Well, Valar Morghulis. Winter is here.
If you're looking for me, I'll be over at @jay
It's been a fun ride. Thanks to @wonderfall and all you Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters on social.targaryen.house for everything. Merci Beaucoup! Dracarys!
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Shel For The PublicHey friends it's your favorite Righteous Preacher of the Holy Word here to remind you Yet Again about Lashon Hara.
Lashon Hara is a despicable sin condemned by HaShem the god of the Jews. It is when you spread bad things about people which may be true but which have no useful or productive purpose to be brought up. The classic example is bringing up a mistake someone made a while back which they have since already apologized and atoned for, and have not made again. It hurts community and hinders learning
when you just say someone's name or are somehow affiliated with someone, and another person brings up something they did wrong some while back, ask yourself why? what is the useful purpose of bringing this up besides to say "this person is Bad" and is it the entire story? sometimes this is a useful interaction and sometimes it is not. use your best judgement. if someone routinely is a broker of pointless nasty gossip, we call them Ba'alei Lashon Hara, lords of the evil tongue.
Mastodon's userbase may lean older than tumblr or so but many people on here are still young and don't advertise it; and also no matter how old you are you can still be in a process of learning.
After someone has already been confronted, been held accountable, made up for their hata (sin, literally "going astray"), and we've all moved on without another incident, we should acknowledge that this person has learned from their mistake and bring it up again only if they transgress again
otherwise why do it
Why do students send their passwords in emails asking for help logging in? Why?
katFighting MSExchange and VMWare today http://qttr.at/1xym ... and ... XKCD knows exactly what the problem is. http://qttr.at/1xyn
Briefly coming up for air out of this soupy sewer that is the #CanvasLMS REST API to ask the universe why, after all these years, constructing a non-trivial POST request with LWP still requires delving into the arcane world of HTTP::Request::Common.
DWIM my foot.
In related news, the next time I volunteer to do a code review, somebody remind me to make sure it wouldn't be faster to write the solution form scratch myself instead.
@wonderfall Sorry if I missed it, but what's their problem with the moderation policy?
moved: Kodak: "Hey, you're getting nuclear fallout all over the continental United States."
US Gov't: "..."
Kodak: "And it's fucking up our products!"
US Gov't: "Oh sorry we'll try to do better."
Nate Cull (.social)CAPITALISM FAN: See, the problem with setting 'fair prices' for goods is that you create shortages! But if you just let THE MARKET (TM) set the prices, there are no shortages ever!
THE MARKET (TM): Hi so we raised the cost of houses to ONE MILLION DOLLARS. And we didn't build any new ones because that would lower the price. Literally fewer people can now live in houses.
CAPITALISM FAN: That's not a shortage. Shortages are what affect millionaires, not morally bad poor people who eat avocados.