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this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2024
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Hot take: maybe bossware is a fucking drain on society, and people should stop buying it.
Yeah, but our leadership had a really nice lunch with their sales rep! Licenses for everyone!
It's sad how accurate this is.
After getting a referral from your cyber insurance rep right?
Well, if the executive leech class wants workers to have bossware, there's not all that much people can do about it. Can't just decide to not use it if your employer demands it
Worse, my employer doesn't care about this shit but our clients are demanding we have the bossware installed.
I didn't mean the average worker. I meant the "executive leech class," because downtime of this scale means lost profits, which is something they care deeply about.
They care about quarterly profits. Preventing fuckups of this scale requires long-term effort which is not profitable by itself, it only prevents possible future fuckups, and this is why proper QC etc. aren't done. Short term profits over everything else.
In that case, it's time for the average workers to sabotage the bossware. Let the leech class solve the problem they create.
Hospitals are effected by this too.
Why are sensitive or critical hospital systems loaded with bossware? That itself is a breach of medical safety regulations and medical privacy. If such bossware fails for whatever reason - even sabotage, it's on the leach class. Prosecute them for murder.
So?