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   Akira (evilcorp1988@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:30 JST Akira

   • Alex Gleason
   @alex Any Github repo that doesn't have a DOWNLOAD EXE/APK button may as well be sorcery to the average person. Most people struggle to even follow instructions for using basic CLI commands.
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:27 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • dotnet
     @dotnet @alex @EvilCorp1988 somehow commercial software that's written by whole ass teams of developers manages to be worse
     right off the bat there's the huge time sink of purchasing the software, finding the license key/file, and actually acquiring the software, which they make much harder than it needs to be with everything hidden behind a login wall on a dogshit website
     HI WELCOME TO OUR SOFTWARE WEBSITE WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ ABOUT OUR COMPANY'S MISSION STATEMENT? HOW ABOUT A MESSAGE FROM OUR CEO ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND GEORGE FLOYD? CLICK HERE TO ACCEPT COOKIES, CLICK HERE TO JOIN OUR MAILING LIST, HERE'S A SHITTY AI CHAT BOT WE'VE MADE POP OVER THE ENTIRE PAGE TO "HELP" YOU
     and then God help you if you ever need support, you can just kiss hours of your day goodbye by the time you make it through the phone queue, read your 37 digit support contract number to 2 different robots and 5 different pajeets
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     dotnet@loli.church's status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:28 JST dotnet

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

     @skylar@wolfgirl.bar @alex@gleasonator.com @EvilCorp1988@poa.st ah yeah, I don't really apply this to projects of the sort where it's just some code someone put together and shared without seeing it as much more than that. Eg sharing scripts they wrote for some bots they run.
     
     It's mainly frustrating when it's something you're kind of expected to use.

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     dotnet@loli.church's status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:29 JST dotnet

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

     @skylar@wolfgirl.bar @EvilCorp1988@poa.st @alex@gleasonator.com recently I had an issue where, when compiling CUDA, no matter what I did, would fail with "error 1". After a week of tearing my hair out with zero useful info online, I tracked it down to a registry key for command prompt, which was causing a batch script that nvcc invokes to fail. Dealing with that was only tolerable because I was trying to compile my own software, projects which expect other developers, let alone plain nobodies to compile stuff and potentially deal with that sort of thing are insufferable.
     
     Those types often don't even care to respond to requests for help properly. Just this other day I was trying to update some software I run on my server and noticed that despite the heavily and unnecessarily customized linux environment, the developers were always hostile in their responses to user questions. Particularly if users made the 'error' of expecting typical linux-isms to be available.

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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:29 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • dotnet
     @dotnet @alex @EvilCorp1988 i can see it from the developer's perspective too
     >you're not a programmer or software engineer for work, you just wrote a personal project to do a certain task
     >you decide to release it cause you figure other people might find it useful too
     >you don't have a huge team of QA testers and don't have any experience with automated tools
     >you don't have an army of developers and technical writers to introduce robust error handling and thorough documentation
     >people find it and it gets somewhat popular
     >day after day, people endlessly bitch on github and anywhere else your github profile leads to, about shit that's 95% user error from doing something completely retarded and the other 5% mostly for different use cases the project was never intended to cover
     >one day you receive a discord message from a user who had downloaded the x86 binary: THIS DIDN'T WORK ON MY RASPBERRY PI YOU'RE A SHITTY PROGRAMMER!!!!
     >delete the repository and your github account
     >never share something you wrote again
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     skylar :confederateflag:??? :z: (skylar@misskey.yandere.love)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:30 JST skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

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     • Alex Gleason
     @EvilCorp1988 @alex being able to follow written instructions is rarely enough when software is involved
     >haha whoops, the instructions were written when libpeepeepoopoo was at version 1.2.0.3h and now it's at version 1.2.0.3k, so compiling will always fail on any computer with an intel CPU from the 4 most recent generations with a cryptic error involving "formerlychucks.h"
     >and nobody will ever be able to fix it because googling the error message, even with quotes, only turns up infinity pajeet and AI SEO spam sites
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     dotnet@loli.church's status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 01:38:39 JST dotnet

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     • skylar :confederateflag:??? :z:

     @skylar@wolfgirl.bar @alex@gleasonator.com @EvilCorp1988@poa.st MBAs ruin even the best engineering teams through bullshit like that