agent_flounder @ agent_flounder @lemmy.one

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Ooh I love it. Great pic! And cute bee. Beautiful asters* too. It's that season.

I was sure my asters died off a few years ago but with all the rain this spring, a boatload of them sprung up and are just starting to bloom.

They're one of my top five favorite flowers. I guess cuz I grew up with them in the garden at home. Those and gardenias (my #1).

True. Although letting cats roam around isn't great either. They often get diseases (e.g. feline AIDS) or get run over and tend to decimate local wildlife. It's not awesome.

PS but doing this doesn't solve anything. They will get another cat and do the same goddamn thing.

Go xeric and nuke the lawn or motion activated sprinklers.

Wow on sale! Sign me u--- waitaminit...

Ok? I never said it was nor would I expect it to be unless it is part of the contract. And even then probably not.

People don't process tragedies like this the same. It's a fucked up fact of human psychology. Seeing a horrific, scary, very rare event like planes crashing into the towers has way more impact on the typical person than reading about numbers without the scary event visuals. It sucks, but that's how the human brain works.

I am too young to know. I had to catch reruns as a kid in the 70s. Both were bold, awesome choices.

The 1960s were peak cold war, fear the Russians type shit. To put it in perspective, the Cuban missile crisis happened just a few years prior! People were building fallout shelters in their back yards at this point.

What I love is that none of the characters call special attention to it on the show. In that time is totally normal and expected and no big deal. That's the kind of world I want to live in where all these differences are accepted and everyone is cool with everyone. (Minus the blatant misogyny obvs)

Just sketch a picture of the screen with clay tablets and ship it to me by carrier pigeon

A psychopath but with a Physics degree?

Dropbox. Screenshots go to a screenshot directory. Phone has Dropbox and syncs the directory ... screenshot available on phone in 3 2 1 ...

I can just about taste, smell, and hear that picture. 🤤

90% of the time^1 there's at least a Cancel or Reject button. Sometimes you even get to pick which categories right there without it being two or three levels deep.

1 based on my highly scientific method of pulling numbers outa mah butt

Security theater.

EU, can you just make that shit go away? I am so goddamn tired of clicking cookie dialogs I could puke. kthxbye

Not worried about that as much as things that scurry. Barf.

I think there are various categories for types of AI/ML right? Like, neural nets, expert systems, Bayesian systems? Idk. I should really learn more about this topic.

So they just treat their uptime target sorta like the office and bankruptcy? "I declare 12 9s!"

Like, bruh, you actually have to pay for that if you want it, wtf?

I guess it is a bit like car batteries. A 4 year warranty doesn't guarantee it will last 4 years, it means you get a refund if it doesn't. (Though unless they're idiots they build the batteries so statistically it is somewhat more common to last that long vs dying early).

Sounds about right lol.

But that's why you put SLAs into contract language with penalties. Like, say my company pays your company for a SaaS product. And you go down longer than the SLA, we get a discount or something. If it's not in a legal agreement it is meaningless for sure.

Sounds like the company doesn't have a clue about cyber security then. Tens of thousands is a piddling infosec budget for anything but a tiny company. Also, Insider threats, malicious or otherwise, should always be on an infosec professional's radar.

Companies not giving a shit about cyber security is probably not a secret but it is still pretty common, I think, so nobody should be surprised when there are major breaches.

Infosec is usually seen as an expense that cuts into profits. Assuming top level management and the board give a shit about security that's great but often the risk isn't fully appreciated at the top or is managed poorly.

Adequate infosec requires a company to have very mature processes across the board in IT (and likely beyond). C-level "buy in" isn't enough. If the C level management and board doesn't actively demand it, infosec will lose out to myriad other priorities every time.

The big tell is the org structure. If the CISO reports to the CEO, great. If they're reporting to the CIO, CFO, etc., that can cause conflicts of interest. It can still work. If there is no CISO or they are the same person as the CIO, or if infosec reports several levels down in the org--beware!

Reduced mental function definitely includes dementia; my mom had Parkinson's disease and definitely needed my help and advocacy and memory.

They have those little kiosks now don't they? Headphones, movies, gaming system, kids...