LrdThndr @ LrdThndr @lemmy.world

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My last job had a pingpong table. We'd even use it occasionally. That is, until people started getting pissy when they'd see us playing pingpong. Then management started bitching that we were playing pingpong instead of working. Eventually, nobody was allowed to use the pingpong table - it just sat there, in the middle of the room, with brand new paddles and packs of balls that we weren't allowed to use.

The money was okay - not great, but not terrible. After some management fuckery, I left for a $10000/yr raise and 100% work from home. I've gone up $20K since then, been promoted to senior, still have upward trajectory, and still work 100% from home. I have a desk in Memphis somewhere, but I've never actually seen it.

Yeah, sure, I’ll bite.

Education is teaching kids to think for themselves while giving them the ability to tell fact from bullshit.

Indoctrination is forcing your own ethics, morals, and beliefs onto children who lack the ability to discern fact from bullshit, usually early enough in their development to ensure that the bullshit you’ve forced onto them becomes permanently encoded into their brain structure.

Nobody’s indoctrinating college students. The students are being taught to critically analyze information and are using that critical analysis to realize that the worldview they’ve been spoon-fed is bullshit.

My grandmother had one of these.

I somehow discovered that if I took this magnetic screwdriver, and this bent piece of coat hanger and slapped them together, her tv would turn off.

I fucked with her so much she took her tv to a repair shop because she thought it was broken.

Good times.

I posted about this a while back on that other double-d site, but I used to be an outsourced it guy for a bunch of companies.

One of my clients was a small local collection agency. Their network was aged and falling apart, we we sold them a full network update - new server, new infra, new computers. They even ordered the newest version of their agency software.

We got it all set up in parallel to the existing setup, and were at the point of installing the server app, but for the life of me, I couldn’t get the damned thing to work.

So I called support and told them the issue. The support guy said “Oh, yeah. That’s a known issue. You just need to make anybody who needs to use the software a domain admin, and you have to leave the admin panel on the server app logged in at all times with the screen unlocked.”

I sat in stunned silence for a few seconds contemplating what this idiot just told me.

“If that’s a requirement to run this software, then go ahead and transfer me to whoever I need to talk to to get a refund on this, because you’ve got to me out of your fucking mind. There’s not a chance in hell I’m going to do that on a server that handles peoples’ financial data.”

He stammered for a minute then transferred me to someone who apparently had seen a computer before, and they were able to fix the issue — a cache directory just needed write permission.

But the part that bothers me is… how many other people did he tell that to and they just blindly followed those directions? If I had told the manager or owner they needed to call, they would have just done it with no reservation.

In small orgs with no IT, where the tech stuff is just done by a nephew or a staffer that’s “good with computers,” there’s zero thought given to security. I’d seen it with dozens of small companies - they’d done their own IT work forever, and had just called me in to address a thorny problem, and I find that their database is open to the world, or their whole org runs off an access database file sitting on an XP home edition computer somebody brought in.

It’s fucking terrifying.

I’m gonna go with unsmart.

Our principal got indicted for stealing money from the school. He was swiping cash from the concession stand register.

Know how he got caught? He got busted by the security cameras he authorized the SRO officer to install because… wait for it… money kept disappearing from the concession stand register.

This happened exactly one year after being quoted in the paper saying “Stealing in any form is wrong” after half of our football team was arrested for running a small-time counterfeiting ring.

At my high school, the administration banned the color and word “fuchsia” (kind of a purple-ish, pink-ish color).

For some reason, the senior class (year 12, the class one year above me at the time) had become obsessed with the color/word. They had taken to wearing fuchsia shirts with the word “fuchsia” on them. On a given day, you’d likely see a few dozen of these shirts roaming the halls with students inside them.

The ban came because, allegedly, somebody had made up a story about a Mexican hooker named “Fuchsia” (because that’s a Spanish name, right?) that was the supposed inspiration of the color craze.

So naturally, the admins banned the color and any mention of the word. Using the word “fuchsia” in any context, or wearing the color in any way was three days in in-school-suspension (during-the-day detention where you sat in a cubicle with literally nothing to do - you weren’t allowed to read, no schoolwork, or anything — just stare at the wall for 8 hours). Second offense was a week out of school suspension. Third meant you failed your year and had to repeat the grade.

So, the seniors started wearing other obscure colors with the name printed on the shirt. “Indigo” “Chartreuse” “Vermillion”. Every single one of these colored shirts had the name of the color, and the words “You can’t ban all the colors” underneath.

It was by far the dumbest ass rule I’d ever seen.

Most of your points are valid, except this one:

They suck to drive, so enthusiats don't want them.

Want to know how I know you’ve never driven an EV? You’re just 100% wrong here.

Ive been researching and preparing to buy an EV for a while, so I’ve driven a few, and every single one absolutely blew ICE cars away in terms of acceleration, power, control, and raw speed. I’m not exaggerating in the slightest when I say that I nearly blacked out from the acceleration when a Ford sales guy floored an F150 lightning from a dead stop to show me how powerful it was. Clearly a career as a fighter pilot is out for me.

Tesla, Kia, Hyundai… every one has had incredible acceleration with zero transmission hesitation - because they don’t have one. It’s just raw torque from the top of the pedal to the bottom.

