Aceticon

I really like the social engineering element of your documentation strategy!

At one point I was hired as a developer by an IT Products company which was starting a new area using (at the time) more recent technologies and programming languages, but until the thing really started going they had no significant work for me to do so I did QA for a few months (mostly automating QA).

Let's just say that having a hacker mindset and a bit of a dastardly satisfaction in "cracking" the software is a big help in QA.

I suspect that I might have enjoyed the "managing to find a way to break somebody else's code" part of it a bit too much.

Look, computers are like idiot savants - incredibly fast and capable of doing all sorts of things with mindless determination, but without a shred of common sense - so when you're programming you have to literally explain everything including what for you is obvious and there is a whole class of bugs (around corner cases and boundary conditions) related to the programmers not explaining absolutelly everything and forgetting some really rare or unusual situations.

For documentation purposes one should assume that at least some users are like computers, without the savant part.

All lot of it is, without exageration, more at the

Put the proper side inside the cup

level of clarity: in other words just moving the "everybody should know this" element around rather than concretely just coming out and clarifying the bit that in the programmer's mind is "obvious".

Time to start live streaming a lettuce again to as the traditional Liz Truss standard for how long her projects last...

I think that in the database space MS-SQL was never the best option at any level or at least not for long.

Oracle could be said to still be the best amongst databases for high performance and very large datasets, but in my experience in the smaller and mid-sized databases space things like Postegres and even No-SQL databases surprassed MS-SQL already back in the late 90s, early 00s.

The Apache Web Server

You can configure launchers such as Lutris to run your games inside a proper sandboxing application such as "firejail".

Just look into "Command Prefix" under Global Options in Lutris: a sandboxing app like firejail is used by really just running the sandbox app with the original command as a parameter of it, so that means you "prefix" the original command with the sandbox app and its parameters.

You can go as crazy as you want if you do sandboxing like that (down to only allowing access to whitelisted directories). In my case I've actually limited networking inside the sandbox to localhost-only.

I'm running the games in Linux, using Lutris as a launcher with a default configuration that wraps them in a firejail sandbox (for anybody interested, you add firejail as the "command prefix" under Global Options or in the System Options of the game) which amongst other things blocks networking.

In fact I went and figure out how to do all that exactly because I wanted to run pirated games in Linux in a safe way and you can't just rely on the lower probability of Windows games of having code that tries to determine if it's being run with Wine and accesses Linux-specific functionality and files if it is.

PS: That firejail stuff also works for Linux native games (it just wraps whatever you're running to start the game, be it Wine or directly the game Linux binary).

Basically, EMP but directed.

How much of that effort to prohibit "hate" speech in the EU isn't just the Germans supporting the Zionist Regime by claiming that criticism of it and their actions is "hate speech" in very much the same way as the Trump Regime claims that criticism of his own regime's actions is hate and even terrorism, and trying to get it in place EU-wide using the EU institutions as a backdoor?

The EU isn't exactly immune to the subversion of Humanitarianism and Rule of Law coming from Fascist regimes, especially when one of its leading countries, Germany, is quickly sliding back to it's old ways, this time around under Zionist (an ethno-Fascist ideology, sames as the Nazis) puppet strings.

I'm definitely pro-EU, which is why I think we need to be very aware of the rotten apples we have in this basket and their attempts at spreading their rot.

Remember Cambridge Analitica, most of whose money came from wealthy Americans?

Maybe they were or maybe they weren't in cahoots with Russia, but sure as hell it was the very same members of the American "elites" who supported Trump's rise who also bought Brexit.

Britain's careless openness to American influence makes it easy for Americans to play it like a fiddle.