software career is a comedy

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

#3

Post by mjard » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

There were lessons to learn here for all the parties involved. The author seems to have chosen to ignore theirs while wanting to pat themselves on the back for fooling news sites. The news sites learned nothing, they got what they wanted out of the deal. Reddit.. Reddit cannot learn, too many people involved.

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Post by celim307 » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:54 PM UTC

astrea wrote: post #2

Man if this is a joke then my whole software career is a comedy

Hey if I’m getting paid I’ll tell these jokes all day

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

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Post by throwthere » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:55 PM UTC

I think the oddest bit of this is the author “doxing” their trolling on Reddit with their actual identity on the blog.

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

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Post by captainmuon » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:58 PM UTC

So, was the true cause of the problem ever published?

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Post by rtb » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 5:59 PM UTC

Pretty weird "joke" or "a slightly funny hypothetical". It's a plausible but false explanation for an event people were trying to understand, posted to a programming forum. It feels more like disinformation to me. I think it was a bit unethical to not mark it as fictional.

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

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Post by mdoms » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 6:00 PM UTC

This doesn't seem like a joke, it seems like a guy outright spreading misinformation. Not sure what was the point of the UUID preamble, his "joke" has nothing to say about UUIDs.

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

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Post by bombcar » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

The amount of “news” reporting that is simply reporting that something was said on Twitter or Reddit is getting out of co trol.

Re: A stupid joke resulting in a silly news cycle

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Post by rootusrootus » Sun, Apr 10, 2022, 6:02 PM UTC

mdoms wrote: post #8

This doesn't seem like a joke, it seems like a guy outright spreading misinformation. Not sure what was the point of the UUID preamble, his "joke" has nothing to say about UUIDs.

Only if people take seriously the posts random anonymous strangers make on r/programmerhumor. The real source of disinformation here is whomever decided to repeat the dry humor without the context of it coming from a joke subreddit.