@Demolishun
root.sleep() // …please?

Guess I’m pretty terrifying then?

@netikras I’m up to four little demons now ^^

A web dev would not use Wix.

Ew, Reddit.

@Wisecrack They always have been

At work we have an approved list of software we can install, and no others. The list changes weekly, and occasionally shrinks or items somehow get lost. We (developers) are mandated to use Macs, though everyone else in the company can use whatever they please. Mac updates are forbidden until security reviews and approves them. (kek)

IT (not security) uses some fleet management software (jamf) to auto install software and updates. It notifies us once a day about updates, except something is wrong and it notifies us about every 15 minutes. We no longer have access to sudo, and must use “admin by request” to do really any maintenance or administration, which is recorded. There is also some “osquery” (uptycs?) software that spies on all activity, browser extensions, etc.; I killed that one and somehow got away with it. Our USB ports are disabled as well, except for mouse/keyboard/charging. More generally, some tools I was required to use weren’t allowed.

Freaking amazing.

@Demolishun Aw, you’re sweet.

I love that kitty blanket :3

@netikras I don’t interact with them often enough to know, save for my boss’s boss. But I suspect.

At least one of them (CTO) seems decent; maybe just a naïve old guy who enjoys being an architect and is oblivious to the politics, but is a member of their circle anyway.

@netikras I’m beginning to suspect the “security culture” of “don’t write it down; have a conversation instead” is less about shielding trade secrets and helping prevent security breaches, and more to do with shielding management from their own actions.

I can’t get my boss (or his boss, or other managers) to tell me much of anything via slack no matter my efforts to avoid video calls, and absolutely nothing via email. No, zoom (or flat out ignoring me) is their response to everything.

I do have records of me telling them about the issues, though. Just no responses from them other than zoom links. Whatever.

I’m still applying to everything and will leave as soon as I have somewhere better to go.

@Liebranca … yeah. That’s been my experience as well. No matter how hard I try, how friendly or helpful I am, etc., I’m eventually forgotten — either passively (drifting apart), or actively cast aside. It has happened every single time (save with my wife) no matter my actions or efforts to the contrary. And always, the harder I try to change the result, the worse it ends up.

You can’t force relationships and all, I know. But this seeming eventuality makes me feel unwanted, unlikeable, taken for granted; used and abused and abandoned; an outcast. It’s utterly depressing.

I need people in my life. Loneliness destroys me.

I definitely need to do these things.

That “connect with people” part is proving very difficult. Perhaps I’m just an unlikeable bitch and nobody dares tell me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@JsonBoa They’re a bunch of ducks.

Gnome as software is kinda okay, honestly, but the devs are totally crap people who should really get flushed.

VSCode is Microsoft. So.

As for the GPU acceleration causing issues… idk? I’ve never experienced that before.

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@retoor I wouldn’t mind taking the place over, trimming down costs, and reinstating the subscription donations.

This place really does feel like home. I’d be devastated if it disappeared.

@shorebevy …eh? Useful to you how?

@Demolishun How have you not gotten banned?

I’ve spent the day fixing someone else’s “I wrote a bunch of scripts to automate all the dev env setup for all the microservices, and kept it up to date!” bash scripts.

Some of it points to gitlab, some points to a self-hosted gitlab. Answering “No” to optional prompts just repeats the prompts. Some of the steps have error checking and retry, some of just assume everything works (it doesn’t). And starting the script over doesn’t check for progress, but wipes things out and remakes/reconfigures them, fucking up all your existing dev envs.

It’s such a giant pile of unmaintained shit. I’ve attached a picture for reference.

@Grumm Server is already created; this is just deploying new code on top of it. (And recreating the data from daily sanitized prod data)

But yes. This whole dance routine takes forever.

It’s just the 5G over-the-air monkey pox vaccine updates

I forgot to add:
• Schedule a UAT demo with the product team

Tickets at $work have lots of dance steps:
• Move ticket into sprint, set to in-progress, set “dev resource”
• Negotiate release date w/ QA
• Read ticket; talk with stakeholders for details
• Add est. story points
• Do the work
• Revisit with stakeholders
• Write specs
• Manually start CI
• Spec+CI iteration as needed
• Copy CI results to Jira
• Open PR; do self code review
• Ask in Slack for a code reviewer; babysit
• Write detailed steps for QA, w/ sample data, screenshots, expected results, gotchas
• Write detailed application security + data security notes in Jira
• Write up technical implementation summary
• Find avail. testing server and claim it in Atlassian; ask QA to approve server
• Deploy to testing server; test again; release server
• Babysit ticket through QA
• Update branch as it stales
• Get release approvals
• Update Atl. release page
• Notify sysops of migrations
• Ensure ticket isn’t lost during QA / release building

@retoor I agree, though $work really killed that for me.

@Lensflare Let’s just hope it won’t feature you doing pushups for misgendering a bandit or for being a problematic xenophobe and thinking a Daedra is hostile.

@jestdotty hahaha
So it’s not just me! They’re gorgeous, they treat me well, the food is gorgeous too, but when they try to have a conversation… it’s just. It’s like I’m leading them around on a leash. I can’t do it. Chiseled features and yet so squishy in the head. It’s depressing.

@cprn I applied to some companies in Spain, Ivory Coast, and Norway before for that very reason. All remote of course, though I’d love to visit Spain.

The Ivory Coast people refused to hire me because they thought it was too weird that I’d take a job for such low pay. I just wanted things to be interesting! Ah well.

And … I kind of hit on the Spanish interviewer. So I didn’t get that one. He was just so unbelievably attractive I couldn’t help myself. 🤦🏻‍♀️ It was probably for the best I didn’t get the job.

@antigermgerm @retoor I still haven’t joined that. I really ought to before this place disappears.

@cprn I’ve done basically that contacting … eight people from devRant. It wasn’t as bad as you outlined though :)

I should probably use something like this.

I don’t have time to work on personal projects anymore, and I’m currently only committing to gitlab (and have been for quite awhile), so I’m getting no commits at all. Probably why I’ve been getting almost no application responses.