It can also be helpful for figuring out who the phone belongs to, in case you lose it. I have 100% dialed emergency contacts to be like “hey, whoever owns this phone lost it. Let them know that we have it at the front desk for [building], and they can come pick it up there.”
Apparently we don’t even need to pay the actual army. We can just revoke their paychecks and force them to keep working anyways. Nothing can go wrong with that, right?
Ultimately, it’s irrelevant whether he is or isn’t. All that matters is that he’s doing everything a Russian asset would do.
It’s ironic that you mentioned game credits as an example… The video game industry (particularly in Japan) actually has a pretty sordid history with credits. Many Japanese game companies in the 80’s outright refused to credit the makers, fearing that their workers would be poached. There’s a very strong “you should be completely loyal to your company” culture in Japan, and companies didn’t want to give their employees any kinds of wiggle room to consider jumping ship.
There was also a negative stigma associated with working in video games; it wasn’t a “good” job at the time, and the general consensus was that video games were just for nerdy kids. So there was some shame associated with being in the video game industry. As a result, many of the makers used pseudonyms when they were credited.
But going into the 90’s and 00’s, that stigma began to evaporate as video games became more widely accepted, and began to hit the global markets. However, game makers then had an uphill battle to actually get the game companies to properly credit them. The practice of not crediting (or using pseudonyms) had become normalized, so game companies initially resisted proper credits.
Yeah, I can guarantee that at least one bug gets planted in a wall, floor, or ceiling somewhere important. Hell, with Trump acting like a Russian agent, that may actually have been coordinated right from the start.
Yeah, Adam Savage was saying that as a highly skilled person. I’ve worked with personality hires. I’ve worked with military-grade weaponized autism. I prefer the autism, because at least I don’t need to babysit them and double-check all of their work.
With the autists, at least you can reliably know “if I give them {A}, I’ll get {B} in return. Not {B-1}, not {B+1}. Always {B}.” I don’t mind teaching. It’s inevitable in any job. But working with personality hires always ends up being an exercise in patience, because there’s only so many times I can show someone how to do something. I work in an industry with extremely strict deadlines where your work is presented to hundreds or thousands of people at a time. So if a personality hire needs to be re-trained on things because they can’t grasp something, (or just keeps doing things wrong because they don’t want to ask for help), then it puts an extra burden on the rest of us to keep meeting those deadlines.
Honestly I don’t know why anyone would consider it hard: you just stop eating animal products.
Maybe you have a different definition of vegan. Most say “vegan” means no animal products at all. It requires a ton of research to avoid constant minefields, because animal products can be in everything. Dyes, scents, preservatives, flavors, polishes, powders, etc… Even fresh fruit can be non-vegan, because sellers will polish their fruit with beeswax or shellac to make it more shiny, and give it a better shelf life.
Geez, that half second of hardcore porn somewhere in the middle was worth the watch. Holy shit, it’s been a while since I’ve seen anything like that.
That’s largely because one half of the elected officials are dedicated to defunding and deconstructing government organizations, so they can then point at those same organizations and go “look, the government doesn’t work! We should stop funding it!” The government is actually great at organizing a lot of things. But they’re all so engrained in society that you don’t even think about them as being organized by the government. Systems that just work, reliably, all the time.
The government’s job is stability and reliability, not being as efficient as possible. Where a corporation may only have one person doing a job, the government will have four or five. Those people aren’t bloat; They’re on the payroll because the government is expected to keep functioning during emergencies. People would lose their minds if the streets department (responsible for clearing downed trees out of public roads) shut down after a bad storm rolled through, just because a few government employees had a tree branch fall on their house. What if firefighters stopped working because a local wildfire burnt a few firefighters’ houses? What if the city water department shut down because three or four city employees’ water supply was affected? What if the health department shut down during a pandemic?
The people who work in government also live in the same areas they serve. Which means that they are affected by the same emergencies. The government needs enough redundancy to be able to continue functioning, even after those employees are affected by the same emergencies as the general public. If some emergency affects 75% of the public in a given area, then 75% of the local government employees are likely going to be affected. So if the government doesn’t have enough redundancy to be able to redistribute the work, people will see their government shutting down in the wake of the emergency. And to make matters even worse, during (and in the wake of) those emergencies, people look to the government for help. Which means that’s the most critical time for the government to continue functioning.
