90% angry nerds fighting each other over what answer is “right”

It’s only a crime if YOU do it citizen.

Corporate law breaking is just a cost of business.

Now stay in line peon.

I’ve done both, it’s just a rarity to have someone experienced enough in both to be able to cross the lines.

Those are your gems and they’ll stick around as long as you pay them decently.

Hard to find.

Because the problem is that you need

1. A developer
2. A systems guy
3. A social and great personality

The job is hard to hire for because those 3 in combo is rare. Many developers and systems guys have prickly personalities or specialise in their favourite part of it.

Devops spent have the option of prickly personalities because you have to deal with so many people outside your team that are prickly and that you have to sometimes give bad news to….

Eventually they’ll all be mad at you for SOMETHING…… and you have to let it slide. You have to take their anger and not take it personally…. That’s hard for most people, let alone tech workers that grew up idolising Linus torvalds, or Sheldon cooper and their “I’m so smart that I don’t need to be nice” attitudes.

As a devops manager that’s been both, it depends on the group. Ideally a devops group has a few former devs and a few former systems guys.

Honestly, the best devops teams have at least one guy that’s a liaison with IT who is primarily a systems guy but reports to both systems and devops. Why?

It gets you priority IT tickets and access while systems trusts him to do it right. He’s like the crux of every good devops team. He’s an IT hire paid for by the devops team budget as an offering in exchange for priority tickets.

But in general, you’re absolutely right.

Someone is running a smear campaign on Firefox, and I don’t know why.

The tech doesn’t track you, it’s very clear on that but the misinformation about it keeps popping up everywhere.

I always give “companyname@personaldomain.com”

That way datasets are harder to correlate and I know who leaked 😝

You don’t get to being the CEO of a large company without being an asshole of one type or another, and outrage drives views and clicks.

Soooo…. You get what you incentivise.

I didn’t say great, just “has more than one redeeming quality”

I’m very aware of the Facebook shit list, that’s why I’m so shocked.

As a user, and great fan of the llama models….

I did not have “Zuckerberg saves us from ai” on my bingo card.

…… nor did I have “musk threatens and then pussies out from fighting Zuckerberg”

Or even “Zuckerberg becomes less despised as an individual”

Like…… have I switched timelines and universes?

Search engines are rapidly becoming a thing of the past.

Google decided a few years ago that quality doesn’t matter (and they’re right, the monopoly they have means that their quality doesn’t matter for a good long while) but over the long term that’s sitting themselves in the foot.

This is just phase 2, installing fences around your market.

Phase 2 is often legal, so I’m waiting for some patent battles or something like that too, but the effect is the same.

Fair, charged is the wrong word.

But please explain how you see the fiduciary duty then?

A CEOs job is literally to serve the financial interests of the shareholders.

In fact a CEO can be fired or charged for not doing it.

How is that not legally compelling a company to make the most money possible, when to have their top employee by the balls like that?

And jokes about meatball Ron

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data

It absolutely does

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data

It absolutely is.

Slack must have this for compliance issues, or they would be locked out of many industries (like banking and insurance)

That’s just it…… they are building it out properly, their goal is just not what you think it is.

The problem is the same as with the telephone answering trees.

If they’re used to help you get where you’re going, then they’re great. But that’s not the best financially motivated decision. Solving your problem costs the companies money. Pissing you off and convincing you that your problem shouldn’t be fixed saves money on support.

So making you go round in circles is the machine doing EXACTLY what they want it to do.

Not just for 2 years, XP removed it in sp2.

And even when it supported it, many versions wouldn’t let you use it, or would let you “see” it but not use it.

For basically the life of XP.

I’m not overly worried about a few random Linux distros that did strange things, nor raspberry pi’s. I mean I don’t know why you’d use 32 bit on an 8gb pi anyways, so it shouldn’t affect anyone unless they did something REALLY strange.

For the average user, neither of those scenarios mattered, especially back when the problem was at its peak.

2 years was a long time to wait to use the extra memory that Linux could use out of the box.

I honestly don’t even remember XP having PAE, but if you NEED the validation, sure, Microsoft EVENTUALLY got it.

Except that Microsoft removed it in SP2 LOL!

And all the home use versions of XP still maxed out at 4gb.

There could see the memory but couldn’t use it, oh I’d forgotten that!

Wikipedia was a fun read.

Yeah I acknowledged the shortcomings in a different comment.

It was a duct take solution for sure.