stroebs

My father (born in ZA) had to re-register his birth at 65 when emigrating to the UK on a visa. The ZA government had no record of his birth, despite him having a drivers license, passport, tax returns for 40+ years…

This is the least bit surprising coming from a country that is in steady decline.

> sanctioned efforts like this are almost always temporary. The majority of the illegible work that occurs in large organizations is still unsanctioned.

The title “DevOps Engineer” often fits a permanent role of sanctioned illegibility in large organisations. One cannot explain exactly what a “DevOps Engineer” does, because (a) you cannot _engineer_ a culture, and (b) largely these engineers do urgent and important work that cannot be planned, estimated, put into sprints, etc.

I’ve had this title through several of my roles at orgs over the years and I detest it, but nonetheless understand why it exists.

Having grown up in South Africa, having a physical document to prove who you are, along with an identity number is just so normalised. When I moved to the UK later in life, I found it absolutely bizarre that there’s no mechanism to uniquely identify yourself to the government, or any other entity that deals with your personal/financial/health identity. It’s just a combination of name and address, which anyone can access with ease.

Digital identity is on the slightly more controlling side of this, but the article focuses entirely on the cynical perspective without considering the positives.

Classic Salesforce. The exact same thing happened with our org and Heroku. Zero empathy, just pony up or we trash your company.

I’d also like to point out that those Kingston A400’s are notoriously terrible and had a firmware bug that caused the behaviour you describe if you don’t update it before it happens.

I purchased 10 genuine new from a verified vendor and 6 had to be RMA’d within the first year.

This is brilliant. I have dreamed of a way to force companies to build in parental control to block short-form media. For the kids (it's never for the kids).

Pretty accurate having worked for startups and $ENTERPRISE alike.

I recently switched from startup to $ENTERPRISE and the thing I’m struggling with the most is time zones. My manager is 11 hours ahead and infrastructure/security change approvers are 6 hours behind.

Now add the big shift back to on-premises infrastructure and it’ll be impossible to get anything done.

Your SSL certificate for zothub.io has expired in case you weren’t aware.

> most other countries have similar rules.

This is the first instance I’ve heard of where salaries aren’t considered remuneration for basic labour. It’s a fairly weird interpretation of reality that spending $200k on a human’s availability results in a guaranteed $200k of capital being created, regardless of which country this kind of tax law exists in.