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    Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong with the tool?

    – Yes, that happened.

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    'The wind keeps blowing my wifi signal away ’ is more than enough information to diagnose the problem, and ‘the computer forgot my password’ is now a real thing since password managers started coming baked into browsers.

    We are so far beyond parody of ourselves that i have no idea how the onion stays in business.

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        It doesn’t help that most password managers kind of suck, you have to do a lot of manual work as a user sometimes.

        I wish websites would start supporting Webauthn/FIDO2 sometime soon. I’m sick of SMS-based 2FA becoming more popular lately (like 10 years late).

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          Yeah, the bank that manages my mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if you’re on a new computer. And something about Firefox keeps it from remembering my machine, so I have to do the text message 2fa everytime.

          Right now it’s working fine, but they had a period of a few months where the text messages would take 10-15min to send after you tried to log in, and the log in attempt would expire after 5 min, making it impossible to log in. All of which could be avoided if they would let me use a 2fa app.

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            cookies, firefox has protection against trackers, go to your bank site and click in the shield an the top left and disable it

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            I’ve configured 2FA with my bank using verification codes (can’t think of the proper name, it’s that Authy-/Google-style 2FA c. 2010) but then never utilizes it — it pretends that’s not set up and requests the SMS code. 🫠

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        I work with programmers and devops people who think BitWarden is too complicated. I get it when it comes to the product team and BAs, but even then.

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    I have a friend who works for a local, but widespread bank, and got to head up their digital security and IT stuff. Not sure what all it encompasses, but he quickly found out that it was a lot, and the previous guy quit because he had had enough bullshit.

    Long story shorter, after a particularly bad week, he decided to just… Stop doing his job.

    Kept all their legal stuff and sensitive info under lock and key, but the smaller stuff, he just let it go. Went on vacation, turned everything off, didn’t do everything for a temporary replacement (which isn’t even his job, it’s hr’s) and spent a week playing video games and spending time with his wife and baby.

    Several employees just in his building basically ended up doing nothing by the end of the first day because they had locked themselves out of the system.

    By day 3 there were several lines that couldn’t be used by the tellers in every branch, older employees were bricking their systems so fast, construction workers started taking notes.

    By the end of the week they had people showing up at his door to try and contact him since nobody could get ahold of him. Some legit thought he was dead.

    His first words when he got into the office on Monday, we’re “THAT is why you pay me.”

    And after that, he was given 3 people to help out (he had been asking for 4) and they had a company come in and redo a lot of the computer systems that year.

    Still works for the bank, still has a team although I think they’re bigger now since they’ve opened a few more branches, and still tells that story at every gathering after his one single beer gets him tipsy.

    Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

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      Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

      Somehow I manage to be both. My alcohol tolerance is very high (which is great… I like a little buzz but never want to be actually drunk), but for me, one toke is over the line.

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          I’m the same way. I take like a quarter hit and I’m alright. The whole puff? Gone for hours.

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      Two cocktails will get me tipsy, two beers if they’re strong, but I can drink an entire bottle of vodka (over the course of 2-3 hours) without blacking out. Or at least I could in college, I’m not looking to try again.

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    The “what do we even pay you for?” is just like with projects:

    “why isn’t this finished yet?”
    We have to add tests and make sure we’ve tried to cover our bases.
    “that’s not necessary, if it works now, just release it” That’s not-
    “I don’t care, I pay the bills”
    Sure thing boss.
    *a few weeks later* “This thing doesn’t work”
    Yeah, it’s what we wanted to test.
    “Well why didn’t you?”
    😐

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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        The company I work for doesn’t advertise, we live and die by our reputation.

        Also: ship it, let the customer complain if they find it.

        …ffs

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    And what email are you sending us in from?

    Outlook

    And which Outlook email account are you sending that from

    Outlook

    For your Outlook account does it say something like bob@outlook.com?

    No it just says Outlook

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    Oh, we do have a !talesfromtechsupport community (link). Looks like the mod is inactive and the community doesn’t have that many subscribers

    Maybe we can try making a new one here on programming.dev

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      Touche, I get your point, indeed there’s a lot of tech supporty posts however narrowing the community is only good when it has enough content

      How about we wait out on fragmentation for flagship community of the instance until it starts to get at least 5 posts/day (30 posts/week)?


      For lurkers hoarding high quality content for this community, this is your sign to press the button “New post”

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        I wouldn’t have thought that content suitable for talesfromtechsupport would be acceptable here. As the description says,

        This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

        Customer support is not usually related to programming.

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        For lurkers hoarding high quality content for this community, this is your sign to press the button “New post”

        I’ve never really had good ideas to post

        Even on reddit

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          if your coworker shared smt or you see smt online that made you chuckle, it’s good enough to repost it on lemmy. Dont’ overthink it

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        Oh I don’t mind it, I like the post :)

        I was thinking that there might be a lot of Lemmy users working in such roles, without a place (that I know of) to share those stories