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  • I'm migrating millons of encrypted credit cards from one platform to another (it's all in the same company, but different teams, different infra, etc).

    I'm the one responsible for decrypting each card, preparing the data in a CSV, and encrypting that CSV for transit. Other guy is responsible for decrypting it, and loading it into the importer tool. The guy's technical lead wanted me to generate the pair of keys and send him the private key, since that way I didn't have to wait for the guy and "besides, it's all in the same company, we're like a family here".

    Of course I didn't generate the key pair and told them that I didn't want to ever have access to the private key, but wow. That made me lose a lot of respect for that tech lead.

  • New Visual for “One Piece: Egg Head Arc”
  • I recently started the anime (just finished the Kuro arc) and I'm wondering if the animation gets "better" in later seasons?

    Don't get me wrong, I still love it, but some scenes feel very dated and low budget, having lots of still images.

  • Have you ever done something for yourself on your (job) company's infrastructure?
  • I was working in my (poor third world) government job, and our keyboard broke. Replacements took months, since they only bought mouse and keyboards in bulk once per year or so, and they ran out of.

    I had a second job working as a contractor for a private company, where we were contracted for a public hospital providing system administration and technical support. We had some old PS2 keyboards that were to be decommissioned, but since they didn't have inventory number, I got hold of them and brought some to my other job.

    So I donated some equipment from one area of government to another, but it was kinda illegal, lol 😆.

  • What item have you been using on a daily basis for the longest amount of time?
  • Sennheiser headphones that I bought for about $20 about 10 years ago. The cable is indestructible. I once had to resolder it to the speakers because it my cat pulled it out, but the cable itself has endured all kinds of abuse without breaking. And the sound is fantastic.

  • What's an idea you have for a story that you think is really good, but don't have the skill or time to flesh out?
  • I don't have a story, but I have a setting that's been really underutilized.

    We, as a species, were nomadic for hundreds of thousands of years. We had tens of thousands of years of cohabitation with other hominids, intermingling, making important and powerful discoveries, exploring, etc.

    And there's no one using that for a story?

    The only stories about that time that I see are about dumb cavemen or ice age migration.

    These people had the same mental capacity that we have now. They had culture, rituals, trade, interesting things.

    So yeah, a story set in the prehistoric times.

  • I Simply Do Not Have Room On My PC For Starfield
  • Yup. And with regional pricing, the discrepancy between a game's price and hardware price is even greater.

    For example, BG3 is around 15 dollars in Argentina, but a 2TB SSD is around 130 dollars.

  • 90% of Great Lakes water samples have unsafe microplastic levels – report
  • I posted about microplastics reducing sperm levels like 8 years ago on Reddit and my post got mocked like if I was a MRA and that if they did, it was a good thing because world overpopulation. So yeah, these people exist.

  • How is it even possible/practical to obey traffic laws?
  • In Argentina it's against the law too. I have never seen anyone, ever, stop at a stop sign. At most people slow down a little more than usual. Not even cops stop at stop signs. But if you don't stop in your driver test, they can theoretically deny your license. So this is definitely a regional thing.

    Fwiw, I visited a lot of South American countries, and Argentina is one of the most respectful of traffic laws. But yeah, stop signs are merely a suggestion at best. People slow down way more in a "dangerous crossing" sign, than a stop sign.

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