Hey man, I agree with everything you’re saying and I genuinely mourn the freedom of expression that the web has lost. I was using “just tracking and stuff” as a shorthand as part of a conversation, cos I was just asking specifically about what I was missing from what people were talking about.

Yeah there’s loads of funny little quirks to the language. I actually quite like that about it, I think it’s sort of endearing and human, even when I’m frustrated with it.

I don’t know if it’s slow necessarily, but I do know that a lot of things I build (I have to build things designed by other people, I’ve tried to push back but ultimately it’s my boss designing a lot of it) is overengineered and relies on frankly too many moving parts, which could contribute to annoying UX I guess but with all the caching we have in place I’m not sure it’s slow… I’m not a computer science guy though, I might be just too dumb to understand how slow it is

Sorry, I work with a marketing department so it’s just normalised to me to call it tracking despite the fact that yes, I agree with you that it’s surveillance and targeted ads are gross. What distinction are you making between tracking server-side, and spying? For me, I guess I’m talking about things like Google analytics or Google ads or hotjar or MS Carity when I say “tracking” in this context (JavaScript).

I honestly thought this was a joke about this character specifically. It didn’t come off as “dumb woman annoying” to me, it came off as an in-joke about how this character. I didn’t watch GoT but obviously we all know bits about it by osmosis, I thought one of the main things about Cerci was that she is like, super paranoid and reacts to plots that aren’t there, sort of a Caligula/Nero type? Or maybe Tiberius I guess, I don’t know how malicious she was written as.

Rereading it, I can see how someone might take it as something mocking women in general but I feel like someone doing that is actively looking for something to be upset about.

Uhhhhh let me think for literally one millisecond here…

I’m missing something here. What’s the big thing people in this thread are hinting at JavaScript being used for that’s so sinister? Is it just like, tracking and stuff?

It might be, but that commenter is an AI user so they might actually just be a freak.

The government of Israel is intentionally conducting a horrific genocide of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children. I want to be absolutely crystal clear that I think it’s a crime against humanity and the perpetrators must be tried and any good court must convict.

I can’t get onboard with bloodthirsty statements about how “hopefully” a lot of Israeli civilians died. That’s just a personal thing for me, and the comment reads, to me, as hoping that civilians died.

I understand the sentiment that they’re settlers and occupiers, and I understand that they may have even held awful, incorrect, pro-colonialism opinions and had harmful beliefs, but personally for me I can’t get on board with sincerely hoping that unarmed civilians are murdered en masse.

Edit: sorry, yeah you’re right, it doesn’t read as “Jews” specifically and I understand that intentionally blurring the lines between Judaism and Israeli people is a zionist tactic. I apologise, I still think the statement is uncomfortable but you’re right in what you’ve said.

That is not how that comment reads to me.

https://itsthetie.tumblr.com/, the url on this comic isn’t working for me either but this is the Tumblr page I think

I’ve got to be honest… I’m not getting that same tingle. I’ve seen only one other of these comics and that also portrays jesus and god as separate “characters”, but even with that set aside, what would the joke of this comic be if the intended joke is that god and Jesus are the same? The punchline, to me, is that nobody thanks “jesus”, always thanking “god” instead, and jesus is unhappy about that and feels unappreciated.

The sign saying “Yahweh” might mean that when people thank “god” that counts as a catchall for Yahweh and jesus, but it’s actually Jesus who does all the work out of those two anyway? But I just feel like that’s a muddier joke than “god named, Jesus not named” which is simple. Maybe I’m simple. I might be stupid. I’m totally up for being wrong here.

Oh bore off.

Also this is definitely ragebait, why would anybody do this after Xmas day has already passed? 😂

That seems surprisingly cheap?

The Borderlands, on the other hand, is a pretty good found footage horror that I’d definitely recommend

I’ve worked with developers like this. Guys who literally stare at an error message, and then ignore it and start clicking around. Fucking infuriating 😂

I used to fully fully 100% agree with this. I’m not a computer science guy but I am a web developer and have been for a decade.

I’ve finally run into a new, third problem: managers who get angry as soon as they’re confused, but refuse to learn basics. My project manager is a fucking nightmare to deal with. The moment, and I mean the first sign that she’s not 100% totally understanding what’s being discussed, she shuts down, gets dismissive and short, and refuses to hear anything further.

Tech has a problem communicating out, but I’ve never had this before. I try to take it slow but not too slow (she’s an adult and not stupid), I’ve tried illustrating just to help her visualise, I’ve tried screensharing, I’ve tried metaphor, I’ve tried leaving unimportant details out, I’ve tried leaving important details out, I’ve tried giving very brief summaries instead of talking things through in any detail, I’ve tried saying “ok, no problem, which bit isn’t making sense here?”, I’ve tried saying “don’t shoot the messenger”, I’ve tried so many different approaches and it’s just…

One of our clients has a server that they upload CSVs to. We built a plugin for their site that automatically fetches those CSVs, pulls the data from them into a DB, and populates stuff on the website. Going forwards, internal restructuring at our client company means that they’ll be using the server for normal file transfers between them and our design team.

Their IT team do consider security important, so they’ve locked down FTP access to their server by IP. Our web server is whitelisted, our office IP and home IPs are not.

I emailed their head of IT the other day to ask about whitelisting our office IP, and asked the head of our design team if he wanted me to ask for their home IPs to be whitelisted.

Manager overhears and asks why we don’t already have access. I explain that they haven’t whitelisted our IPs because we’ve never had to FTP to their server like this before. She says that we have, because of our plugin. This is true, so I agree and explain that our server has been whitelisted, but not our office/home IPs. She asks how we connect to their server now, already a little bit angry. I explain that our server FTPs to the client server, and can do that because it’s been whitelisted, whereas we don’t connect from our laptops.

She’s now actually angry. She says “literally everywhere else I’ve ever worked, you just FTP from your computer to the server.” so I say we haven’t had to do that before with this client. I say “it’s not a problem, I’ll just get him to whitelist our IPs and all good!”

She turns her back to go back to her desk, saying she doesn’t understand why I have to make things so complicated and that I should be making things simple.

I would say there’s between five and fifteen of these interactions every single week. I’m not the most socially skilled man, I know that. I’ve never had this issue before, though. Like, ever. I’ve worked hard in previous companies to get our web development teams to talk to and understand the marketing team, and vice versa. I’ve organised team lunches, or nights out after work (I know it sounds like hell but I promise they weren’t). In one company, I even asked my boss if I could move my desk into the marketing office for a couple of weeks in an effort to bridge the gap (it was really bad at that place). I’ve asked project managers to embed into the web development team before to help build that social gelling that helps with work. It’s been fine, genuinely.

I’m not skilled socially. I’m annoying, I get that. But this is mad.

Anyway sorry I just wanted to vent. I don’t have anyone to whine and moan about this stuff to, really. Merry Christmas all who are reading! 🎄

Oh fuck I’m a bot you got me beeeep boooop list me up

I’m gonna tuck into my chocolate orange

AAAAAAH I’m being gaslit oh nooooo

I took a look at their comments and It’s that alias_qr_rainmaker guy again!