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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I have worked as a lead developer for a major print shop with about 100 employees. The entire order workflow for all branches was shoehorned into one order management system that was initially hacked together for one or two users. It was built on a then already ancient OpenERP system and it had a PHP and smarty frontend for the actual order management. All was hosted on one old debian box which was a VM on a Windows server.

At some point in time, MT decided to slap a web shop onto this system, which was part of the main code base. User data were saved into the same database with plain text passwords. That was convenient for the support people: if somebody forgot their password, you could call support and they would read you your password over the phone.

Another thing that made my hair raise in fear, was that for every single order, any working file was retained indefinitely, even in the light of the then-looming GDPR laws. This amounted of terabytes of data, much of it very private.

I worked at the main branch. When a person walked in, there was a desktop computer at the counter. No password protection, an order management screen open by default. People could just walk in and start viewing orders at will. I am not sure whether they did, but we did push MT to at least have manadatory password protection on their PCs.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

I do not want to support a trillion dollar company that makes it impossible to repair my own stuff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I respect the fact that people believe. They even can form their own clubs as far as I'm concerned. Forcing those beliefs onto other people is something I do have an issue with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Netherlands. Thailand and Morocco are even worse I guess. There, you'll get punished harshly for beinig openly anti-monarchy. I feel sorry for those countries.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (6 children)

As somebody who lives in a kingdom, yes! Fucking parasites!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No strong wind visible in the image, but Candle in the Wind by Elton John?

[edit]: crawancon guess is way better.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Dutchie here: tobasco style hot sauce.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Do you trust apple with their claims?

No. I inherently distrust trillion dolllar tech companies in poorly regulated economies. They are able to get away with a lot of crap and they know it. That's how the Cult of Apple works. I would not be surprised when they violate their own privacy policy knowingly and structurally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You may have got me there. It was overhyped. So. Much. Merchandise. It drew people to the cinemas too, at least where I live. I do not remember whether it was actually praised though.

BTW: I hated the sound track. Anything with Puff Daddy or whatever he tries to call himself nowadays should not exist. Most lazy music ever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

The God Machine. They were a shoegaze band from the early 90s. Sadly, one of the three members died, so they never got big.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Godzilla. The 1998-ish version.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I bought a Tuxedo two years ago. They have affordable (and highly configurable) Linux laptops, some of which are aimed at gamers.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/

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