Sometimes, an app can be an app and not some hosted web service mess.

1. Call the French Canadian service line.
2. Speak English

The call center places in Canada are usually maritime and are fluent in both (or none if their timezone is 30 min ahead ;-) ).

The onions are pretty strong here. AND the dust.

If the anti-cheat is client-side, that’s a solved problem, thanks to avoidance.

1. Foot off the gas. You will slow down.
2. Don’t lose your nerve
3. They’re gonna pass and then maybe find speed traps for you

Source: garden state parkway and i287.

Remind me of the recent source ownership issue? I thought there was a “thanks for all the community work over a decade and we want to participate; oops now we own it” story.

This.

You install a virus scanner on your smb fileshare or your mail server, for instance, and pipe attachments through it to protect windows boxes. That’s the only sensible use.

Yet, idiots make policies like “all servers must have AV installed for safety” and thus some shit app sucks down all the CPU time and scans memory (ohai PCI compliance) just because the CTO doesn’t know what ‘less’ does.

OCIS is a modern app that is massively better since its written with modern languages / frameworks

Ah, the sparkle makes it better? I know a guy who made his RAM light up in his plexiglas case, and claims it made the computer faster. Same deal?

OCIS talks a good talk, almost suggesting it’s enterprise and scalable and such, but it still suffers from the same supply-chain risk that all the black-box container miasma does, and the same “just get your kerbal space shuttle launching and then you too can host this awesome simple install” math. The ‘single black-box binary’ isn’t a good fall-back measure.

Now, I realize I’ve cast aspersions on our holy neu-paradigm installation fad, and I get the downvotes. If people don’t understand why validation is an important part of the validation-proves-consistency-thus-reliability of enterprise build/release, that’s okay. Most people don’t know they even need proper releng practice anyway, but may react with downvotes. But we need to do better where it matters; and that’s a line that’s going to seem as arbitrary as a bedtime is to a tween.

Kaspersky isn’t there to protect us; just to fill a niche and create business for itself. Idiot nepo CTOs who don’t know better can be coerced to sign a fud-based invoice and then they make bank.

Npm says what? Random appimages and flatpaks would like a word as well.

It’s true we generally need no antivirus - so far every demand to install one is rooted in stupidity, including policy built by stupidity - but we’re losing the struggle to not install random shit like idiots.

a …software

That’s like asking for 1 happy.

And that’s where I stopped.

Appimages and flatpaks frustrate validation and thus break iso27002.

Anything else?

Having seen the YouTube, I’ve learned the ONLY chant for the train queue is “im-ho-tep! Im-ho-tep!”

who’s

\sigh

Cuter and fuzzier.

I cannot understand why travel to America is above 0 right now.

This guy busts ghosts.

This. If I pay the cost in frustration and anguish and soul-searching and demanding justice from an uncaring god, I want something for it. I want documentation. I want my lessons learned from the post incident review. I want something I can hack into mgmtConfig to make sure nothing else will do that too.

Struggling for no payoff is the absolute worst thing.

worked for several years in higher ed

softwares

/Sigh

Same.

Then I went to work for the company whose code Solaris was derived from. Back in time almost!

Comically, now, my C and Solaris experience is a marketable skill for reliable employment, albeit less fun.