Posts by Mayday

This is still better

Than half the shit “real” recruiters send me on LinkedIn 20 times a day.

Bugger

So how am I supposed to read emails, see ex-colleagues (including the CEO) calendars and contact details etc from jobs I left months ago now?

TLAs I won’t work for.

This is one of them.

I always politely decline when a recruiter rings about this and similar firing agencies.

This crew and WITCH. For those watching at home and unfamiliar, WITCH can be seen as the opposite of the “glamour” of FAANG, a few of which I also wouldn’t work for but that’s another story.

Anyway:

Wipro

Infosys

TCL (can also be Tech Mahindra if you wish)

Cognizant

HCL

Maybe they realise (to a degree)

That people have got jack of subscriptions and actually want to buy something?

FWIW - CCIE here. Certainly doesn’t mean I run towards the bridge logo. In fact the subscription model has driven me up the wall for a few years now and I consider other options. Unfortunately most of them “require” subscriptions too.

12 Weeks + 1 week per year

Thats actually rather generous, particularly by American standards. When I've been laid off (Australia) in the past it's been a kick in the arse and not much else. Most American mobs dont even get that.

Either way, I'd prefer to be employed than have a CEO who "accepts responsibility" and "feels terrible" and need to go home and tell the family Im looking for work and can't put food on the table because someone else made a few shit decisions.

Please tell me

How North Korea stealing crypto to bypass sanctions helps its defence programmes? I ,Evan it’s not like they can use bitcoin to buy a bunch of jets/destroyers now is it? Who would accept it? I’m guessing I’ve got that wrong.

All I can think of is maybe the stolen “cash” disrupts someone else’s economy.

Dynamic Island*

Who names this crap?

*Feature actually looks ok though, but the name itself is crap.

Did something similar for an Aussie telco once

I worked for Aussie”s third tier telco back in the day (this particular day, I’ve also worked for numbers 1&2 at various stages) An old ATM based partial mesh was replaced with a ladder type MPLS topology and everyone was happy. That was until two legs of the ladder “somewhere between the east coast and Perth” suffered from backhoe attenuation* almost simultaneously. The normally highly resilient ladder topology didn’t handle two backhoes a few thousand km apart going through two legs at the same time.

I recalled an old STM-1 that connected Sydney to Perth that no one remembered to turn off. Rang a NOC guy and asked him to log into the router these links were connected to. “No shut” on both interfaces and they lit up (!!!), better yet the old IPs were still on the interfaces and the bastards could ping. Immediately set up BGP neighbourships and they started to exchange prefixes. Bang. We’re up again. One poxy/stupid** ATM link is hardly a super resilient ladder topology but it worked until the network could be repaired (a week or so).

* Backhoe attenuation is a phenomenon where cables, particularly underground high capacity fibres, lose signal due to errant backhoes digging them up.

** If something is “stupid” and it works, then it is not stupid.

Not needed if everyone implements RFC1149

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt

Can't boot at all?

Guess it's pretty secure then.

Can’t say I’m surprised.

Physical access + specialist equipment and he gets in. Especially on a v1 hardware (think games consoles too with mod chips).

Privacy

“The code in question allows us to respect people's privacy“

Wtf? Surely he doesn’t believe this bollocks himself. Being in this position I’m guessing they were hired solely on their ability to keep a straight face when spurting this crap out.

Sure they aren’t arachnids?

Bug meteors, “hurling their spore through space”

Would you like to know more:

https://starshiptroopers.fandom.com/wiki/Arachnid

I don't care which vendor implements it

But there needs to be a unifying standard to suit everyone here.

https://xkcd.com/927

Naturally?

Will it run Crysis?

They got this wrong

Disclaimer: despite the fact I used to work for Citrix, and hate them so much I need counselling, I can acknowledge the worth and usefulness of their products.

I don’t understand how Citrix could have gone so badly during covid and associated lockdowns, and the rise of extensive remote working. For a company whose bread and butter is remote working products, associated security and the like should have absolutely cleaned up. Now look at them. Seems like they are hoping Broadcom/VMware stuff things up worse than what they did and that the customers who migrated to VMware Horizon come back when Vmware decide they aren’t big enough to be customers anymore.

Equifux

Bank or similar body: your credit score is bad, therefore you are unable to get a mortgage and you’re on the street

Customer; How can that be? I pay off everything on time. I’ll investigate!

Equifux: We broke something. Sorry. Not your fault.

Customer: But I’m on the street now? What can I do? Consumers evidently rely on accurate reporting by you lot for our livelihoods. Well that’s what you tell us anyway.

Equifux: I’ll refer you to our previous sorry message and we’ll also add that we take security and IT issues seriously.

"Nonetheless, customers are still arguing they will be worse off under subscription licenses"

Isn't that the same with every single software product?

Other job ad wank that “works against” me

“Dynamic organisation” what? No one knows what’s happening there?

“Competitive salary” competitive with what? If it’s competitive, just tell me what it is then

“Agile” we have standups, but PMs want deadlines so they still fell relevant

“Continuous improvement” it’s a shitshow and won’t ever change

“ Additional duties as required” no shit, mostly after hours and not recognised as paid overtime

Magnificent.

I can think of sooo many uses in the medical field alone. I’m thinking of probes, sensors etc that need to be tossed out once after they’ve been used. Much better than some battery that’s polluting and going to the tip.

So Donald was right?

The election was rigged?