In this instance, what is “authentication data” and what could someone do with it?

All of this has happened before.

At one point I worked in a role where I helped people with tech issues, including getting printing and scanning done for documents that needed to be signed.

I regularly had people coming with letters to potential landlords for printing/signing/scanning, thanking the landlord for the opportunity to view a rental, noting the listed rent, and offering a higher rent and/or a cash gift if they were the tenant who was selected.

Very illegal and scummy, exploiting desperate people and families. This app feels like the codifying of that shady landlord behaviour.

Not the mandatory volunteering to help plan, execute, and clean up after the optional mandatory after-work in-office no-alcohol team building event?

Can’t steal what’s already stolen.

bUT maH RIteS! /s

Is a timber frame house from back then the same as one built post 1950 though? Some Q’s:

• Have materials/practices decreased in quality?
• Has there been a shift from a sense of pride in craft and duty to build well towards cutting corners and saving $?
• Has the density and properties of wood changed as we use smaller trees grown more quickly in monocultures compared to old-growth harvested lumber of pre 1900s?

As far as I can tell? No, but I just did a search of the onimbus for some keywords. The mental image feels very Adamsish though, doesn’t it? I may have unconsciously plagiarized it from somewhere. Props to you if you can find the source. Maybe it’s a Pratchettian quote? Or Giamanic?

When given a robot voice, all it learned how to do was scream endlessly.

Seems like they are mostly trying to pawn off their issues onto unpaid volunteers instead of doing any actual development.

“New Teams” has been so painful for me, but if I understand correctly that is because my work is still on Windows 10. The Windows 11 version works better than the React version?

Somehow I managed to wipe out the original article link in this post. Sorry! Here it is: Our tools shape our selves - Aeon

Weird assumption. I though I had included the URL, guess I made a mistake posting. Here it is. Thanks for the unneccisary hostility!

Our tools shape our selves - Aeon

bone tea

Meh, lots of Dino gaming, not a lot of computer tinkering as I recollect.