they say that the hardest problems in computer science are something about naming and caches.
they are wrong. the hardest problems in computer science are batshit managers and the resulting burnout.
The windows beta community is so interesting because it's like "omg have you ever seen build 69420? It is so ballin". And then you look it up online and it's something like "This version of Windows was first seen on a GitHub screenshot of a screencap at a developers conference in Luxembourg at about 2:43 AM UTC and was subsequently leaked a few minutes later after a USB drive with malicious software was carelessly plugged into a Windows engineers machine that had AutoPlay enabled. It is fundamentally identical to the final release except any sound from the windows audio service results in a bugcheck, and that pressing the up arrow key on the keyboard causes a machine to explode"
me on a daily basis: "oh god what the FUCK what the FUCK??? journalctl -fu $SERVICE"
me, 2020: "it's going to be really funny when Google discontinues search"
you, my followers: "lol amy you're so cynical"
google, 2024:
https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/
"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack…
As a bonus, today we learn who responsibly manages Bitlocker recovery keys.
Today seems like a good day to repost this strip...
I see the infosec industry has finally achieved security once and for all by shutting down every workstation connected to the internet
I think people should be allowed to transition for no reason other than that they feel like it. If that's radical, then I'm radical.
Except we replaced clever cryptography with bearer tokens
there's actually a lot to be said for working with people who over-communicate about technical details and obsessively document things.
this tcp 3-way handshake could've been a gentle kiss on the lips
The Mozilla PPA thing was so named just to make it annoying to Google in a world where Ubuntu exists
wtf are people talking about "prime day" 20240716 is divisible by 2, 4, 41, and 123419
I love how it's never changed
