I know someone who shall remain nameless. Last week, lost over 10k in tax agency phone scam. They were told by me about these scams countless times before; but panicked in the moment. I’m still married to her.
— CBrNoMore (@CBrNoMore) September 25, 2019
If this were my wife, I’d already be initiating divorce proceedings.
What bothers me most about the call-out and cancel culture (which supposedly doesn’t exist, but very much does) is the groveling that’s expected afterward. If you don’t grovel, you are truly done for.
Well, folks, I do not grovel. I might apologize. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s what an honorable person does when they wrong someone else.
But groveling? Hell to the no. I will never NEVER grovel. Not unless you torture me so much that I break. But of my own free will? Absolutely not.
Why do cloud leaks keep happening? Because no one has a clue how their instances are configured.
Huh! You know, when the propaganda for this whole cloud craze was spooling up, I was told that it’d all be so simple you wouldn’t even need an IT department anymore, that it’d save vast amounts of money with no risk at all.
Of course, I pushed back, saying that if anything it’d get more complex, there’d be more moving parts and while you might save money in some areas, it’d not be this elysian vision of no IT department with perfectly-behaved systems requiring no maintenance at all.
Turns out I was right. Just as I predicted, and as any competent IT person knew, the cloud would not obviate the need for systems management and understanding, and plenty of systems administrators (and related positions, some now re-named but basically the same) would be just as needed.
Funny how that worked out.
I write a lot about how much I loathe the Mozilla organization and its vast hypocrisy. I do hate them. And they deserve it.
People like me as long as as six years ago were calling them out on their conspicuous lies, the largest one of which is the claim that they wouldn’t remove the ability to customize the browser and how it functions. It was an obvious goal all along, this goal of limitation, but they simply could not claim it as their ambition as all their users and proselytizers would immediately abandon ship.
Of course, most did anyway due to that and other poor Mozilla decisions.
They made a calculation that was clearly foolish even at the time and as many (including me) predicted it would, they completely failed, all the while alienating their most ardent users while picking up no new converts to their browser.
They made toddler-level mistakes, harming their product greatly, all for nothing.
Therefore, they deserve all my derision and more.