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The vast majority of participants on this forum work in an environment where the shelf of footguns and gotchas and stupid legacy cruft that is modern software development inherently makes sense. Anyone fucking that house of cards up gets attention not because of the state of modern software development that led them here, but because clearly something is wrong with the external world and that should be handled with cops or whatever the next step after that is. It is in no way an indictment of modern software as practiced, from toolchain on up.

Reminder: Memorial Day was yesterday and this thread is discussing killing human beings in yet another war because of holes in some stupid software that SV won’t lift a finger to fix. If you offer such a suggestion to fix the woes of vulnerable infrastructure, I’m assuming you’re volunteering to go pull the trigger, right? Or were you expecting someone else to do that for you?

Put down the assault keyboard and Clancy novel and get some perspective, subthread. Sheesh. Diddling around in the network of a company you didn’t know existed until five minutes ago is suddenly a capital offense because...Whoppers might run out?

The entire computing apparatus of humanity ostensibly can’t figure out secure systems by default without fifty vigilant FAANGineers on hand to rewrite everything quarterly, and then spends the day after Memorial Day arguing for drone strikes and targeted assassinations against two-bit racketeering operations calling them on it to avoid fixing the actual problem. Video at 11.

It isn’t reasonable at all.

You could speculate that. Then you could ask yourself why a climate activist would create a situation where cattle starve at the plant and are put down and not used economically.

There are thousands of cattle in transit to just one of these facilities every hour of every day. Most are not equipped to feed incoming cattle - they arrive hungry and with minutes to hours to live. If you’re annoyed about the climate, forcing a manufacturer to throw out and waste hundreds of tons of perfectly fine beef does what, exactly? Send a message?

This isn’t spiking trees. You’re dealing with live animals. I have a hard time believing an activist environmentalist would be fine with exacerbating an animal welfare situation they already don’t like. Putting thousands of cattle through even worse experiences than usual. Yeah, no.

Source: One degree removed from a foreman at an impacted plant. What I’m describing is already happening - plant I’m aware of has 14k head on hand with about 24 hours to figure it out or kill and discard. The administration is already involved and aware of the details, too, and everyone should be vigilant regarding speculation as to who’s behind it (this is likely misdirection, given who it actually is).