Notices by Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)

@mattly No it does not. But I want to live in the timeline where Mozilla does good things a little more often. Or at least doesn't consider the good things they've done in spite of themselves to be mistakes that must be expunged from history

@mattly amazing

@mattly ok, but in this same vein, do you plan to cover security questions? Because among my many complaints with those is that I think it's wildly unreasonable to expect me to remember how I capitalized my answer about my childhood pets or whatever.

@inthehands Um, yes, but also no. Commit messages are memory aids, and the more they're asked to do beyond that scope, the less useful they are. So, the level where you add in team members is to recognize that team members might sometimes ask you questions like, "do you remember that bug you fixed? How did you do that? Because I think this situation is similar"

If the author isn't around to ask, the commit messages aren't going to fill that gap.

@inthehands The hill I will die on is that version control systems, and thus the messages attached to commits, are for versioning sources, not finished artifacts. Many many attempts to enforce a commit message standard are made in service of turning commit messages into release notes, and this is bad for everyone.

The essential purpose of VCS commit messages is to make commits findable. Do whatever makes them findable for you, the committer.

@skinnylatte

@mattly I'm not even sure how much git being distributed is contributing. I think you run into the same problems if you try to pretend that SVN is a package manager/registry. The capabilities and affordances you want when you're building software are almost entirely unlike what you want when you're distributing it. More than not, they become liabilities

@mattly Some people, when faced with a software distribution problem, think "I know! I'll use git!"

And now they have made this everybody's problem

@mattly @technomancy that is the correct way to punctuate quotes, and I will die on this hill

@hrefna
😞 sigh

@hrefna yeah 😒

@mattly so it's really convenient for the framework author, and a high powered automatic foot gun for the framework user

@mattly oh, God

@hrefna yeah

it would be great if supposedly left/liberal/moderate political parties could stop tying queer people to the tracks for long enough to see that they're standing on the same track

@mattly my first reaction is to make this face 🤢

But then, when I think about it, there is already taco lasagna. And that's delicious. We call it enchiladas

@mattly my bad

but also, can't stop; won't stop

@mekkaokereke X is an activity transfer relay. Similar to mail transfer relays, in SMTP.

Y is a shared media storage pool.

Z is automated spam filtering.

@mattly I mean, that's part of my point. This is a very mundane commercial property masquerading as residential. Why is this getting click bait treatment from real human beings? And why is it happening on both mastodon and bluesky?

@mattly https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/113782766643391248
sorry

@hrefna it's me. I'm the consumer who finds it to be a "major turn-off"