I think the main problem with kids these days is that they will just yank a USB stick out of the port without properly ejecting it to finalize any pending writes

Due to the latest variation of “something bad happened on the train tracks between Amsterdam and Rotterdam, again!” I am currently literally lost in the woods on my way to the office where I’ve worked for three years

Photos of Odin taken from his own eye level are starting to look really fake. Couch for scale

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Sending me documentation in the form of several PDFs in a zip file: normal.

Sending me documentation in the form of several PDFs embedded as active content in a one-slide powerpoint file: anyone need a subject for their doctorate in psychology?

found a children's educational book on ali express which claims to have licensed the most stunning crossover I have ever seen

deploying emergency Odin

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it's astonishing how often this happens in my line of work:

client: can you review our source code for security issues?

me: of course!

[we stare at each other in a long, tense silence]

me: ... may I see the source code?

client: absolutely not.

@mawhrin @dysfun I understand your point that the old fashioned sirens may be a bit more robust, but also - they're not very actionable as a general alarm. What are you expected to do when you hear one? Either it's extremely obvious what's wrong by looking out the window (so the alarm is just a formality) or you have no idea and need an alternate communication source. Air raid sirens were invented to communicate a single thing ("bombers incoming! get to shelter!") but that's just not a problem here for many decades and I sure hope for many more. The last few times the sirens have been deployed anywhere in NL, it was to announce floods - where running to your bomb shelter is the exact opposite of what will help!

@mawhrin @dysfun doesn't that still apply to the old-fashioned sirens just as well? they need power to operate and they need communications to receive the order to weewoo

@dysfun it was apparently announced several months ago but I missed it https://nos.nl/artikel/2511033-maandags-luchtalarm-gaat-volgend-jaar-verdwijnen-nl-alert-neemt-het-over

Just found out that the Dutch air raid sirens are getting decommissioned next year (because cell phone alerts have just as high a penetration these days and can bundle a message explaining what's actually wrong). I've only been here three years and I'm getting all teary-eyed nostalgic at the thought of never hearing the test air raid alarm again

* EDIT: I said "at the new year" but after re-reading the news it just says next year sometime

Okta managed to write a bug where a really long account name could be logged into with no password. Please check in with the John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidts in your life

https://trust.okta.com/security-advisories/okta-ad-ldap-delegated-authentication-username/

Me and my tiny baby Odin as photographed by my husband who was hoping to sit on the couch

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explaining why we rated the finding as high-security-risk to the customer

@Iwillyeah @WhiteCatTamer boustrophedon compromise

a new frontier in baffling interface design has opened.

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This is fantastic news for all sufferers of medical emergencies and McFlurry emergencies https://www.404media.co/it-is-now-legal-to-hack-mcflurry-machines-and-medical-devices-to-fix-them/

I had a call with a customer so frustrating that when I hung up, I let loose a primal scream of frustration that summoned Odin in "oh boy it is time to Play Rough" mode