Sure, but the reason isn’t always just security.

We have government contracts and want more. But to get those, they insist on us doing a bunch of security things.

So it sucks for the users, but if we don’t implement the restrictions, we lose the contracts and thus the income.

And as a side benefit, holy shit we are pretty secure. Next annual pentest soon and I’m expecting good things from it!

Die Hard and Violent Night

Yeah, but the non-Nazis need somewhere to go as well…

I completely agree.

You could almost say that my reply… lacked nuance 😉

Part of it is microblogging. Part is the ubiquity of internet access and lack of general education in critical thinking. Part of it is a concerted effort by hostile actors (whether corporations, nations or other groups, such as oligarchs) to discourage long form media because it’s easier to push out Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt that way than it is to be positive.

I think a lot of people have always wanted easy answers to complicated problems. Now they’re getting messages saying that they exist, and the people saying “I think you’ll find it’s a bit more complicated than that” are the ones trying to twist them to an agenda.

Easy solutions are comforting. Why think hard if you can just blame someone else and not have to do anything?

Twitter and its 160 character limit.

Given how people deify billionaires, I’d imagine there would be plenty of people that would defend a real life Cave Johnson.

Hell, he does get shit done. His company came up with the red and blue gels, and THE FRICKIN’ PORTAL GUN.

He actually solved the energy problem (run water over a dynamo into a blue portal, then open an orange portal above it so the same water powers the dynamo forever, and that’s just the easiest one I thought of!).

People love Jeff Bezos, and he’s done a lot less and treated more people worse!

I don’t support murder, but when people who do call for it like checks notes Charlie Kirk get murdered, I’ll enjoy the irony.

There are some people who the world would be better off without. Can anyone honestly say the US would be a worse place now if Trump had been killed instead of “wounded” at his own shooting?

I think it was Frankie Boyle that said at Margaret Thatcher’s funeral, the 21-gun salute was pointed into the grave…

For context, Sean Lock was a comedian. He was one of those where the humour wasn’t just in the joke, but in the delivery.

So I have no doubt he said that, and I have no doubt most of the room was in stitches while he did.

Tell me Clarice… have the flamingos stopped screaming?

Yours was the first I thought of after reading the question…

I am willing to forget pretty much any fault on Outlook when I compare it with the absolute dogshit product that is New Outlook.

Click on a Toast and it opens the email… in the background, never in the foreground.

Have anything other than Email selected (calendar, for example) and it doesn’t display the New Email notification on the tile, so if you didn’t see the toast and have anything other then Outlook open in the foreground, you don’t know you’ve got new email until you physically go back to Outlook and click on the Email button.

Want to send a spreadsheet as an email attachment from within Excel? The option is there, but it doesn’t work any more (and the same for any other native “send via email” option in your OS out applications).

Want to send a document as an attachment? You have to open a new email, then drag the document into the correct half of the email, because if you have it too far to the left, Outlook will upload it into OneDrive and put a link to it in the email.

I could go on, but fuck me, it’s absolutely disgusting how much this breaks any previous workflow you may have had for doing email quickly and efficiently…

Firefly

Stargate Atlantis

Stargate Universe (yes, almost all the characters was unlikeable, but I’d still have liked a resolution)

Star Trek Prodigy

Star Trek Lower Decks

The Lazarus Project

Have a motion activated speaker in your pocket so that when you do get fired, it screams “wait, I’m aliiiiiive… aaaaargh!”

Enhance your calm, John Spartan.

People do occasionally forgive murderers.

Not the victims, admittedly, but their families sometimes.

Find Nigel Farage in the field after he survived his 2014 plane crash and… change that.

Possibly saving the country from Brexit even getting to referendum status, and if it did, possibly changing the result. And then maybe preventing the revolving door Tory governments that fucked up the initial Covid response, since most of what they’ve done over the last decade has been to try and swing voters away from UKIP/Reform rather then actually do things that are good fit the country as a whole.

Prediction: the next amendment they try is getting rid of the term limits amendment…