> It applies not just to access to information on the device, but information "which can be accessed by the use of that computer"

So... basically the entire internet, then?

Snide viewpoints like this are one of the main reasons people with mental illness often hide their conditions and suffer in silence.

Oh, you have the gall to mention how depression or anxiety manifests in your life? You better stop flaunting your psychological frailty!

>Snide viewpoints like this are one of the main reasons people with mental illness often hide their conditions and suffer in silence.

It is profoundly psychologically damaging to be forced to cooperate (work, live, socialize) with such people who tacitly dehumanize those they do not understand with casual and capricious ease, such as the way the top level commenter dismisses the OP with a superficial and borderline bad faith analysis of the link at hand.

No one should ever have to justify their feelings. That’s it’s. That’s my point. Hard stop.

As a society, culture, community we need to get to the point where we respect the feelings of others implicitly. Feelings are not equations, there are no right or wrong answers. By implicitly acknowledging all the feelings of others we are respecting each other and nurturing common ground where we can discuss the differences that underlie perception and create an environment ripe for interpersonal growth. Failure to do so breeds resentment and festers in the homes, workplaces, and communities where the feelings of some are neglected.

It's one thing to mention it, quite another to continually moan about it day in and day out. Yes, I have empathy for your situation and if you need help, I can be there. But the rest is on you and not me. I don't need to see continual Facebook posts about it. There is quite a bit of sympathy-gathering that's taken hold and it's getting ridiculous.

"Yes, I have empathy for your situation"

"I don't need to see continual Facebook posts about it."

Framing someone's struggle purely in terms of how it annoys you makes you come across as something other than empathetic.

Clearly you didn't read all of my comment. Continually moaning about it is not doing anything about it except being a drama-queen. Yes I have empathy, but endless Facebook "woe is me..." posts are not the key to getting help.

>Clearly you didn't read all of my comment.

I did. I also read this post.

Saying you are empathetic while also uniformly dismissing those you claim to empathize with doesn't ring too clear. No evidence of empathy, lots of evidence of dismissal.

Just my 2c as someone looking at how the issue has been framed.

"Reading comprehension" my friend. I said "continually moaning" as in repeatedly doing that. I have empathy, I don't have unlimited empathy. At some point when a friend or loved one just wants to post on FB about how shitty their depression is, they're not really interested in getting better but just in the attention. If you can't understand that, be thankful you don't have someone like that in your life.

How is providing a fake email "debugging"... ?

Researchers associated with UMN intentionally submitted patches to the Linux kernel with vulnerabilities in them as an experiment. OSS maintainers shouldn't have to be the unwitting test subjects of experiments and have their time wasted (or worse, have vulnerabilities make it into their source code) so that researchers can write a paper about it.

Another key detail is that the experiment was carried out without having been submitted to or reviewed by the IRB.

I feel it should almost be mentioned: It seems to me that the students did this on the existing reputation of the University. The University had been contributing and were generally trusted. So maintainers were reviewing the code based on that reputation.

Until we have detailed methodology of the experience it does not seems to have been the case (it looked like they use randomized email address).

The only traceable bad patch that can be traced to the university was for one student that tried to coerce its way to patch acceptance, by invoking slander and accusing of other kind of despicable behavior from the reviewer. Which ignited the whole drama (although it started way before that, said student didn't help with the already delicate situation and gave public awareness to the drama).

It makes sense for them to want to keep their customers happy, considering how goddamn expensive those little bits of plastic are

You can take anything and do it poorly. That's not the fault of the people who created it.

"brew fucking sucks" is just whining, not reasonable criticism IMHO

Your anecdote is also just an anecdote. You're making sweeping claims without evidence and are adding nothing of substance to the discussion.

> One thing I always try and vouch for is that you do need to go "all-in" on microservices

Did you mean "don't need"? I agree with the rest of your post, but this first sentence confuses me

You are right! Sorry typo fixed

Ah, but of course you are one of The Smart People whereas we plebians (and the NASA scientists who designed and launched the probe) are merely average.

Thank you! now you get it!