This has been explained so, so, so-so, so so so.many times. How is it still not understood?

Half of the original article:

The Armed Forces, on the other hand, are negative and write in a letter to the government that the proposal cannot be realized “without introducing vulnerabilities and backdoors that can be exploited by third parties”, reports SVT.

So that’s covered.

Apps like Signals

This was about a different app named ‘Signal’, I think, without the s.

#bothSides

Ohhh, someone needs to lose a job, for sure. The standard for process compliance needs to be 100%.

They’re doing it while seeing him dismantle those checks and balances.

I hit that in year 6.

I was hired with the mandate “make Linux suck less here” and it was a mighty mandate. It was a stuffy shell organization that recently discovered it had a lot to protect and its IT was guided by Finance people without the first clue why even updating systems is valuable. And they built an IT exec who itself built an IT team. I was the only full-time Linux guy, like so many times before, but I got to choose which part of the goal pie I could eat next.

The team was understaffed, carefully-funded and had huge goals. And they did it very well: if your PoC was good, you could get funding to roll it out. Every new development needed to survive a figurative shark-tank pitch to the 3-person exec. And like a start-up group protected under an umbrella by- and from bureaucracy, it was magical. I took Linux from “patching? huh?” to “98% of matchines update automatically on the schedule we’ve set without interaction; new machines are ready in 7 minutes if we need something.”

Then, in a financial coup, the leadership of IT was deposed one by one and replaced by Financial twats with the same lack of clue. And they hired a shit team of micromanagers not used to dealing with Union IT staff who actually put the tools down at 4:49 if they didn’t have anything exciting on the go. It was comical, and then it was sad; for the financial group wanted the excellent new digs that IT got after IT lived in basements until the new building was ready, and the basements were also no good now so IT had to move to some (short-)cube wasteland like it’s The (US) Office with such noise and nowhere to stare and nowhere to debate and nowhere to talk about “needing to shut off Dave’s access tomorrow becau-- oh, Hi Dave.”

I stopped working on new stuff and just kept the lights on. I usually give it a year to unfuck itself when it’s happened in the past, and this one took 18 months because #covid changed how we interview and there was less job churn going on.

And on a Monday I came in with my company gear to leave behind (secured) and I peaced out. They had no dedicated linux staff to speak of after that moment. I trained one guy how to patch HANA - the 2% that was just too snowflakey to patch automatically - the day before, and that was the last thing on my list. Turned my badge into HR and all but walked onto a bus. And got covid; probably from that ride home. (Don’t worry, kids; I was vaxed to the gills, so all good)

So here’s my recommendation:

1. punch the clock and live by it. “It’s been recommended by a professional,” and never elaborate. You need your rest now anyway.
2. start looking for another job. TLDR, your dismissal will be constructed, you want to be ready with another job, and the only way that happens is if you get one first.
3. present your issues. Give them a few weeks to think they can make statements to keep you. They won’t change, they won’t keep you, but let them make statements for others to ask about later.
4. go. Try to make them sever you for the severance, but some constructions are not worth fighting, so call that severance a write-off if, for example, you’re in America. And go.
5. I hope your next post is a good one. I’m proud to tell my story of warning my boss for 18 months that the current situation was still untenable and unsustainable before I left, and I’m okay telling my new boss that I quit the old place with the same warning that they fired their staff so it’s only fair.

America no es solo USA

Nah, we often call them Americans too, despite them being like Canada’s trousers. Many (most? I’m not certain) Canadians know how Americans label themselves abroad and are okay being a separate group to avoid bad impressions. “eres Americano? No; soy Canadiense” or so.

But thanks for thinking of us. It’s great to be considered!

I use ‘yank’ a lot; sometimes Tank, as I’ve got a Brit friend ;-)

Dear fElon,

After the daily struggle to keep this government running despite efforts to the contrary and repeated unmitigated budgetary damage, I currently lack the crayons and the spare time to properly school you on a description of my job; even at a level so high you could use it as a space elevator.

Please let me know if that’s your goal, as we could realize a cost-savings for NASA. Otherwise, I can recommend some intro courses on forecasting and management that could get you a little more up to speed, and we can arrange a time to meet and talk afterwards.

Have a super day.

-Me

fucken

Bone apple tea!