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  1. Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.

    Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.

    #USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal

  2. Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.

    Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.

    #USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal

  3. Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.

    Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.

    #USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal

  4. Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.

    Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.

    #USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal

  5. Seeing as Todd Blanche (R - Mar-a-lago) is still attempting to nurse his nomination to Servitor General through the US Senate, I would like to inform him that the "presumption of regularity" is not, in fact, an old marketing slogan of the Ex-Lax Corporation.

    Though given the reams of coverage in the legal press the term has attracted in the last 18 months, the company might consider using it as such.

    #USPol #ToddBlanche #AttorneyGeneral #lackey #confirmation #servitor #AttackDog #PresumptionOfRegularity #principles #WeveHeardOfIt #corrupt #DoJ #weaponization #legal

  6. "If you have to choose between doing security and doing other work, do security."

    Remember that one?

    Lasted about 15s as I recall.

    200-patch "Patch Tuesday" including multiple critical CVEs and zero-days...

    #Microsoft #security #WeveHeardOfIt #PatchTuesday #DayThatEndsWithY #CVE #exploit #ZeroDay

  7. "If you have to choose between doing security and doing other work, do security."

    Remember that one?

    Lasted about 15s as I recall.

    200-patch "Patch Tuesday" including multiple critical CVEs and zero-days...

    #Microsoft #security #WeveHeardOfIt #PatchTuesday #DayThatEndsWithY #CVE #exploit #ZeroDay

  8. "If you have to choose between doing security and doing other work, do security."

    Remember that one?

    Lasted about 15s as I recall.

    200-patch "Patch Tuesday" including multiple critical CVEs and zero-days...

    #Microsoft #security #WeveHeardOfIt #PatchTuesday #DayThatEndsWithY #CVE #exploit #ZeroDay

  9. "If you have to choose between doing security and doing other work, do security."

    Remember that one?

    Lasted about 15s as I recall.

    200-patch "Patch Tuesday" including multiple critical CVEs and zero-days...

    #Microsoft #security #WeveHeardOfIt #PatchTuesday #DayThatEndsWithY #CVE #exploit #ZeroDay

  10. "If you have to choose between doing security and doing other work, do security."

    Remember that one?

    Lasted about 15s as I recall.

    200-patch "Patch Tuesday" including multiple critical CVEs and zero-days...

    #Microsoft #security #WeveHeardOfIt #PatchTuesday #DayThatEndsWithY #CVE #exploit #ZeroDay

  11. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  12. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  13. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  14. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  15. I just renewed my vehicle registration/insurance. We have a provincial crown corporation here that has a monopoly on it.

    I ran into a problem with their "new & improved!" website [1]. I always do. This one is boring; like 90% of the issues I run into, it's because the developers have only tested the site with Chrome, and they're violating CORS policy (a security thing) so Firefox prevents a request trying to fetch part of the page contents. Chrome doesn't give a damn, it doesn't want to stop any trackers or anything.

    But the 🧑‍🍳 😘 in the whole thing is ... there are various "Feedback" links and buttons. I want to report the issue, so I try them, and ... they haven't actually provided the HREF attribute on the links/buttons at all. They are literally not hooked up to anything.

    Good testing on the new site, boys! You sure you didn't miss testing any of the functionality?

    [1] Why companies absolutely insist on regularly improving their websites into unusability escapes me. As I mentioned elsewhere, it's not like the HTML of the working site has a best-before date on it.

    #CADT #WebDeveloper #Firefox #CORS #HREF #feedback #NewAndImproved #qwality #WeveHeardOfIt

  16. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  17. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  18. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  19. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  20. Oh, this is #fun.

    #Applebot - Apple's web crawler, used for various things - is ignoring robots.txt rules governing crawling of websites.

    I have Applebot (and Applebot-Extended, which isn't really a crawler) in my robots.txt files, set to disallow all access. Has been that way for #yonks.

    And Applebot is consistently the highest-traffic crawler to my sites - at least of ones that actually bother to fetch robots.txt. Yesterday, for example, Applebot fetched robots.txt from one of my websites almost 800 times.

    Yes, it's really Apple, not someone faking the user-agent identifier. It's coming from the networks that Apple says can be used to identify Applebot access. DNS matches, everything.
    e.g. support.apple.com/en-ca/119829

    So: legendary Apple software quality. Documented to do the right thing, but actually doing the wrong thing. And completely failing to cache content, fetching the same file 800 times a day when it hasn't changed in years.

    Hey, Apple! Need a software engineer who's actually, you know, good at it? I'm available.

