I worked on new SCADA for a water company across all theirs sites. Previously they were a mismatch of different systems and all airgapped.

They standardised everything and put them all on VPN. Suddenly you could access the secure water treatment works with 24/7 security guards and the control room was a bunker, from the unmanned rural sewage works with a portacabin for the server, the key hidden under a brick, and wifi for the PLCs.

The sewage works had always operated like that because it was deemed low risk. No one considered the VPN changed the threat model.

Yeah but then someone has to actually read it to grade it

Watch the actual interview. It's about 2 minutes on benefits starting at 2:30 https://youtu.be/rEiJPHHg4dA

Supporting people into a better position rather than just giving them money forever is a good thing. As always the devil's in the details but I'm willing to hold judgement on this one.

This entire article is rage bait.

We've all done that at some point.

That sinking feeling when your quick update doesn't return immediately.

Good to get into the habit of wrapping your queries in a begin transaction/rollback until you verify the result 😁

Yeah, it's insane what it costs. We spend about $20k/month and that's after a big oush to reduce costs.

I'm sure that's tiny compared to many but like I said we're only about 20 employees.

It's pervasive as well, all those SasS products are probably running on AWS or one of the other big ones and so their cloud bill is baked into the prices. You end up paying them a dozen different ways.

I work for a really small company (20 people) that uses AWS. We discussed moving off and concluded it would be a multi year effort. I can't even imagine how much work this would involve

I the clearest indication of this is that we have not seen any products to displace existing market leaders.

Same here. Full time WFH since St Patrick's Day 2020. I've been to the office less than 10 times since. I've not worked a full day there once, if I do go, I travel on company time.

I used to drive 16,000 miles a year, now it's more like 4,000.

A UK plate is 2 letters, 2 numbers, 3 letters. That's over a billion combinations.

Thats going to take some practice 😁

I use futo, didn't know it had 2 finger swipe but now i try it, how do you type like this?

Im trying it now, do you use one thumb for each side of the keyboard?

My wife claims pip and application is awful in every way. I cannot believe there is anyone that successfully gets pip who should not. I find it much more likely that there are many people who should get it but don't because their disability prevented them filling in the application.