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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot (infosec.pub)
submitted 5 days ago by umbraroze@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of Woz’s old saying “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 27 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That became easier with phones huh.

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yes, really easy to throw cloud out the window

[–] msage@programming.dev 6 points 5 days ago

With clouds it's easy, they are already outside the windows.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know, the smallest computer I have in operation is the sketchiest one.