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They're on top of it as I would expect any major PHP hosting service to be. After asking if there was anything I could do to prep for php2shell (seemingly not), I just pleaded to be first in line when they apply patches and let them go.

How are others in similar situations handling this?

But I've been thinking about this for a while and I'll talk to him anyway about the prospect of going on a low-dose GLP-1. If he's unreceptive then I'll ask about how to find a trustworthy out-of-network physician who isn't bound by the same incentives.

At my weight, I'm not a candidate for going on a GLP-1. I'm sure I could find an unethical doctor to prescribe it if I looked hard enough, but I don't want to have the downsides hidden from me.

My weight has been steadily ratcheting up over the years, since I don't have as much room in my life as I used to for living with the discomfort of caloric deficit. If that continues, I will probably become a candidate for GLP-1s, like my immediate family members, just after a decade or so of possibly unneeded striving.

Lots of people are in situations far worse than mine, so I don't feel unlucky — but it would be nice if there were a clearer path forward. While lowering risk for Alzheimer's is not a priority for me, other effects of GLP-1s sound extremely enticing — especially reports of reduced food craving.

I'd like to think that you see "my 2 programmers" as "my team" but I've come to expect phrasing like "when we have our 2 programmers in office". That perspective emphasizes that we're all in this together, rather than serfs working for the benefit of the lord.

The "my programmers" phrasing plays into my prejudice that one reason you like having "your programmers" in office is the exhilaration you feel in seeing them at your beck and call.

And I'm cynical all right. I used to believe that I could be part of a "we're all in this together" team. But I've realized how rare that is after bad experiences at multiple companies where management sees an antagonistic relationship with engineering as inevitable — because they agree with you that "grunts can't be trusted".

This message encapsulates why so many software jobs are terrible. Put your heart and soul into doing your best, earnestly combat NIH and pursue meaningful productivity, and _still_ the culture is such that at many companies, there will never be trust because the prevailing culture is that management is "usually right" that grunts can't be trusted.

I've worked for good bosses that aren't like this, but they're hard to find.

They also allow for accounts to be renamed and then for someone unrelated to register the abandoned name:

https://www.theregister.com/2018/02/10/github_account_name_r...

That MS went ahead with training Copilot on open source code authored by people who are clearly not OK with it is why they are so short on goodwill.

I presume that this rash of downtime is just the rickety structure inevitably creaking and breaking. It's probably too late now to fix things — dealing with legacy code requires patience, discipline, and understanding which the management of Amazon doesn't have. They'll just yell at people louder, and hold people "accountable" by punishing anyone where anything breaks.

That's true until having been poisoned suddenly matters more.

But laissez-faire and buyer-beware I guess. Who needs any safety regulations at all, when we can all live in a utopia where every purchase needs to be evaluated by every consumer for every possible way it could cause harm?

https://www.insider.com/amazon-selling-toxic-toys-lead-poiso...

> Amazon has been selling thousands of products that have failed federal safety tests, including children's toys containing four to 411 times the safe limit of lead.

I am not aware of similar problems with poisonous products being sold through the physical storefronts of Whole Foods or Amazon Fresh.

However, if in fact Amazon's physical grocery stores are just as bad as its website, then you absolutely should not trust Amazon grocery stores not to sell you pesticide contaminated foods.

Is it? A central theme of the article is how Facebook is facilitating bike theft by providing essential electronic storefront space, and that you can't get Facebook to take down such storefronts.

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> There is no button to click where you can explain to anybody at FB "this is a repeat seller of bikes stolen in Colorado, and here's our proof, and here's our contact info." etc. It is almost as if their system for reporting stolen goods is designed not to work.

So "storefront for stolen goods" is another way Facebook makes our lives worse.