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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by wolverine876 »

I think my most cringe-inducing story (of this kind) is receiving an 'is this thing working?' email test from a sender, identified by name, at a professional sports team (probably you've heard of the team). I didn't know the sender and had no work or business connection to the team - they seemed to have sent it to everyone in their customer database, which I guess is > 1 million. I felt so bad for the sender. (And also for whoever made that possible!)

Come to think of it, I don't recall any reply-all responses, so they must have effectively bcc'd everyone at least. Thank goodness! I can't even imagine ...

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by rocketbop »

rcfox wrote: post #162
pigbearpig wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree, the PR is some pointless wordsmithing and then to comment "Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous. Also, no one is going to care in a day.

> Also, no one is going to care in a day. You should ask Sumit Bhatia about that. ;)

If I ever knew who that was, I have long forgotten.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by spullara »

quadrifoliate wrote: post #199

The only notable thing here IMO is the lack of limits imposed by GitHub on notifications. Apparently a random tag of `@microsoft` in the comments was enough to notify 4000 people [1] as well. I have no idea why the user is even being mentioned in this headline. I haven't used GitHub in a while, and am unfamiliar with orgs and subgroups, but tagging a developer subgroup on a PR seems...a reasonable thing for a new con…

I agree. EpicGames and to some extent Github is at fault here.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by eurasiantiger »

Ansil849 wrote: post #102
macintux wrote: post #92

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Ouch. I try to not mix work and personal content on the same laptop, I’ve seen too many glitches (although usually not quite that embarrassing). Slack has been my one exception (although only on my phone). Thanks for the valuable reminder.

> I try to not mix work and personal content on the same laptop It's kind of jaw dropping to me at how this is still not the norm and how people gratuitously mix personal and work content on the same devices, both mobile and desktop.

If you work from home, have a separate work laptop, but connect it to the same network with your home computers, it’s all for nothing.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by indrora »

sverhagen wrote: post #176
indrora wrote: post #160

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The person who submitted it Is, according to their github page, a nary 18 years old. One cannot say in good faith that they were a beacon of perfect judgement at 18. Anyone who says so is either looking to buy or sell a bridge in New York.

The delta between good and bad faith/intentions on the internet may be much larger than the delta between me at 18 and me at 44. There's also very bright 18 year olds contributing usefully to GitHub repositories. So, for me personally, the recurring assertion that they are "only" 18yo doesn't do much for me.

Being bright doesn't make you infallible. I was contributing to lots of things at 18, including digging into kernel debugging in ubuntu. That did not stop me from making occasionally poor choices with consequences much larger than I realized.

Being 18 means being given the benefit of the doubt that your actions are at least an attempt at good faith.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by idontpost »

macintux wrote: post #131
Stratoscope wrote: post #128

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I remember when I worked at an Alphabet company and they offered the option of using your personal phone to sign in to work stuff. (It wasn't Slack, it was one of the seventeen different chat systems they had going at the time.) There was a teensy-weensy little caveat: Google IT could wipe your personal device at any time! No thanks.

That’s a widespread problem. I worked for a dramatically smaller IT firm and it also gave employees the opportunity to register their phones with the company’s Exchange service; when I asked my boss whether we should warn them about the power that gave us, he felt it would just cause unnecessary alarm.

Your boss was an asshole.
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