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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by krsrhe »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #389
madmax108 wrote: post #356

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This. As someone who works with a lot of junior devs in India, I know the competition for early career roles in tech is immense, and so folks look at "open source contribution" as a "brownie point" to add in your resume. Having a "contributed to Unreal Engine" sounds great on paper and 3/5 companies would just take it at face-value and move this guy's resume higher up the stack. And we have enough seasoned devs who t…

A company really wouldn't at least ask what the contributions were? What kind of 'competitive market' is it where you can lie so easily and get away with it?

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Post by globular-toast »

progval wrote: post #282
qwertox wrote: post #274

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> 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.

It looks like a PR from someone more interested in building their profile than actually contributing anything useful to a project.

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Post by saagarjha »

eurasiantiger wrote: post #347
saagarjha wrote: post #233

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How so? Hopping around in your home network should not be possible by default and would be a gross overreach by any IT department, even beyond “you put data on this device and therefore we will search the entire thing”.

Interesting perspective difference; I was referring to protecting the work computer from threats, not the home network from corporate. You must work at happy places… Apparently you would also be surprised by how common it is to use a home printer, a home wifi access point, etc. and have IoT devices in the network. Corporate firewalls and scanners only protect against unauthorised connections and known threats; zero-d…

I have a pretty dim view of endpoint security, seeing it mostly as a thing that works against me rather than for me. I feel that any threat model that includes "zero-day exploits" is almost always poorly formed and sensationalist, rather than grounded in a genuine evaluation of security tradeoffs.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by OOPMan »

faustomorales wrote: post #82

Seems 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)…

Innocent or not I woke up this morning after the last one died down to see a new fake MR on the same repo.

It's trolling and childish trolling at that.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by temac »

user_7832 wrote: post #375
pigbearpig wrote: post #157

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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.

> Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous I see you're not familiar with Indian-English. What he said sounds quite "reasonable" (if not a bit unnecessarily, but understandably urgent) to someone like me (am Indian).

It is not reasonable at all for "non-Indian" English -- still that would perhaps be a reasonable explanation, just he should learn it is not reasonable.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by drakonka »

wiseowise wrote: post #195
thrownawayalre wrote: post #124

Innocent mistake. The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not…

> The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Bold of you to assume that he can even comprehend this.

Why wouldn't he? He's apologized profusely on Twitter: https://twitter.com/Rohithaditya/status/1533305205697130497

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Post by jen20 »

cyberlurker wrote: post #202
dheera wrote: post #161

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That and also in case there is any legal reason to sneeze the company laptop for discovery or anything you don't want any personal stuff on there. Keep personal stuff on personal devices, and never use personal devices for work either.

God bless you :) But yes, we’ve seen from a number of US politicians how bad of an idea it is to mix personal and work on one device/account. Usually email. It is annoying having two phones if work isn’t paying.

If work isn’t paying, what gives them the right to have email or chat in your personal phone?!

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by ignoramous »

bigDinosaur wrote: post #389
madmax108 wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. As someone who works with a lot of junior devs in India, I know the competition for early career roles in tech is immense, and so folks look at "open source contribution" as a "brownie point" to add in your resume. Having a "contributed to Unreal Engine" sounds great on paper and 3/5 companies would just take it at face-value and move this guy's resume higher up the stack. And we have enough seasoned devs who t…

A company really wouldn't at least ask what the contributions were? What kind of 'competitive market' is it where you can lie so easily and get away with it?

It is done to get through the "resume filter" cricle-jerk, because the sourcers and the recruiters are none the wiser.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by ratww »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #334
silisili wrote: post #298

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I don't quite get the mindset here. I'm (slowly and lazily) learning a new language, and can't imagine going into some native speaker's repo and trying to correct it...

Blame the interviewers who require OSS contributions. Same with DigitalOcean and their "hacktobefest"¹, or whatever it's called. LKML is full of attempts at these. For some reason I remember a particular exchange (but it's quite typical) between Linus and some random 16 year old ESL student, who bugged Linus for days to accept his "typo fixes" (most of which weren't really typos), and Linus's replies in the manner of…

Bullshit. The number of jobs that require OSS contributions is minimal, and I've never seen that requirement for anything close to an entry-level job. This is people doing resume padding and making it worse for everyone: OSS contributors, interviewers and future candidates that don't engage in this spam.

And Hacktoberfest, before those incidents, was something for real OSS contributors. Not for spammers wanting a free T-shirt.

Blame the channels on Youtube that are teaching people to make inane contributions to game the system, the people spreading lies like "you need OSS contributions to get a job" and finally the people doing it. This is the reason we can't have nice things.

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