Personally, there are instances where it is worth it to have the Internet connected device, and there are times where it its more likely to be a detractor.

Internet enabled thermostat saves me money, doesn’t really cost any more money (bought mine for $75 and it’s great), and is super convenient.

Do I want my refrigerator connected to the Internet though? Not really, because if it breaks I will be staring at some broken screen or feature on a fridge that could last 20 years. There are some interesting applications, but just not worth it to me.

I am both a tech enthusiast and work in IT. I’m not overly optimistic or pessimistic about my IoT choices, I am pragmatic. There is no reason it has to be a black white thing.

Welcome to office politics, where it’s all made up and the points don’t matter.

One of our potential summer interns this year submitted their code as screenshots of code placed into a Word document. 🤦‍♂️

As someone dealing with a Wordpress migration on a multi-site install that doesn’t know much about Wordpress... very much yes. Fuck. Wordpress.

A two year old exploit called MouseJack.

That's probably a good idea, but you should at least let them know why. I wouldn't want to work for a company where something like that is allowed to exist, but I'd feel bad if they were having a ton of trouble hiring people and that was the reason why and they didn't know.

It's an ad for Firefox. I saw something about these ads the other day, but I'm too lazy to go find a link.

@shaji oh, I have... They just get really angry and tell me that "It works!"

The people who write the requirements are not developers. I had to show them on a video conference that in Firefox, if I drag/drop text it is like a copy paste, and their shitty JS is powerless to stop it. Their reaction was more or less to jam their fingers in their ears and yell LA LA LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!

I am in the middle of an argument with the people who wrote the requirements for our public website about something similar. It is a security requirement that a user shall not be able to copy the email address field and paste it into the confirm email address field (the requirement actually reads that the field should only accept typed text). They can't explain to me how it is an actual security problem, and I've bet them they can't stop me from doing it across all browsers.

They've got some JS running on the page that stops right click copy/paste, and that prevents ctrl+c/ctrl+v. Blew their mind when I typed the email into the email field then highlighted it and drag/dropped it into the confirm email field.

Next week I am going to show them browser auto-complete and password managers that can fill forms. They might have an anyeurism.

My boss came to me the other day and said "you have experience with web development, right? I was thinking you could help with our Android app (because it's Java)."

*sigh*

Got hired to build a SharePoint farm at a midsized company, convinced them to do O365 instead. They're still "negotiating" a contract with Microsoft. Five months later being paid as a SharePoint developer at a company that has no SharePoint deployed. I literally get paid to watch YouTube all day.