One of my ex employers sold a construction company a six figure “building logistics system” which was just a Microsoft Access file. And the construction dudes had to use a CDMA dongle to remote desktop into a mainframe to open their access files. A travesty.

I reckon it’s hard to attach blame to Microsoft because of the culture of corporate governance and how decisions are made (without experts).

Tech has become a bunch of walled gardens with absolute secrecy over minor nothings. After 1-2 decades of that, we have a generation of professionals who have no idea how anything works and need to sign up for $5 a month phone app / cloud services just to do basic stuff they could normally do on their own on a PC - they just don’t know how or how to put the pieces together due to inexperience / lack of exposure.

Whether it’s corporate or government leadership, the lack of understanding of basics in tech is now a liability. It’s allowed corporations like Microsoft to set their own quality standards without any outside regulation while they are entrusted with vital infrastructure and to provide technical advisory, even though they have a clear vested interest there.

OK, but people aren’t running Crowdstrike OS. They’re running Microsoft Windows.

I think that some responsibility should lie with Microsoft - to create an OS that

1. Recovers gracefully from third party code that bugs out
2. Doesn’t allow third party software updates to break boot

I get that there can be unforeseeable bugs, I’m a programmer of over two decades myself. But there are also steps you can take to strengthen your code, and as a Windows user it feels more like their resources are focused on random new shit no one wants instead of on the core stability and reliability of the system.

It seems to be like third party updates have a lot of control/influence over the OS and that’s all well and good, but the equivalent of a “Try and Catch” is what they needed here and yet nothing seems to be in place. The OS just boot loops.

Why is no one blaming Microsoft? It’s their non resilient OS that crashed.

It’s so funny how Republicans love to stir up the moral outrage of the community. Meanwhile they disproportionately seem to have murderers, rapists and child molesters in their ranks.

That’s a relief I guess, but I still have a great sense of shame and remorse for our conservative politicians. In America they sell out to billionaires for huge rewards. In Australia they’ll fuck the country for a bag of peanuts.

As an Australian, I’m sorry for how backwards and retrograde this country is.

Or get medical care when we’re sick.

Christian Sharia, not just a US thing anymore! What will they clutch their pearls over next? Swearing? Naughty cartoons? These people are pathetic.

In my life the only people who have stolen from me were all conservatives. Ironic given how obsessed they all are with their own property and “the law”.

It’s ok, if you’re in IT this is actually a requirement to stop the blood lust.

I think humour is a key part of what separates drag from just regular performance. The artist isn’t afraid to make fun of themselves and just have fun.

It looks like it’s gonna give the Doctor and the TARDIS a hard time this week.

Breaking News - Middle East now less religiously radical than America…

I think it’s the conservative movements final stand to be selfish, retrograde minded and cruel. The majority of people now believe in empathy and doing the right thing but those who don’t have doubled down on their ways.

My 2c anyway!

A short boost from tax breaks to convince rich people to move there doesn’t make the place financially successful or livable. It just looks better for a bit.

By design. The duopoly of American politics is firmly controlled by the rich, they stir up drama to get the public’s approval for their side hustles.

• Thank you Mr Science, for the claim of addiction to a chemical produced by the body. Very smart.
• Citation needed, literally everyone’s got different equipment. Some people are more sensitive, others less. Some people get piercings in their back to increase sensitivity, others are already so ticklish they shiver just from the touch.

Religion is mostly to blame, but I think some of those religious teachings have been integrated into institutions and secular society as well. Notions that self gratification is a treat and not a need, the perception of masturbation that it’s some teenage boy temporary phase and not for women or older married men. The idea that it can’t be a social activity at all, even though it’s free and safer than drugs.

If you read it in Chris Parnell’s voice, it all makes perfect sense.

LinkedIn is entirely populated by Leo Spaceman’s.