spectre [he/him]

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  • spectre [he/him]@hexbear.nettotechnology@hexbear.netTechnical debt
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    4 months ago

    The other poster is correct, but less exaggerated is

    "when you bring in a new change to a technical system, you need to allocate time and resources to cleaning up after yourself, cause shit is gonna be broken. Could be big obvious things (should be planned for, but shit happens), could be that you patched over something with a temporary fix and it needs something more robust, also could be fringe cases that you aren’t gonna know about for a couple months/years. The point is that every change you make incurs some debt to pay back, and you need to account for it if you want your system to keep running smoothly/relatively smoothly ".

    SV techbros sometimes come in with the “move fast and break things” mentality, which is ok-ish (don’t be afraid to mess up if you’re genuinely trying to make things better), but you need to keep your house in order. Otherwise you’re just building a tower of cards that’s gonna collapse all at once beyond repair cause you’re just moving fast and breaking thinga without allocating the time to stabilize them.














  • Valid criticisms tbh (I even could say the same as a day 0 account lol)

    Moderation isn’t going to “improve” because they generally are fine with everyone being goofballs, so I wouldn’t expect that.

    Some people have the cascade of shitposting and useless emojis coming with their crappy views, but I don’t think our instance is great at propaganda or ROE, which is unfortunate. Would love to see what we could do with a little discipline.

    Also the emojis on every other instance and all mobile apps look more obnoxious because they don’t downscale to their intended resolution.



  • All OSes have vulnerabilities, and the thing is MS Defender is a working solution that prevents many attacks. Microsoft also has to provide some nominal support to enterprise apps that are 30 years old, because that’s a significant amount of what keeps them in business. Patching actual root causes would often mean changing the way things work at a fundamental level in the OS, and would break apps for a lot of their users. This could create a big problem for a lot of people.





  • The post got deleted and I was told to go to the other one. In the first one they were posting only news articles

    Ill call it garbage reddit-brain moderation. The reason for an /ask~ comm is cause your main comm is flooded with repeated questions that would stifle discussion. It’s also not a good solution to that problem, not too mention they don’t have enough users to be having that problem.

    The way you form a community is to discuss the same things over and over until a hivemind develops, it’s a good thing to have a group consensus, not that individuals can’t disagree. Now the crappy moderation is gonna cultivate a crappy subreddit vibe instead of something better.