If I die and find myself at the pearly ~~gates~~ soup counter, only to be told, "No soup for you! You come back ~~one year~~ five hundred years!" I'm going to be pissed that the Catholics were right the whole damn time.
I would not call the thing that you are describing "traditional news." You want high quality journalism? Read a newspaper. YMMV based on the publication but as a general rule, traditional newsprint is still where the good investigative reporting and writing takes place.
I don't have a lot of money to spend on subscriptions but I do pay for two newspapers. My local paper and the statewide business paper. Both weekly publications. Both delivered to my mailbox (although they have online versions). Both good quality publications overall. I think it costs me $220 a year between the two of them and they are well worth it.
"Full Stack Dev" AKA Backend Dev who knows just enough about CSS to be dangerous.
Most organizations in the US don't value cybersecurity as anything more than an abstract concept. The reasons for that can be numerous but in my experience it's usually a combination of cost + survivorship bias.
Lack of serious consequences is another factor. Had a breach? Pay a small fine and an even smaller settlement (or should I say your insurance pays) and then it's back to business as usual. Even in situations where the breach is due to gross negligence, the consequences are minimal (see Equifax).
Real talk: I wish more orgs place a high value on QA. A good QA team is worth it's weight in gold and helps prevent a lot of stupid mistakes.
I'm a "Progressive" Christian (which I think is redundant) of the Presbyterian variety. Reddit had/has a few active progressive Christian subs which I feel like Lemmy is missing.
I don't know if I would make a good mod or not. If you check my post/comment history, you'll find numerous instances of me being a potty mouth. Personally I think that's completely fine as long as it's in line with the "Golden Rule". Because I do take that rule very seriously.
If I can help this community grow and be a welcoming place for people who share my interest in being a follower of Jesus or want to know more about it, I'm happy to do what I can.
If they ever file for Chapter 7, I will be deeply disappointed if the headline doesn't read, "Hooters Goes Tits Up".
"Who has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap? Bob Kelso. How you doin'?"
Soviets probably started the myth.
"Oh no! Vee have no gunz. Vould be shame if some Nazi scum vere to attack us. Vee are completely defenzeless like little babiez."
No good deed goes unpunished.
One time I worked on a team that had a ridiculously high defect rate. Stuff was constantly getting kicked back from QA. Management kept piling on all kinds of convoluted processes to try to reduce the number of defects which only made things worse.
I started really hammering the need for doing a root cause analysis as part of bug/defect tickets. Don't just fix the bug. Make sure you understand what caused it and link the bug ticket to the ticket that caused it.
Big surprise (not really), 90% of the bugs and defects were being caused by like 3 people.
Your comment made me think of some of the PM's whining about adding one story point for doing an RCA because apparently it's better to just ignore the problem and keep pumping out shitty broken code as fast as possible.
Smallpox is the only infectious disease to be successfully iradicated. The last case occured in 1978. However, the US (CDC) and Russia maintain samples of the virus for research purposes, despite the WHO's recommendation that all samples of the virus be destroyed.
Given the current state of things, I wouldn't consider it completely impossible for some very stable genius to accidently -- or maybe not accidentally -- release the virus back into the wild.
Context: Donald Trump spewing bullshit about annexing Canada and Greenland. Meanwhile, Congress has been dragging their feet for YEARS on resolving Puerto Rico's territorial status.
Citizens living in US territories do not receive equal representation in congress. For instance, PR has one "delegate" to the House (not an official voting member) and no senators. Taxation without representation.
Although, at this point I wouldn't blame PR if they changed their minds about wanting to become the 51st state.
Credit to @[email protected] for the original image.
Our electric bill has been running pretty high even though it hasn't been that cold and we've been supplementing with wood heat. Decided to track down the culprit and hooked up an energy usage monitor to one of our 5 sub panels. Gonna check the other 4 over the course of the next few days.
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room―My Heart is Dancing into the Universe at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Edit: Just to clarify, my stance here is not "ignore everything Trump." He has done and will do quite a lot of things that warrant attention and concern. He's also a serial liar and world class bullshitter. A human testament to the phrase, "actions speak louder than words." Donald Trump's political success has always hinged on the fact that people are quick to forget that. He's already working overtime to distract from the fact that the majority of his campaign promises were just lies and the sooner he can make the people who voted for him forget all the pie in the sky shit they were promised, the better.
Purgatory.