11mo ago

These kinds of pictures...

https://mastodon.social/@olafurw/112978950152198201

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Don't do that, NDA is no joke.
- That's what makes it risqué
- or do, it's still not a joke, and you might get your ass blasted over it, but i suppose thats part of the fun.
Anyone else here baffled by why people take pictures of text instead of just copying it? The latter is inherently more useful ...
- i mean images allow for syntax highlighting to carry over, so I prefer them if my relation with the code/log is going to be read-only
  
  Just run the copied text through the same highlighter, then.
  Or use a platform that supports text formatting.
- For memes; I screenshot on my phone. Takes less time and makes the print bigger for my old friends.
  Anything actually important I will copy and paste.
  
  I transcribe all memes.
- My wife does that and it drives me crazy. Especially when she sends me screenshots of a website instead of the url.
  
  At least she doesn't print the website out. And then mail it to you.
  
  I think the surge of JavaScript only websites that you can't deep link to has trained that out of general people
- copying some text is more annoying to format. Sometimes i copy paste wiki text, but the formatting is a little fucky, and the notes are a little fucky wucky.
  Also phones are a terrible UI, so people don't use them properly.
  
  I haven't used writer or anything like that in so long that I forgot about that. I think most apps allow you to press Ctrl+Shift+V to paste without formatting. Images sound worse though.
  I like copying from terminal to terminal…
- Proof of authenticity? If anyone sends you a block of text, the formatting could be compromised, there could be auto correct mistakes, they could have left out important feedback clues from the terminal output.
  
  Proof of authenticity? I have gimp.
  Also why does your auto correct edit things you paste?
  If the important feedback from the terminal is out of view a screenshot still doesn't help. The entire output piped into the clipboard is far more useful.
- Even more baffling is when they take a screenshot of text and then put it in a Word document
  
  "Middle manager named Rhonda" vibes
  
  Then print it and then scan it to their email so they can forward it to you.
- Because it's the point of this community?
  
  I think the GP is talking about the logs.
- You might not be logged in to the program you want to share the text with on that device. If you mean screenshots I don't know either.
  
  A photograph, if you're severely airgapped, is better than nothing, but chiefly I'm whining about screenshots.
- is complaining about this while totally OK with the exact same thing occurring with the post
  "but it's not the same because [...]" aaaand you have the answer to your question
  
  Who said I was okay with it? Screenshots of text instead of the actual text accompanied by a link to the original tweet etc. is a stupid trend and I don't know why people prefer it.
  For the record, though, it isn't the same because tweets are limited to a few hundred characters, and the font size is usually pretty big, so they're usually easy to read through a screenshot. Crash logs are -- how shall I put this -- not, especially when they're often photos of computer screens because crashed software, especially on servers, rarely lends itself well to taking actual screenshots.
PD ALERT #8008132 on Pants Rotation: Escalation, Critical Outage. Reply 14:ACK 16:Resolve 17:Escalate
- Is that PagerDuty?
this kind
these kinds
You need to pick a lane.
- claims to be a network server admin
  terrible grammar
  This seems to check out
  
  There's a disgusting lack of uwu's
That's pretty hot ngl
- People don't send out server crash incident logs, they receive them.
- Works either way. Get sent implies the kind of pics a person as a recipient gets sent at 3am and sends is the other way around
So... uh... pictures of Spider-Man?
When it works, it's golden.

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