“Security theatre” is what I’ve named the contact in my work phone for the call center I have to call every time I accidentally use the “one time password” more than once (because god forbid they implement proper SSO, meaning I have to do a shotgun login run every morning). When I call them all I tell them is my name and that my account is locked.They click a button and we’re back. Complete waste of time on everyone’s part.

I believe the myth was that you could use dynamite to clean dried cement from the inside of the drum. Of course they decided to go all the way with it :P

Failing to understand why does not make you correct by ignoring it.

Learning how to use AI tools is another meta-skill just like learning how to use a search engine such as Google. The latter is widely accepted as a must-know for software developers.

Only if you have archived data and use fitting lifecycle policies. 2TB of regular S3 would cost ~$40 which is about 4x the price of Google Drive. That’s not even accounting for the data retrieval costs.

To get rid of Shorts without any extensions, this tip works for the mobile app, I presume it works for Web too.

Click on the 3 dots by a Short and select “Not interested” or similar. Repeat this until every Short in the section is gone. Now the whole section disappears and stays this way. It hasn’t come back yet for me since I did this a few weeks ago.

I used to have Netflix until I moved country and they blocked me out of my own account. Fuck them, cancelled. To the seas with their content.