Inside almost every arcade cabinet is a Dell Optiplex running Windows 7, or 10 if its really recent. There’s no such thing as an arcade board anymore, they’re all Dells, or sometimes those HP mini PCs, usually with the protective plastic still on.
Daytona even uses a Raspberry Pi to control the second screen. SEGA intentionally ships those with no-brand SD cards that consistently fail after 3 months. It’s in their agreement that you’ll buy another card from them instead of just flashing the image onto an SD card that won’t break.
The Mario Kart arcade cabinet uses a webcam called the “Nam-Cam” that is mounted in a chamber with no ventilation, which causes it to overheat and die every few months, so of course you’ll have to replace those too. The game will refuse to boot without a working camera.
Oh yeah also all arcade games with prizes are rigged. All of them. We literally have a setting that determines how often the game will allow wins.
It’s in their agreement that you’ll buy another card from them instead of just flashing the image onto an SD card that won’t break.
Sounds like it’d be pretty simple to just replace it and not tell them. If they tell you they know it should’ve broken down by now, just ask, “Why, did you intentionally sell me something defective?”
Psst, that’s another secret
Oh yeah also all arcade games with prizes are rigged. All of them. We literally have a setting that determines how often the game will allow wins.
One time on vacation, my little sister and I found a crane game in the game room of our hotel that was clearly over tuned - basically every button press was another win, it was great. We still remember it fondly. A stupid thing, but even at that age we knew these are usually scams and we we’re stoked to just basically get cheap toys.
If I was to open up a classic video.game arcade and run it entirely on downloaded roms is someone coming to take me down?
Yes. You have to have a license to charge people money to play those games.
Otherwise you would have seen a ton of arcades open already
Edit: I only know this because I asked a guy who ran one. His machines were in pretty bad shape and I inquired why he didn’t just do as you thought.
You have to own the game to legally download a ROM. Can’t say other than that.
I worked in an arcade in the 90s. Wow have things changed. I bet pinball games are not easily fixable anymore either.
Optiplex is fucken goated stg
so, is there a way to duplicate one of the cards that allows unlimited plays or admin access?
The easier way is to just get an arcade emulator. Run it on your Desktop PC or make your own emulation machine with a Raspberry Pi. Although you need the game images (called Roms), which you can legally read and backup with original copies, or you can put on your pirate hat and find them on the internet, or so I’ve heard, allegedly.
That last paragraph sounds like something that is braking entire sets of laws and a big lawsuit waiting to happen
What you says is unlikely, since every arcade I want to still used the same machines as in 2005.
The USA is run by unpaid 22 year old interns being supervised by underpaid 24 year olds.
Old people in charge are definitely a problem (McConnell, Feinstein etc) but the people in their offices doing all the heavy lifting are basically children.
I mean, people in their 20s have done some pretty amazing things.
Yeah but most people aren’t Alexander the Great or Mozart. And even if you are, you’re probably not working in congress, hah
Alexander had Aristotle to tutor him. If you find yourself young and in power, you better hope your elder advisors are that good.
Best I can do is Blippi sorry
(Google him if you haven’t, he’s hypnotic)
Nice
As a paramedic, if you can’t remember your name, address, and social security number, we’ll take you to the hospital but you probably won’t get a bill. Unless you tell the hospital, then we’ll get a face sheet. Stay Safe, John and Jane Doe.
So if the paramedics take me to the hospital for a broken leg or something… and I claim that I don’t remember any of my identifying information, they’ll just treat my leg and let me go? They won’t keep me around to get to the bottom of my sudden amnesia?
Make up you name, address, and birthday and say you never memorized your social.
Infinite medical care glitch
What if you have your ID on you?
Take a page from Frank and Charlie’s playbook and learn how to eat shredded credit cards / licenses.
To shreds you say?
But how do I shred them first?
Just eat a shredder first
Pretty sure Mac has done that a few times too
The hospital will treat anything life threatening and then let you go.
[in the US] your insurance dictates your healthcare, not your disease, deformity, symptoms etc. If your insurance pays for an allergy test, you’re getting an allergy test (even if you came in for a broken arm). If insurance pays for custom orthotics, you’re getting custom orthotics (even if you came in for a wart removal). We will bill your insurance thousands of dollars for things you don’t need. We’re forced to do it by the private equity firms that have purchased almost all of American healthcare systems. It’s insane, it’s wasteful. The best part is the person who needs the allergy test or the custom orthotics can’t afford it, so they don’t get the shit we give away to people who don’t need it.