Didn’t realize that was a big bug. I’ve noticed that if I drag up from the bottom of the screen a little, like I’m pulling up the list of running apps, but then drag back down without actually opening the list; just enough that the app STARTS to shrink, but before the apps display; it unfreezes.

I’m a full time senior PHP/JS developer.

PHP has a bad rap because of a few factors.

1, as you said, it’s accessible. It’s a very easy language to learn with a simple syntax and a simple tool chain. So often, it’s a dev’s first language. PHP holds your hand a little bit, but for the most part, security is on the developer, and when a dev doesn’t know any better, bad practices like interpolating values directly into your sql query seem like an easy way to get the job done, but at the hidden cost of opening up SQL injection vulnerabilities. But I’ve seen the same thing happen in Python code, so that’s not really a PHP problem so much as an education problem.

2, earlier versions of PHP were, in a word, shit. They were rife with inconsistencies, poor structure, half-baked features, and it all ran like dogshit. Even today, there’s still some contention in the PHP world about whether to fix the inconsistencies or not, because so much legacy code would fall apart if they did. PHP <= 4 was a goddamned dumpster fire. 5 was MARGINALLY better and brought in proper OOP. 6 literally didn’t exist for various reasons. 7 was actually getting pretty good, now with optional static typing. 8 is BANGIN’. It’s fast, easy to work with, has a great feature set, and a huge community.

3, it’s a big player. When you’re a huge player, you’re also a huge target. Wordpress is one of the most prolific web apps in existence, and it’s PHP based. Being huge, many more people are writing (shit) code for it, and many more (shit) people are trying to break it. Of course software that’s run on more servers is gonna be attacked more. It’s just numbers.

TBH, today, working in both languages extensively, I’d gladly take a PHP based web app over a NodeJS based web app. Don’t get me wrong, I love node for what it is and the paycheck I get, but JS is a goddamned dumpster fire of a half-baked language.

So tldr, don’t fear the PHP. As long as your software was written by somebody who knows their aaS from a hole in the ground, you’ll be fine.

I mean... everything is like that here. I don't even have municipal trash service. I have to a pay a dude in a converted pickup truck to come collect my trash and take it to the dump once a week, and that works out cheaper than taking it to the dump myself because I have to pay to use the dump. Nope, not included in taxes. It's $25 for up to 500lbs for each visit, but the dude in the pickup truck gets that economy of scale, so paying him $22/mo works out much cheaper for me.

Our roads are covered in potholes, fire service isn't included, the schools are garbage and the teachers have to buy most of their own supplies out of their own money, the homeless problem is out of control, the opioid epidemic is killing people left and right, the power goes out any time the wind blows too hard, our police don't even bother to respond to anything but violent crime anymore and even then they usually just make the problem worse...

...but Randy fucking Boyd can build an unnecessary stadium downtown and get the taxpayers to foot the bill so he doesn't have to pay for it, but he still gets to keep the profits off of it, and Marsha goddamned Blackburn can go on TV and bitch about Hunter Biden snorting cocaine off a porn-filled laptop or something.

I'm just so goddamned tired of it all. My wife and I have agreed that the instant she finishes school, we're expatriating.

Want more rage? In my community in East Tennessee, I don't have municipal fire service.

There's a private for-profit fire department that "serves" me. I have to pay a yearly subscription fee to them. Granted, it's not expensive, but it's the principle - Why the fuck do I have to pay for something that, everywhere else, is covered by taxes?

Now... I can choose not to pay the subscription fee. And that's fine. If I have a fire or need to be cut out of a car, they'll still respond and still do whatever needs doing. But then they send a bill for $2000 per hour per apparatus that responds to the call, billed from the moment they leave the station to when they pull back in. So if I have a car wreck and the car catches fire, I can expect a bill for $2000/hour for each of a rescue truck, a pump truck, and a tank truck, assuming they don't send two rescue trucks for some reason.

That's $6000/hr, and they scene may be active for two or three hours. That's $12,000 - $18,000 dollars BEFORE we even start talking about our garbage predatory healthcare system. Do I need an airlift to the trauma center? Whoa buddy... That's a minimum of $20,000 before they even start the engine on the damned thing. Plus, the helicopter doesn't take off from accident scene, so I'll need ambulance transport to the aircraft LZ, so that's another $2,000. But it's okay, because the air evac company has a subscription plan too, and as long as I pay them my protection money every year, they won't ruin my life if I have an accident.

I'm SOO FUCKING TIRED of this shithole profit-driven country.

In the red corner, hailing from Colorado and standing at five foot six, louder than a 12-gauge, dumber than a whole box of Facebook marketplace rifle suppressors masquerading as fuel filters; she’ll knock your socks off just so her husband can sniff your feet (but only if you’re under 16); the undeniably uneducated; universally unloved… Lauren “Ppppppplaaaaan B” Booooooooooebert.

In the other red corner, all the way from god-knows-where-and-we-wish-she’d-go-back-already; she’s got on more makeup than a dumpster full of Sephora customer returns; she’s been evicted from every trailer park in the greater Dalton metro area; the immortal god-Queen of the international association of Karens; Marjorie Taylor “White Trash Barbie” Grrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

Ah, dammit. Yeah, that was a typo :).

Judging by the text of your post alone, you’re bilingual.

Had you not said that English wasn’t your first language, I, a native English speaker, would never have know.