That’s impossible. We didn’t reelect Biden/Kamala.

Why would they donate server space to you on top of giving you free (beer) software?

The way some of you think is very odd to me.

Back up your own shit or pay for sync.

This is the lefty-ist space I’m in anywhere I am on the internet.

I interacted with plenty here who claimed they would not be voting for Kamala due to Israel despite knowing all the horrible shit Trump was going to do.

Now we all get to live it.

That is not the impression I got on Lemmy in the lead up to the election.

All I heard was “genocide”. Trying to bring up anything else was pointless.

If that were true, it should be easy to block all the crypto attacks coming from Russia, right?

Even now, hospitals (for example) could just whitelist their own country IPs, block Russian ones, and bam! No more Russian crypto ransom attacks right?

Wait, why haven’t they just done that already? Could it be that IT teams are already taking this precaution but attackers, especially ones with state funding, can route their traffic through IPs not attributed to Russia?

Again, are you that naive?

I just sent a test message from my GV to my normal carrier number. It’s regular old SMS. No, not encrypted.

It sends SMS. not RCS. Does SMS even support any type of encryption? I’m under the impression it doesn’t.

Edit: I just sent a message from my GV to my regular carrier number and it’s just SMS. Certainly not encrypted.

In what way is it encrypted because I believe the answer is that it is not.

Are you really that naive?

Oof. To do anything at scale on AWS you’re still gonna need to do a lot of CLI, yaml, and json.

I don’t appreciate the insinuation that I’m just too young to understand or too early in my career to know better.

Just this morning I was on a meeting where the gov side brought up the fact that that needed to do X. I immediately found them documentation on how to do X. Simple and straightforward.

They later put in a case asking how to do what I already provided them documentation on.

That’s a microcosm of what I’m talking about. That kind of incompetence is pervasive in government in my experience.

Is it a part of some grand strategy to waste time and energy in this way? Give me a fucking break.

Diddly

I’m focused on outcomes. I just think individual performance contributes to those overall outcomes.

I’ve seen millions in wasted IT equipment that never got used due to incompetence. Old ass equipment that sticks around far past its expiration which turns into an emergency to replace when it finally starts breaking hard.

In my current position I work directly with the US government and I actively try to get them to run more efficiently, reliably and cheaply. They literally don’t give a fuck. It’s like talking to a wall.

I’ve seen far less of that in the private sector.

Sorry. I misattributed the government piece to you instead of one further comment up.

I can’t say I have any experience with NGOs to make a determination on that for myself.

But the quality isn’t good either.

When I worked in government I was surrounded by people who fucking sucked at their jobs. And why try any harder to get better? They were basically un-fireable. They could come in, do jack shit all day, and collect their paycheck.

So, no, it’s not an argument for quantity over quality. In my experience, both are better in private industry.

My experience is based heavily in IT, for context.

However, I do not believe it is the case that private industry is always the answer, as I stated earlier.

Have you ever worked in government?

Have you ever worked in government?

Getting the simplest shit done takes forever.

By contrast, getting things done in a private company is quick as hell by comparison.

I wouldn’t say government bodies “function better” in my experience.

All that said, healthcare is one thing I’d definitely like to see handled by the gov rather than privatized.

One article I read included the title of this book but I didn’t note it down. Do you know the book title? It had to do with healthcare insurance claims and how to navigate them.

Really?

“THANKS A LOT”

TIL I’m gay