C_Chell

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@gerrymcgovern many paper tickets, including single use tickets, have NFC chips in them. They're very cheap to manufacture and contain only small amount of rare metals, but the scale and the nature of being single use make them truly scary.
Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats https://www.theverge.com/news/708670/roblox-trusted-connections-age-estimation-privacy
Roblox will require a facial scan or government ID to have unfiltered chats

Roblox will let people make “Trusted Connections” to chat more freely, but will require that they use a new age estimation tool to verify that they’re over 13.

The Verge

Résultat de la commission d’enquête du Sénat : 211 milliards d’euros par an d’aides publiques aux entreprises… sans aucune contrepartie !

211 milliards ! 211 MILLIARDS !

Ajoutez à ça les 100 milliards d’évasion fiscale…

… et maintenant, écoutez-les nous expliquer que, pour trouver 40 milliards, il faudrait qu’on arrête de se soigner et qu’on travaille toujours plus.

Chipeur arrête de chiper !

▶️ https://ko-fi.com/allanbarte

Source : https://www.publicsenat.fr/actualites/economie/un-cout-annuel-de-211-milliards-deuros-la-commission-denquete-du-senat-sur-les-aides-publiques-aux-entreprises-reclame-un-choc-de-transparence

« En tant qu’artistes programmés aux Francofolies de Spa, nous nous désolidarisons fermement de la décision de programmer Amir » : c'est en ces termes qu'un collectif d'artistes dénonce la présence du chanteur franco-israélien au festival musical évoquant son soutien à l'armée israélienne. Mais pour l'eurodéputée et nièce du porte-parole de l'armée israélienne, Emma Rafowicz "Amir est aujourd’hui la cible, parce que juif".

Soutenez Les Répliques : https://fr.tipeee.com/les-repliques

La productivité des développeurs semble baisser quand ils utilisent l’IA générative
(Martin Clavey)

https://next.ink/192648/la-productivite-des-developpeurs-semble-baisser-quand-ils-utilisent-lia-generative/

🕹️ #jeux
Oh my god, Steam a un festival de jeux d'automatisation.
https://store.steampowered.com/category/automation
Automation

Steam Automation Fest 2025

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

I see you too mf muahaha this goes both ways

Today in vulnerability coordination:

Vendor: "That's not a vulnerability, it requires X level of access and nobody should expose that according to our hardening guide"

Me: "Okay, so if I publicly disclose the backdoor password needed to exploit this, you are comfortable with that?"

Vendor: "You can't do that, it would put customers at unnecessary risk."

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This was posted online several years ago. As I navigate through several meeting requests today, I can't help but endorse this.
@spaf 4. Thank God the meetings are on zoom and I set my background to a picture of myself

@spaf

I feel like number 2 lasts about for 5 meetings +/-1 meeting.

But otherwise... Yeah.

@spaf I was never about the meeting, but about being invited to the important meeting. The next step is to be important enough to decline such important meeting ;p

@spaf @mms

I have a similar pattern for my technical development.

1) I get a new job, don't know WTF I'm doing; I flail around hoping something works.

2) I start to understand the job, and become competent, feeling good about myself.

3) I understand things so completely that all problems become obvious. I get bored and find a new job.
GOTO 1

@spaf Yeah.... there's "hot damn, too junior to be involved in this crap", "sweet cheezus can I get out of so damn many MEETINGS"... and, lucky me, "I'm a Senior Engineer, it's my _perogative_ to say NO." 🎉 (I mean, sometimes I can't, because sometimes they ARE my monkeys, and I have to keep the circus running, but _most_ of the time I'm like "Y'all figure out the Big Picture and flip me a ticket, and THEN if we have to talk about it (i.e. I have to Say No) we'll talk but if it's half way decently put together I'll just Do That Voodoo What I do...

(This is also why I won't let them hang "manager" around my neck... that would make me vulnerable to (3) and nay *frack* that... much prefer the Senior/Staff/Principal track... )

@spaf

early in my career, when it was my job to be the meeting victim at a customer site, someone there shared true wisdom. if the meeting invite didn't include these things, don't accept:

- agenda in advance that includes what your role/purpose is in being there
- list of action items due by this meeting, including who "owned" doing it

cut out easily 2/3s of requests right off the bat and actually made those i attended more useful. ;)

@paul_ipv6 @spaf at a government agency where I worked (which will remain nameless), the Senior VP had an 8 hour long meeting addressing the fact that they were not getting anything done because there were too many meetings.

@rrb @spaf

there was a cartoon with the punch line:

"we will continue to have these meetings every single day until we figure out why no one is getting any work done"

more a gut punch than a punch line for anyone who's been in a large bureaucracy...

@paul_ipv6 @spaf "How about never, is never good for you?"
@paul_ipv6 @spaf I have known several someones who worked for a software company I won't name, but it's headquartered in Redmond. One of them claimed that their division spent 90% of the time having meetings to plan meetings to plan parties.It was the '90s, though . . .

@0x0ddc0ffee @spaf

it might be that the company i mentioned and didn't name might have been the same one and it might have been in the mid-90s...

@spaf every once in a while the CEO of the company I work for will call me out on slack for something I did...

I don't mind the praise, but do you have to put it on blast to the whole company? Now people will expect it!

@spaf Be the change you want to see in the world.
@spaf I must have skipped 1 & 2.
@spaf I once had a contract where only permanent employees were allowed at meetings, which could have been great. Unfortunately, I had a conscientious manager who thought this was stupid, so would come out of the meeting and brief me, fortunately, in half the time the meeting took.
@spaf Didn't consider a relative scarcity of meetings as a benefit to a career change where the only networks I need to troubleshoot are CANbus or J1939, but I'm now even more convinced that leaving IT to become a heavy equipment diesel tech was the right call. Being covered with oil, grease, grime, and Diesel Exhaust Fluid all day can't be worse than an office environment with frequent meetings. (DEF is a mixture of water and urea, the latter of which I hope is synthetic . . . )

@spaf I think the secret fourth stage is a branch between acceptance (dare I say enjoyment?) and leaving corporate to become a goat herder

Or maybe all roads just lead to goat herding. Time will tell