The devs have access to the source code. Why would they put something like this two layers deep into the documentation? It’s like those people that think Mozilla is evil, because Mozilla openly talks about what they’re doing. If they wanted to be evil, you would know jackshit about it.
Im loving that there are ml users coming in and defending it lol
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
- “This isn’t even malicious, just look at it, it’s perfectly innocent”
- “Besides, if they wanted to do something, they could disguise it way better than this”
Pick a lane, .ml.
Ephera@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
I’ll let the hivemind know that we’re supposed to have only one opinion.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
Yeah, don’t they realize they could have just spent that time productively by making a pull request, instead?
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 days ago
Honestly, you found the fault. I agree that you should put the request in.
PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 days ago
I mean probably I should. There are a bunch of people accusing me of being dick headed and petty and they’re not completely wrong. Honestly, I just don’t feel like helping the Lemmy devs. Dessalines, at least, is totally unapologetic about being a dickhead to people he has power over. That puts me in a mindset where, mostly, I want to talk to other people about potential harm he’s in a position to do, and not really in a mindset where I want to do even a small amount of extra work on his behalf.
I’m going to tell other people that he’s in a position to take their passwords. If he wants to see that and put himself not in that position anymore? Great, I think he should. If he gets his feelings hurt because I’m not being super friendly about it? Well… okay. I’m not trying to be malicious about it or do anything other than clearly communicate the problem. But it seems like the lemmy.ml “in charge” crew in general has a lot of a mentality that’s kind of like, “Well, I’m in charge, and you’re not, so fuck what you think and fuck your rights. Ban.” (or whatever). The way I operate is that really makes me not want to be extra friendly or courteous to people. I used to have a regular donation to Lemmy development set up, I used to take it seriously the idea of getting involved in contributing to the code, and then I observed how they operate, and … like I say I’m mostly talking to the other people involved who I think should be aware of this. If the devs want to react, fix it, or get involved in the conversation, then sure, sounds good.
The fix is in the comments below, if someone else wants to contribute it and do the very small amount of work of getting it in.
percent@infosec.pub 5 days ago
It sounds like a pull request would have been much more helpful, with much less effort. But you want it fixed less than you want it publicized, so you chose this option.
In other words, you cared less about the people impacted by this problem, and more about your own opportunity to put the author(s) on blast like this.
And you care about that opportunity so much, that it’s even worth it to show this dark side of yourself publicly.
Am I understanding that right?
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 days ago
Regardless of all that drama, you could have spent five minutes at anytime in the last two hours writing significantly less than you have, and putting the the request in.
You could have been done doing it in-between replies. Just saying.