froztbyte

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tangentially, I think about this thread every so often too. this just made me think of it again.

I keep wanting to give zed a serious go (even just to try it out because it looks interesting) but there's some design decisions that are raisedeyebrow.gif and feel like a very telling thing about the mindset of the devs

fresh install:

• at start, it immediately attempts to start making connections to github copilot and a couple of other network sources. no user prompt, no indication that it's going to be doing this, no indication that it is doing it
• figuring out how to turn said undesired features off was not documented and just by the by semi answered elsewhere (also: I applied those settings and it still did a bunch of shit, so I had to pull the repo and scratch through it myself...)

while I'm certainly from the older guard of crotchety, I still think it's fucking reasonable to ask the user before your software goes off and does shit. you don't even have to overload them with requests, you can make it granular with a customize button. this shit has been solved in fucking windows application installers since the goddamn 00s

christ I'm gonna stay angry at the last decade for a long time

some years ago I wanted to build a bot that tracks all these loons, but the twitter API reqs are onerous as fuck so I never bothered

feel like there's probably still a need for something like that. perhaps even more so than before, given how mask-off the snakepit is getting

lol their last comment made it through to my client notifications, and the utter “it’s you not me” vibe to it is beyond. no need to repeat it I guess but just fucking wow

wow we get changelogs now, fancy

but all this spicy food I ate still has to go through my system - just like you still have to make good posts

seriously, you show up here sight unseen and your very first posts are to take up weird stances on other people’s comments? the fuck

that’s a lotta cards, yeesh

make better posts

okay I’m curious, is that worth in sunk cost (dollars spent), or some ostensible secondary market valuation?

it takes a certain kind of person to come up with “I am incapable of participating in this conversation, QED the internet is dead”

I dub it: “induncetive reasoning”