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Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by mrtranscendence »

cogogo wrote: post #178
TylerE wrote: post #9

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I have my HN username at gmail, and the novelty... wears off. So many recipts, confirmations, random bccs... Where it gets really ugly is gmail's (incredibly dumb, imo) feature where dots don't matter. I've had mulitple people get quite insistent that they own the email tyler.e gmail, which of course routes to...

I have my first name . last name @ gmail and it’s definitely a reminder of how big the world is. I had previously thought my name was fairly unique. I don’t engage anymore unless it’s a small business trying to get paid.

My girlfriend has a rather uncommon name, but her FirstNameMiddleName@gmail.com gets emails meant for someone else rather frequently. Sometimes it’s even official PII or PHI. She’s tried to let people know but they’re surprisingly sometimes not all that receptive? So I think she ignores it now.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by KMnO4 »

acters wrote: post #140
iamthejuan wrote: post #135

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Mine was @username and GitHub just suddenly changed it to usernamex.

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As a non-American I’m just curious: where does this ideology start to be pushed?

The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world.

I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news or TV?

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by throwawaylinux »

acters wrote: post #163
DC-3 wrote: post #149

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I have no great fondness for big tech companies, but equally I do believe that society is made worse by people who behave like this.

I am unsure how society is "made worse" On the contrary, this is playful, it is not evil or abusive. also helps keep companies on their toes. Changing someone's username without notifying them AND consent should be frowned on. Taking a large company to small claims will not make the company worse or hurt anyone. Most of the time it is helpful and sometimes brings about the creation of needed regulations. It is feedba…

Civil courts are a service. They have significant delays and backlogs in many places, to the detriment of people with legitimate reasons to use them. Probably in no small part due to frivolous and nuisance suits.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by civilitty »

KMnO4 wrote: post #202
acters wrote: post #140

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As a non-American I’m just curious: where does this ideology start to be pushed? The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world. I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news…

I say this only somewhat in jest:

> The whole idea of “I don’t like this, so I will sue” isn’t really present to nearly such an extent in the rest of the world.

The US is a capitalistic dystopian hellscape where every organization is a parasite trying to extract every dollar of rent it possibly can, regardless of what it does to the host. Without lawsuits, we'd all be serfs.

> I’m just wondering if it’s something they teach in school (like a civics class), or if it’s introduced in a more causal fashion (making jokes like “don’t do that or I’ll sue you”), or is it just popular on the news or TV?

Civics education in the US is crap. We'd honestly be better off if we did teach these things in school.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by onionisafruit »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #130

At my previous job, I decided to make a Slack channel named after one of the C preprocessor directives (#define I think, or maybe #endif). A handful of people found it and appreciated the joke. But then, a few months later, one of the admins contacted me to ask if it would be okay to delete the channel. You see, in large organisations, Slack knows which channels are not meant to be visible to other parts of the org,…

Funny that slack’s attempt to keep it from being mentioned revealed the existence of a private channel.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by remram »

Retr0id wrote: post #73

I accidentally pasted a backtrace into a github issue outside of a code block. It was a deep stack, with each line prefixed by "#0" "#1", "#2", etc. GitHub decided to turn these into links to the corresponding numbered issues, for every issue , (including back-reference notifications in each of those issues) and there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action.

A bigger problem I've had with issue references is in commits. A repo we used as template was using "Fixes #123" in commits messages, to close tickets filled against that template repo. The problem is that when the updated template was merged in the downstream repo, it would close issues in each of them too...

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by onionisafruit »

jkaplowitz wrote: post #169
veave wrote: post #129

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>there didn't seem to be any way to undo that action. Well thank God there isn't a button to undo sent mails.

In many email systems there is an undo send feature. Outside of those closed contexts where yanking a message out of the recipient’s inbox is possible, it is generally implemented by waiting a few seconds between when the UI says the message has been sent and when the message is actually sent. During that interval, an undo send option is offered which simply cancels the upcoming send action.

Nothing calls attention to an email better than those messages saying that the sender wishes to retract a message you have already downloaded.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by rileymat2 »

pc86 wrote: post #198
acters wrote: post #163

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I am unsure how society is "made worse" On the contrary, this is playful, it is not evil or abusive. also helps keep companies on their toes. Changing someone's username without notifying them AND consent should be frowned on. Taking a large company to small claims will not make the company worse or hurt anyone. Most of the time it is helpful and sometimes brings about the creation of needed regulations. It is feedba…

You are not damaged by losing a username. You will lose no money, no status, no clients, nothing. If you choose to print your username on the side of your car that's your choice and GitHub isn't responsible for that. Your case would be dismissed immediately, in some states with prejudice, and rightfully so. > It is feedback in a professional manner for disrespecting one of their users/clients. NO, this is emphaticall…

It really depends on how we treat digital properties, for example, a username on github will link to your identity and work, the same way a domain name might.

If a domain name was taken, it would have major consequences, trotting out “we never told you to spend millions on super bowl ads” would be a weird take.

Obviously it is based on the contract, but it is not far off.

Re: Super sorry to the guy with the username reset on GitHub

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Post by pc86 »

rileymat2 wrote: post #208
pc86 wrote: post #198

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You are not damaged by losing a username. You will lose no money, no status, no clients, nothing. If you choose to print your username on the side of your car that's your choice and GitHub isn't responsible for that. Your case would be dismissed immediately, in some states with prejudice, and rightfully so. > It is feedback in a professional manner for disrespecting one of their users/clients. NO, this is emphaticall…

It really depends on how we treat digital properties, for example, a username on github will link to your identity and work, the same way a domain name might. If a domain name was taken, it would have major consequences, trotting out “we never told you to spend millions on super bowl ads” would be a weird take. Obviously it is based on the contract, but it is not far off.

I don't think a username on someone else's service is comparable to a domain name. You buy a domain name. People go directly to your domain name. I would bet 90% or more of navigations to a github profile are linked from some other source (e.g. easy and borderline immediate to change) as opposed to typed into the url bar directly.

To be clear I think it's shitty for GH to change someone's username, especially without a lot of communication first, but I don't think it rises to the level of having any sort of damages you could try to litigate even in the worst cases.

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