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The machines, now inaccessible, are arguably more secure than before.

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[–] yacc143@mastodon.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@m @sailor_sega_saturn
Builds failing, but only at the new office, and only if you tried to build from scratch.

Funny, the Windows network crew that operated the network and suddenly had to operate NFS over UDP on their network, never really realized that their switches were only capable of half-duplex operation. But announced full-duplex. And these Linux boxes fully used that. And big UDP packages used by NFS under load got corrupted.

[–] yacc143@mastodon.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@m @sailor_sega_saturn
Took a f%cking nightshift of the CTO (German company, so the CTO had PhD in C.S. and still remembered hacking C++ code) and the resident external IT consultant working on the C++ code getting frustrated with the builds crashing and literally debugging the whole shebang to discover that beside a ton of C++ memory bugs, we also had a network issue.

[–] yacc143@mastodon.social 4 points 1 month ago

@m @sailor_sega_saturn And philosophically, I've been now for a decade in "automatic data entry from 3rd parties", ETL (nice phrasing for industry level web scraping and data clean-up).

Literally, what I've seen (and sometimes, as I've also done website development, one wonders what the f%ck the dear colleague was thinking while (s)he developed THAT. Or I want the drugs they were on, that must have been a great trip.), nothing is unthinkable in IT.