That seems surprisingly cheap?

The Borderlands, on the other hand, is a pretty good found footage horror that I’d definitely recommend

I’ve worked with developers like this. Guys who literally stare at an error message, and then ignore it and start clicking around. Fucking infuriating 😂

I used to fully fully 100% agree with this. I’m not a computer science guy but I am a web developer and have been for a decade.

I’ve finally run into a new, third problem: managers who get angry as soon as they’re confused, but refuse to learn basics. My project manager is a fucking nightmare to deal with. The moment, and I mean the first sign that she’s not 100% totally understanding what’s being discussed, she shuts down, gets dismissive and short, and refuses to hear anything further.

Tech has a problem communicating out, but I’ve never had this before. I try to take it slow but not too slow (she’s an adult and not stupid), I’ve tried illustrating just to help her visualise, I’ve tried screensharing, I’ve tried metaphor, I’ve tried leaving unimportant details out, I’ve tried leaving important details out, I’ve tried giving very brief summaries instead of talking things through in any detail, I’ve tried saying “ok, no problem, which bit isn’t making sense here?”, I’ve tried saying “don’t shoot the messenger”, I’ve tried so many different approaches and it’s just…

One of our clients has a server that they upload CSVs to. We built a plugin for their site that automatically fetches those CSVs, pulls the data from them into a DB, and populates stuff on the website. Going forwards, internal restructuring at our client company means that they’ll be using the server for normal file transfers between them and our design team.

Their IT team do consider security important, so they’ve locked down FTP access to their server by IP. Our web server is whitelisted, our office IP and home IPs are not.

I emailed their head of IT the other day to ask about whitelisting our office IP, and asked the head of our design team if he wanted me to ask for their home IPs to be whitelisted.

Manager overhears and asks why we don’t already have access. I explain that they haven’t whitelisted our IPs because we’ve never had to FTP to their server like this before. She says that we have, because of our plugin. This is true, so I agree and explain that our server has been whitelisted, but not our office/home IPs. She asks how we connect to their server now, already a little bit angry. I explain that our server FTPs to the client server, and can do that because it’s been whitelisted, whereas we don’t connect from our laptops.

She’s now actually angry. She says “literally everywhere else I’ve ever worked, you just FTP from your computer to the server.” so I say we haven’t had to do that before with this client. I say “it’s not a problem, I’ll just get him to whitelist our IPs and all good!”

She turns her back to go back to her desk, saying she doesn’t understand why I have to make things so complicated and that I should be making things simple.

I would say there’s between five and fifteen of these interactions every single week. I’m not the most socially skilled man, I know that. I’ve never had this issue before, though. Like, ever. I’ve worked hard in previous companies to get our web development teams to talk to and understand the marketing team, and vice versa. I’ve organised team lunches, or nights out after work (I know it sounds like hell but I promise they weren’t). In one company, I even asked my boss if I could move my desk into the marketing office for a couple of weeks in an effort to bridge the gap (it was really bad at that place). I’ve asked project managers to embed into the web development team before to help build that social gelling that helps with work. It’s been fine, genuinely.

I’m not skilled socially. I’m annoying, I get that. But this is mad.

Anyway sorry I just wanted to vent. I don’t have anyone to whine and moan about this stuff to, really. Merry Christmas all who are reading! 🎄

Oh fuck I’m a bot you got me beeeep boooop list me up

I’m gonna tuck into my chocolate orange

AAAAAAH I’m being gaslit oh nooooo

I took a look at their comments and It’s that alias_qr_rainmaker guy again!

Jesus dude, this is what you’re doing on Christmas eve? 😂

If AI is far better than humans, can you do yourself a favour, go talk to your little robot friends and leave us humans alone?

Gotta be honest, the fact that it feels like every website now asks me if I want to set up a passkey makes me thoroughly, deeply, wholly skeptical of this thing.

…cool, dude.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining a bit more! Have you always done numerology?

It sounds like some of those ciphers have big overlap, like the reduction ciphers. Do you factor that in when you’re using them? I think another commenter mentioned that using multiple reduction and exception ciphers that exclude letters not used in the phrase you’re analysing will obviously give you the same results, which seems like a good point to me

Oh, duh lol I didn’t even think of that. Yeah, it’s double-sided, with writing on both sides, so it’s probably not a 1:1 mapping.

I think we’re talking interpretation and opinion here, and without digesting much of what you’re saying I wouldn’t be doing your time justice by responding to much of what you’re saying.

However, I want to pick up on this, which you’ve picked up on at least twice in these comments:

seriously who is Hitler and who is Stalin in this formula

I think the artist of this piece was referencing either this photo:

Or this photo:

So, if this was a direct 1:1 mapping of leaders (which I’m not convinced it is), it would follow that Putin is Stalin, and Trump is Hitler.

Wait, who’s the “people like that” in your middle paragraph? Is it “people who masquerade as Hitler online”, or “people who ask why”?

Re the meme: We don’t have to thank Paul for anything; it was Anthony Joshua who delivered what has to be a very short happiness to a lot of people on the internet.

I say it has to be very short, because we have to make it very short. Paul doesn’t care about getting beaten up, he cares about money. He monetises being disliked, because he’s untalented, uncreative, and lazy. For those reasons, we must starve him of attention.

Judging by your other answer to the other commenter, which is pretty in depth and shows that you definitely have a clear understanding of what this illustrates and which outlines specific issues you have with this piece of art, I’d say I’m probably not gonna be able to teach you much of anything if that’s what you’re even looking for mate.

To my mind, there’s probably not one specific meeting or moment that this piece is analogising as the modern Trump/Putin version of the Molotov-Ribbentrop, but the continued “peace talks” wherein Trump and Putin seem to collaborate to sell Ukraine down the river.

As I don’t believe there’s a “modern” pact, I can’t answer your second question or third question directly, but can say that there were various territories which seemingly had agency removed from them in the aftermath of the historical MR pact, like Poland, being invaded by Germany and USSR.

I think that dovetails a little with how it feels Ukraine is being treated at the moment by Trump and Putin.

I think there’s certainly enough here to warrant this metaphor working, even if it’s not a direct 1:1 mapping.

Yeah, you’re right. That would take it from a kid being a shithead, into something a lot more sinister.