I still have never used slack. How did this develop into a necessary evil? Wouldn’t Matrix or Rocket Chat fill the need? Mattermost? I find it fascinating that nobody wants to self host (use it to test your devops skills if you must) and nobody seems to care about some corporation having the chat logs of your developers (and code snippets, and and and)

I was mildly surprised, actually. I’d assumed that, as Slack has actual paid users (my company is one) they might treat their users as customers, not product. I was sadly mistaken.

Yes. It leaves me with the impression that gateways might exist primarily to ease the on-boarding process of new customers by being able to tell them, that they can continue using their IRC or XMPP clients. Once a company becomes a customer, the discussion is effectively finished and individual users will be pressured to use the electron or browser client anyways because Slack is what the company uses now.

So, sadly, there’s little incentive for Slack to support those bridges as long they are good enough to say “yes, we’ve got them” in the beginning.

If you’re using Weechat then give wee-slack a go - I believe its lead developer works at Slack. I switched from IRC gateway some months ago because my team insists on using threads and emoji reactions, and I insist on using tools which don’t consume tons of resources. So far it’s been great, it supports most of the features I need (threads, emoji reactions, some slash commands) and I don’t care about others (search, file uploads)

This means that sometime in the not-to-distant future, using the gateways at all won’t be possible.

A bit like some time in the not-too-distant future, you won’t be able to unlock a new Android/iOS cellphone without something like “Face ID”.

For your convenience and security, of course. Only a terrorist would want a phone without Face ID!

The commonality here is that the masses don’t care about the alternatives, and so, the alternatives end up becoming impractical.

Gah! Slack. Fixed, thanks. (Sourceforge was down during my first attempt to submit; I think this was qwertial aphasia).

Slack

Has the link changed? That text doesn’t appear on my reading…

Possibly because the article does wander off quite quickly into the “does this really exist?” territory and doesn’t really put the results into perspective. As a person with diagnosed ADHD, I’m very put off by this.

ADHD is a nasty subject, especially as indeed, many of the symptoms can also be caused by stress. This is why medical personnel should rule out stress causes carefully. I was in therapy for 1,5 years before diagnosis. Also, ADHD is constantly reevaluated, as the name changes indicate: it used to be that ADS, and ADHS were different things, then it was AD(H)S now they are subforms of the the same thing. So it’s definitely something hard to grasp. Mind that the criteria for ADHS are more then just “is easily distracted” (the better tl;dr is: “cannot steer their concentration properly”)

The over-diagnosis of children is known and nothing new. It is also known that ADHD can go away after puberty and that symptoms change with age. Still, there’s 2 questions:

1) is the misdiagnosis harmful? (whether it must be treated with medication is something entirely different)

2) how harmful is non-diagnosis to the cohort that are correctly diagnosed.

All in all, that means the article is poor in gained knowledge at best.

Yup, I got the same sense. I explained repeatedly to the person with whom I was talking that it was a legal issue, and that I wanted to speak to someone in legal who dealt with intellectual property matters. Said person refused.

I have confirmed with our technical department who advised that to access the software download site the BMW Customer must provide the 7 digit VIN and accept the usage rights agreement. Part of the usage rights agreement states that the software is protected by copyright and BMW is the sole owner. So in this case it is not subject to the requirements of a “Public” licence.

The hilarious thing about this is that they seem to think that somehow the end-user agreeing to a license somehow means that copyright doesn’t apply any more, or something?

What is the nature of the violation? Looks like they are just shipping some Linux together with their own stuff on top? So they should just be offering to give the source code for Linux? Or do we have some indication that they’ve tied their stuff tightly with Linux in order to form a single work?

Both BMW employees sound like support people. No one involved is a lawyer; you need to escalate.

I disagree. Per title, the “content” here is that BMW refused to comply with GPL. This informatoin indeed is provided by the tweet, and not provided by the linked blog post.

I’d agree, should have just linked the blog post.

So what’s the alternative to GitHub that we should be using?

In my experience, if you’re doing effective code review you need to get your head into the problem space (sometimes, language, OS and platform differs).

IME, if it take a long time to get into a code review to do it, the code reviews are too large. I tend to have very succinct code reviews explicitly to ensure my reviewers can have really good SLAs are responding. Big dump code changes are necessary sometimes but often avoidable. And they cause a lot of bugs and pain.

To be fair, having a bunch of branches out for review means the author needs to context switch as well/ re-load the code back into memory.

I think that the tags are relevant. The cynic in me would guess that some people don’t find accessibility a technical-enough subject to be on Lobsters.

I think “culture” and “practices” would be better fits, personally. There may be others as well.

a yro tag (“your rights online”, from slashdot) would be perfect, though (internet, culture) woukd work too

An update to this: the security folks have told me it’s not a security issue, but they’re forwarding it to the appropriate team.

Perhaps I’m biased, but I’d have thought that a Windows Update that ships malware that bricks thousands of consumer devices without warning would constitute a security issue.

But hey … at least they’re actioning it, and they responded so quickly. So, FYI: if you have a security issue to report to Microsoft, do it by email. Phone staff are utterly, completely useless for this.

Another update: Microsoft had already been made aware of the issue, and were investigating. I’ve lodged a formal compliment over the way their security team responded to my report (once I found them). Prompt, helpful, efficient and reassuring.