Relevant: https://www.stellarinfo.com/blog/myths-about-disk-wiping-and-solid-state-drives/

If you don’t even know what encryption is, that passwords need hashing and what not, then you should really question what you’re doing

I agree with your point, but I would phrase it more generally: when we’re assigned a task in a problem space we are unfamiliar with, we should always take some time to research that space before designing our solution.

After all, if we don’t know what encryption or password hashing are, how could we know that we need to learn about them first? But spending just a couple hours one morning reading about password and authentication management would have given the developer a good sense of best practices.

So she either, A) didn’t think to familiarize herself with a new topic prior to working on it, or B) did read about it and ignored general industry guidance. Both of those options are more problematic to me than simply not knowing specific things. Those are process problems that need to be addressed to build her skills as a developer.

But ultimately, in my opinion, this is really all the fault of the cheapass director who didn’t want to pay any experienced professionals to handle the task.

But now the surveillance capabilities of both the state and large corporations have been ramped up to infinity and beyond. I’m expecting a partnership announcement between Micron and Raytheon any day now, where Raytheon gets free DDR5 and Micron gets armed and autonomous security drones.

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I don’t think most of them will.

1. They will use enterprise editions internally, where their IT team will have much more control over behaviors they don’t like at the group policy level than home users do.

2. The executives at the big software conglomerates have the same AI boners that Microsoft does. They’ll be looking for ways to integrate new Windows features and use them as selling points for their own products.

3. They don’t care about the privacy nightmare Windows has become because they implement and benefit from the same telemetry and data collection practices with their customers.

It just wouldn’t be the same if there was an easy mode

What’s the difference between saying, “I beat that level” for a game with only one difficulty setting and saying, “I beat that level on hard mode” for a game with multiple difficulty settings?

Multiple difficulty settings never stopped people from talking or bragging about accomplishments in Doom.

Not concerned about porch pirates at all

Not everyone has been blessed with the same gift of blissful ignorance that you have.

I agree that people shouldn’t order Ring, it’s a shitty product for the reasons laid out in this thread and article. But “just be nicer to everyone around you” is not a viable alternative, and suggesting it is dismissive of the realities other people are living.

If you’re still talking about getting shit stolen off your porch, anyone within driving distance could be responsible for it.

Do you really think it’s possible to try to become friends with or “help out” every asshole within a 10 minute drive of where you live? Or even identify everyone in that range who might have sticky fingers?

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I love it when typos create new words that fit so well.

PS2 is retro now? Damn, getting old really does sneak up on you.

Seeing the rest of the thread really contextualizes Linus’ anger.

Only seeing the message from Linus makes him look like a dick. But when you see that he’s responding to someone deflecting blame and being a shithead to the guy trying to report a problem and provide a suggested fix, the aggressive response seems more justifiable.

Thanks for the insight - jump humping and soaking sound like the kind of bullshit my parents would believe because it was featured in some local news story.

Most “teen trends”, especially those related to sex, are just wildly blown out of proportion “stories” based on a couple of people trying something weird, someone else hearing about it, and now suddenly all the teens are doing it.

It reminds me of being in high school when my mom asked me if my girlfriend’s jelly bracelets were a sex thing because she heard about girls owing sex acts to guys who can break one.