I would gladly kill myself if it meant we got universal healthcare, but private equity firms can’t monitize a martyr so it would be pointless.
Fuck everything about the current US healthcare system. The US can be so much more, can be so much better, if we could somehow just make a single percent stop fucking over the other 99%
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New home construction materials are the lowest possible quality that will meet specs. The allure of a new coat of paint and modern design masks the cheap quality and low durability. Some doors are basically slightly stronger cardboard. My theory as to why American homes have gotten so huge is that for the same budget you can get a much larger volume of materials than in the past.
There is a golden period from about 1985 to 2000 where houses were built without asbestos but with real building materials. I only buy property built in this window.
Every property I’ve inspected built after 2010 that’s more than 5 years old is either splitting at the seams, sinking into the ground or both. They’re built from polystyrene with a coat of plaster. They’re built to palm off to naive new homeowners who don’t understand or landbankers who don’t give a fuck and I pity anyone trying to live in one for more than a few years.
My parents just sold their rock solid old house to have a new one built and I was so pissed off. Now I’m going to have to inherit this piece of shit when it’s falling apart. It’s less than a year old and already has a ton of issues they’re just living with because the builder refuses to fix anything and they apparently signed something that says there’s nothing they can do about it.
Never buy a brand new home. Get one that’s at least ten years old. All the mistakes made during construction will have been found and hopefully fixed correctly. It’s still new enough to not have a lot of the old code issues that crop up in pre 1990s houses
Software Engineering. Most software is basically just houses of cards, developed quickly and not maintained properly (to save money ofc). We will see some serious software collapses within our lifetime.
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Then you start off fresh going “this time it’s going to be different” but the same fucking things happen and you end up cramming that project in 3 weeks.
In the news this week: https://publicapps.caa.co.uk/docs/33/NERL Major Incident Investigation Preliminary Report.pdf
This is unprecedented since, well, January: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_FAA_system_outage
Y2038 is my “retirement plan”.
(Y2K, i.e. the “year 2000 problem”, affected two digit date formats. Nothing bad happened, but consensus nowadays is that that wasn’t because the issue was overblown, it’s because the issue was recognized and seriously addressed. Lots of already retired or soon retiring programmers came back to fix stuff in ancient software and made bank. In 2038, another very common date format will break. I’d say it’s much more common than 2 digit dates, but 2 digit dates may have been more common in 1985. It’s going to require a massive remediation effort and I hope AI-assisted static analysis will be viable enough to help us by then.)
My dad is a tech in the telecommunications industry. We basically didn’t see him for all of 1999. The fact that nothing happened is because of people working their assess off.
My dad still believes the entire Y2K problem was a scam. How do I convince him?
Well my dad does too and he worked his ass off to prevent it. Baby boomers are just stupid as shit, there’s not really much you can do.
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How many UNIX machines in production are still running on machines with 32-bit words, or using a 32-bit time_t?
How much software is still running 32 bit binaries that won’t be recompiled because the source code has been lost together with the build instructions, the compiler, and the guy who knew how it worked?
How much software is using int32 instead of time_t, then casting/converting in various creative ways?
How many protocols, serialization formats and structs have 32 bit fields?
Irrelevant. The question you should ask instead is: how many of those things will still be in use in 15 years.
I am taking the week off, family camping, and cell phones off for that week in 2038.
What is the basis for the 2038 problem?
The most common date format used internally is “seconds since January 1st, 1970”.
In early 2038, the number of seconds will reach 2^31 which is the biggest number that fits in a certain (also very common) data type. Numbers bigger than that will be interpreted as negative, so instead of January 2038 it will be in December 1901 or so.
Huh interesting. Why 2^31? I thought it was done in things like 2^32. We could have pushed this to 2106.
Signed integers. The number indeed goes to 2^32 but the second half is reserved for negative numbers.
With 8 bit numbers for simplicity:
0 means 0.
127 means 127 (last number before 2^(7)).
128 means -128.
255 means -1.Why not just use unsigned int rather than signed int? We rarely have to store times before 1970 in computers and when we do we can just use a different format.
As an everyday user of software who’s not a developer, this is not a secret. Nothing works well for any extended period of time.
Because it fit into an ecosystem of tech that is constantly evolving. Software as a whole evolves more quickly than most tech. You see the same effect in every other branch of engineering but just slower.
Example: They are having problems rebuilding a certain famous church in Europe that burned down because the trees that went into it are now all smaller. They can’t get a replacement part.
I just dealt with this about a month ago at work. A customer machine died and they wanted “an exact replacement”. I explained to sales that is all I need to hear to know this project is going to be a disaster. Parts go out of stock, the network stuff is not as backwards compatible as people think it is, and standards change. They went over my head and demanded the same machine. I get daily emails from our fabricators about the problems they are having. Engineering is not a once and done thing. You need to have the staff and resources to continue to make your product match up with the environment it is in.
Does leftpad count as a collapse?
How online ads actually work.
Very simplified TLDR: you visit a news site. They load an ad network and tell it “put ads here, here and here”.
The ad network now tells 300 companies (seriously, look at the details of some cookie consent dialogs) that you visited that news site so they can bid for the right to shove an ad in your face.
One of them goes “I know this guy, they’re an easy mark for scams according to my tracking, I’ll pay you 0.3 cents to shove this ad in their face”. Someone else yells “I know this guy, he looked at toasters last week, I want to pay 0.2 cents to show him toaster ads just in case he hasn’t bought one yet.”
The others bid less, so that scam ad gets shoved in your face.
That’s extremely simplified of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_bidding has a bit more of an explanation.
::hugs my PiHole::
It’s a good start but you absolutely want in-browser ad blockers too. Not all crap is served from dedicated garbage serving hostnames.
I recommend: LibreWolf + uBlock Origin for Desktop PCs and Mull + uBlock Origin for Android. Both web browsers are security hardened versions of Firefox.
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I’d be interested in the amount of electricity that gets wasted on this
My guess is that it’s a couple watts while you’re actively using the internet, mostly due to the extra CPU load a few bad ads cause when they’re on your screen. Without having done the math I expect all the servers, data transfer etc. to be negligible, on a per-user basis, because they serve so many users.
That’s another interesting thing btw. Most of the “internet thing X uses Y amount of electricity” are utter bullshit and massively exaggerating. What uses most power on desktop/TV is the screen. The second biggest consumer is likely your router (which is on whether you use it or not, but the studies usually ascribe all of the standby usage to your active usage - this makes sense if you try to look at “how much CO2 does all our digital stuff including ‘having an Internet connection’ cause” but not if you’re trying to look at “how much extra CO2 does activity X cause, assuming I already have an internet connection because I’m not gonna live in a cave”).
Don’t the fans use a lot of power? And wouldn’t a datacentre or server need a lot of cooling?
The server uses a kilowatt of power or more (most of it in the CPU). But if the server is serving 1000 active users concurrently, and only 5% of the time you spend online is spent fetching ads, 20000 people staring at their screens get their ads from let’s say 2 kW of server power usage, plus another 2 kW for all the equipment to get the data there… for a total of 0.4 watts per user.
These are completely eyeballed numbers, and could easily be off by an order of magnitude.
But your on premise gear (screen, computer, router) are likely by far the biggest factor.
One easy way to cross-check power usage claims is cost. It will only catch the most egregious bullshit, but it’s easy. A random page I found claims that “According to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy it takes 5.12 kWh of electricity per gigabyte of transferred data.”
A Steam game with 50 GB would thus consume 256 kWh. Even if your 300 watt idle gaming rig, 50 Watt Router and 150 watt screen to watch the progress bar spends 2 hours downloading that, that’s 1 kWh. Even at 8 cents per kWh, that means just downloading the game would cost someone (not you) over $20. Do you think steam would let you delete and redownload that game that you bought on sale for $10 as much as you want if between them and your ISP someone had to pay for $20 just in electricity, each time? Not the game rights, not the servers, not the connection, just power.
Thanks, this makes a lot of sense.
When your favorite band cancels their gig because the lead singer has “come down with the flu”, that’s industry code for “got too wasted, and is currently too busy getting alcohol and possibly drugs out of their system to perform”.
I even worked one show that had to end after 20 minutes because one guy in the band was visibly under the influence, refused to play, talked to his hallucinations, then spent a few minutes talking to the audience about how his foot was evil and wanted to kill him, before the tour manager could drag him off stage. Then he tried to assault several backstage staff for not allowing him to cut off his foot. This was on a tour that promoted alcohol free rockshows btw, so we didn’t provide alcohol to the artists backstage. God knows what he might’ve purchased from our local street dealers lol.
The next day in the papers, the headline says “[the band] cancels first week of reunion tour after flu outbreak” 🙃 Yes, of course
I always wondered why Paul Westerberg caught the flu so much. When I finally got to see him live a few years ago he definitely was coming down with the flu on stage.
Sysadmins have no idea what they are doing, we’re just one step ahead of the rest of you at googling stuff.
Heck, when Google first came out, we switched to it from AltaVista and the rest because it actually indexed the manpages, Linux Documentation Project HOWTOs, and other useful references.
The job is systems integration and maintenance, not “computer person”. Using the right tools to find the right tools is just … normal.
I felt this way when I first became a sysadmin because I thought I had to learn everything to do my job. As time went by I realized it’s impossible to know everything and my job is to be an expert at the specific technology required by my company. Eventually I had touched / modified / configured every piece of technology in our stack and I did have the sense that I knew what I was doing and was the master of my environment. It was a really good feeling.
Then I became IT Director and now I have to listen to managers cry about using the help desk.
Same with all of the tech industry. We have some amount of experience to rely on with how to troubleshoot things, but almost every problem we face is something new to everyone, at least the specifics. We just learned how to figure it out faster than average and happen to actually get some amount of satisfaction out of making and/or fixing stuff.
i’ve handled some level of helpdesk support over the past 20 years…
till this day, i discover something new that i’ve never come across before. granted, some of it has to do with the newer versions of windows and mobile devices but just whenever i figure i’ve seen it all, something new comes up almost every day
Plus we all have AuDHD and different interests than normies so I mean…
I used to be a funeral director. The majority of outsiders were unaware of pretty much everything we did. Often on purpose because thinking of death is uncomfortable.
The biggest “secret” is probably that the modern funeral was invented by companies the same way diamond engagement rings were. For thousands of years the only people who had public funerals were rich and famous. It was the death of Abraham Lincoln that sparked the funeral industry to sell “famous people funerals at a reasonable price”. You too could give your loved one a presidential send off! The funeral industry still plays into this hard, and I’ve found many people are simply guilt tripped by society to have a public funeral.
Not so fun story:
One of my first jobs when I was barely 18 was with one of the big funeral home/cemetery providers in the US. It was positively horrible, and not for the reasons most people think.
As a new hire, you’d start on the cold-calling phone banks, which was bad enough. Nobody wants a cold marketing call from a cemetery. But it got worse from there.
After a month on the phone bank, I’d done well enough to be promoted to field sales, which meant going to the most impoverished areas of town to follow up on the appointments the phone bank had made, basically trying to scare poor elderly people into handing over what little they had to ‘pre-plan’ for their deaths, with the pitch that if they didn’t, their family would suffer.
After a few appointments it was clear I didn’t have the stomach for that, so they moved me to on-site sales, which was somehow worse.
On-site sales included helping to host the Mother’s Day open house at the large main cemetery. They set up a greeting station at the entrance with refreshments and ‘in memorium’ wreaths that could be bought by bereaved family (on that day, mostly children of the deceased, but also mothers who had lost their children, some at a very young age). It sounds like a kind thing to do, because many young mothers/fathers coming to visit were so distraught, they hadn’t stopped for coffee or thought about flowers.
I was not stationed at the welcome station. I was a ‘roamer’, meaning I was one of several staff expected to meander through the graves and check on families graveside – to ask if they needed anything and to upsell them pre-planning packages for themselves or their other children. I am not kidding, we were expected to do that.
I had to be prodded to approach my first mark (a young couple ‘celebrating’ the woman’s first Mother’s Day at the grave of her several months old child, and I couldn’t stomach it. It felt barbaric, to even try to sell someone who could not stop crying at the grave of her young child. I couldn’t do the pitch, obviously, and backed out as soon as possible, then hid by the skips behind the main building until the end of the day when I quit.
I’ve done many jobs in my life, including cleaning bowling alley toilets, but I’ve never been asked to do anything as vile.
I’ll bet everyone in the funeral industry can guess which company I’m talking about.
I also had the pleasure of working for Service Corporation International. Thankfully solicitation of funeral services is banned in Ontario, Canada. So no cold calling or bugging people at cemeteries. Their way around it was to hold seminars about Last Wills at places like retirement homes. If someone had a funeral related question the staff would get them to sign a form agreeing to a phone call or visit from a sales person.
The pre-arrangement sales people were all on commission and it made them very pushy. The pitches were so manipulative I couldn’t listen to them. Our government is throwing around the idea of banning commissioned sales in funeral services as well because of it. Some other Canadian provinces have already banned it.
Their practices are so scummy, I’m surprised they’re still allowed to operate at all in Canada. Glad they can’t do their worst in Ontario, that’s a small win.
