Phoenixz

The best kind of correct

Between isis and Hussein I’m not sure which of the two is the lesser evil, as Hussein was a fucking monster

Stop calling me Sherman!

Immediate red flag, we all know that YYYY/MM/DD is the only acceptable perfect date

Exactly. We’ll switch to Linux, finally have security and dependable devices, and then we’ll move on

The required FF restart after updating is indeed an FF thing, but in combination with snap just updating without asking is extremely annoying.

True

Me too but what can you do? I can’t remember ever seeing a non techie using tech hardware in the right way.

Oh thank whatever god you believe in, that is such a blessing

I once bought a displayport to HDMI converter, plugged it in, and I could never unplug it anmore, so I just got another HDMI monitor for it

Why do display port cable connectors have these stupid latches with a crappy button that will, even when the button is fully depresses, still stick out so that removing the connector nis always a draaaagggg…

Yeah, HDMI licensing sucks but at least you can plug and disconnect HDMI in a normal way. Dispkay port is the worst

99% of the people out there

It basically IS the cause as it’s the system doing the updates without asking. But snap has other issues too. For one, it’s the slowest installer in recorded human history, it takes literally ten times longer on snap to install anything. Why? Beats me, in theory it ought to be faster as it shouldn’t have to resolve dependencies but here we are. Try installing anything with snap, it takes forever.

Then, snap is closed source eon the server side, so fuck all of that, that’s already 200% of reasons not to use it ever. I don’t trust closed source software anymore

I suggest we move all our machines over to Linux, which is the actual plan. Fuck everything about windows

Also, permanently locking a device after x failed attempts is just plain silly, security wise. You know I can take that drive out and just try to brute force it a million times per second without that silly rule being in my way, right? It’s an anti security pattern similar to requiring password changes every week, it’s a bad idea.

Ding ding ding, someone gottit

PHP uses . which works perfectly fine, I’ve never encountered this nonsense before

Meanwhile JavaScript: 1+“2” = “12”

Just had fun with that yesterday

I hate when people use the word “research” because most people think it’s reading a Facebook page.

Real research requires nyears of studying to actually understand the subject before advancing the field. It requires sometimes year or decades of meticulously measuring and registering data, all while ensuring bias stays out of the data.

To 99% of people it’s spending 5 minutes to find the right Facebook page that will confirm their preconceptions…its gross

Meanwhile in Linux with luls, which I’ve had since a pre-pre-pre version somewhere back in the early 2000’s, I can have multiple keys, all works like sunshine, never had problems.

On windows… So we work with highly sensitive data, and ever since I came in I thought it insane that people working remote don’t have that highly sensitive data encrypted. We can’t switch Linux yet, so okay, we go for BitLocker.

Boy oh boy oh boy was that a mistake.

50 remote users, 5 get encrypted devices with BitLocker as a trial and within a month, 3 of them already got locked up permanently because apparently it’ll pwrma lock itself after x amounts of invalid passwords which is just incredibly stupid. But don’t worry, there is a backup key! Yeah, that is lie 48 characters that we’d had to pass by phone and they have to type it flawlessly.

Suffice to say, the remote users will be running Linux soon, like it or not.

What do you mean “you cannot jerk off in the office”?

Yeah, it’s snap

Always updating without letting you know, without asking and it’s ALWAYS at the most inconvenient time