The Rambling Man is all heart.
Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:54 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?ti ... ook_outage
While it may have been somewhat influenced by their tech obsessions, I was at least surprised to see most Wikipedia editors understood that in encyclopedic significance terms, the primary issue with the recent social media outage was not the affect on the first world, but the third world, who for obvious reasons have rather come to rely on free messaging apps as their primary and indeed only means of communication. And just as there is only really one search engine, one social networking site and one internet encyclopedia, there really is only one messaging app. The one that went down.
It's a mere pain in the ass for us. But deprive someone of a means of earning money for six hours, and in the third world, you are literally talking about kids going hungry.
All because the internet isn't as bomb proof as the US govt. led us believe.
There was of course one massive tool on Wikipedia who still just doesn't get it.
The Rambling Man.
White. Western. Male. Privileged. Asshole.
How is he still a Wikipedia editor?
You don't need to invent a new rule, the way he gratuitously sprayed his opinion all across that debate, his use of sarcasm and assorted other nonsense, is already quite clearly against the behavioural code.
It is a mark of how long he has been tolerated, that his pantomime act no longer causes arguments or disputes. Those who can't stand him, just stay away, and everyone else just let's his toxicity wash over them, silently eating away at their soul.
Unsurprisingly, his glib, thoughtless and arrogant musings belied a real lack of thoughtful consideration. The thought that it actually costs money to use a landline, if you even have one, apparently never even occured to him. All inclusive mobile packages are also apparently universal in his mind.
Best of all, can people really use other messaging apps as he claimed, when the sheer weight of having to cope with the millions of WhatsApp users all wanting to come to their site at the same time hits? Unsurprisingly, no. DARPA lied to us.
Facebook et al are streamlined to suit their needs, their expected demand, their customer model. They are meant to be indispensible, and big enough to need their own DNS servers. If they go down, you are meant to be absolutely fucked, and in ways you hadn't even dreamed of.
But he sticks to his guns. In another rather blatant breach of the Wikipedia behavioural code, his tune doesn't alter one bit even after someone pointed out the other rather obvious affect that at least harms something he does care about - the Western world. For millions of people, the inability to log in via Facebook causes all manner of unforeseen issues.
Even in his glibness, I was most amused by the idea that he seems to think people can simply control their heating giver their telephones. Lolwut? I assume he didn't mean phone your neighbours who have a spare key.
If he is that pig ignorant about stuff that doesn't really matter, how would he even know what the consequences might be for serious matters? How many people might have missed flights or other time critical appointments simply because today, something they had always assumed would always work, just, well, didn't.
Facebook is meant to be ubiquitous. It is on the Internet, but it isn't the internet. That is why Wikipedia has that same aim, quite literally. On but not of. The exact plan of the WMF, luckily nowhere near realised yet, is that if Wikipedia went down for six hours, people would legit be screwed. How does he not know that? Because the prick doesn't read. At least not stuff he isn't interested in.
A stupid old bastard, set in his ways, safe in his prejudices, laughing at the local kids, until he gets a shock and the kids are able to turn his heating on and off at will. And because he is obviously the neighbourhood asshole, they would naturally want to use that power to hasten his journey to the Pearly Gates. Not that he is going up, of course.
It's no crime to disagree, nor to even be a moron (though one wonders what the utility to Wikipedia of being a moron is). It is a crime to be an ass.
The Wikipedia Administrators are weak.
Here's hoping the universe rectifies things.
HTD.
While it may have been somewhat influenced by their tech obsessions, I was at least surprised to see most Wikipedia editors understood that in encyclopedic significance terms, the primary issue with the recent social media outage was not the affect on the first world, but the third world, who for obvious reasons have rather come to rely on free messaging apps as their primary and indeed only means of communication. And just as there is only really one search engine, one social networking site and one internet encyclopedia, there really is only one messaging app. The one that went down.
It's a mere pain in the ass for us. But deprive someone of a means of earning money for six hours, and in the third world, you are literally talking about kids going hungry.
All because the internet isn't as bomb proof as the US govt. led us believe.
There was of course one massive tool on Wikipedia who still just doesn't get it.
The Rambling Man.
White. Western. Male. Privileged. Asshole.
How is he still a Wikipedia editor?
You don't need to invent a new rule, the way he gratuitously sprayed his opinion all across that debate, his use of sarcasm and assorted other nonsense, is already quite clearly against the behavioural code.
It is a mark of how long he has been tolerated, that his pantomime act no longer causes arguments or disputes. Those who can't stand him, just stay away, and everyone else just let's his toxicity wash over them, silently eating away at their soul.
Unsurprisingly, his glib, thoughtless and arrogant musings belied a real lack of thoughtful consideration. The thought that it actually costs money to use a landline, if you even have one, apparently never even occured to him. All inclusive mobile packages are also apparently universal in his mind.
Best of all, can people really use other messaging apps as he claimed, when the sheer weight of having to cope with the millions of WhatsApp users all wanting to come to their site at the same time hits? Unsurprisingly, no. DARPA lied to us.
Facebook et al are streamlined to suit their needs, their expected demand, their customer model. They are meant to be indispensible, and big enough to need their own DNS servers. If they go down, you are meant to be absolutely fucked, and in ways you hadn't even dreamed of.
But he sticks to his guns. In another rather blatant breach of the Wikipedia behavioural code, his tune doesn't alter one bit even after someone pointed out the other rather obvious affect that at least harms something he does care about - the Western world. For millions of people, the inability to log in via Facebook causes all manner of unforeseen issues.
Even in his glibness, I was most amused by the idea that he seems to think people can simply control their heating giver their telephones. Lolwut? I assume he didn't mean phone your neighbours who have a spare key.
If he is that pig ignorant about stuff that doesn't really matter, how would he even know what the consequences might be for serious matters? How many people might have missed flights or other time critical appointments simply because today, something they had always assumed would always work, just, well, didn't.
Facebook is meant to be ubiquitous. It is on the Internet, but it isn't the internet. That is why Wikipedia has that same aim, quite literally. On but not of. The exact plan of the WMF, luckily nowhere near realised yet, is that if Wikipedia went down for six hours, people would legit be screwed. How does he not know that? Because the prick doesn't read. At least not stuff he isn't interested in.
A stupid old bastard, set in his ways, safe in his prejudices, laughing at the local kids, until he gets a shock and the kids are able to turn his heating on and off at will. And because he is obviously the neighbourhood asshole, they would naturally want to use that power to hasten his journey to the Pearly Gates. Not that he is going up, of course.
It's no crime to disagree, nor to even be a moron (though one wonders what the utility to Wikipedia of being a moron is). It is a crime to be an ass.
The Wikipedia Administrators are weak.
Here's hoping the universe rectifies things.
HTD.
