Yeah but "half of our codebase is classic ASP and hasn't been updated since 2005" isn't really a valuable secret, is it?
I just shuddered
Ooh then I have a good campfire story for you.
I know of a company who still has a VB.NET app running.
There used to be more just a few years ago, but I've managed to get them to let me modernize most of them.
Isn't VB.Net just .Net with weird syntax for the loops and ifs?
Pretty much. .NET 4.7.2
It's the same normal view / control pattern but with VB for the logic instead of C#.
There's also global pages with a bunch of events like error or pre/post request that probably exists in the C# version I guess, but I only remember dealing with it in VB
This particular system also comes with a pure VB batch script running on a schedule.
Just very old, frustrating to deal with, slammed in security audits.
As an Australian, I understand what happened. They were all drinking VB while coding it.
Its not even that interesting. Working with Visual Basic is coding with all the fun sucked out of it.
VB.NET isn't all that uncommon - it isn't exactly Fortran, and it's still maintained by Microsoft. I know a senior engineer that still writes a lot of new code in VB.NET because he's just used to it...
It is not, and I've heard of people preferring it even. Just not me. In my eyes, it's just a worse version of the C#.NET aspx views that might make OC shudder again.
Maybe more to your tastes, we also still have COBOL systems. Not quite Fortran old, but close
"You update it using this 509MB excel spreadsheet that has been worked on since June 1993, nobody really knows how it works."
Hey NK, if you send me a hottie Korean gf I’ll give you all off my company crentials.
Just imagining the look on that Korean spy's face when she's expecting passwords and key cards and you hand her whatever a crential is
It's like a wotsit with text on it
Hell, I'd settle for an random middle aged north korean spy if they told me that my work matters and that I'm doing ok
As long as it's consensual I'm down. Improve the life of a bossy NK soldier girl and economically harm my country at the same time, it's a win-win.
What is wasian?
Wikipedia says it’s a word for people of mixed white and Asian descent.
There is also blasian, same idea...
I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.
Wasians themselves often use this term as well. It's just a shorthand.
Not that i would equate the two, but we should all be aware of how meaningless "they use it themselves" is from the n-word. Every time i hear a white guy say "blasian" anywhere on social media its when they talk about how hot a woman is and how its "the best mix". I know its also used completely innocently, but thats just what my experience with hearing it is.
Not everything is a slur
Rich coming from a muggle
Is there a Whack?
Or Blite? Sounds too close to "blight" though.
I feel its mostly used by people that are either racist or fetishize certain ethnicities.
so, people who are racist, you mean?
Note that the term is most common for people of East Asian backgrounds! And, at least from my experience in HK, the term is also used for Asian people (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in Western culture.
I would add that it's very much an American English and Canadian English term.
Westernised Asian, mostly used to describe mixed people (East Asian and European), but I have also heard it being used to describe Asians (mixed or otherwise) who grew up in a western culture (at least it's common in Hong Kong).
It's sometimes used for people who are proud of their heritage / background, but it is unfortunately also often used in a negative sense by bad people.
I am not too big of a fan of the term, it's a bit silly and too generalised. Somebody who is part Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, etc. will all have different cultures, experiences, and traditions! It also doesn't help that it's another term that generalises "Asians" as specifically meaning just East Asian people. However, some people are perfectly fine with the term, and that's ok too!
Got no valuable secrets but if anyone wants to hire me and pay me a few million a year, stock etc I'm fine with keeping my dick in my pants. Its really not that difficult if you take your marriage and job seriously.
You can buy a serious amount of focus, discipline and keeping dick in pants for a fraction of what these CEOs take home.
I dunno. I think I’d be pretty safe to hire for $millions/ year & stocks, medical, etc, sworn to secrecy, no problem.
…unless they start sending BTGGs my way. Then I might falter. I mean, I’m not stupid, I would know at some level that I’m being honeytrapped, but at some point, some part of me would be saying “might be worth it? I’ve missed out on so many chances at BTGGs, maybe the universe is sending me one to make up for it?”
I’m about 95% sure I wouldn’t falter, but that other 5% of me is thinking ‘bout how fun the ride down would be.
Imagine how much cybercrime NK could commit if they just started a mail order bride program.
I'm thinking we need a federated wiki leaks. Post your "secrets" and they propagate all over the world in a few minutes.
Wikileaks was centralised because they would not publish anything that would imminently endanger lives or ongoing operations. There was a detailed verification process to make sure the leaks were legit, and redacted where needed
Ohhhhh, TIL. Thanks
alternatively...
Wikileaks was centralized because they would not publish anything that would imminently damage the goals they were attempting to achieve. There was just enough beurcracy to ensure leaks that were attacking allies were silenced and leaks exposing targets were amplified.
Better yet, distributed. It's called bittorrent.
Kinda could just use Lemmy / Piefed like that already if it's text or images.
For documents we'd need a new feature
The best I can do is social media with an AI thumbnail
(Psst... I know where facilities keeps the key to the thermostat...)
you might have to sign some boobs
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