They’re all state actors these days because all the ones that didn’t hook up with a country for protection either got their doors kicked in at 3 in the morning; or they kept to small enough operations to not be a real bother. I guess one of them could have forgotten the 2010’s, but I doubt it. They tend to be smarter than other criminals.

Best case? Some grey hat found a hole in security for Internet connected cameras and is just having fun. Worst case? Training runs by a state actor.

Yup. They have the exchange operators on record saying they actively trade against their customers. It’s a club and if you’re not in it you don’t get to win.

I’d like dev access please. I have ideas.

silently goes to German GitHub to learn German words

You really should use a separate phone though. Even if it’s just a virtual phone. Everyone deserves to have free time.

I keep Do Not Disturb on most of the time and my wife can contact me at any time. Her and a few others are flagged as exceptions.

Your doctor has a work phone that is available only during hours.

The agency they turned into DOGE was responsible for fixing healthcare.gov and preventing future bad roll outs. But they fired the actual talent to replace them with Musk’s interns.

If they can’t change what’s essentially a variable name without issues then should they be doing the job?

They have a reason. You just don’t like it.

I don’t think we can be. We’d be paralyzed if we tried to be wholly serious.

If they weren’t in plain text how could we check to make sure it’s still there?

I wouldn’t put it past them to experience numbers in the per second realm, especially as new data posts and everyone is rushing to grab it.

Held back by his environment.

I laughed but really I know when the last good database and systems people left government to be replaced by contractors. It was Bush’s first term. Since then everything has been just putting a new front end on the back end government programmers created in the 1990’s.

Just so you know census data is very heavily queried. Everything from civil engineering to economics wants to look at that dataset every day.

Oh I just curled up into a fetal ball at the thought of that…

Login? Why would I do that? Aren’t the credentials in the code? I just hit the go button.

What makes you think they’re uneducated?