@metacurity@infosec.exchangeAfter the launch of a UK government vulnerability monitoring service (VMS), serious security weaknesses in public sector websites have been fixed 6 times faster – cutting the average time from nearly 2 months to just over a week.
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@fortune@social.linux.pizzaThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
knowledge of its ugly side.
-- James Baldwin
@cdarwin@c.imUntil January, Patrick J. Schiltz,
the chief judge of the District of Minnesota,
had steadily managed one of the federal court system’s heavier workloads with little fanfare.
He was more widely known in the legal community for penning a revered law journal article 27 years ago that advised young lawyers how to become ethical members of an “unhappy, unhealthy and unethical profession.”
But starting this year, as federal agents surged into Minnesota, hundreds of immigr…
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioMy SLP spouse has a T-shirt that says “langauge,” and it gets a lot of appreciation.
Every profession that involved any sort of typing has these words, I suspect.
https://peachiespeechie.com/products/misspelled-langauge-classic-tee-t-shirts-tops-peachie-speechie
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nzLast week, tramping the Milford Track with my whānau (it was stunning), I ended up chatting with a lone fellow tramper from Switzerland. Got to practice my German quite a lot... turns out he's a recently retired heart surgeon, who primarily did heart transplants. 😲 Turns out he wants nothing more to do with his profession & is very pessimistic about the EU social situation heading rightward. He finds Aotearoa magical & inspiring & is busy doing as many Great Walks as he possi…
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social"The way, the deep – a new poem for the profession" – "a new poem celebrating the information, knowledge management and #library professions"!
https://cilip.org.uk/ne…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioReally struggling with what goes through the mind of people outsourcing their whole profession and skill to some company that probably won’t be there anymore in two years; and if the company is still there the product won’t be anymore; and if somehow both the company and the product makes it through it will be completely unaffordable.
@jkohlmann@mastodon.socialI sincerely hope that before too long, generative AI images are recognized for the lazy dogshit that they are, and that the design profession utterly ostracizes the practitioners who use them
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialQ&A with Walt Handelsman, who retired at the end of 2025 as an editorial cartoonist at New Orleans' Times-Picayune, on the changes in a dwindling profession (Rob Tornoe/Editor and Publisher)
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/the-vanishing…
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@zack@mamot.fr"Le cas du député Emmanuel Pellerin révèle les contradictions entre le discours politique intransigeant Š l’égard de la consommation de drogues et la réalité de la réponse judiciaire quand un élu est mis cause pour de tels faits" résume le tribunal dans son jugement, en indiquant que ces révélations portent pleinement sur un « sujet d’intérêt général ».
C'est compliqué, apparemment, pour un avocat-député de comprendre cette notion d'intérêt général.
@jonix@social.linux.pizzaA well written lamentation of our skills not being important any more and the culturla shift in our trade that I am/was proud of belong to
I belong to the work force that really cares about my profession, ever since I read The Pragmatic Programmer in the late 90's, "Think about your work"
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