My name is Jess. I build and manage servers for both work and fun. I also occasionally make music.

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  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlRTFM
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    21 days ago

    “RTFM” (or similar comments like “it’s in the docs”) are just mean and useless without a reference.

    Like, okay, superior user in the internet: If it’s in the manual/docs, what page? Do you have a link? Could you quote the relevant section?

    Often people ask because they couldn’t find the answer in the docs. Simply pointing them at the answer is infinitely better than “lol the answer is in there somewhere”

    See also: “Let me Google that for you…” Like mf Google brought me to this thread!


  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.nettoLinux@lemmy.mlRTFM
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    21 days ago

    I can’t count the number of times I swear I read every man page and I can’t figure out how to structure my arguments–especially when they are nested or conditional.

    I especially wish more man pages had common examples. Sometimes an example can say more than a paragraph of explanation.









  • To be clear, I still think the law is dumb and poorly thought-out, but not because it increases surveillance or compromises privacy. It’s just so ridiculously broad and completely ignores the fact that majority of internet queries are server-to-server and aren’t even seen by any user.

    What I really don’t get is why there’s no specification of content sensitivity. Isn’t that the entire point of this? Like if the software never accesses any age-restricted data, then it should be categorically excluded from this requirement.

    It really feels like the writers of this law never considered the fact that “software” means anything beyond apps from iOS or Android.