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   silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:21:26 JST silverwizard

   Fuck
   I just realized why I'm always confused why my coworkers want an update in slack for PR changes rather than just using the automated emails.

   It's because I've levelled to the point of being Email Driven

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:21:57 JST silverwizard

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     Hackers will be promoted until they need to check their email constantly
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     Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas (steevmi1@freeradical.zone)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:23:36 JST Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas

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     @silverwizard Reminded of that time when the director of Engineering at a company I worked for had to tell all of Engineering that they were required to check their e-mails twice a day, no exceptions.
     #SlackLife

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Friday, 01-Mar-2024 23:23:52 JST silverwizard

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     • Fear and Tooting in Las Vegas
     @steevmi1 exactly!
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:34:35 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite

     @hypolite Alerts are things that cause alarm. Email and slack both can only contain alerts if they also are alerting! They need to create attention, not fall into background noise.

     But yeah, we do both, and I'm always weirded out by the manual slack.

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:34:36 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard That’s why we do both at my job! 🙌

     It still didn’t prevent an SRE from claiming no alert was raised. 🤔

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:11:30 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite that feels like something where if it's not available it should be kicking off a system! Feels like computer work - and I'd be fighting to make it that
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:11:32 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard The alerts we issue should always be followed by actions, these aren't automated alerts based on arbitrary metrics level. We check 10 minutes before the top of the hour that the data needed for the next hour is available, and if it's not, someone needs to press a couple buttons possibly hundreds of miles away from me. We definitely factored in alert fatigue but these are business critical.
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:41:07 JST silverwizard

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     • hypolite
     @hypolite All buttons can be programed!
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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:41:08 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Sure, but we're dealing with third-party systems we have a limited control over. Hence the need for a human to push a button. 🤷♂️
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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:08:09 JST silverwizard

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     @hypolite Just shark your wires! It'll be fine!

     Or use some screen scraping! We're too afraid of writing software that lies to other software! Mouse clicks are just programs!

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     hypolite (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 03:08:10 JST hypolite

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     @silverwizard Not in closed source software!
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