Ozymati

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Managed to catch my calf with the corner of the car door this morning. That’s gonna leave a mark…

Ozymati, 4 months ago

That sounds potentially delicious though

Ozymati, 4 months ago

So how’s the gameplay on Five Tribes?

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Sure did.

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Got a recipe?

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Hm, might watch for a chance to play this

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Honestly I feel like we shouldn’t even have known which MP it was until someone has confirmed if the allegation is credible. The current reporting feels like a feeding frenzy.

Ozymati, 4 months ago

People soup

Ozymati, 4 months ago

dunno, but surely there is a name for it

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Holiday mode kicking in hard, thought it was a different day of the week than it actually is. Whee!

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Yeah I don’t wanna go back to work. whinges in corporate

When I get back I have to try to unsnarl an issue with user identification and access to client data where the user login is mediated by a separate app (SSO as part of a whole other project that is going on). The current requirements call for a verified identity from the admin user at account creation which puts the requirement for ID validation outside of the app my team is trying to implement. However, it has been pointed out (quite legitimately) that doing that puts up a barrier to account creation.

I’m of the opinion that we could track ID verified users downstream in the user profile in our app instead, which not only lets them get in the door nice and easy but also gives us future options about just how aggro we want to be with having an actual identifiable human associated with an account.

However, doing the legwork to validate my opinion is going to be a huge PITA. Also the vendor is onboarding next month so in addition to this nice little mess I get to revalidate pretty much all requirements against the actual capabilities of the chosen platform. Including the idea I have that we could incorporate an admin user ID verification step into profile creation. Le sigh. At least I have a minion to help.

And I don’t know maybe the project director will swoop down accompanied by a beam of heavenly light and angelic choir to tell us we don’t need ID validation at all…

I guess going back to work is a bit of a mixed bag.

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Yep we can do all kinds of stuff that the account user will not notice at all (unless of course they fail a check) while having to do an ID validation is very noticeable.

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Ronald Reagan?

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Also, so donations are ok if they’re for Republicans but not for Democrats? MmHmm.

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Yeah like, ok my hypothetical teenage child borrowing my car, I want to be able to see where the car went and how fast it was going to get there. Because I know from personal experience that teenagers are idiots and need some level of supervision. Similar vein, stolen vehicles. So it’s a feature with some utility.

I’m even OK with my insurance company offering a discount if I give them telemetry so they know I drive the speed limit and am not a risk. Though for people on the low end of the economy in a place where insurance is mandatory that can verge on extortion - so I’m only conditionally OK with it, the condition being that there must be a tier of mandatory insurance which is price capped regardless if the telemetry is granted or not. Because in a lot of places not being able to drive cuts people off from pretty much everything.

But I am absolutely not OK with the feature being so insecure that I can’t lock users out, and am not notified by several channels about new users. Also I am super not OK with the car company itself getting telemetry without my express permission. I dgaf how it might improve the future product. I bought a car, I did not buy a spy.

In this particluar case though, it is complicated because the technically the ex is the actual owner of the car. I have no idea why the court didn’t force him to sign it over to her, but I can see why the car corp isn’t being helpful. It’s deeply unfortunate that this stalker is able to keep doing his thing via the car but at the same time regardless of how many unlockable doors the car has, it’s his behavior that is the proximate issue. Like yeah absolutely get the car fixed, but how about also the legal system steps up and makes this entitled loser knock it off?

Ozymati, 4 months ago

Hahahahaha!

Also last dude I knew named Vivek was a stalker so he’s got that going for him.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

Merry Christmas!

Ozymati, 5 months ago

I’ve realized I basically got my partner junk food for christmas. I hope he enjoys it.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

Yesterday I fell off an armless couch that I thought had arms while trying to avoid being in the background of a photo at a work do. I wasn’t even drunk, I just didn’t want to be photographed hunched over a tray of food like a goblin.

Today I’ve got a nice bruise coming up on my arm. And I somehow broke my favourite hair clip. Roll on holiday fortnight.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

Rarely, but I like knowing it’s there if my headphones run out of battery and I need to join a meeting or make a call.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

Yeah it’s been dramatic in Lower Hutt. I was working in Welly when it rolled through but my partner was disgruntledly enduring a planned power outage in the Hutt and he says he’s never heard anything like that.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

Convinced a couple train station pigeons to get on camera with me via judicious application of birdseed

Ozymati, 5 months ago

I successfully distracted our scrum lead and entertained the rest of them

Ozymati, 5 months ago

If you don’t mind a bit of piracy there’s places that’ll print your design on a shirt. But it does disenfranchis3 the original artist.

Ozymati, 5 months ago

That came out awesome!