The inimitable Ronni Salt rips apart Jillian Segal's report.

https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/none-of-this-passes-the-pub-test/

#auspol

A little spider crawled onto my keyboard!

It’s under control now.

And from the WTAF dept, quite a bombshell from ProPublica today:

"Microsoft is using engineers in China to help maintain the Defense Department’s computer systems — with minimal supervision by U.S. personnel — leaving some of the nation’s most sensitive data vulnerable to hacking from its leading cyber adversary, a ProPublica investigation has found."

"The arrangement, which was critical to Microsoft winning the federal government’s cloud computing business a decade ago, relies on U.S. citizens with security clearances to oversee the work and serve as a barrier against espionage and sabotage."

"But these workers, known as “digital escorts,” often lack the technical expertise to police foreign engineers with far more advanced skills, ProPublica found. Some are former military personnel with little coding experience who are paid barely more than minimum wage for the work."

https://www.propublica.org/article/microsoft-digital-escorts-pentagon-defense-department-china-hackers?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky&utm_content=7-15

"New Zealand's private health insurers want tax breaks:"

What happened to the market sorting itself out?

Seriously, just fund public health properly instead of death-by-a-thousand-cuts by both major political parties since the late 80's.

🪦 The Death of 'Senior'

｢ In an effort to create a flat, egalitarian utopia, they’ve removed senior titles entirely. Everyone is just “Software Engineer.” Doesn’t matter if you’ve been writing production systems longer than the intern’s been alive. Titles are seen as divisive ｣

https://thecynical.dev/posts/the-death-of-senior/

#senior #recruiting