Semi related: I unintentionally compromised someone’s account by registering their expired domain once.

They used the domain for some accounts and I’ve been getting emails for them due to using a catch-all filter. I contacted most of those service providers support teams, but some just told me to reset the password and login that way. Needless to say that disregard for privacy infuriated me a bit.

So yeah, if you ever register a domain for something, make sure all references to it are gone when you let it go.

That’s sad.

If the negative for more speed is errors, then you’re not faster.

Yes, because the hard thing about writing papers is the actual writing.

Jokes aside, of course I can just write whatever, but if I don’t have any actual research to write about, all of those 4000 words I write a day are just filler that will get deleted after someone remotely intelligent reviews it.

Academia is not fun 😂

Good luck with the project.

I want to request a not-feature: One time I extracted an archive with an odd command that ended up dumping all its contents without directories straight into the base folder of the archive without a way to undo that. Please don’t make that possible with your tool. 😂

I had to manually clean up the directory.

Agreed. It’s really shit for new code, but if I’m writing glue code stuff or repetitive code it saves a lot of time spent on typing.

I mean yeah, funny greentext, fake and gay and all, but is that an actual thing that happens across the big pond?

If someone did that in Europe they’d be in serious legal trouble if the threatened party sues.

The group I referenced had a paid membership. Scale that up and make it digital and you may end up with a gender exclusive social media app.

I get what you mean though, but I feel there’s a bit more nuance than what you imply.

While I certainly agree with you that discrimination based on sex is unacceptable im most contexts, I believe that gender exclusive spaces, unless they hinder people directly, sometimes are a good thing.

My dad is a mental health professional and founded a weekly ‘only-men’ self help group. He found that some things they talked about there wouldn’t have worked with women involved. That group existed for about 5 years or so and helped quite a few struggling men.

So yeah, unless there’s any maliciousness involved, I’d argue that gender exclusiity is not bad in every context.

Yes, I was also very surprised. The userbase is surprisingly small, even though it runs quite well.

But if I wasn’t into IT, I’d probably have run into issues that I wouldn’t be able to fix. Just little things like proper directory permissions, ownership and such.