Daily Tech News 27 June 2022

• Bad thing about working for a small company: Sometimes someone needs to work through the night - repeatedly - and that someone is you.
  
  Good thing about working for a small company: This does not pass unnoticed.
  
  To put it another way: When the new CPUs and graphics cards come out later this year, I'm all set to buy a new high-end gaming system. On which I shall play Minecraft.
  
  There's still a crisis I need to deal with tonight - a database playing up in weird ways - but it's the only crisis I have to deal with tonight.
  
  (Also, I'm not the only one who has had to jump in and do weird things at awful hours recently; we've had a lot going on. It's a good team.)
  
  
  

• You could maybe try not breaking the law. (The Register)
  
  Just a thought.
  
  
  
• DevOps is a failure. (Lee Briggs)
  
  DevOps is just the old school ops with... No, not with anything. Just old school ops.
  
  
  
• Google programmers, or, how one idiot hired more idiots. (PVS Studio)
  
  I was dealing with these guys before there was Google. We called them idiots then too.
  
  
  
• Code bloat has become astronomical. (Positech)
  
  The article notes a file upload program that is 230MB of code and can't actually upload files.
  
  The first comment points out than an empty Unity game project weighs in at 16,000 files totaling 1GB.
  
  
  
• I wonder if QNAP switches are plagued with security issues like their storage solutions. Probably not; I doubt they'd run unpatched PHP on their network switches.
  
  I hope they wouldn't, anyway.
  
  This looks like a good solution for my computer room. (Amazon)
  
  Might need something bigger later, but right now if you want more than four 10GbE ports - and aren't using SFP+ - that gets expensive.

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