I promise you, in the real world, fights were just as much of a shield shoving match while trying to slash your opponents ankle as they were in Europe.
The idea of a one-on-one sword fight decided by individual skill is much more of a romantic idea.

Wait, so if a visitor fails the v3 Captcha, v2 is used as a fallback?
That makes absolutely no sense.

I work in the private sector and our most essential systems run on Windows Server 2012. Because the installed applications can’t be migrated to anything else. After a reboot, there’s 21 scripts that need to be run in a specific order (with admin rights) to get the app running again. The frontend is an http webpage that’s open to the world.

The supplier of the software is a huge global corporation, market leader in their field.

autocorrect of fisher I assume.

It’s less than the cost of our cybersecurity insurance, which will probably drop us on a technicality when the day comes.
And it’s not entirely an economic decision. The paper is family-owned in the 3rd generation, historically relevant as one of the oldest papers in the country, and absolutely no one wants to be the one in charge when it doesn’t print for the first time ever.

We don’t. It’s a separate, simplified system that only lets the core team members access the layout-, editing- and typesetting-software that is locally installed on the bare metal servers.
In emergency mode, they get written articles and images from the reporters via otherwise unused, remotely hosted email addresses, and as a second backup, Signal.
They build the pages from that, send them to the printers, and the paper is printed old-school using photographic plates.

I’m just glad they got to see the consequences in another company.
Their senior IT admin had a heart attack a month after the ransomware attack.

No, you’re not. I’ve been looking for a CLI way of posting on lemmy for quite a while.
So far, without success.

Another newspaper in our region was unprepared and got ransomwared. They’re still not back to normal, over a year later.
After that, our IT basically got a blank check from executive to do whatever is necessary.

There’s several for redundancy, in their original packaging, locked in a safe, and replaced yearly.

I work for a newspaper. It was published without fail every single day since 1945 (when my country was still basically just rubble, deservedly).
So even when all our systems are encrypted by ransomware, the newspaper MUST BE ABLE TO BE PRINTED as a matter of principle.
We run all our systems virtualized, because everything else would be unmaintainable and it’s a 24/7 operation.

But we also have a copy of the most essential systems running on bare metal, completely air-gapped from everything else, and the internet.
Even I as the admin can’t access them remotely in any way. If I want to, I have to walk over to another building.

In case of a ransomware attack, the core team meets in a room with only internal wifi, and is given emergency laptops from storage with our software preinstalled. They produce the files for the paper, save them on a USB stick, and deliver that to the printing press.

Did you post this from Lynx?

Why is the side that says “I want to be alone” red and the social side green though?

Lynx is still here for you.

There’s nothing left from Russia anymore.

ToDo’s belong in tickets, not in the code.

“We used to have to get up at six o’clock in the morning, clean the tank, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down mill for fourteen hours a day week in-week out. When we got home, our Dad would thrash us to sleep with his belt!”

It’s burning with hatred for earth. It wants to consume it, but it will take time to gather enough strength…
Time in which frustratingly, its flaming hate transformed earth into a unique, living planet, and lead to the most vile and disgusting creation in the entire universe, My Little Pony.

To write a script, you need someone who can write scripts.
If all you have is someone who can write VLOOKUPs in Excel, and the CEO is too cheap to hire someone, then that’s what you use.

Do deaf people here the squeaking from chewing Halloumi cheese?