Extremely Stable Genius @mdm@mcnamarii.town

1 year ago: I tell other members on my team to stop putting cleartext passwords in code, even if they "intend on removing them later." Nobody listens to me (I am not a manager and have no actual authority, so I'm not surprised).

Today: the compliance/audit team has finally found this and flagged it as a major issue, and it's currently causing a huge stink.

I don't dislike my current manager at $WORK.

But, it needs to be said, when they're on vacation, my productivity goes up by 200%.

Should I upgrade to Mastodon v2.8.0?

TIL: you can install the new Edge (Chromium) without administrator rights on a Windows machine. Nice.

Basically, that means if you're in a Microsoft shop being forced to use IE/Edge, you can install this and perhaps get a little relief.

From that old article:

'The mission statement from the largest protest group, "Students Against Facebook Newsfeed," read, in part: "Very few of us want everyone automatically knowing what we update. We want to feel just a LITTLE bit of privacy, even if it is facebook. News Feed is just too creepy, too stalker-esque, and a feature that has to go."'

This, from 2006.

https://adage.com/article/digital/facebook-adopt-open-admissions-policy/111795/

An old article from Adage detailing the date on which Facebook went from a "federated"-ish model of college-based communities (kinda like mastodon instances, just under the same domain), to an open registration model.

Date: Sep 11, 2006.

*in one-on-one meeting with manager*

Them: So, rank your fellow devs from 1-5

*ha ha, not doing that*

Me: Everyone has their strengths and weaknesses, I really don't know them enough to rank them in such a fashion.

*proceeds to list individual strengths of fellow coworkers one by one*

I enjoyed this movie for the new term "Municipal Darwinism." Other than that, it was rubbish.

flashing strobing lights, colors, and gratuitous amounts of soap

So, 3-4 years after Apple Pay comes out, which is supposed to be the new, cool way to pay for things because Credit Cards are old and busted and can be tracked, and what does Apple come out with?

...an Apple-branded Credit Card. :\

Comment from 2009 lauding Firefox for it's work in ending the monopoly that IE had on the web:

https://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1287147&cid=28528585

"Had it not been for Firefox, Opera would still cost money, Google Chrome wouldn't exist, a few people who paid way too much for their computers would be running Safari, and most (l)users would be stuck with the latest version of IE -- IE6"

How unfortunate that we're back to a near monopoly again! Once again, it's Firefox to the rescue.