It’s an interesting question, though. How far CAN you compress? At some point you’ve extracted every information contained and increased the density to a maximum amount - but what is that density?

unencrypted in AWS

oh… mygod.

The bad thing is, they’ve attached a mediocre screwdriver to the hammer because everybody keeps using the hammer as a screwdriver. But now, everybody STILL uses the hammer as a screwdriver. The screwdriver part used to be a separate tool, but people didn’t know how to use it, and now they still don’t, even though it comes with instructions.

They really should have kept things separate.

Of course. Everyone who’s ever used a DB knows it’s BS. As long as the data is structured - which it a) is because he was able to make assertions about it and b) fucking Excel files are enough - it CAN be imported and SQL’d on. Even Excel has built in support for fuck’s sake, not to mention Python and PowerQuery.

The dude is a self-certified moron - he probably struggles with the concept of PKI, too.

It’s not the same, though. One will stop if a previous command fails, the other will continue.

“Pointers” twitch

One spaghetti code, please.

No play, only buy! dog frisbee meme

It’s always baffling how people can define something as unacceptable. Says who? You? Who are you to just make that decision so unilaterally?

You can have your opinion, but it’s just that.

He literally bought twitter and made it right wing extreme.

The internet archive archive. Takes snapshots of the entire archive. It’s unfathomably huge.

Come to think of it, I only know two .su domains and they’re pretty great…

I do the same, but it’s very clear that when people talk about “a VPN” they’re referring to a commercial cloud hosted product.

Teams calls for example :( I have chromium on my Debian only for teams.

I see potential in a chat bot that can explain concepts and answer questions, supported by illustrations.

Infrastructure maintenance is management, security and day to day business, while software engineering is mostly concerned with itself. They use distinct tools and generally have nothing to do with each other (except maybe integration).

We need new terms, IT means “works with computers, but more than Word and Excel” for too many people. In Switzerland they split the apprenticeship names to ‘platform engineer’ and ‘application engineer’, which I think is fitting.

All of that is fine, and they mentioned the management perspective, which I get. It was a field test and our original choice of 4001 - which is what other serial to TCP servers like us use, also in their network - was unavailable.

What irks me is the “technical impossibility” of raw TCP and “I must be wrong” when filling out their firewall change form.

They’ve since given us a different port “close to others that we use”, for whatever reason that matters, and based their choice on some list of common protocols outside the reserved range. But not 4001.

That by itself is just one thing and I wouldn’t give it a second thought, but it’s all part of a larger picture of ineptitude. They opened a ticket because an arrow at the border of our UI vanished when they screen shared on Teams. Because of the red border. And they blamed our application for it.

They didn’t set up their PKI correctly and opening our webpage on specific hosts gave the typical “go back” warning. But it was our fault somehow, even though the certificate was the one they supplied us and it was valid.

When trying to request a firewall change IT told me “ports between 1 and 1024 are reserved and can’t be used for anything else” so I couldn’t be using it for a pure TCP connection, and besides, there would have to be a protocol on top of TCP, just TCP as protocol is obviously wrong. I was using port 20 because it was already open…

Where’s the “CALL ME THE MEME LORD” meme

Source: not a single vote for her so far!