However, there are always some established cliques who know how to play the unit / supervisor and get away doing much less, even feeling entitled to order you around, even though they are not your supervisor.

This frustrated me, until I discovered that many of those folks, who looked lazy to me, understood our business better than I did, and were focusing their efforts on what really mattered.

I understand that the poop emoji auto responder is all over getting this fixed, though. Nothing to worry about, if you own stock in Xitter.

Me too.

I hate that more people don’t understand this. It leads to a bunch of discussion and anxiety about nothing at all.

You are correct.

The uncomfortable part is what I’ve learned about the challenges to gain physical access.

Most physical security is equally appalling to most Cybersecurity.

Edit: Incredibly unfun exercise: pick a physical security device you rely on, personally, and do a YouTube search for “device name break in test”. I’ve rarely been able to find a video more than 3 minutes long, for any product, at all. And the actual breaking is usually mere seconds in the middle bit.

As a software development expert, I take issue with

“our entire field is bad at what we do, and if you rely on us, everyone will die.”

That’s way off base.

She under-stated the hell out of that.

Our average practitioner is bad at both their own job, and at the jobs of those whose lives their shoddy work complicates.

Anyone trusting us with their lives or livelihood should be very very alarmed.

We’re also now producing artificial intelligence tools that allow us to do equally shoddy work, but now in dramatically greater quantity.

Edit: Let’s say this is 60/40 sarcasm and sincere, and I’m not sure which is the 60%…

I work with some of the best, and I’ve worked with plenty of the worst. I’ve also been both, on different days.

there’s a whole ritual. It’s like a big parade around the village, people have to touch them, throw arms around them, sing, we throw this type of powder on them, carry them around up on everyone’s shoulders up in the sunlight. You have to do it for many hours. But most of the time it works

That is so beautiful. Thank you for sharing this. I might not be able to fully invoke this ritual, but I will carry it in my heart, in case I can adapt parts of it for a friend who needs it.

Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Edit: Oh, I’m told this is one of the darkest timelines… Nevermind.

Bob

I don’t see what the big deal is. I store all kinds of sensitive information in plain text. SSNs, credit card numbers, birthdates and religious and political affiliation information.

The guy I bought it all from said it was okay, he stores it in plain text, too. (I’m joking, of course! Any information about you all that I’ve bought on the dark web, I’m storing responsibly.)

I appreciate your perfectly cromulent use of the word “embiggens”, here.

Have a look at RobotFramework with the Selenium library. Anything you can manage manually, you can automate repetitively with Robot.

Also, have a look at the F12 Network tab, in case the real images are stored in a predictably named manner.

I’m from generation “Get those damn kids off my lawn!”

Rekt is a stunt game in the spirit of Tony Hawks Pro Skater.

The controls are fantastic. The levels are interesting. Various unlockable cars are fun. The gameplay loop is satisfying.

It was a fair deal back when it was $15.00. At $1.50 it’s an absolute steal.

Overcooked 2 has one of those perfect gaming moments: the balloon crashes into a another restaurant, and instead of a cutscene, we just start getting orders off a different menu. It really sets the tone for the game.

Fury Unleashed is charming as hell, but it’s the buttery smooth controls that make it so replayable.

As an old-school platform and bullet hell player, I don’t play many modern platform or bullet hell games, because I’ve been spoiled by tight controls from the 8-bit era, and so many modern games don’t match the responsiveness.

But I found Fury Unleashed incredibly accessible, mostly because the controls are so responsive.

As a Codium user trying to choose more open tools, I really appreciate your write up, here.

Thank you.

I’ll check it out.

The assholes pushing this crap sure are lucky they outnumber us…(\sarcasm)

I find this outcome delightful for all the compliance mandated organizations that are leaching with no intention to contribute back.

It could be really helpful for developers at pure leech organizations to make a case for being ready to contribute in an agile manner.

Now they’re all stuck waiting on either a good Samaritan, or their lawyers to get out of the way of progress.

I have little doubt that the fix has been committed to private forks dozens of times already, of course.

Mini Motor Racing might be a good match. It has some DLC available (additional cars), but none of it is necessary to enjoy the game.