hugobrune.bsky.social
Aging denizen of the IT department.
Owner of laminated sign reading “it’s a bit more complicated than that” on one side, and “JFDI” on the other.
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Maybe we shouldn’t design everything around the demographic who insert safety plugs upside down, or the people who think those plugs still provide protection after they are unplugged.
It’s a real quandary
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You might be surprised at just how hard (expensive) it will be to implement simple sounding controls and make them kid proof and comply with local laws
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Didn’t mean to imply you weren’t parenting
Was trying to say “these controls are not likely to work, so the solution for me is more parenting not more IT”
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Ok fair play
I think where controls obviously work and have no downsides like the things you stick in plug sockets, it’s a no brainer
it’s a very different story with age and region limited content, because the side effects (eg privacy) are much worse and the controls are fairly simple to avoid
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I don’t think you can IT a solution to these problems
You have to parent
Make the kids understand personal responsibility.
Make them hand back the devices when times up
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So I instead try to teach them personal responsibility and to come speak when unsure of anything
It’s far from perfect, but I’m way more comfortable with this than trusting some magic beans salesman
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It’s not a question of being smarter than just your kids though
It’s every kid they know (and so on) and every “how to get your parents rules” guides any of those kids can find
I’ve worked in IT for 30 years. I assume my kids can easily defeat any control I could implement
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To be fair he only dropped an e to become leader of fee world
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When that happens there is exactly zero chance they will confirm it
They’ll say he’s gone under cover fighting the deep state, or he’s gone to prepare our place on mars, and he will rise again before FSD arrives
And the millions will believe it
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*all people
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aw come on, have orangeJoffery address parliament & let the little lords of the fly boo to their hearts content
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I still think that sentance should have "including" in air-quotes
#sureJan of course you had $3k and cheques
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why would you carry 3k in cash AND a cheque book?
shirley there are quicker bucks to be made than goold old fashioned (plausibly deniable) home insurance fraud?
@orangeJoffery, you gotta train your goons better than this!
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I am just going to say it: Tony Pulis could totally do this job. Keep them up until big sam is back from saudi
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Dont want to brag but I'd build a milspec monorail between the pentagon & whitehouse in under 2 weeks
I'd be ideal for this gig
Oh and that monorail would be underground, in spaaaaace and on signal. Securley, with no masks allowed, and instead of tickets we'd have insurance and guns
Hire me now!
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dont let the door...
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I feel it is fair to say I am above average, competent. Even dangerous, and the only reason I can tell the difference is because I have a password manager that can tell the difference. Probably. Maybe.
- Disgruntled, of Lave
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Pretty sure at least $40M went on bronzer
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What trump says (he wants/cares about/will do) and what he actually wants/does are very different things
He obviously doesn’t care about the long term - he knows he’s dead in 15 years
Everything is about short term power. And for him, chaos is a ladder
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Yeah orange joffery is working on both sides of that
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To be fair, president turnip believes lots of things
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Hang on I’ll register lettuce.mastodon.batshit
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Single sign on from the old government gateway (in 2004) was more secure and a nicer user experience than this
(Granted the back end was a rats nest nightmare) but it did actually work
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To register we must prove our identity: enter our super secret name, month of birth, postcode (must include the space) and first 3 letters of nino
I’m surprised they haven’t added shoe size
And this provider regularly wins industry awards
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I dont have a clear solution, but what we have is so absurdly broken
Example: my work pension company routinely loses the entire user database forcing us to reregister (they claim “upgrades”) but 3 times in 5 years
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It’s not like he needs the plan to work for decades
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Why is he wearing candy floss?
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More likely is the eu continues flirting with eu cloud like OVH while quietly relying on us tech
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If we need something faster it’s movie plot time, eg the uk nationalises oracle uk & picks up the ip, infra and software to go it alone
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If you want more it gets a lot harder: Europe doesn’t have sovereign supply chains for all the hardware and software to run a data centre.
That’s decades off but we could probably cobble something together, eg with Japanese servers (Fujitsu) and open source
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Sovereign could mean a lot of stuff
Oracle offer uk sovereign cloud operated under uk law with uk cleared nationals, that in theory is proof against us cloud act or fisa
If you want more, t-systems operates a sovereign google cloud region in Germany, zero access to us people
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Give it time
We are nearing a Washington lettuce party moment
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Gimme 20 mins, I’m just waiting for the gallon of orange food colouring to be delivered
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Well Boris Johnson’s political career is over
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He’s also twice threatened tarrifs on the fentanyl smugglers of Canada
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There are others like gov policy of hiring below industry normal salary meaning less capable people than needed, or the need to constantly recompete contracts being absurdly inefficient
But as you said the big one, is public sector has to work for everyone not matter how complex their needs
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Private sector isn’t like that. They can nuke everything and start over far more easily, even if that’s by the incumbents going bankrupt & forcing used to deal with the hassle
DWP can’t do that
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I think there is a timeline element too
Public sector (especially HMRC and DWP) services have been built up over decades of slow and painful change in legislation. Couple that with decades of data spread over dozens of systems & everything is super hard and brittle to change
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You think he works from mar a lago?
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One doesn’t preclude the other you know
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“Head”
“Carrying”
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Remind me again why work from home makes it impossible to get anything done?
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Schumer in goodfellas
“Do I amuse you”
GOP: yeah you’re a funny guy
Schumer: #winner
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Democrats if Schumer played Marcellus Wallace in pulp fiction
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Schumer in Airplane…
I can be Shirley, if that’s what you need
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Schumer to Goldfinger: you expect me to talk?
Because I’m totally ready to talk
What do you need?
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Start of infinity war…
We need Steve Rodgers. We need captain america
Chuck : “tan-tan-taaaaaan!”
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Schumer in every arnie movie
I’ll be back….to help in any way I can
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It’s over Anakin, I have the high ground, so I’m ready to accept the the sith