• Randelung@lemmy.world
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    When trying to request a firewall change IT told me “ports between 1 and 1024 are reserved and can’t be used for anything else” so I couldn’t be using it for a pure TCP connection, and besides, there would have to be a protocol on top of TCP, just TCP as protocol is obviously wrong. I was using port 20 because it was already open…

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    “IT people” here, operations guy who keeps the lights on for that software.

    It’s been my experience developers have no idea how the hardware works, but STRONGLY believe they know more then me.

    Devops is also usually more dev than ops, and it shows in the availability numbers.

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    2 years ago

    More like:
    “IT people when software people talk about their requirements”

    No, we won’t whitelist your entire program folder in Endpoint Protection.

    • 0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      Yep, unrealistic expectations.

      Or “you need a 12th gen i7 to run this thing”… the thing is a glorified Avidemux.

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        Christ, if you could see the abysmal efficiency of business tier SQL code being churned out in the Lowest Bidder mines overseas…

        Using a few terrabytes of memory and a stack of processors as high as my knee so they can recreate Excel in a badly rendered .aspx page built in 2003.