Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…
Just got these messages from @seengoals@mastodon.social, one of the members of Gaza Verified, basically accusing me of running a fundraiser for Gaza and keeping the proceeds (I have no fundraiser on any fundraising site anywhere) and extorting me to share his fundraiser or he’ll apparently go public with it.
So here’s what’s going to happening instead: Nabil has been removed Gaza Verified (
Unser Parl. GF Daniel Lede Abal zum SPD-Stunt "AfD-Verbot" (leider nur auf Instagram):
https://www.instagram.com/ledeabal/p/DUYNas5DB1T/
Heute zum #Phoenixsee auch Mal die neuen Buslinien hier vor der Tür ausprobiert - mit der 453 hin und mit der 400 zurück. Schon ganz praktisch, wenn auch für uns knapp vorbei an wirklich nützlich...
#Dortmund
The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification
Lügen, die Vorurteile bestätigen, funktionieren auch dann, wenn sie aufgedeckt werden. Ob etwas wahr ist, ist gar nicht so wichtig, wenn es ja hätte wahr sein können.
Ich hasse die Rothaarige, weil sie versucht meinen Mann zu verführen¹. Erfahre ich später, daß das gar nicht stimmt, sind die Gefühle trotzdem da, und ich seh sie weiterhin mißtrauisch, weil „hätte ja sein können“ – und könnte ja zukünftig. Um dieses Gefühl zu überschreiben bräuchte es dann schon ein explizites Ereignis, …
“When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name: Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California.
LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned.
I had never heard of Persona before this. Most people haven’t. That’s kind of the point — they sit invisibly between you and the platforms you trust.”
(via @…
Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…
Discord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vas…
THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!
I think the SFTP server is down again. Expected files not in our INBOX and it happens on a semi-regular basis and usually after a weekend.
On my Linux box I had a very simple CHRON setup to run a specific BASH script. On my work WIN11 machine I have automated running a specific program every Monday morning checking for a specific item.
It should be trivial to do the same on the servers instead of buying software to verify that the servers are w…