It may be a controversial practice, but I tend to be quite... verbose in my bug/ticket comments. It doesn't matter if it's my ticket for just myself or if it was someone else... I will take the time to explain what I found, why the problem exists, and what we had to do to address it.
This is true even when non-technical people report issues - I'll explain in plain-language what's wrong and what's being done to fix it.
To do otherwise - just close the ticket with "fixed" - feels wrong to me.
Tech journalists reporting on Logitech's plans for a "forever mouse" should lead with what the company really wants: You pay a subscription fee to use it.
("forever" means until it breaks, or until Logitech decides to brick it.)
This is prime enshittification.
Fintech bullies stole your kid's lunch money
Three companies control the market for school lunch payments.
They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system
-- to the tune of $100m/year.
They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.
In its latest report, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau describes this scam in eye-watering, blood-boiling detail:
https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_costs-of-electronic-payment-in-k-12-schools-issue-spotlight_2024-07.pdf
-- @pluralistic
Yeah, those days were full of surprises and mis-forecasts like that.
Anent newspapers:
I worked a consulting gig with a guy whose previous client was the NYT, around 1980. They wanted a *custom* word processing application, to be integrated with their custom editing and typesetting pipeline. This was before vendor-provided, reasonably standard word processors were a thing, beyond toys.
He learned several things, but the ones that stick out in my memory are:
(1) User interviews are an unreliable way to get requirements. You can implement *exactly* what they ask, and they will say, "No, not like that." This is a truism today, but in 1980 it was a frustrating thing to have to learn.
(2) Management *liked* that the skills learned using their custom application were not portable, so people couldn't switch jobs. Management equally *disliked* that they couldn't just hire people who already had those skills. This is a periodic reminder that management can be kinda parasitic at times. (Admittedly, not *all* the time, but enough to be annoying.)
Here’s what parenting can look like.
When I told my dad I was trans, my dad’s response was, “Oh! I can send you jewelry now!” (He was retired and made jewelry as a hobby).
Two days latter, I had a letter in the mail addressed to Joelle, the first time “Joelle” ever got mail, with a necklace in it. Later he made me this one. He told me, “I hope I got the colors right, I looked it up online.”
You don’t have to mourn a child transitioning. You can be the first to do so many affirming things.
The cottontail fledgling who lives in my flowerbed now comes to eat birdseeds. 😍🥰🐰💕
Keithius
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️
Jerome G
Meanwhile in Canada
Les Orchard
Dan Gillmor
Chuck Darwin
Weekend Editor
Joelle
Takako 🐀