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"that's why they pay me the big bucks! 😀"

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Tell that to Ticketmaster. Yes, that was an intentional reference.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Another day another accidentally over branded outfit. This time a cozy Friday addition 😅

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The infrastructure of the Internet would run longer without electricity than without trans folks tbh

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 274 comments

New from 404 Media: anyone can push updates to the Doge.gov site. Two sources independently found the issue, one made their own decision to deface the site. "THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN." www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 9 days ago • 39 comments

Looked at some code today and found some repetitive pieces that made it easy for similar behavior to be out of sync. Decided to draw the map of current state. I swear I just drew a maze. Fuck. This was not on my list of tasks to tackle 🫠

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Ironically, by trying to suppress “woke”, this is showing how difficult content moderation is and why it needs real humans beyond just automation.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I hate meeting action items as much as the next person. But I also hate leaving an hour long meeting not entirely sure what to expect, when, and from whom.

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Fun fact, these aren’t “interns” as most folks think of them. This is one of many NSA new grad rotational programs. Gotta be fun figuring out what’s a false positive in a domain you’ve only been supporting for 6 months max 🫠

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Working in EST is such a double edged sword experience. I do not know how anyone gets anything done without those super uninterrupted morning hours. I hate being blocked by support that isn’t awake yet 😅

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Just saw two posts about the score bug for the game. One was a rave. The other loathed it. Sounds about design 🫠

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

As per usual, I’m only here for the snacks.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Wired is doing great reporting. But it’s also really refreshing to read news that understands technology and uses those details even if not every reader will be familiar.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 16 days ago • 738 comments

Copilot is absolutely failing at writing simple test cases atm. Like, shockingly incorrect.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Wait, the DOGE dude explicitly named in the judge’s order is the one that had to resign? So now it’s not one guy…I wonder how bad a state it’s in and what the career folks might be able to salvage.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Last week I asked ChatGPT for something simple instead of Googling for the docs cause reasons. The incoherent (but working) insecure BS it spit out should never make its way into any prod system of any real life system ever. But sure, this is gonna go really well.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

their motto? "how hard could it possibly be?" and every experienced systems engineer in the room is now cackling. if only it were actually funny though rather than a deadly serious matter.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Turns out if you control official email addresses and other official communications you might as well be CEO. We’re being shown in realtime just how much technology has massively changed human interactions and expectations.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

The thing about historical comparisons is that technology has changed so rapidly. What does that mean? It means that large actions can be taken quickly without anyone having to physically see anything that might make them question what’s happening. It’s gonna look different this time.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The informed people feel hysterical talking about this stuff. That’s what’s horrifying. People dismiss what you say cause it sounds absurd…it IS absurd.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

ffs THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT PRIVACY one wrong button push and the US economy becomes a very hot plasma ball. whether it be via social security payments not going out, medicare not going out, or a US sovereign debt default.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments