You’re right
I’m very much in the left camp and I do fear its too late. I fear that in the next 5 decades, millions if not billions will die and that we might actually face a societal collapse
Governments don’t give a shit about climate, they’re too dumb
Companies don’t give a shit about climate because their owners direct the actions and they only care about money
So how exactly should I be positive and have a “let’s go fix this!” attitude?
I’m tired, really really tired
Imagine a federated system that allows everyone to host this and everyone can vote on a designated target
Ticketmaster is being a dick? Vote! Ticketmaster is now ddossed until it makes hard changes to its policies and brings prices down to like 10% of what it is today
Boeing continues to focus on money only, not safety? Ddos until it changes
The Cheeto is murdering innocent people again? The entire world will ddos everything US until he’s removed.
I know this won’t ever happen, but I see this as potentially useful in making the world a better place for everyone
I just love how Linux is awesome and outperforms windows in just about any metric, and every update is basically making it faster, better, more secure, and more featureful.
I love how easy it has become to get it to run, even when confronting complicated problems
Meanwhile in the microsoft camp, its always been shit, severe known security bugs don’t get fixed because marketing goes before everything, even if it means that the US government gets hacked (but don’t worry, we pwomise that the CEO wiw now cawe about secuwity!) and apparently M$ literally only cares about shoving security averse AI down everyone’s throat with a used plunger.
Sure sure, the AI my install malware for you, but AI, man! It’s awesome even though you hate it, even though it’ll steal all your data and your first born back to Microsoft for processing. You MUST love it, resistance is futile!
And still people keep going on about how windows really is the best
Meanwhile, I try to type a document in Microsoft Word online, because unfortunately that’s is het we still use at work but it keeps randomly and quietly deleting text that I wrote 30 seconds prior. That high quality, of course, is all due to the AI vibe coding that is all the rage at Microsoft now.
To anyone who still needs to hear it: switch to Linux now, get rid of Microsoft nonsense. Linux is awesome, we have cookies
Why did we vote for this guy again?
Using immich for photos, going to set-up nextcloud and onlyoffice for the rest
AI bots killing the internet again? You don’t say
I don’t blame a girl for doing a job that lands her food on the table. I blame the guy employing her because she’s the cheapest option
Having said that, this design was so bad that she should not have been doing any of this. If you don’t know that SQL allows you to select multiple columns then by all means, do a tutorial, it’s not that hard.
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
OPs question was about the worst code I’ve seen, that was the worst I’ve seen
A program that HR had built so that all employees could they their payment receipts online
The username was the companies’ email address, the password was a government personal id code that you can lookup online, a don’t change, and you can’t update the password to something else.
So I told the director of HR this was a bad idea. She told me I was overreacting until I showed her her own receipt, then she finally understood that this is a really fucking bad idea.
Okay, so now she out me in charge of debugging that program.
So I setup a meeting with the director of the company they hired, he came by with the developer: a 21 yo girl who I think hadn’t finished college yet. Great start! Apparently it was her idea to do the authentication like that so that explains a few things.
So we dive in to the code.
First of all, the “passwords” were stored in blank, no hashing, no encryption, nothing. That wasn’t the worst.
For the authentication she made a single query to check if the user email existed. Of that was true, then step two was a second query to see if the password existed. If that were true, the email had been authenticated.
So let’s say, hypothetically, that they had actual passwords that people could change… I could still login with the email from anyone, and then use MY OWN password to authenticate.
This just blew my mind so hard that I don’t think I ever fully recovered, I still need treatment. The stupidity hurts
How it started:
Let’s try and at least pretend we’re saving some of the planet?
How it’s going:
Wanna get high?
I did that well over 10 years ago for my mother in law and she loved it. She did basic browsing and a few games here and there, windows always fucked up and had to be reinstalled every few months.
I installed Linux, Kubuntu I believe, and it was the end of it. Never heard a peep again.
Not to mention outright sabotage when you’re not in their ecosystem.
Use Linux? Your browser default user agent says you’re on Linux? Word 365 will now randomly stop saving which just quietly deleted some of the text you wrote previously
I can write up a whole list of more sabotage, but just read this as a much, much bigger example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO–Linux_disputes
Microsoft execs should have been jailed but in the US it’s all fine as long as you’re rich.
And then there is that song that is just a never ending stream of dopamine. 50 times, 100 times, doesn’t matter, it just goes on
nerds.xyz
A great source of information if i ever saw one!
I do not agree
Yes, it sometimes can be difficult and frustrating, but so long as someone, anyone, is willing to try and learn and fail and retry, they can get my help
Have you forgotten that you too started at 0?
dirty coal
Implying there is clean coal, or what?
I’m sure they’ll come with disappointingly low standards which the day after will already be ignored, just like they did every other time before.
The very fact that they’re not negotiating with the thought of our mere survival in our heads and go “oh fuck we need to cut CO2 down close to zero within 5 years” they’re actually negotiating how many millions (perhaps even billions) of people are okay to die from the consequences of climate change so that they and their top donors can stay rich enough.
This should be a very simple negotiation. This should be “are we going down to 10% of CO2 output * in 5 years top or 15% in 6?” This should end with binding agreements, but this will end with a few suggestions that everyone will politely ignore before laughing their way back home
Cynical take? I’m sure it is. I’m also sure that it’s what will happen
Edit: and right the next article I read:
One mundane procedural issue stands out, however: voting. Due to the concerted efforts of oil-producing countries like Saudi Arabia, participants in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC—the treaty that kicked off the yearly COP negotiations—are unable to vote on contentious issues. Instead, they have to pursue consensus, giving every country a de facto veto power over proposals they don’t like. Environmental groups have called this a “poison pill” that has undermined climate progress for decades. Many are trying to stop it from sullying other international environmental agreements, like the UN plastics treaty.
Ding ding ding
Holy shit that site is cancer on mobile, not to mention their fun fun fun cookie handling where I only have to make 2548591 clicks to not have my asshole inspected negen intry to read a single page. Then come the full page ads and pop-ups.
Granted, internal connect browser with no plugins to alleviate some of this, but man that was an experience.
1/5, Did NOT read the article, would not recommend
I’ve seen hundreds of these warnings over the past decades
All were laughingly ignored, and this one too, will be ignored by politicians and business leaders with a big smile
Cynical? Hell yeah, I know. It’s also reality
Compared to what?
I know redhat has a new package manager which name I can’t recall now but before it was rpm with yum and holy crap that was molasses slow
This would be hilarious is not half the world is pushing for this shit