You’re right about their abhorrent manipulation – I still have binders in storage from my sales training; I should dig them up and post some of it. It’s still, 35 years later, the most disgusting emotional manipulation I’ve ever seen. After all these years, it’s only got worse in the US from what I hear.
You were supposed to ask them to relive their most recent familial death experience under the guise of polite conversation, then hone in on whatever detail was the most unpleasant, and hammer home how if they didn’t buy a package, their children would go through worse. Have they considered how much emotional and financial pain they would cause if, god forbid, they died tomorrow? Don’t take time to think about the money you don’t have, because every hour of delay raises the chances your kids will be left with a financial mess when they’re grieving you. You’re basically heartless for doing that to them.
The graveside pitch was even worse. It’s so sad you lost your baby last month, but what if your six-year-old died tomorrow? Are you prepared for that? Like jesus, I can’t imagine the paranoia a grieving family faces after losing one child, constantly afraid for their remaining child. Let’s rub salt in that wound and scare the shit out of them for a few thousand dollars. It should be illegal everywhere.
What do you mean by “public funeral”? What’s the alternative? It sounds like you’d consider an event with only friends and family where there was a coffin in a room to be a “public funeral”. That seems to be what most people have, but it isn’t very public. Is a non-public funeral one where the family makes the coffin themselves and there’s no event where people see the dead person and the coffin?
The minimal services are essentially transportation, government documentation, and disposition (cremation, burial, entombment, etc). Some funeral homes won’t charge for a private viewing by immediate family, some charge a small fee. Typically there’s a cap on number of people and amount of time, something like 10 people total for 30 minutes.
Anything more than that will require you pay thousands of dollars extra. Hours of receiving guests, a published obituary, a mass or ceremony, musicians, clergy/celebrants, reception. All of those are pushed as “traditional” or expected but they’re incredibly expensive.
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Technically not my industry anymore, but: companies that sell human-generated AI training data to other companies most often are selling data that a) isn’t 100% human generated or b) was generated by a group of people pretending to belong to a different demographic to save money.
To give an example, let’s say a company wants a training set of 50,000 text utterances of US English for chatbot training. More often than not, this data will be generated using contract workers in a non-US locale who have been told to try and sound as American as possible. The Philippines is a common choice at the moment, where workers are often paid between $1-2 an hour: more than an order of magnitude less what it would generally cost to use real US English speakers.
In the last year or so, it’s also become common to generate all of the utterances using a language model, like ChatGPT. Then, you use the same worker pool to perform a post-edit task (look at what ChatGPT came up with, edit it if it’s weird, and then approve it). This reduces the time that the worker needs to spend on the project while also ensuring that each datapoint has “seen a set of eyes”.
Obviously, this makes for bad training data – for one, workers from the wrong locale will not be generating the locale-specific nuance that is desired by this kind of training data. It’s much worse when it’s actually generated by ChatGPT, since it ends up being a kind of AI feedback loop. But every company I’ve worked for in that space has done it, and most of them would not be profitable at all if they actually produced the product as intended. The clients know this – which is perhaps why it ends up being this strange facade of “yep, US English wink wink” on every project.
Loading animations on websites and some apps that give you a percentage and messages about what’s going on are usually faked with animations. The frontend for things like that usually just puts fake messages and animations because it’s not easy to track the stages of complex steps happening on the backend. It’s possible in some cases but I don’t think I have ever seen a real working version of a loader like that in my 15 years of experience.
What’s interesting is how humans react to things like progress bars.
I remember designed Google Flights come back with results instantly by spending absurd amounts to pre-compute and cache results long before people requested them. Some of the other flight shopping websites had progress bars that suggested they were doing a deep search for the best possible deals. People trusted the slower website with progress bars more because it seemed like it had worked harder, even though the reality was that it was just slower and less thorough.
Flights do run out though. Lots of times the flight you select is not available on the actual airline website. I usually use those instead.
The one that pisses me off more than any other is the stupid animations and fake meters that tax software uses. They throw up this animation of a magnifying glass searching through your tax return as if it is actually doing anything. Ugh, it infuriates me so damn much.
Quick tip, if any website you’re using has a blatently fake load animation like that, they’re usually making you wait on purpose to get you “invested” and will then bait and switch with a paywall
I have to submit weekly files to a vendor every Tuesday, but I can’t see the vendor-side result until a report generates. They show us a 10 minute timer that I’m positive is just that, an animation. Some days the countdown skips from 9 minutes to Donev every try. Other days the timer hits zero and gets replaced with a “We’re still working…” message for another 5-10 minutes.
