What’s wrong with webp, exactly, besides maybe some systems still not supporting a decades old format?

A program that HR had built so that all employees could they their payment receipts online

The username was the companies’ email address, the password was a government personal id code that you can lookup online, a don’t change, and you can’t update the password to something else.

So I told the director of HR this was a bad idea. She told me I was overreacting until I showed her her own receipt, then she finally understood that this is a really fucking bad idea.

Okay, so now she out me in charge of debugging that program.

So I setup a meeting with the director of the company they hired, he came by with the developer: a 21 yo girl who I think hadn’t finished college yet. Great start! Apparently it was her idea to do the authentication like that so that explains a few things.

So we dive in to the code.

First of all, the “passwords” were stored in blank, no hashing, no encryption, nothing. That wasn’t the worst.

For the authentication she made a single query to check if the user email existed. Of that was true, then step two was a second query to see if the password existed. If that were true, the email had been authenticated.

So let’s say, hypothetically, that they had actual passwords that people could change… I could still login with the email from anyone, and then use MY OWN password to authenticate.

This just blew my mind so hard that I don’t think I ever fully recovered, I still need treatment. The stupidity hurts

So-called “bossware” lets managers keep a close eye on employees’ activity, tracking everything from knowledge workers’ website visits to the gait and facial expressions of those involved in more physical activities.

It would be so hard to not furiously masturbate to the camera just to shock the fuck out of those assholes.

Anyways, this is sick behavior. If you have so little trust in your employees, than you are the problem, not them

Just not very humane

You snapped a motherboard in half? That’s quite a feature, those things are quite tough and with a lot of places to cut yourself open

It’d be easier to simply hack the software and reprogram it to just act normal

Duck their software licenses. I buy a car, I pay for it, it’s MY car and I will very much decide how to use it

Well to be fair, financial data should be public, it would stop so many crimes, so much corruption.

Maybe AI saw the problems that hidden financial data causes and just decided to do the world a favor!

For the record, I am a fat retard.

Well Elmo, that might be the first, and likely last thing we both agree on

So now my SSID has to be myname_nomap_optout_dontscan_ffswhy_fuckoffanddie?

Just like a broken clock shows the right time twice a day…

Anytime any non scientist wants to genetically engineer babies you should get very worried

When crypto or ai bros want to do that get outright scared

If you think that Google listened and did the right thing out of the goodness of their heart, then I have a bridge to sell you

Google cancelled because of the backlash but they WILL be back for more, they always do

Trust has been broken and that won’t come back. Software companies, in the end, are all the same, they all enahittify over time and always will talk pretty to lull you into a sense of security. I’m not buying it

Sooooo that gives us how long, exactly, until we dive nose first into a huge world wide recession?

Remove the rich

Nobody should be allowed to be a billionaire, put max caps on netwoths. Anything over 10-20 million should go 100% to tax

Google: "Based on this feedback and our ongoing conversations with the community, we are building a new advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.

And we will NEVER trust you again because we know you’ll retry this next year or so in a few smaller steps that all have cutesy innocent names that are supposed to lull us in a false sense of security

Fuck Google, stop paying them for anything, stop using their services wherever possible.

Besides…

So you mean to say that Elmo lied again?

About everything?

You don’t say?

No, Optimus won’t solve poverty, it’ll make him a king

That is, of course, if Optimus would ever see the light of day and be actually functional which they’re so far behind with that I’m honestly unsure if I should laught at him or just feel sad for him

here’s the creator asking…

Where?

Buy who cares? Money!

This entire thing is again stupid front to back, and for loads of money, of course

It can’t keep any countries’ data safe from US authorities, yet most of the world’s authorities are using Microsoft cloud because their IT personnel is a bunch of bought and paid for Microsoft buddies

Mind you, medical information from people all around the world is stored on private US servers. Good luck if you’re trans, or have a"deviant" sex life!

The simple fact that somebody was able even to bet a billion is insanity that should never be possible to begin with.

Nobody should have a billion dollars, let alone have so much that you can just safely bet a billion dollars

Them he’s betting.yhst the economy will crash, basically, and we’re okay with that shit.

All of this should be illegal as fuck, and this guy belongs in a jail cell