wizardbeard

Your user base must be better than mine.

Some chucklefuck over a decade ago caved to the "need" for a public shared drive. I can see the argument for things like HR policy documents and such. But they didn't just give all users read access. Oh no, everyone got full read write. No fucking governance model, no process to check that PII wasn't being stored there by people too lazy to follow proper procedure.

Thankfully that horror has been thoroughly killed, and MS Teams makes it so easy for people to spin up collab spaces and file storage that there's no use case anymore.

Xbox has all of microsoft behind it, and they linked xbox accounts with microsoft accounts many years ago, allowing them to leverage all the security tools they're making for themselves and corporate customers of Azure/Entra. They also effectively have infinite money.

Banks, surprisingly, do not. They also are often using third party systems under the hood for things like online access to your account. Those third parties tend to have less money than a bank.

Laws can't keep up with tech developments in security, and getting all your ducks in a row to be legally covered in the finance industry is a fucking nightmare.

Lastly, banks (and companies) don't stay afloat by spending money on things that aren't necessary. Until it shows a significant impact through a breach or in customers leaving specifically for the reason of lackluster MFA options, and until that impact is easily communicated to the executives, trying to fight for some budget to improve shit is an uphill battle.

I am so so glad that the closest my work gets to customers, legal, or anything regulatory is data rentention policies.

In case anyone's ears haven't been blessed by the musical majesty of "No Cock Like Horse Cock".

Truly a piece to rival Mozart and Wagner.

After all, the best way to expand your consumer base is to eliminate everything your existing consumers enjoyed about the property so you can attract different ones. Existing fan bases never leave!

Oh yes they call him the streak

Christ, I would think that the last thing you'd want to be doing on acid is browsing the internet where you can't be sure of what exactly you'll scroll across.

Maybe I'm vitally misunderstanding acid trips, but where's your trip guide/designated driver/sober buddy? Where's your pre-prepped/vetted media to keep you from a bad experience?

How the fuck did you sum up my day today? Why do I hear movement in my walls?

Exporting from almost any database software to Excel/spreadsheet/some other easily audited/human readable format is a pretty standard feature, is pretty useful for troubleshooting, and for ingesting into other tools and systems when there isn't some proper path through API.

That said, all of that private data should only be accessible in that form by a break-glass account properly secured with pass rotation.

But I know that there's probably 5 personal accounts at my workplace in our HR/Payroll software that could export the full data from it to Excel. A lot more that could export everything except the payroll info. Unfortunately that was a project that didn't involve any tech staff until four months before it was supposed to go live, and was configured entirely by a third party vendor "for security" and so we wouldn't peep other people's pay. That's all to say that something like this breach isn't super surprising to me.

That sounds awesome! Is it far enough along that there's somewhere I could follow your progress?

It's an emulation device made in the style of an SP. Got X and Y buttons.

Not just false, but extra false. They use it to discover which of their babies are idiots.

This is likely not what you want to hear, but whether it is societal or personal doesn't matter.

Regardless of the source of these feelings, you have identified and laid out personal behaviors that are negatively effecting your quality of life.

You already seem to know that you need to work on them. Getting help from a therapist with that might make it easier.

Being stuck in a forest fire might not be related to personal choices either, but the proper respomse to the situation has to come from you anyway.

That out of the way, you aren't wrong. Modern life is designed by companies to maximize their short term profits by any means available. Generally that means making their products as addictive as legally allowable and fostering feelings of fomo (fear of missing out).

But here's the thing: there is no possible way you could ever possibly experience everything you might possibly enjoy in life. You've already lost that battle by simply existing. There's too much stuff, with more made all the time.

That means that there will always be things around for you to enjoy when you have the time to do so!

You can also try to step back from these things and spend more time in nature. They can't monetize staring at plants or walking through the woods.

Lastly, life is not always about maximizing happiness, especially not maximizing short term happiness. Sometimes proper self care means denying yourself things.

You wouldn't tell a diabetic that it's fine to eat nothing but icecream and cake for days at a time. You wouldn't let a child that hasn't been potty trained run around without a diaper.

Unless you have worse problems than what you appear to, you don't piss yourself because you'd rather not stop what you're doing to walk to the bathroom. I'd expect that idea is quite repulsive to you. That's already something you deny yourself for your own good, you just have been doing it for so long (nearly your whole damn life) it's now just something you do.

Forcing yourself to make better choices isn't easy, but if you do it for long enough it becomes easier. It's habit building, which is harder but still possible with ADHD.