There have been more PRs created with the same tagging and apparently, you can’t unsubscribe from individual PR notifications or taggings of organizations. That is what this is all about.
GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#282Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
> Seems like an innocent enough mistake. I doubt it. If you look at the PR, it does not add any value at all, but introduces a mistake ("for our repositories"), plus the commit message is kind of strange.
Looks like a typical PR from young programmers who are learning English, which is consistent with the rest of the profile.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#283Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Pretty much no company will pay for a work phone these days, even if you have on-call duty.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
Access to the UE4 source code is free. They probably sell licenses that let you do more than the free license, but the Github thing is not used to gate purchases. I don't know why they do it like this to be honest, they could just put the free license in the repo, that's pretty common practice.
Because it's not a free license. Once you get a million dollars or so in revenue, they take a substantial cut. The idea is that nobody is going to get a million dollars in revenue from a game without being visible enough that Epic's receivables department can bill you. So they can ignore the 99.99% who download it and never get a hit. I'm amazed that 400,000 people have downloaded Unreal Engine, though. It's really c…
This is just arguing semantics. You don't have to pay anything for the initial download, so there is no legal reason for this. They could just public the repo and put their license (including the $1MM+ royalties) in a LICENSE file.
I suspect the "real" reason for the current rigamarole is to get your details for their marketing team.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#285My freshman class (~4000) at university was sent an email by administrators via the freshman class mailing list. Someone replied, which lead to their email being sent to the entire mailing list... another email asking to be removed from the mailing list, etc, suddenly everyone was hit by a deluge of hundreds of emails asking to be removed. Getting real flashbacks to that from the snarky / annoyed comments on this :)
I had this happen at my job maybe six months ago? It was surreal because I'm young enough that I knew the trope from TV shows and stuff from the late 90s/early 2000s of people not knowing when to use "reply" instead of "reply all" but never actually had to deal with it by the time I grew up and starting working. The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the peo…
> The only thing more amusing than all of the people replying asking to be taken off the list is all the people who reply to tell everyone else to stop replying, as if that would solve the problem instead of making it worse.
There's a very good chance that those replies are reducing the flood, assuming they're nowhere near a majority.
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
They require you to acknowledge some terms that grant you access to the Unreal Engine source code. They grant it by adding you to their GitHub org which has the engine source code as a private repo.
Maybe it's just me but this seems like a misuse of GitHub orgs...
Seeing how there's no other way, well...
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#287Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
It's difficult to strike a balance between "Are you sure?" and a message describing precisely what you're going to do and why it's unusual in these warnings. Slack could include the org in their message though
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#288Slightly OT, but it's always been weird to me how Epic requires you to add yourself to their organization on GitHub before you can access the Unreal source. I don't see how it serves any real authentication purpose; anyone can get added to it, and anyway, it's not like the code is secret when 400k people are on there Am I missing something?
It's not really authentication. Rather, a way of saying "yeah, I agree to the terms yadda yadda". Seeing how there's no other way of handling it right now, they're using what tools they have
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
There was a thundering herd e-mail at Amazon about 10 years ago that I’ve heard stories about. It went on for days. There’s a funny internal talk with lots of data about it, maybe it’s on YouTube by now…
When i worked at the NIH, a couple times an entire institute was accidentally cc'd instead of bcc'd on an email, and for weeks after the chain would continue, consisting only of people writing "please stop responding to this chain". I don't know what you do for that...
Mute the thread in your email app?
Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users
#290Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
Free Code Camp had a bug in their email notification system several years back. I suspect they weren’t incrementing the index in their loop… Since I was the first person in the email list, I got an email for every person in their list. I had to shut my phone off, as the notifications were going out of control and couldn’t keep up. Fun fact, Gmail caps threads at 100 messages. So I had a full page of 100 email long th…
That's terrifying.. did the notifications make your phone unusable? DOSed by FreeCodeCamp...