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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Get a chest freezer. It’s much more efficient for long-term storage than an upright fridge with a freezer because the cold air doesn’t spill out when you open it.

    Toss your incandescent and fluorescent lights. Get LED bulbs (not smart lights, just white LEDs). Where applicable, install timer switches.

    Fuck cars, get a bike. A simple, sturdy one, like an onafiets. They run on toast and determination.

    Understand the difference between having enough money to buy something and being able to afford something.

    Unsubscribe from music/video streaming services. Return to the seven seas.

    Maybe engage in some light tax evasion.


  • Our business-critical internal software suite was written in Pascal as a temporary solution and has been unmaintained for almost 20 years. It transmits cleartext usernames and passwords as the URI components of GET requests. They also use a single decade-old Excel file to store vital statistics. A key part of the workflow involves an Excel file with a macro that processes an HTML document from the clipboard.

    I offered them a better solution, which was rejected because the downtime and the minimal training would be more costly than working around the current issues.