Yeah, if I had just fucked over the world to the tune of $1 billion, I'd probably be deflecting attention to threats other than me too.
Edit: Typo.
TootSweet
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To be fair, the team at the time was all business majors. (Is "Computer Information Systems" what they call that degree most places or just at my alma mater?) I think I was the only computer science major there.
They'd done a surprisingly admirable job of cobbling together a working e-commerce, loss prevention, customer sercvice portal, orderfulfillment, and CMS suite. And their schooling was in, like, finance, MS Office, and maybe one semester on actual programming.
None of them had ever learned how to count in binary. Let alone been exposed to 2's compliment. And there were no QA engineers.
Oh, there was the sysadmin. He had a temper and was a cowboy. If you asked him to do something, it'd be fuckin' done, man. But you did not want to know how he made sausage. The boss asked him to set up a way for us to do code reviews and he installed Atlassian Fisheye/Crucible on a laptop under his desk. We used that for years. And a lot of the business logic of the customer-facing e-commerce site lived in the rewrite rules in the Apache config that only he had access to and no one else could decipher if they did have access.
Those were good times. Good times.
Back when I was the "new guy" code monkey at a fairly sizeable brick-and-mortor-and-e-retailer, I let the intrusive thoughts win and did some impromptu QA on the e-commerce site. (In the test environment. Don't worry.)
It handled things like trying to put "0" or "-1" or "9999999999999" or "argyle" quantity of an item in the cart just fine.
But I know my 2's-compliment signed integers. So I tried putting "0xFFFFFFFF" quantity of an item in my cart. Lo and behold, there was now -1 quantity of that item in my cart and my subtotal was also negative. I could also do things like put a $100.00 thing in the cart and then -1 quantity of something that cost $99.00 in the cart and have a $1.00 subtotal.
(IIRC, there was some issue with McDonalds ordering kiosks at one time where you could compose an order with negative quantities of things to get an arbitrarily large unauthorized discount.)
The rest of my team thought I was a fucking genius from that moment on. I highly recommend if you're ever the "new guy" dev on a team and want to appear indispensible, find a bug that it would never occur to a QA engineer who doesn't have a computer science degree to even test for.
God. Warn a guy before he googles that shit, would you? 🤮
In that case, I'll remove my downvote just so I can press the downvote button harder when delivering it this time.
Is this AI-generated?
I've literally told my coworkers "I'm not saying we should never use dependencies. But every time you add a dependency, you should hate yourself a little bit more. Some self flagellation can't hurt either."
That would explain it.
I'm in the same boat. I migrated all my stuff to Gitlab the day it was announced that Github was being acquired by Microsoft. I hadn't even really heard of Codeberg at the time. So I migrated to Gitlab.
And it sounds now like there's a high likelikhood I'll need to move it all again.
My experience is similar. I don't play YouTube videos on my 4B with 8GB of RAM very often. When I do, I make sure it's well less than a quarter of my 1920x1080 screen. (I use a tiling window manager, so I usually just make my browser window the top-left quadrant of my screen and don't theater-mode or anything.) And I often reduce the quality to 480p or whatever.
If I'm going to watch something longer than a few minutes and want to be doing other things on my Raspberry Pi while the video is running, I'll just pull it up on my phone propped next to my monitor.
Stay as far away from it as possible. Let your competitors waste their time/money/effort buying into scams. When the bubble pops, you won't have lost your shirt the way those of your compeditors who did fall for it did.