In my last job we called that "optimizing", after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put "optimized backend code" in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.
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that's exactly why we have mandatory code reviews now...
Worked with a guy that would always say I'm refactoring X and it would usually give us weird issues and bugs. So after a while the team started calling it refucktoring
"good morning, I'm about to destroy the backend" is exactly the energy I'd welcome from a colleague frankly.
I think the outage that followed as we fumbled to replace it would probably be cheaper than the ongoing maintenance after a few months
I've seen plenty of back ends that needed to be destroyed.
Because that's how you get phrasing
Are we still talking about code?
Wait, you guys were talking about code?
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Alternative version: ... -- What are your demands?
- Deploy -- I demand you have a day off.
WhatsApp for business communications? Jesus
Whatapp is for business, and signal is for official government communication
Both are quite secure but neither of them stop an idiot on one end or the other from sharing the contents with the public.
I always find it funny how many people fail to understand the "end to end" part of end to end encryption.
If your endpoint isn't secure then the messages aren't.
whatsapp is closed source and meta owned. i think it's incredibly foolish to trust that it has no backdoors built in.
That's not how encryption works. But you're not wrong about it being owned by meta being a problem. There's more info in a message than just the contents.
you say that but they're already thinking a step ahead and assuming meta left a backdoor or CVE at the behest of 3-letter agencies.
What's facebook's business plan? Right, surveillance capitalism.
IIRC whatsapp’s automatic backups are stored in cloud and unencrypted by default. So it takes only one person in the group chat who has backups enabled (pop up reminds periodically if not) and no password is set (not required, takes effort and will to set) to leak everyone’s messages.
I assume no encryption is safe from three letter gangs, at this point I'm only concerned with keeping grubby corporate fingers at bay.
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Works better than Teams.
Probably has better privacy and confidentiality options too.
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What is this magical job where two typos land you a day off, no questions asked?
Tech CEO
A typo in software development or other shell based work could completely ass womp a system in ways that could lose a company lots of money.
Oopsies on prod systems, even with an outage window, can really fuck shit up. Seemingly small mistakes can quickly snowball into systemwide outages.
It's wild to me how some places I've worked are like locked down, all the infrastructure is in terraform or whatever and can be deployed immediately... and other places are like "ssh into prod with the credentials from confluence, edit the config in vim, and paste the new code into a new file"
We literally have both and our new Tech Lead is absolutely terrified that I can deploy shit into prod right from my command line. I think it's hilarious (because yeah, it's total shit, but our Dear Leader was a complete muppet who refused to listen and prioritise doing things right, so here we still are). Also our GitLab is the free licence because why pay for the thing that takes care of our entire codebase, eh ? 👌
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Do it and I destroy your backend.
Have you dropping tables like you're Mankind in 1999.
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