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Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by can16358p » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:22 AM UTC

dotancohen wrote: post #232

Ansil849 wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Purchasing, carrying, and maintaining two devices is expensive, heavy, and tedious. Easy always beats safe. Not to mention that there may be significant overlap between work and play for some people. I code Magento (PHP) during the day and contribute to open source PHP efforts as a hobby. In which environment (work or personal) should my notes and bookmarks be? When I have a company issued laptop I use two machines.…

This.

My work and hobby life is completely entwined. I have one powerful machine and micromanage my time by switching between windows of work and leisure.

Add the fact that I do coding as work and video editing as a hobby which both need powerful machines, and it would be very stupid, unmanageable, and inconvenient to buy two MacBooks.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by fellellor » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:23 AM UTC

gruez wrote: post #68

nop_slide wrote: post #29

There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files What is going on?

Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive? [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...

Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into.

Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by TeamMCS » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:24 AM UTC

Man it's still ongoing, and now the trolls have discovered it. The original thread somehow managed to crash my iphone due to the sheer number of replies.

Amazing GH even made this possible. Not sure if there's also a data leak, I notice my email was CCed, not BCCed. Now they've managed to email nearly half a million people, this could go on for ages as idiots keep responding to the original chains.

Wonder if EpicGames should temporarily mark their account as private till this gets sorted out. Glad I'm not the guy at the end of the phone trying to sort this car crash out.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by spinaltap » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC

nop_slide wrote: post #29

There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files What is going on?

This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by can16358p » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC

Ansil849 wrote: post #102

macintux wrote: post #92

Earlier 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.

I work for many different software projects.

I also do a lot of 4K video editing both as a hobby and occasionaly for work.

I also switch between tasks a lot daily.

I am mobile.

Yeah it would be perfectly economic, riskless, convenient, and definitely manageable to carry two fully specced MacBook Pros in my bag.

Not even jumping into the software licensing territory.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by isoprophlex » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:26 AM UTC

jmcgough wrote: post #19

My 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 :)

Hehe when I was an intern working on a big chemical industry site someone also accidentally reply-alled a plant-wide safety mailing list.

This quickly started a similar deluge of mails until someone high up the chain of command all-caps yelled "NO MORE REPLYING ON THIS MAIL, OR IT WILL BE AN HR VISIT FOR YOU"

Good times

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by cturhan » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:27 AM UTC

keyle wrote: post #110

My phone started going off like crazy with emails every 20 seconds :) What's so perfect, is the PR is complete horse shite. Trying to get something on the resume.

“Contributed to Unreal Engine source code. It welcomed well, hundreds of people commented”

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by fellellor » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:27 AM UTC

cjk wrote: post #74

I was on the receiving end of this. The notifications continued to pour in for another few minutes after I unsubscribed from the thread, totaling 104 by the time the madness stopped.

UnsubscribeNotificationWorker has been queued. :)

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by yardstick » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:27 AM UTC

wolverine876 wrote: post #212

tony wrote: post #5

The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.

> I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. > Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. Your email client only received 20 messages; why is it crashing? The very long To: header?

Why would it be a very long To header? It’s not like the email headers include all 400k emails in one go.

That would be a massive privacy breach, and people here would be making a lot more noise about such a large email database being leaked.

Re: GitHub user sends notification to 400k users

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Post by rwiggins » Sun, Jun 05, 2022, 6:27 AM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #231

rwiggins wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Google does use Android work profiles - if you have an Android device. Unfortunately, iOS doesn't really have an equivalent concept (e: see comment below), so device-wide privileges are necessary there. Everyone has their own level of comfort, of course. I've worked for two employers now whom I've given the power to erase my personal iPhone in exchange for the convenience of not needing to lug around a second phone.…

iOS has user enrollment which is broadly equivalent: https://support.apple.com/guide/deployment/user-enrollment-a... . Google does not adopt this (but it could, b/234963918).

Oh, thanks for the link. Looks like I'm out of date. Seems to be a relatively newish feature (~2020), but on the surface that does seem ideal. I haven't dug into the specifics, so I'm not sure if there's a gap preventing its use or if it's just a matter of priorities.