I’m positive the timer is the vendor’s way of forcing people to have at least 10 minutes of patience.
My older teammate reads that timer as gospel and flips their shit the moment it hits zero when really they just needed to give it a couple more minutes. One of their calls I overhear all the time is to the vendor saying “Oh, well it’s finished now, after I called you.”
I do appreciate a progressing animation just so I know it hasn’t frozen on me.
That’s why we do it!
Monocultures in Agribusiness. One ‘public secret’ many outside of the industry might not be aware of is the prevalence of monocultures in crop farming. Vast expanses of land planted with the exact same genetic line of a crop. While this makes farming operations easier and often more profitable in the short term, it’s a ticking time bomb for pests and diseases. One well-adapted pathogen could wipe out an entire crop species in an area (look up citrus greening in Florida), because there’s no genetic diversity to halt its spread. But hey, it keeps the costs down…until there’s no food to eat.
This happened with bananas, and is still happening. It basically wiped out the most popular kind of banana globally decades ago, and it never recovered.
Apparently that wiped out species is the one that you slip on for comedic purposes in cartoons.
Also, the banana aroma in sweets is an incredibly accurate representation of what that strain tasted like.
and is still happening.
Don’t just brush past this. A new strain of Panama Disease now infects Cavandish, the current strain of bananas. It’s spread across the globe now, even to Colombia where most bananas are harvested.
The closest replacement will be plantains. No other strain can be reliably mass harvested for global demand.
The new banana sucks.
This is happening now to a strain of oranges in Florida as well
Oh boy, Potato Famine 2: This Time Everyone Starves! is gonna be “exciting.”
Calm down Cletus
You are not going to die because your french fries only come in large, not XL now.
Yeah, it would be trivial if the Midwest was completely fucked over by a blight.
in the Lemmy industry, some people try to accumulate meaningless points and drive “engagement” by reposting bad posts from the website that everyone here claims to hate…and it works.
Just like real conversations, it’s about the people you’re having them with, not where you’re having them at.
but also just like real conversations about creating connections with the people you’re having them with, not repeating something you heard someone else say because you want to be popular and you’re desperately trying to get people to talk you.
If you really think it doesn’t matter, go participate in the reddit thread where the conversation was more organic instead of trying to recreate it somewhere else for self-benefit.
Posting to an open public forum is very diffent than a 1 on 1 conversation. Either way, I’ve often heard and told stories that have come from others. Can you really say you’ve never said “hey I saw/read x” and talk about it? Every interaction doesn’t need to be 100% original in all aspects to be engaging.
On the topic of reddit vs hear. Again I’d say organic doesn’t mean good or bad. And using content from somewhere else to start a conversation isn’t whole cloth good or bad either.
I don’t think the situation is as black and white as you’re portraying it.
I hear you, but still I find it annoying. I stopped using reddit because I don’t like reddit, so I don’t need reddit brought to here. I see more more of my sentiment on Lemmy than what you’re saying, so it seems in general, people on Lemmy don’t want to knowingly interact with recycled reddit content. I would also argue organic or not does matter or we should all be cool with the political astro-turfing and corporate shilling that goes on everywhere.
I for one, am completely ok with that. If it increases content here and moves people away from reddit, then I’m for it
One aspect of this that bothers me is that few serious discussion communities rise to the top. Lemmy lets dessert rise but the main course languishes out of view. I, frankly, don’t even know where to find it.
Outsourced IT provider here:
90% of businesses have basically zero IT security. Leaked passwords in regular use and no process or verification for password resets. As soon as someone complains that 2FA or password rotation is difficult it gets dropped. Virtually all company data is stored on USB keys, plaintext hard drives and on staff’s personal home devices.
The reason they’re not constantly having their data stolen is because no-one cares about the companies either.
Password rotation is very insecure. No one should be doing that. I also hate when companies set maximum length for a password, like 12-16 characters. Bitch, my 32 character password is much more secure!
I believe Microsoft’s 365 platform helps a lot in that matter. Even without any security strategy or custom configuration M365 offers a better security level than those businesses could ever reach themselves.
Which might explain why medium sized companies that are not completely clean-nosed are happy to run Windows 10 with all its spyware elements running unregulated.
It’s also terrible in the government sector, which is why the NSA’s huge database on US internet traffic is accessible to rivals like Russia, Iran and China.
Yeah cool. Got a source on that NSA comment there do you?
