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    • Gators1G
      Gators1 @Kilemall
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      @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      @Lob12 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      @Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

      @Hog That’s kinda “programmer error” that caused that one, not modern solutions.

      Well that’s a really weird distinction. Presumably the programmer was an employee or contracted to modern solutions at the time it was written so it’s pretty much their fuck up any way you cut it. Modern Solutions as a corporate entity is a name in a registry and an articles of incorporation. “Modern Solutions” isn’t capable of anything, good or bad, if you are going to separate it from its people.

      My bad, I was thinking “modern solutions” as an architectural approach…the buzzword. Missed that was the name of the company, but I am still trying to wake up here. Yeah, the company is ultimately responsible for it but I don’t know many people still hard coding credentials in their software distributions anymore given the options and current security risk environment. Ultimately whoever built that made some bad decisions.

      Just go back to bed!

      You gonna let a lawyer slap you around when code is on the line?

      It’s someone else’s code…I give zero shits.

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      • Gators1G
        Gators1
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        Fuck Google! Every time they launch some service and you get used to it, they fucking shut it down. I had Google music and now its gone. Just got into podcasts about a year ago and again they are shutting that shit down. Maybe I need to switch and be an appletard?

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        • TazzT
          Tazz
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          Amazon scamma-ramma-ding-dong.

          Jan 21, 2024  /  GPUs

          Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal

          Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal

          Repair shop diagnosis: no fix.

          GTFO

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          • KilemallK
            Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Gators1
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            @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

            Fuck Google! Every time they launch some service and you get used to it, they fucking shut it down. I had Google music and now it’s gone. Just got into podcasts about a year ago and again they are shutting that shit down. Maybe I need to switch and be an appletard?

            Kept you from spending money on Apple so did it’s job.

            https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

            Never go full Lithu-
            Twain

            No editing is gonna save you now-
            Wingmann

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            • Lob12L
              Lob12 @Tazz
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              @Tazz said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

              Amazon scamma-ramma-ding-dong.

              Jan 21, 2024  /  GPUs

              Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal

              Amazon sold a fake RTX 4090 FrankenGPU cobbled together using a 4080 GPU and board — scam card was found in a returns pallet deal

              Repair shop diagnosis: no fix.

              Should’ve put it in the oven for 10minutes!

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              • Gators1G
                Gators1
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                Great, now Russia has the vaccine.

                Jan 22, 2024  /  Cyberattacks

                Russia-based group hacked emails of Microsoft’s senior leadership

                Russia-based group hacked emails of Microsoft’s senior leadership

                The global tech giant has alleged that the cyberattack was carried out by a Russian threat actor Midnight Blizzard or Nobelium.

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                • TazzT
                  Tazz
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                  The smallest motor in the world | Newswise

                  GTFO

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                  • Gators1G
                    Gators1
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                    Had dinner tonight with an IT VP from Amex tonight and he said they still use mainframes. WTF? Next I will learn that Facebook is fundamentally run on an abacus.

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                    • KilemallK
                      Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Gators1
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                      @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                      Had dinner tonight with an IT VP from Amex tonight and he said they still use mainframes. WTF? Next I will learn that Facebook is fundamentally run on an abacus.

                      Something like 70% of financial does. Don’t want to work for them, sweatshops and if anything goes wrong they find the lowest ranking person they can pin it on and fire them.

                      https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                      Never go full Lithu-
                      Twain

                      No editing is gonna save you now-
                      Wingmann

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                      • Gators1G
                        Gators1 @Kilemall
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                        @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                        @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                        Had dinner tonight with an IT VP from Amex tonight and he said they still use mainframes. WTF? Next I will learn that Facebook is fundamentally run on an abacus.

                        Something like 70% of financial does. Don’t want to work for them, sweatshops and if anything goes wrong they find the lowest ranking person they can pin it on and fire them.

                        He was saying that the culture was good at Amex and they didn’t have retention issues. From his standpoint though it probably was.

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                        • KilemallK
                          Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @Gators1
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                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          @Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                          Had dinner tonight with an IT VP from Amex tonight and he said they still use mainframes. WTF? Next I will learn that Facebook is fundamentally run on an abacus.

                          Something like 70% of financial does. Don’t want to work for them, sweatshops and if anything goes wrong they find the lowest ranking person they can pin it on and fire them.

                          He was saying that the culture was good at Amex and they didn’t have retention issues. From his standpoint though it probably was.

                          The pressures are immense, every minute down is millions lost. The computers really are their business.

                          The one my fellow coworkers used to work at were allowed 1 hour of total downtime- on Christmas Day.

                          https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                          Never go full Lithu-
                          Twain

                          No editing is gonna save you now-
                          Wingmann

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                            madrebel @Kilemall
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                            @Kilemall pretty normal these days. For the amount of money AMEX spends on infrastructure every year, it better stay up.

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                            • ?
                              A Former User
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                              Skeptical Futurama GIF

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                              • KilemallK
                                Kilemall Careful, railroad agent @madrebel
                                last edited by

                                @madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                @Kilemall pretty normal these days. For the amount of money AMEX spends on infrastructure every year, it better stay up.

                                Holee fuck!

                                You really will go to any length to get my essay love!

                                https://i.imgur.com/hX2CMMZ.jpg

                                Never go full Lithu-
                                Twain

                                No editing is gonna save you now-
                                Wingmann

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                                http://s3.amazonaws.com/rrpa_photos/20416/PTOB 101_resize.jpg

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                                • TazzT
                                  Tazz
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                                  A while back a big-ass AT&T fiber optic cable was cut in Mobile, AL and huge areas of internet were cut off from Mobile to Destin, FL.

                                  We will be totally hosed if the internet infrastructure goes down.

                                  GTFO

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                                  • ?
                                    A Former User
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                                    Unluckily for us, many of the government lines run under train tracks. Or so they tell me

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                                      madrebel @Kilemall
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                                      @Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                      @madrebel said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                      @Kilemall pretty normal these days. For the amount of money AMEX spends on infrastructure every year, it better stay up.

                                      Holee fuck!

                                      You really will go to any length to get my essay love!

                                      lol no, honestly had completely forgotten about this forum until going through my yearly password updates in my PW manager. So, hi, I now recall this site’s existence.

                                      But seriously, I used to sell into AMEX, they spend a shit load on infrastructure.

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                                        madrebel @A Former User
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                                        @Zeppelin said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:

                                        Unluckily for us, many of the government lines run under train tracks. Or so they tell me

                                        Not just government, the majority of long hauls links between major metros. overlay the country fiber map on the country rail line map.

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                                        • WhoofeW
                                          Whoofe Gold
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                                          hmmm my intuition tells me we have another sneaky railroad agent in this forum…

                                          hide your valuables!

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                                            Blanks
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                                            Big rail is closing in on our resistance HQ!

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