I say all of this because the same is true for the infrastructure that runs critical government systems. The government expands and implements things slowly by design, because everything critical has to go through multiple levels of design approval, and have multiple redundancies built in. If the government has updated a critical system, I can guarantee that new system has been in the works for the past two years at least. That process is designed to ensure everything works as intended. I wouldn’t want my city traffic lights managed by a private company, because they’d try to cut costs and avoid building in redundant systems.
The grinder thing is because Keurig K-Cups came out, and the entire industry shifted towards selling those instead.
This is honestly so hilarious. What kind of petty do you need to be to try and hound people for engaging with the community as intended? If you don’t want downvotes, go to an instance that disables them.
Every single day, I find myself thanking the Voyager dev for user tags. With such a small community, I end up running across the same commenters all the time. And many of them are repeat trolls.
This reads like you’ve only ever had to deal with mid-tier bosses, so your reference for a “bad” boss is pretty skewed.
I know one dude whose boss demanded he climb through a full dumpster to retrieve something the boss had thrown away earlier that day. The boss also required him to be clocked out for it, because he was already capped on hours for the week. The dumpster was shared by a seafood restaurant and a frozen yogurt place, so it was full of rotting fish and spoiled dairy.
Boss said he was fired if he refused. He refused, and was fired. Every single sentence in the previous paragraph violated existing labor laws. But sure, “just do as you’re told with a smile, whether you like it or not.”
The broad definition for “app stores” was likely intended specifically to block loopholes where people just spin up their own sites and say “it’s just my website, not an app store.”
At least on Apple, that wouldn’t help; Native apps (like the App Store) have GPS and cellular location access. You’d need to spoof your GPS and cellular location, which is a lot harder than simply connecting to a different VPN server.
Lots of people found that out when they deleted TikTok during the “ban”. TikTok continued to function in the US, but it was removed from the App Store so you couldn’t re-download it after deleting it. And simply changing your VPN to an international server didn’t help, because the App Store was loading available apps based on your cell location.
Yeah, they did the same for Win7 for a long time. Win7 was so widely used (and people were so hesitant to upgrade after the awful 8/8.1 mess) that like 25-30% of all the computers in the world were still using it several years after support officially ended. It forced MS to continue issuing critical vulnerability patches for Win7, long after support officially ended. Because they didn’t want to be responsible for creating a massive “literally a quarter of all PCs in the world” botnet when they stopped patching things.
Did you even read the comment? MS already patched it in Win10.
Nope, 0-day means it was exploited in the wild before the company knew about it. Basically, the company had to rush to patch it because it was already being exploited. It means black-hat hackers found it and exploited it before the white/grey-hat hackers reported it. If white-hat hackers found it first, they’d have already alerted the company and given time to patch it before they announced the vulnerability. But since the black-hat hackers found it first, it was a 0-day.
0-day patches are often a bodge, at best. They often consist of “just disable the vulnerable component entirely” to give the company time to work on a more long-term solution. And that’s exactly what happened here. MS didn’t take time to actually fix the driver; They just ripped it out and said “sucks if you needed it. It’s gone now.”
Further, there’s companies that make custom-built modern machines that support classic PCI and modern operating systems and classic operating systems.
Yeah, some extremely expensive equipment at my job runs on Adobe Flash. Modern machines won’t even allow Flash to run because it’s so insecure. We just updated the control PC for that equipment last year; It’s a computer that is dual-booting Windows 11 and Windows XP. It boots into WinXP by default, to be able to run Flash. Then if you ever need to update it, you can swap over to Win11 to be able to connect to the internet.
Easier said than done, if your end users run Chrome. Because Chrome will automatically block your site if you’re on double secret probation.
The phishing flag usually happens because you have the Username, Password, Log In, and SSO button all on the same screen. Google wants you to have the Username field, the Log In button, and any SSO stuff on one page. Then if you input a username and go to start a password login, Google expects the SSO to disappear and be replaced by the vanilla Log In button. If you simply have all of the fields and buttons on one page, Google flags it as a phishing attempt. Like I guess they expect you to try and steal users’ Google passwords if you have a password field on the same page as a “Sign in with Google” button.