Microsoft will be loving this, identifying the orgs that haven’t bought for enough CALs to cover all their Windows endpoints

lol - it should be after this. CRWD…

This has been a fun end to the week - still sitting on a call about the widespread outages and impacts from this.

At which point do we acknowledge the cure is as bad as the problem?

Yeah, CS posted this in a support article. Gonna be fun watching their share price on the Nasdaq overnight.

Until November last year, MediSecure was one of only two companies awarded government contracts to supply electronic prescriptions. I’m honestly surprised the number isn’t bigger.

Time and time again we’re seeing companies that are allegedly being held to a high bar (in terms of regulatory oversight) failing to meet even minimum standards of service to protect the Australians that are forced to trust them with our data, and sometimes our lives.

Optus, MediBank, Latitude, MediSecure - the list goes on. Until we start jailing directors and CEOs for letting this shit happen, things aren’t going to change.

• ASIC is bloated and slow, with the most recent inquiry suggesting it needs to be split into two smaller, more agile organisations. Yet the federal government is all but ignoring the report’s findings.
• The ACCC has had its teeth practically filed down to nubs. It remains to be seen if they get bullied into giving Chemist Warehouse/Sigma a green light or not, but I have a horrible feeling a modified deal will somehow pass, and competition will be harmed in the process.
• ACMA doesn’t have anywhere near enough powers to hold our telcos to a higher standard of security and resiliency. We had a major chunk of the population that couldn’t dial triple 0 for fuck’s sake. How is a director or CEO not facing charges for that?

We talk a big game in Australia about having legislation that supposedly protects ordinary Aussies from being fucked by big companies, but we fall short of taking meaningful action when it actually happens. If we jail just one of the cowboys at the helm, the others will very quickly fall into line, or fuck off and make room for someone who will.

Right with you there - I doubt many would accuse Tenacious D of being funny nowadays, and lazy is right on brand.

Settle down, mate. It was dark humour, and us Aussies used to be much better at dealing with it, rather than the ridiculous hyperbole we’ve seen from our pollies.

I don’t condone violence against others, but I can appreciate the dark humour in this situation, where a presidential candidate that has been endorsed by the NRA and refuses to entertain a conversation about gun control, was shot at.

That country is seriously fucked up and, frankly speaking, deserves to be laughed at by the rest of the world for the shitty place they’ve all put themselves in.

Most of the sauce we use is home made. My FIL makes it every year and always gives us boxes of it. Way better than shop bought sauce.

100% For us, a passata, an onion, and some garlic is the minimum needed.

Probably helps that the FIL delivers us boxes of homemade passata all the time - we never have less than a dozen bottles on our storage shelves in the garage. But even if we were to ever run out, a couple of store-bought bottles in the pantry is our fallback option.

Withy some compression straps around it to make it look smaller in places