If I was a bot author intent on causing misery I’d just use the user agent from the latest version of Firefox/Chrome/Edge that legitimate users would use.
It’s just a string controlled by the client at the end of the day and I’m surprised the GPT and OpenAI bots announce themselves in it. Associating meaning on the server side is always going to be problematic if the client can control the value
TIL Cert Warden is a thing. Looks awesome!
Me too. 2000 seemed… Slow compared to XP on the same hardware, but to be fair the hardware I had was cobbled together from parts that my father’s employer was going to throw out
I was there, 3000 years ago…
This is a classic mistake people make to try and measure final gravity with a Refractometer.
As everyone else has said, the alcohol in the solution throws it off.
You need to use a correction calculator or just use it for initial gravity and get a test tube and float your hydrometer in it for final gravity
Well, as far as I’m concerned Skype for Business set the benchmark for terrible. Teams isn’t even close to being that level of bad
Teams is relative.
At a previous job (Microsoft shop but in the public sector so 10 years behind), the standard messenger when I started was Skype for Business.
In case you’ve never used Skype for Business, it’s “Skype” in branding only and actually has nothing to do with the Skype software that Microsoft purchased and is more like MSN Messenger.
Compared to that, Teams is a huge step up.
Also, at a Microsoft shop, you have to use what Microsoft provides even though it’s usually balls.
It’s 90% of the reason I now refuse to work anywhere that’s bought into the Microsoft ecosystem. It’s just so… mediocre
He’s not wrong though. If IRC and mailing lists fall into the too-hard basket, id hate to think of where GNU-style C code falls. Bottom of the too-hard cliff?
There might be lots of lurkers, like myself
Ahh yes, Linus Tech TSellout is my favourite channel
Why is it that security guys always think their issues are more important than any other issues?
Like well done you, you ran an automated tool over the codebase and it picked up some outdated dependencies.
We cant just update these dependencies because the newer versions have breaking changes and we already have a backlog of 32767 issues to deal with.
It’s not security debt, it’s just general technical debt.
Why is the issue that is only exploitable in a contorted scenario where the user has broken out of a VM and gained root on the hypervisor more important than the issue preventing our largest customer from tripling their volume on our platform?
Not to mention the joke that’s been made of the CVE system due to resume padding by the security industry…
SELinux is one of the first things I disable. It causes way more problems than it solves.
All my workloads are containerised so I’ll trust the security of that machinery to sandbox them instead
Go out and buy a hydrometer. And then actually measure the specific gravity.
If the specific gravity is dropping, then your beer is still fermenting regardless of how much “bubbling” it’s doing
Just think of it as a routing optimisation that is only relevant for ipv4 networks.
Router simple, router need to make decisions quick, quickest decision is made when can smush the subnet mask against an IP address and determine if the computer is on a local network so router can send traffic direct or is on other network so router needs to send traffic to other router
Sorry I’m still learning how to Lemmy, I only joined today once the Reddit withdrawals got too bad (I was using the Infinity Reddit client but it switched to the subscription model a couple of days ago)
For example, in the r/newzealand Reddit which is full of bleeding heart social justice warrior lefties, I would post comments in support of one of our minor parties that sits more centre-right on the spectrum (there is an election on at the moment)
That really riles them up, I get a heap of downvotes but also a couple of supportive comments from the 2% of other people on that sub that dare have a different opinion from the hivemind
Censor me harder daddy
The thing is, it made for some hilarious trolling opportunities.
And occasionally you’d find someone also going against the hivemind that shared your views
Sure, that will produce beer.
Let us know how it tastes!
100÷. I used to work for a bank and the lending team didn’t even know how to calculate loan repayments. They just deferred to what the core banking system did.
The core banking system was written in a proprietary language in the 70’s and machine translated into another (slightly newer) proprietary language in the 90’s. At the time I wouldnt be surprised if management was patting themselves on the back for a modernisation job well done. Just get the computer to do the conversion, right? The sales guys of the new platform assured us they could migrate everything automatically and we always trust a sales guy!
Of course the machine translation is like reading machine code so very difficult to understand / follow / change. The developers working on it were in maintenance mode and everyone was afraid to touch it incase some calculation broke.
The point is that it’s exactly what you described - the users were trained to push buttons and trust the system output without actually knowing what they were doing and if it was correct.
Pretty sure the bank recently got fined for compliance breaches as well. It’s not because anyone there was bad, they just had no idea how anything was meant to work