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If you want to know my comment, that’s an idiotic question.

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Hey, IT, I imported this data set twice, and now there are a lot of duplicates. Is there something wrong with the tool?

– Yes, that happened.

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Yes, it was fool proof, until the world gave me a bigger fool.

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The number of times I got asked if import/export can be used instead of sync

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'The wind keeps blowing my wifi signal away ’ is more than enough information to diagnose the problem, and ‘the computer forgot my password’ is now a real thing since password managers started coming baked into browsers.

We are so far beyond parody of ourselves that i have no idea how the onion stays in business.

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Using Bitwarden must be too complicated for these guys or something.

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It doesn’t help that most password managers kind of suck, you have to do a lot of manual work as a user sometimes.

I wish websites would start supporting Webauthn/FIDO2 sometime soon. I’m sick of SMS-based 2FA becoming more popular lately (like 10 years late).

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Yeah, the bank that manages my mortgage has mandatory text message 2fa if you’re on a new computer. And something about Firefox keeps it from remembering my machine, so I have to do the text message 2fa everytime.

Right now it’s working fine, but they had a period of a few months where the text messages would take 10-15min to send after you tried to log in, and the log in attempt would expire after 5 min, making it impossible to log in. All of which could be avoided if they would let me use a 2fa app.

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12 points

You misspelled KeePass

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If bitwarden is too complicated, keepass is out of the picture

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You misspelled KeepAss.

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I work with programmers and devops people who think BitWarden is too complicated. I get it when it comes to the product team and BAs, but even then.

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I have a friend who works for a local, but widespread bank, and got to head up their digital security and IT stuff. Not sure what all it encompasses, but he quickly found out that it was a lot, and the previous guy quit because he had had enough bullshit.

Long story shorter, after a particularly bad week, he decided to just… Stop doing his job.

Kept all their legal stuff and sensitive info under lock and key, but the smaller stuff, he just let it go. Went on vacation, turned everything off, didn’t do everything for a temporary replacement (which isn’t even his job, it’s hr’s) and spent a week playing video games and spending time with his wife and baby.

Several employees just in his building basically ended up doing nothing by the end of the first day because they had locked themselves out of the system.

By day 3 there were several lines that couldn’t be used by the tellers in every branch, older employees were bricking their systems so fast, construction workers started taking notes.

By the end of the week they had people showing up at his door to try and contact him since nobody could get ahold of him. Some legit thought he was dead.

His first words when he got into the office on Monday, we’re “THAT is why you pay me.”

And after that, he was given 3 people to help out (he had been asking for 4) and they had a company come in and redo a lot of the computer systems that year.

Still works for the bank, still has a team although I think they’re bigger now since they’ve opened a few more branches, and still tells that story at every gathering after his one single beer gets him tipsy.

Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

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Two cocktails will get me tipsy, two beers if they’re strong, but I can drink an entire bottle of vodka (over the course of 2-3 hours) without blacking out. Or at least I could in college, I’m not looking to try again.

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Is it just me, or do programmers only come in “lightweight” and “Rivals Þor in trying to drink the oceans dry” varieties?

Somehow I manage to be both. My alcohol tolerance is very high (which is great… I like a little buzz but never want to be actually drunk), but for me, one toke is over the line.

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One toke is over the line? Sweet Jesus!

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I’m the same way. I take like a quarter hit and I’m alright. The whole puff? Gone for hours.

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Somehow I can tell that this story didn’t go down in the US.

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Surprisingly, in the Midwest.

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And what email are you sending us in from?

Outlook

And which Outlook email account are you sending that from

Outlook

For your Outlook account does it say something like bob@outlook.com?

No it just says Outlook

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“What do you tell someone to type when you want them to send you an email?” should work if the person has irl or phone social connections, which is still the case for a lot of older folks

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You would think that wouldn’t you? However you may be surprised to learn, they responded with outlook.com

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6 points

I’m not surprised, just disappointed.

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8 points

I’m glad you get it!

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“Email address” is the phrase you’re looking for!

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18 points

Yes no clearly clearly. I never would have tried that. Thank you for your insight. I don’t know how I would have missed that. No clue just pure flabbergasted over here

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