AFAIK healthcare in UK is tax funded, and smoking with its long list
of damages to the body, takes a portion of that taxpayer money which could be used on something underfunded, like mental healthcare.
> ... the problem with security measures that cause too much friction is that users tend to disable them in order to get on with their work. To fulfill its security purposes, a good trust system needs to stay out of your way.
I wish this was understood clearly by more security engineers, but, alas...
At my work when our IT sec org tighten the screws harder and harder, people just have to get "creative" to do their job effectively. For us this meant that some of my coworkers started using their own machines to write code making the whole setup much more unsafe and prone to breaches.
But I definitely feel there's a huge missing part in our setup and lack of accountability in the It sec org when it comes to not hurting productivity unnecessarily. They can just keep putting up barriers without any real consideration to the impact and side effects they may have.
It’s blame shifting. If the security people are allowed to make it impossible to work without breaking the rules, they’ve successfully moved all blame for anything that goes wrong away from themselves. “Oh, you turned your computer on? Well, the security guidelines clearly state that’s not allowed, so that’s your fault.”
"If you're able to do your job, InfoSec isn't doing theirs."
I've worked with some great sec orgs that get this and I'm sure everyone reading this in that role is one of those, but understand there are some that are not.
There are some who, for example, are not given ANY agency whatsoever and have to accept every alert from tool-du-jour as some malicious moustache-twirling evilness from the developer. (And they AI should be taking over _development_ jobs...)
This is how I felt about macOS for my workflow. It was like living in a house where every room autolocks every time you leave the room, great for security but horrible if you need to move from room to room constantly.
Well, but if there's a chance of random attackers walking around your house then the autolocking kinda makes sense (assuming a realistic timeout on it).
I'm not sure it actually is. Free Gmail is limited to 500 emails a day, but Workspace accounts are allowed up to 2000, so this this spammer has to be using a Workspace account.
I've worked at a start up where the marketing team just had a `marketing@startup.com` email that was just like any other email in Google Workspace and used that for all marketing communications. Eventually they bumped up against that limit and a couple of engineers had to help them troubleshoot and there were enough blog and stack overflow posts at the time about hitting the limit to make make me think what they were doing wasn't uncommon.
When you consider the scale of Gmail and that this is almost certainly a Workspace account so they're mixed in with business customers, I'm not sure how much of an anomaly 10k emails a week actually is.
What if someone (Google) used Google suite to send 10k emails to fire people. Wouldn’t that be considered normal for the server for a day let alone a week. Yes I know I could have come up with a better example.
The example was given to say you could be a gsuite customer and have 10k emails a week be very normal. Something that wouldn’t trigger any alarms unless set. The alarms would probably be set on a curve. Something unusual would be far off the curve.
Yeah, you are using the wrong tool if you send your newsletter from a gmail account at that scale. You can get away with a few tens of people, perhaps a few hundreds.
Above that threshold you should use tools like moosend, benchmarkemail, or similar. And they ask a pretty penny when you reach that scale.
That doesn't even include the massacre they did on their own population 2 months back. When it comes to genocides, Iran's islamists have a LONG list of mass-killings to answer for.
No. Iran's islamists have organized plenty "hills", including an attack on Brussels airport and metro. Me and my wife were within 2 km of the shooting.
In the airport, they found a woman pushing a carriage. They shot the baby first and waited, laughing, for the woman to collapse onto the floor, dead, still bleeding baby in her hands, to shoot her. She survived. THAT is who you're dealing with here.
We found out Iran's embassy was involved in organizing these attacks. There is nothing you can possibly to do convince anything done to these islamists, each and every one of them, is immoral in the slightest.
Seems a lot of commenters here dislike their decision, I like it though.
LLM-generated projects, articles, blogs are low-effort products lacking authenticity.
And the discussion on LLM itself can in the long run be fairly tiring, follow r/LocalLLaMA for a while and you'll see what I mean. But if you are really into LLMs though, that sub is great.
It is simply not fun to go on to a subreddit, seeing 90% being projects and blogs that is obviously created using AI, and authentic content being pushed to the side due to the high volume of artificial works. r/Python was horrible at one point, but the mods have been stepping up their game.
> LLM-generated projects, articles, blogs are low-effort products lacking authenticity.
I think this is mostly true but not completely true, LLMs are a tool and right now we are learning how to use it, how to use it well and more importantly how not to use them.
AFAIK healthcare in UK is tax funded, and smoking with its long list of damages to the body, takes a portion of that taxpayer money which could be used on something underfunded, like mental healthcare.
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