Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
abadidea's posts Post Back to profile
abadidea

this is how I feel when a program’s output is written like “I could not find the file” instead of “file not found”
10 May 2023 at 7:41 | Open on infosec.exchange
8 comments
Tachibana Kanade

@0xabad1dea I wonder if earlier computer users had this complaint for all plain-text error messages that weren’t like “ERROR 54” that you then had to go and look up in the manual.

10 May 2023 at 7:43 | Open on mastodon.social
abadidea

@h0m54r I don’t want the error to be uselessly terse. I just don’t want it yapping on like it’s a sentient being with ethical standing

10 May 2023 at 7:45 | Open on infosec.exchange
Tachibana Kanade

@0xabad1dea Oh, I don’t disagree—sorry for derailing your point with a tangential hypothetical musing

10 May 2023 at 7:50 | Open on mastodon.social
탐

@0xabad1dea @h0m54r Yeah Absolutely correct!

Any developers should automatically gravitate towards this kind of minimalist output. If they are not, bring them to their senses.

Not to say it's always easy: infosec.exchange/@gnyman/11033

Anecdote: I was very surprised to learn that *actual* babbling-at-customers behavior is a big issue in self-checkout machines in English speaking countries. Why the heck? Because I can confirm that there is absolutely zero need for any robot talking in that situation.

@0xabad1dea @h0m54r Yeah Absolutely correct!

Any developers should automatically gravitate towards this kind of minimalist output. If they are not, bring them to their senses.

Not to say it's always easy: infosec.exchange/@gnyman/11033

Anecdote: I was very surprised to learn that *actual* babbling-at-customers behavior is a big issue in self-checkout machines in English speaking countries. Why the heck? Because I can confirm that there is absolutely zero need for any robot talking...

10 May 2023 at 7:58 | Open on infosec.exchange
Lunar 🛸 ♾

@0xabad1dea Or, even better, "we couldn't find the file"

10 May 2023 at 7:51 | Open on dosgame.club
niconiconi

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange This is how the Gentoo Prefix bootstrapper looks like in "auto" mode... ​:woozy_baa:​
10 May 2023 at 8:02 | Open on mk.absturztau.be
Spitfire
abadidea

@gcspitfire “we” bothers me less because it can reasonably parse as “we, the people who run this service.” Whereas “I” can only possibly refer to the program itself

10 May 2023 at 9:41 | Open on infosec.exchange
Go Up