Lenovo: you’re okay with sharing secrets with China.

Network Operations Field Tech. They climb the ladders and debug the cameras. Absolutely toughbook.

Can we invoke it like gif pull ?

Nortel’s revenge?

Those dot character on your keyboard. Yep, those are the ones.

some aspects of programming have really been made obsolete

I’d agree that some specifics have been made obsolete. Some habits and routines are currently being ignored or skipped, but the amount of skill that’s gone away is very small.

As mentioned before, we downsized brutally after Y2K. The people most affected were the highest-paid who weren’t the best code-grinders, and these were the documenters, the programme people, and the mentor types. We lost our guides, our structure, and our historians. We’ve been growing again like feral children rebuilding society from the wasteland like it’s Mad Max, and there’s a LOT of the Why that we either don’t know, that we ignore, or that we skip in the interests of (insert manufactured urgency here).

We are re-learning some of the whys, but we haven’t yet seen the half-assedry chickens come home to roost on that. The symptoms are there: Boeing’s Gilligan’s Island in Space, supply-chain sploits in waves, personal information lost weekly, all these things that are clipboard hassles we stopped doing that pelrevent massively expensive things later.

Crowdstrike may die now, mainly because they were marauding leopards we allowed to eat our face. Solarwinds before that, same issue but they seem to be okay. There are dozens of ohShit moments that could lead to similarly preventable problems, that we knew not to do … once.

Well get there again but we’ll be rediscovering a lot of what some techbro will claim is obsolete, old-practice, too-cautious, hand-wringing in our neu and moderne go-hard/break-lives paradigm.

It was a fancy lie about their spare time, but especially in dotcom, there IS no spare time to learn architecture.

What I’ve seen of dev AND ops is that their knowledge is focused well on their own things. And when it comes to the other half of devops they just want the shortest path back to doing their thing. This has caused absolute princess devs to be nearly screaming about the hassle of security and change control and infrastructure and proper code deployment and testing and … Well, a lot of things.

It doesn’t pay to have people learning to half-ass dev because ops is your thing. You need advocacy on both sides of that line, still.

Thanks. I’m remembering the relevant scene from Office Space. ;-)

My favourite colour is blue.

That’s kinda this question.

Both sides?

If we want to talk mercenary companies, though, apple is pretty high on the FuckYouBuyMore scale.

Clowd was never cheap; it was versatile, and it still is.

Just, please, get over this ‘cheap’ fallacy. It’s expensive as shit, either in direct costs or the labour required to min-max for savings. If you’re not regularly bulldozing a massive portion of your stuff or running in two regions for resilience, then you should just look at another idea – and Don’t say Azure, as there’s a reason we call that cheap hot-garbage ‘unsure’.

Fetch

Well we know where you stand on the Taiwan/China question.

1. Fucken is short for fuckeng, right?

2. Huawei paid good money to the people who stole that tech from Canada.

DEFINITELY not YAML.

Happy countries who bear the cost of their peoples’ dental care out of a common bucket will potentially be happy with a way to invest in the future of peoples’ mouths and prevent all the ancillary costs that follow bad oral health.

Thank you for not jamming the ‘open’ and ‘source’ together like a schmuck.

I’d opt into targeted ads for a federated S-O service, personally. The site is a huge database and needs safe-keeping, and that’s not free or even cheap. Tastefully placed ads that don’t pop over or ruin the printed copy I’d totally go for.

I’ve been dealing with a VPN failure at work.

About 80% of my day has been lost due to access issues into the secure space I work, since about 6 days back.

wireless charging is not supported

This is 2024, right? Heckling aside, I’ll look for the next release.