Alex

Writing about software craftsmanship and economy. Opinions are not mine - they are all yours.

[Alex @lxaxle]

Guess the code!

"My boss said, we need a lock with a code."

-- a great example for checkbox compliance driven pseudo-security 😂

[Alex @lxaxle]

@gamefandave Legacy keeps us reminding of things that used to be good. I joined in the late 1990s too.

My first reply since 4 years on X as I stopped using it. So much changed since then.

[Alex @lxaxle]

joined some IRC channels I was part of 10yrs ago—those channels on irc.othernet.org still exist and have the same number of users! #nostalgy

[Alex @lxaxle]

@Telekom_group

Two years ago the website from my local kebab store was down for one hour. The kebab store owner was really embarrassed that this could happen to a multi-thousand EUR business of his size in 2018.

Seriously? Your website is down? 🤦🥙📴
#DönerIT #TelekomBlackout

[Alex @lxaxle]

@deutschetelekom and yet another bummer! I guess the reason is: "A security manager did not report this, so there was no reason to fix something. Also it does not happen on the PC of our manager." And yes, this does not happen always. This is why the manager have not seen this.

[Alex @lxaxle]

@markdalgleish @drewdeal Or rather when a manager tells to do pair programming and hires random people within budget without team consent.

[Mark Dalgleish @markdalgleish]

Pair programming.

[Alex @lxaxle]

@deutschetelekom "Aktuell optimieren wir unsere Systeme für Sie. Vielen Dank für Ihr Verständnis."

At 10pm on Sunday?! Seriously? 1990 this would be acceptable but today?! I have built e-commerce platforms for the cloud, so do not tell me there is a tech. reason for this!

[Alex @lxaxle]

@brave Those who do not have the privilege to speak only the language of the empire, usually speak the language of their national state. Unfortunatelly you have never tested this case for those Wookie users like me. I cannot add/remove any language for spell checking.

[Alex @lxaxle]

@ubuntu With the latest package set of Focal, since a reboot today. I cannot find/start Chrome (not Chromium) via Meta + S. I need to go to a shell and enter "google-chrome-stable". No idea how such glitches can sneak through UAT.

[Alex @lxaxle]

@ubuntu https://t.co/jGoKRqgcst
gives me

"Surge protection
Warning:
You triggered the wiki's surge protection by doing too many requests in a short time.
..."

And I have no idea why. So reporting bugs is buggy! What an irony!

[Alex @lxaxle]

Microsoft acquires a real-time OS to offer Azure #RTOS on top of the ThreadX picokernel.

#RTOS
https://t.co/SGzQYW4lCl

[Alex @lxaxle]

@getDigital_de I guess the new, smart owner changed the code to "5984" to let the bad guys brute-force all "1234" variations until they die?🤡

[Alex @lxaxle]

@CosmosDirekt did you ever listened to you phone wait list music? It sounds like an ICE train is driving through a tunnel with 300 km/h with open windows and trying to squeeze 100 dB of music through the 7 Watt speakers of the board information equipment.

[Alex @lxaxle]

@Umfuld @torproject @FAIRmediawatch The Internet was a DARPA and/or CIA project too. Still it does not mean that Tor is exploitable per se. Tor's concept has not been proven unsafe yet. It's potential backdoor as not exploitable by CIA only but anyone who finds them.

[Alex @lxaxle]

German banks are really secure and "correct" when you try to reach out to their support, you are constrained to ASCII charset. This way their support stays safe from inquires. @ING_DiBa_Presse you expect a customer to understand this message? #NerdBank

[Alex @lxaxle]

"Ad-free YouTube videos on a mobile phone" published on a decentralized blockchain based blogging platform @steemit
https://t.co/dLaqbNr2Q6

[Alex @lxaxle]

@satindergrewal For me the technical reasons are far less important than the non-technical & social implications.

[Alex @lxaxle]

Migrating from Ktor v0.4.0 to 0.9.0👍 involved adjusting a bunch of imports & a few API signature updates https://t.co/adpJ5cATll
@kotlin