Musst du das an dem Tag Posten, an dem ich ausnahmsweise unser Fahrradparkhaus nicht nutzen konnte und mangels sicherer Alternativen mein Fahrrad in einem “Hochrisikogebiet” für Diebstähle abschließen musste? :(

Ginge sicher irgendwie, aber die Daten sind pures Gold wert. Bisher musste man dafür teuer Payback oder einem anderen Anbieter beitreten, warum also nicht zugreifen, wenn man das durch eine Bonapp, die man noch als Nachhaltig bewerben kann, günstiger in House bekommt.

Lidl regelt das übrigens auch bereits über eine eigene App. Ein Kollege strahlte mich letztens auch an, als mir beim gemeinsamen Mittagessen holen ein Bon überreicht wurde “Ich helfe der Natur, ich bekomme keine Bons mehr!”.

Die IT hat vor allem einen Engpass an hochqualifizierten Leuten, die für wenig Geld arbeiten möchten.
Die Leute frisch von der Uni werden abgelehnt, weil sie keine Erfahrung haben, die erfahrenen werden abgelehnt, weil zu teuer, die ausländischen Bewerber werden abgelehnt, weil sie nicht fließend Deutsch sprechen. Keine Bewerber mehr über?! Fachkräftemangel in der IT! Die guten Fachkräfte tun sich das oft gar nicht mehr an, wenn sie bereits vermuten können, dass sie eh nicht das bekommen, was sie möchten. Bei Unternehmen erweckt das zusätzlich den Eindruck, dass erfahrene Leute Mangelware sind, weil “die bewerben sich gar nicht auf unsere Juniorstelle mit 10 Jahren Erfahrung!!!”.

Zusätzlich fallen Werkstudenten da raus, weil sie allgemein eine eigene Nische füllen sollen: Arbeiten, für die Facharbeiter zu Schade sind, wenig Vorerfahrung brauchen und oft nicht dringend erledigt werden müssen. Da viele Studiengänge an Hochschulen Industriepflichtpraktika enthalten, ist es da allgemein nicht sehr schwer ein Menge an Bewerbungen zu erhalten, denen man teils sogar deutlich weniger als den Mindestlohn zahlen darf. Und da kann man dann wählerisch sein und nur Leute die halt doch irgendwelche Vorerfahrungen haben einladen, die sind meiner Erfahrung nach immer früher oder später im Bewerberstapel.

I didn’t want to say that Twitters execution of it is perfect, it’s just why Elon comes up with all these seemingly insane ideas. He has a huge userbase that won’t leave, he had advertisers who he thought wouldn’t want to leave and now he’s trying to squeeze. The problem is that he obviously didn’t have his grasp as tightly around the advertisers as he thought, which is why step 3 of Enshittitication entirely fails, at least from what is known to us. The idea is to keep everyone kind of hostage while you squeeze and while it seems to work with a huge chunk of the userbase, a bigger portion of the advertisers simply move on.

Putting a name on a century-old concept isn’t the worst idea because now we can easily refer to it when it happens once again. And yes, the old age of that problem is why I consider it a bit of a rabit-hole. It’s not just something Twitter does now or that tech companies do now because they copy from each other. It’s a quite old concept you’ll hear about again and again and can read up on quite a bit, if you really are interested into more than the basic concept or why companies keep trying even though the outcome does not always see positive (from an outside, users perspective).

Look up enshittitication, it’s an interesting rabbit hole.

Basically, the idea is that there is a path companies go along where they first please users to build a user base, once you are bound to a platform and don’t want to leave (because “everyone” is there) they instead start to shift towards pleasing advertisers until they also feel trapped (because “everyone” advertises there). The final move is trying to squeeze as much as possible out of all these trapped people and companies. It’s not just social media, although this of course makes it most obvious at least for a trapped user base. But this also applies for any other big thing that “evryone” uses.

Why would they normally run into 6000+ subs going private? I’m sure they tested that their code can generally handle some (usually smaller) subs going private, but the number and size of the subs going dark isn’t a normal scenario and I doubt anyone would have assumed such a successful and coordinated protest involving some of the biggest subs would even be possible a few months ago.

I don’t disagree. The topics are a bit hit or miss and yes, my newest free ebook from them is from 2020, so all contents should be taken with a grain of salt. I did manage to grab some on C++, Machine Learning and different Pentesting tools, so not everything is completely obscure but as you said, usually they do not choose their most recent books. I see it more as a nice free resource on some topics in the books as of course not everything will be entirely out of date. It’s also not necessarily worse than buying their 2023 books today and using them for the next 3 years… That’s just a general problem with tech books, at least these outdated books are free.

Fair point, I changed it. :)

Eh, most people here would probably also laugh at a human pastor spewing such platitudes.

But yes, I’m sure such an event would draw more spectators than faithful people, who knight actually be repulsed by replacing a pastor with a machine. Hell, I left church almost two decades ago and would consider joining in to see an AI holding a service.

I’d say for a secure password in a manager, it’s not really harmful.
Someone who uses a manager and secure passwords will usually be aware of the “generate me a new unique, secure password” feature, so they will generate a new one and simply paste that into the page. They might be inclined to just add the bad practice “-01” although it honestly doesn’t make a unique, secure password worse unless the unencrypted password was somehow leaked. The delay in emergency situations mentioned in the post might still happen, although the harm there will depend on the exact situation and likely usually fall into the “annoying delay” category.

I absolutely agree that forced password changes need to die simply because a majority of users still tries to remember passwords and is therefore prone to bad practices, but for someone with a password manager and unique passwords it’s more unnecessary and annoying than actively harmful.