The disappointing tea.xyz
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I got a pull request from "tea.xyz" related individual and unraveled a mess of a disappointing project.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/15238521

Yet another “brilliant” scheme from a cryptobro. Naturally this caused a gold-rush for scammers who outsourced random people via the gig economy to open PRs for this yml file (example)

  • self@awful.systemsEnglish
    4·
    9 months ago

    I hate the energy of That Guy that barges into the room and shouts “I solved X!” without researching for 5 minutes what all the people that were actually hard at work solving X came up with, what hurdles they identified, and which paths were already explored.

    And it’s always fucking tech guys.

    “my only achievement is that I made the most mediocre version of something that already existed and somehow it got corporate adoption” is a whole-ass type of person in my industry, and they’ve always got the biggest gap between self-perceived genius and actual skill level. they always seem to gravitate towards systems software too, somehow

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
      4·
      9 months ago

      This is me, yesterday, on realizing that gmail doesn’t have inbox sorting options, something elm had in *1986*.

      (Look, I know everyone else has long since become beaten into the ground by gmail’s quirks, but I don’t use it personally, and whenever I’m at a job that allows gmail IMAP clients I use those instead. It honestly never occurred to me that the dominant client that’s slowly strangling all small mailers wouldn’t have “change sort order” as a basic fucking function.)

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        The deficiencies in the goog interfaces, across multiple products, are legion. I recall someone talking about it recently compared to Palm Pilot, and how the latter could do detail obscuring when just wanting to share a single piece of information on a screen (think the examples used were calendar and contact)

        The other “fun” thing is how they kill off features/things to force people into how they want a thing to be used. And I believe IMAP with normal credential auth is one of those on the list for later this year… 😡