The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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Great, now Russia has the vaccine.
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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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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@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.
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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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@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.
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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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@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!
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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.
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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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@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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@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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hmmm my intuition tells me we have another sneaky railroad agent in this forum…
hide your valuables!
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Big rail is closing in on our resistance HQ!
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LURKER ALERT! ALARRRRM!!111!
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Ya they are little crossing accident bitches, don’t worry about em Mad, practically trapped by fear crossing a line.
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Time to call the French resistance and start derailing.
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I like Amex actually. I don’t really need the card I have but keep it because I have not had problems with them like I have with other cards. My citibank card was the fucking worst.
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Not sure where this goes but this will do:
TikTok video of woman getting fired by CloudFlare.
(right-click, open in incognito if you are worried about TikTok cookies)
TL;DW: some director she’d never met launches into it by saying you aren’t meeting CloudFlare’s expectations for performance so we are letting you go. Chick being fired cuts him off right there and tells him how she’s exceed expectations based on blah, blah, blah. Director dude backs off immediately saying, you aren’t being singled out etc.
I think it’s a pretty shitty way to terminate someone (blaming their performance), if they are just shit-canning everyone or a bunch of people. I’d take that message that my performance wasn’t good enough to heart and, when I was younger, maybe beat myself up over it for some time afterwards. It would have sapped my confidence going in to job interviews for a replacement job.
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