    #Apple #AppleInc #TimApple #WebCrawler #RobotsTxt #quality #WeveHeardOfIt #qwality #AppleQwality #legendary #TwoHardThings #caching #fail #engineer #software #SoftwareEngineer

  21. In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

    Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

    Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

    It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

    Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

    #PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

  22. In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

    Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

    Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

    It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

    Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

    #PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

  23. In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

    Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

    Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

    It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

    Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

    #PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

  24. In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

    Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

    Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

    It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

    Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

    #PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

  25. In the last week or so, #Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella announced that they were going to pull back from doing new feature work for #Windows for a bit, and focus on bug fixes and other quality-of-life improvements for users and administrators. Windows' already shaky reputation has taken a beating over the last year as it seems that every monthly rollup #patch, and many out-of-band #patches, introduce new problems at the same rate as they fix previous ones.

    Is this giving you deja vu? It should. Remember a couple or three years ago, when the same guy announced that Microsoft was going to focus on security? They were in the middle of a long spell of brutal security holes found in all their products. Remember how they told their #engineers "If you have to choose between doing a feature and doing security, choose security"?

    Remember how you never heard about that initiative again?

    It's the same thing here. #PR garbage in service of a narrative that no, Windows' horrible security, usability, and #stability aren't actually that bad, so that MS can focus on their core competencies of buzzword promotion, stock market analyst manipulation, and monopoly abuse.

    Perhaps someone in Microsoft management actually believes these refocusing efforts are genuine - but if you don't change the incentives, they won't actually take hold.

    #PR #marketing #buzzword #MSWindows #SatyaNadella #security #WeveHeardOfIt #stability #crash #rollup #monopoly #MemoryHole

  26. The person who builds an extension for the proprietary OSes that tracks when a program (or the OS) puts up one of those infuriating "Yes / Maybe Later" dialogs and blocks them from ever showing a dialog, ever again, will make a fortune.

    Even on open OSes, one for the browser that did this would be incredible.

    #YesMaybeLater #Yes #MaybeLater #consent #WeveHeardOfIt #permission #OS #browser

  27. The person who builds an extension for the proprietary OSes that tracks when a program (or the OS) puts up one of those infuriating "Yes / Maybe Later" dialogs and blocks them from ever showing a dialog, ever again, will make a fortune.

    Even on open OSes, one for the browser that did this would be incredible.

    #YesMaybeLater #Yes #MaybeLater #consent #WeveHeardOfIt #permission #OS #browser

  28. The person who builds an extension for the proprietary OSes that tracks when a program (or the OS) puts up one of those infuriating "Yes / Maybe Later" dialogs and blocks them from ever showing a dialog, ever again, will make a fortune.

    Even on open OSes, one for the browser that did this would be incredible.

    #YesMaybeLater #Yes #MaybeLater #consent #WeveHeardOfIt #permission #OS #browser

  29. The person who builds an extension for the proprietary OSes that tracks when a program (or the OS) puts up one of those infuriating "Yes / Maybe Later" dialogs and blocks them from ever showing a dialog, ever again, will make a fortune.

    Even on open OSes, one for the browser that did this would be incredible.

    #YesMaybeLater #Yes #MaybeLater #consent #WeveHeardOfIt #permission #OS #browser

  30. The person who builds an extension for the proprietary OSes that tracks when a program (or the OS) puts up one of those infuriating "Yes / Maybe Later" dialogs and blocks them from ever showing a dialog, ever again, will make a fortune.

    Even on open OSes, one for the browser that did this would be incredible.

    #YesMaybeLater #Yes #MaybeLater #consent #WeveHeardOfIt #permission #OS #browser

  31. "To serve you better, we're raising the price of your home internet plan by $5 per month"

    Thanks, #Sasktel !

    (This is a company I already pay $3,200 / year for internet, TV, and landline)

    #WorseIsBetter #ToServeYouBetter #CustomerService #WeveHeardOfIt #ripoff #internet

  32. "To serve you better, we're raising the price of your home internet plan by $5 per month"

    Thanks, #Sasktel !

    (This is a company I already pay $3,200 / year for internet, TV, and landline)

    #WorseIsBetter #ToServeYouBetter #CustomerService #WeveHeardOfIt #ripoff #internet

  33. "To serve you better, we're raising the price of your home internet plan by $5 per month"

    Thanks, #Sasktel !

    (This is a company I already pay $3,200 / year for internet, TV, and landline)

    #WorseIsBetter #ToServeYouBetter #CustomerService #WeveHeardOfIt #ripoff #internet

  34. "To serve you better, we're raising the price of your home internet plan by $5 per month"

    Thanks, #Sasktel !

    (This is a company I already pay $3,200 / year for internet, TV, and landline)

    #WorseIsBetter #ToServeYouBetter #CustomerService #WeveHeardOfIt #ripoff #internet

  35. "To serve you better, we're raising the price of your home internet plan by $5 per month"

    Thanks, #Sasktel !

    (This is a company I already pay $3,200 / year for internet, TV, and landline)

    #WorseIsBetter #ToServeYouBetter #CustomerService #WeveHeardOfIt #ripoff #internet