@tommorris @skylar the one time I’ve ever full on yelled at a colleague was when my employer’s CTO suggested in a meeting about an outage caused by someone being asked to ship “urgent” code at the weekend for a demo “maybe they should just not make bugs”. (He was the ex-CTO within 6 months, so there’s a happy ending there)
“There’s a phone in the room, I can use it to delete the files”. It’s taking a while though because they have to wait for three firewall hacking progress bars to empty.
Also a Big Tech CEO just got a standing ovation from a crowd of journalists for saying people won’t be tracked on his new platform, before immediately sitting down to dinner with the head of the CIA.
Watching Jason Bourne, mostly out of a sense of completionism after watching the rest of the series this week rather than with any expectation of it being good. If you’d like to know how bad their impression of hacking is someone just said “use SQL to hack their database”.
Washing Machine Engineer: This program is precision designed to provide longevity and comfort for green cotton clothing.
Me: Mixed.
@anon_opin I both agree, and am sure the washing machine engineers despair at how much nicer my clothes could be if I just sorted them and used the proper programs.
@CatherineFlick I’ve come to the conclusion that other than retargeting things I’ve browsed ad targeting is a myth. It’s very rarely any more specific than I’m an adult man who lives in the UK.
@baiteh @anon_opin succor, so named for the brief reprieve offered to the players at half time.
@q the end of the Union.. The complete breakdown of law and order as brothers fight against each other in the Great ICO War.
@John Office of Standards for Education? It’s a stretch but then the civil service loves an obscure acronym.
@tommorris @jackeric I really wish this weren’t so real. Reminds me of being young and naive at a marketing agency and wanting to properly architect a Facebook app for a well known nappy company.
My boss took me to one side and said “it’s fine; we all know nobody’s actually going to use this thing other than the person who’s buying it”. He wasn’t wrong.
@CiaraNi hell, I do this stuff professionally and have done for a long time. I want my personal computers to be as boring as possible because after 8 hours of computer whispering I do not want to be doing more to get to a point where I can sit down and play a game.
Every marketing email you’ll receive today:
Roses are red, violets are blue. Fuck it. That’ll do.
Latest on the list of overly needy companies is South Western Railway, who’ve taken to asking me to do a *15 minute* survey every time I look in the direction of a train.
@dave I’d love to get into one of these shells but I spend 80% of my time on random devices, inside Docker containers, or both.
@tdp_org I read https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B08DMKYTNM before starting a job in Python. Don’t be put off by the title, it’s more Python for people who can already program and just need an introduction to the wider ecosystem rather than a hello world tutorial.
@SecurityWriter I suspect similar to email this is going to be the downside of the whole “anyone can run an instance” thing.
@anon_opin tell me you’ve never used any other solution to the same problem without telling me.
@hugh everyone run in I’ve had with estate agents suggest they’re at best barely competent. “I thought it would be easier to call you” - I literally said in my last reply to your last call “I’m in meetings all day, please email me and I’ll get to it asap”.
@hugh I’m also not convinced they materially help, we *did* see footage from our cameras used to prosecute criminals, but compared to how many were in the field it was minuscule.
@hugh yes, absolutely this. I worked on security cameras for a while and became increasingly disaffected as I saw that mostly what they did was make people worry. Previously that person walking past commiting the crime of Being a Teenager In Public just walked by, now everyone can lose their minds about how they’re probably going to mug someone.
@an0key except for Star Trek. They can continue resurrecting that as much as they like because they’ve got form on creating new stories.