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...and execs in western world paid consequences of their illegal decisions when, recently?

Because they're not idiots?

Corporations are simultaneously sophisticated and idiots. Sometimes the output of sophisticated compliance pipeline is plainly idiotic.

Since like forever, 1600 EUR net monthly is a good salary in Italy. Hahaha, I'm joking - you'll never get indefinite employment contract in Italy. This can explain the invasion of Italian guys to post-Communist countries. In addition to earning slightly more, they're fucking their brains out there. In exchange we can visit Italy in summer, see their old people, be robbed in cafes, restaurants, hotels, or literally be robbed... quite miserable exchange.

Scanning some articles and photos in them, it feels like a massive dystopian cyber scam.

Millennials are wrecked by employment and real estate markets, give them 30 over 30 list... but then probably the list will be filled with boomers...

Yes, I said that Russian intelligence activity cannot be excluded.

They are likely honeypots of BND, of whole range of legal trolls, as well activity of Russian intelligence is possible.

I have a strong impression this is a case also on Tinder, Bumble, and Badoo.

The neverending story of Germans fighting with the internet, led by copyright predators. In case you want to contribute to the good side, stay away from UG and GmbH service providers, and those with headquarters in Germany. Don't try to trivialize or underestimate their malicious attempts.

I thought that only in my country the banks' "security" turned fucking retarded but it seems it's a global trend. Recently I received legit email from my bank with warning against scammers and the title was "The first step of the scammer will be will be sending an email, text message, or calling you". Is it a double intelligence test or they just admitted to being scammers?

The marketing will eventually sneak into every guaranteed channel of customer attention. That's why no app is sending me notifications.

Use a pre-registered and securely couriered FIDO2 token (Yubikey)

Banks are awful enough with software, I don't want any hardware from them. Increasingly mobile apps are becoming first class citizen for online banking, web browsers second class. There doesn't exist reliable non-infuriating workflow with physical security key and a smartphone.

But everyone wants to work on geodiversified autoscaling superclusters. It starts with watching a presentation on AWS or Azure on YouTube, or even innocent Medium article.

At least some troll farms were run by Prigozhin, an oligarch. Then there is intense domestic propaganda directed at domestic population.

What's equally fascinating is how they manage to brainwash and agitate so many people to kill each other, from their remote estates in Dubai, Spain, Italy, France, and from yachts in the open sea. Many countries can be called "rich country of poor people" but Russia, Belarus, Ukraine indisputably beat all competition.

https://www.credit-suisse.com

Editorial deadline: 1 September 2022

Half a year later they weren't that smarty-pants anymore!

Funny how looking from local perspective the fortunes are opaque but globally it's quite evident whose money move around.

China will collapse just the day after the Evergrande's final bankruptcy bankruptcy.

It's just tragic how little we actually care today for end user experience, despite all the pretending.

Most modern frameworks, languages, and concepts are developed and owned by ad companies. Then we take these and build critical stuff with it. Then they use it as a leverage to expand into industries where their stuff is used. There are some UX folks here and there but they're more happy to work on something "engaging" and "addicting".

When something goes wrong, they will collectively cover each other. When something goes catastrophically wrong, the public will learn about it and say "how it could function like that?!". Alternatively they will use the opportunity to get rid of someone unwanted. Healthcare professionals are awfully slimy and corrupted.

keeping the bad guys out AND keeping the good guys in.

YES

Because they don't get held to account for obstructing everyone else's work, they naturally do every ass-covering piece of security theatre they can - they don't suffer any consequences.

Every time you push back on some ridiculous policy they'll respond with ironic smirk or shrug (are you seriously forcing password change monthly and keeping hashes of the last 10 passwords?!). Nowadays basically every corporate security policy forces employees to install some kind of crappy DUO/whatever (FUCK YOU CISCO) app on a private phone, work phone is a rare occurence nowadays ("everyone have their own smartphone anyway"). It's never a TOTP which somehow works perfectly fine on many other crucial services. One might think we're all competent tech folks, but they're vicious malicious cunts.

As an employee or job candidate try to object the slightest against Windows on your laptop, or Azure for services and very quickly your monthly income will approach zero. Companies are looking for specialists with ten years of experience in Windows and Azure, who will do stuff with Windows and Azure. The decision making generous for MS is happening higher up in the corporate hierarchy. Folks higher up in corporate hierarchy want to pay off their leveraged mortgages, drive BMW or Mercedes, and vacation in Santorini, they don't care about dumb computer stuff.

Nobody is forcing EU companies to use AWS/GCP/MS/Oracle, the developers and managers are eating their architecture evangelism like crackheads and listening to platform and framework influencers as if they were prophets. We have dedicated positions for managing AWS permissions and user models. Short research will easily reveal a range of EU based service providers with APIs and SDKs.

Most Joe's cannot afford two separate fleets of cars in their household, for city commute and for long distance trips. Even for city commute, daily round trip of 30km doesn't mean that 200km range is acceptable unless the car costs maybe EUR 5k. No idea how much is it in miles or football fields.

In BMW in highway mode the turn lever activates high beam lights, so the drivers at least are trying to use the lever. Unfortunately also brake pedal activates high beam lights, so we cannot be 100% certain they are trying to use blinkers. Someone help this poor drivers.

Hopefully they make the M line look funny and performance castrated. The cars alone, floating in interplanet vacuum might be good, but on the roads every driver inside them is a life-threatening asshole.

The pinnacle of IT and internet tech which can come out of France is selling perfumes, wine, and leather handbags over internet. They can sell the articles or entire business to Americans or not, doesn't matter.

Even worse than Idiocracy, instead of handjob you get a pat down. The future is now.

At least you're certain no kid will hit the touchscreen of the entertainment system in your headrest. Although the moment the person in front unfolds their backrest it's what the nightmares are made of.

Speaking about Europe. Wizzair virtually disabled search and reservations over the web with their paranoid "anti-robot" algorithms, and at some point they had this mysterious "service fee" appearing randomly but discriminating web browser. At Ryanair the reservation workflow is basically one massive dark pattern and upselling designed to make you fell bad. Then there is fucking booking.com, this site opens randomly and unpredictably at various moments while clicking through the search and reservation workflows.