“what the hell is this shell history, it’s just a lot of `sudo -i`… oh my god, ew ew ew”
(I would be more concerned about shell history on some of the servers I have access to, I’ve seen my coworkers leave `mysqldump -u user -pactual-mysql-password` in there…)
Customer: “I think this feature works poorly in <edge case X>. Can you change it?” Me: “Yes, I can see the problem, but I’m not sure what the correct behaviour in this case would be. This impacts financial processes, so you need to talk to <customer’s CFO> and get his input on how it should work.” Customer: “OK, I’ll talk to him. But first, can you tell me how long it’ll take you to fix this?”
No, sorry, it’s only 8 AM, we are not allowed to violate the laws of causality until 5 PM.
The worst part of using both Mastodon and Bluesky is that I get exposed to two doses of mind-numbing “wearing shoes indoors is good! bad! good! bad! good! bad!” gibberish.
@shortridge One of the first things I had to do as a professional developer decades ago was figure out why a client’s homemade CMS was periodically losing all content. Turns out the admin panel’s access check redirected guests away, but *did not terminate* itself. So a web crawler came in, got the redirect followed by the admin panel dashboard with a list of latest articles, and links to delete.php?article_id=123 next to each one… It dutifully crawled all those, and poof, no more articles.
@SwiftOnSecurity This reminds me of a great short story by David Langford, where a digitized persona of a dead spammer is forced to work to avoid being wiped out. Rather appropriately, it gets assigned to be a spam filter.
just another nerd🌞 rises in the east, 🌈🏳️⚧️ rights are human rights, #RussiaIsATerroristState .Hammer-and-sickle is a swastika-tier hate symbol, denying it only makes me block you harder.Fire and riots are written on pages of lifeArmies of hatred that no longer have civil rightsYeah I… I live off the feeding of liesOh and I… I live in destructible times