Posts by Valeyard 724 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Nov 2012
I go down so many of those 60mph single track "roads".
When there's a guy behind me trying to give me the hurryup beyond 20mph I get that he probably drives down the road everyday and can do it blindfolded but I'm barely even aware of what town I'm currently in, and at my age I don't care what other drivers think of me so long as I'm alive
What certainly IS strange though is that a backup system (that is there precisely in case No 1 fails) has apparently been fed the very same crap... which produced the same result. Resilience?
presumably though a backup would be useless without all current flight plans, this happening is probably less likely and preferable to a backup coming online and being next to useless because it's acting on information an hour old with planes flying around it doesn't know about
probably caused by this poor bloke who decided on a change of career after taking down fastly by submitting bad data
https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/09/fastly_explains_web_blackout/
Try telling that to commercial orgs.
You report a security issue with your software product, only for the response to be "Well that's obscure no one will know about that", well yeah except everyone with access to our code and we've already had our fair share of disgruntled ex-employees who've targeted systems using insider knowledge. But a fancy chart no clients asked for is higher priority for our time because sales people have some new shiny thing to point at.
are they what sorry? unencrypted?
Of course they are, I've viewed the text in my terminal hooked up to a budget yaesu*. The attack surface is hard to define when you quite literally pluck personal data out of thin air, I'm in eastern England and saw messages between ambulances and hospitals in Northern Ireland as it's centralised nationally. Another chap webcast them but got into trouble for distributing it. Fun fact; it shares the same system as what bird watchers use, so without any filter you get death then a rare bird spotted on a pub roof and back again. They have the same level of security as open public birdwatching comms.
*would not recommend, it's fairly depressing seeing people in trouble with no followup on how they did, can't imagine how ambulance personnel deal with that
The other part is the severe peon-withdrawal that many managers are experiencing
one guy used to literally pull me aside to give me and others mini-bollockings over nothing at all because he just loved that power and liked to remind people he was in charge, now everything's fully documented over slack and email we haven't spoken in 2 years.. strange that
my kid watches youtube (traditional kids tv shows anyway; mr tumble, button moon and postman pat rather than some quick-cuts attention-sapping 3d animation like cocomelon which is outright banned), but it's on the TV with us in the room too being made to watch it and limit the screentime. Used that way the same rules of TV usage apply
Phone-wise she's happy with a 2g flip-phone that lives in her bag until she actually needs to call us for a lift tor something. We've never sat with our faces in our phones around her growing up so it's not something that was normalised behaviour
"As part of our shift to remote work, we plan to close some Twilio offices over the next few months, with the intent of maintaining at least a handful of global hubs and satellite offices," said Lawson. "We’ve seen very low office utilization,
I wish my employer would do this. one of our offices originally outfitted for 300 people has around 4 people in it by choice on any given day. The rent is bad enough and then you consider the inefficiencies of heating the entire place for a couple of people.
Do the downsizing now rather than making people redundant and deciding maybe you shouldn't spaff away a few hundred grand in rent per office
I worked in a bank during a bomb scare.
The protocol was for everyone in the branch to go downstairs to the vault as it was deemed to be protected, fair enough.
I'd popped out for a smoke 5 minutes before and was ushered away beyond the cordon.
I thought I'd inform my manager that I was taking the rest of the day off as there was no way I was gonna stand outdoors for 6 hours, my slavedriver of a manager then said "Can you skip past the cordon and back into work?"
"No I'm sorry, being an irishman i'm not about to rush the bomb squad in the middle of a scare! I'll see you tomorrow morning"
Some managers are just "like that"
The US data analytics company with links to the CIA and immigration service ICE started working with the NHS during the pandemic, accepting a £1 contract for its initial work, then a £23 million ($28 million) contract without competition
There is so much to unpack here, how can there be so much dystopia in a single sentence
Intentionally giving away data aside, This thing needs to be as bulletproof as possible and not simply awarded to the lowest bidder, it'll be attacked from day 0.
Different departments and GPs need to be granted access to specific patients to prevent people snooping on their neighbours or selling it to whoever asks (see the police database breaches for how inside threats can happen even on audited systems)
They force me to refresh several times to get even an approximation of my latest tweets, thus inflating their pageview stats, so I can see Musk's point.
this is where it all derailed. you lambast twitter so much... and then talk about your account there
no one's actually forcing you to do anything, just free your soul from the angry shouty place.
the keyword was "blackmail" though, they never entered into a contract, they're more what you'd call a "victim" in this (a situation partially of their own making perhaps given their history, but still).
No doubt this being in the news at all was what they were threatening them with when asking for the ransom
I like vinyl; My daughter wants to listen to music at night while she nods off and gets bored if I play the same thing a few days in a row.
cheap functional turntable for a tenner, classical music vinyls at 1 or 2 for a quid in any charity shop you care to name, so easy to slap on a record and put a stylus down even a child can do it. perfect!
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