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This is the criminal cyberpunk future we've been reading about since the 80s...

Mostly delivering the inferior half baked product early and watching the customers burn.

Agree entirely. I also objected to that.

Yes fair point.

However WSL2 is just a heavily disguised Hyper-V virtual machine with lots of weirdness around it rather than a proper NT subsystem.

Oh completely agree with all of these but it's possible to deliver them without the malfeasance of actually measurably damaging the productivity of your staff.

The big problem with modern IT teams is they are an independent authority that never actually wears the user's shoes for a moment.

I don’t understand any of it. Mostly it’s selfish CYA mentality rather than the business responsibility of being a service provider, and you know, actually providing service.

Bold of you to assume I haven’t read and understood the contents of my contract which implicitly does not disallow this.

Realistically I build spikes and prototypes on my own hardware and only push to the environment never pull. Production code, credentials and data never goes near personal equipment.

I’m having that argument now.

The story is that the IT teams are detached completely from the reality of their end users and are driven by compliance box ticking, off the shelf corporate malware sales marketoids, incompetence and ignorance.

Any attempt to confront anyone on that is met with defensive use of politics and budgetary concerns which don’t make logical sense at all. In reality the staff aren’t very good and can’t cope with the requirements of the organisation and this is being carefully hidden by the folk trying to protect their positions.

Thus we have several hundred people with inadequate hardware, inappropriate poorly configured software and friction so bad that doing an hour of productive work is a miracle. Of course corporate surveys that are sent out never address the concerns because that would mean someone has to be accountable for it.

At the same time IT teams are pushing BYOD for mobile devices because you can push a policy out which fucks the end user’s devices once a week and causes actual data loss on the personal side of things. So no one uses BYOD because it risks their own personal stuff and no one carries a corporate phone so no work gets done on the road.

The end game is I use my own hardware and do everything in clean room and push it to GitHub and pull it back into corporate env for integration.

The scary thing is I know enough people working at different organisations to know that this is the status quo. You can blame Gartner, Microsoft, the whole security sector and the army of solutions providers for mandating this mess.

Yeah I didn’t want to write a couple of pages of rant on here.

Based on Microsoft’s ability to plan and manage product naming I think you stumbled on a coincidence there rather than actual intent.

No one fixes the bugs because they’re not interesting.

It’s why I’m now a mac user.

Completely agree with that. One of the best soundtracks in a film.

Shame about the film!

Absolutely dire film but a good soundtrack.

We use CloudWatch Synthetics to watch our internal monitoring systems using a heartbeat system we developed. It delivers to SQS queues. If the queues are empty for 10 minutes then something is broken and a CloudWatch alert kicks off an engineer escalation to investigate it.

Think we'll have an AWS region in Alpha Centauri by then...

Edit: and it'll still break when us-east-1 is destroyed by the sun exploding.

Powder it. Problem solved.

Actually there is Credential Guard which in concept does this. But Microsoft only use this for Kerberos/Domain stuff and it's only supported in Enterprise Edition.

They only don't support this because Windows is market segmented and Microsoft have fuck all product management and direction that isn't run by an army of crack smoking monkeys.

This is wrong. Seize it. Make it National Trust property. Job done. Doesn’t need an aristocracy present in it.

Also The Queen has a hell of a lot of hidden wealth.

This is a really good description without delving into the mathematics.

Other commenter has it spot on. TAoE is a good reference so carry on reading :)

Using that simplified model, it's better to think of it as a simple diode between B-E and a completely separate current source between C-E.

But it's way more complicated than that.

As always these things tell us how transistors work, which is fine and all that, but that's not enough to tell anyone how to use one which is almost universally done incorrectly even in some high profile textbooks. They are a little more complicated than this video can muster. In fact I'd argue that it's probably worth skipping this and delving into the mathematics properly.

Wes Hayward W7ZOI explains this side of things rather well in his book Experimental Methods in RF design. Some of the content is duplicated here discussing bipolar transistor feedback amplifier designs: http://w7zoi.net/transistor_models_and_the_fba.pdf

The only good one is where the people you need to communicate with. Which isn’t telegram or signal for me.

Err yeah they do know. Everyone just uses WhatsApp.

I mostly write stuff in Go with no imports at all now. It’s just that and stock vim on macOS is my entire stack.

I am fortunate that my own contributions only require that.

Can confirm my kids have and it wasn’t even a shared one.

Ergo I’d rather not have shared devices anyway. It was hell when we shared a family windows 2000 computer back in the day.

I have to argue with mine once a day at least but that’s better than every fucking time I want to do anything with every other device I’ve owned.

Also, I have no wires now other than a couple of chargers. It is freedom. Never do I have to untangle some EarPods from my keys five times a day.

It’s even scarier when you actually sit down and review some of the code you’ve been importing for years…

It has resulted in a major thinking shift for me. Mostly initiated by a malicious nodejs package being quietly pulled in.

For reference Yahoo are absolute shits when it comes to mail delivery. They literally will black hole addresses, domains and IP addresses with no recourse ever. The sending server will get a response code back of roughly "fuck you until you've manually filled in this form at this URL". The form is submitted by any attending mail admin if they even notice the response code, then silently with no confirmation they will either ignore you until the universe dies or suddenly mail will start working. If you fuck the form up, you have to wait 6 months to try again.

They actually stopped me hosting my own email because I couldn't be bothered to deal with this shit any more.