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@SteveBellovin@infosec.exchange DJT killed satire. It's awful.

#hayabusa2 did a VERY close flyby of asteroid Torifune. I share this mostly because #JAXA have a very cute avatar that they shared as part of the celebration. https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2026070500221/ Congratulations to the JAXA team on a job well done!

#bloomscrolling

@mitchellh@hachyderm.io I don't necessarily disagree, but "resilient catastrophe machine" feels an awful lot like Salesforce (and a lot of the rest of the tech industry). I mean, you do have to strike a balance, but in my experience, moving faster has very frequently been the economic winner, even at the expense of quality. I say this as someone that abhors the wasted hours fixing systems that weren't designed properly, and the lost business from features that never actually worked but were already sold. I don't want my experience to teach this lesson, and I desperately want someone to convince me otherwise.

@adam acceptance rate crashing is definitely Trump territory (first graph in source, thank you for linking!) but the spike in denials may predate his time in office (hard to tell on my phone). Of course I don't like the judiciary getting politicized and I think we need to restore the hiring process at DHS for asylum officers to be more humanitarian focused instead of LE focused, but this may be slightly more nuanced than "this decline is all Trump". I wonder if part of this is the weaker cases from the Biden era surge in migrants finally making their way into the courtroom and losing. I'll have to read the NYT piece about the judges to see how they got the whole nation to start looking like the Georgia asylum courts. Thanks for the post! It's interesting data!

@melgu@norden.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @BeamMeOut@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange threads are a hack for having multiple conversations in one place. I really don't see the value add vs online quotes + starting a new chat. I guess it's maybe not zero value, but I can't think of a single time it would have helped at work. That's a much more forum oriented feature, and I make use of it in those settings, but nobody I know is trying to use Teams like a forum. For that specific use case, it is objectively terrible software. IDK who would choose to try to use it that way though. The copy pasta formatting getting borked sometimes is annoying, but not a deal breaker for us as it only loses colors. Same with broken link editing (probably helps that I work in IT so folks know to deal with that) and permissions. On the permissions, that's actually only rarely been an issue for us at work and IDK if that's because of corporate settings/defaults, or just everyone knowing how to use the tool because it's what we use at work. I've def seen that being problematic at school, so something is different about my work experience there.

@melgu@norden.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @BeamMeOut@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange FWIW I've kept using Teams at work and learned a bit more. Chat and meeting functionality I still hold is top tier, arguably market leading in functionality. However, the Team functions are obviously written by a completely different team and are a total dumpster fire that makes them useless at best.

@nh@mastodon.gamedev.place @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange @catsalad@infosec.exchange @BeamMeOut@mastodon.social I actually wonder if some of it is other tools mucking about with the client software. E g. DLP software often eats my CPU while OneDrive does some sync on my Mac. Super annoying and I'd blame OneDrive if I didn't know any better. Would at least help explain the starkly different experiences people have with Teams.

@catsalad@infosec.exchange @BeamMeOut@mastodon.social @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange I was going to ask whether live in the same reality. I use a Mac. I use teams. I use teams on my Mac. Does it occasionally have annoying bugs? Yes. Is it a bit slower than I'd like sometimes because it's fundamentally SharePoint on the backend? Hell yes. ... It's also got a handful of really great, really important features. Ever had someone remotely control your screen via Zoom? You end up fighting them over mouse control. Teams has a cursor for each user, and then you can take over the system cursor by clicking. I've never seen any system with a similar feature to date, and it's very useful when you need it. I saw somebody else talking about SNow. The experience with that product entirely depends on how your company has configured it. I've had one time when it was a dream, and another where the administrator put wayyyyy too many controls in and made it painful to use (and worse to troubleshoot when you didn't have access to something you should have). Lots of times products suck, and I have a particular hatred of Microsoft IM tools. However, Teams actually has something to contribute to the field of meeting tools, unlike every Microsoft client before it (Skype for business fucking suuuuuucked so so bad... Silent send failures are the worst). If you want a Microsoft product to hate today, let's have a conversation about Azure... OMIGod (didn't even track which Azure VMs had this silently installed lol), logging is inconsistent even internally within an app, I've personally reported random missing events from a service going into an event hub and that took fucking 9 months to resolve, they YOLO changes into prod in gov cloud that breaks shit and takes 16 hours to fix, the 365 team doesn't play nicely with Azure in terms of logging so have fun pulling those events out and pricing when you're missing some (if you haven't noticed this, then aren't doing enough validation, because they're always missing some 365 events)... I have things to complain about. As a reasonably heavy teams user on Mac, though? Not a lot these days (I do understand "classic" teams on Mac May have had more issues a few years back).