The-Old-Hacker

I once had a software manager who used "master/child". He had a previous stint as a teacher at an English private school.

Comments Owl already does this.

The Farsi word div may be related to the English word devil.

I've read this story before but it's worth a repeat.

A decision undo button.

Yep, that happened to me too. The biggest joke was that LinkedIn forced me to create a password before I could delete the profile they'd created without my permission. This happened after I'd visited several LinkedIn links on my Pixel phone so they grabbed my Google email address and used that. Bear in mind also that I'd been retired for about six years at that point.

"Great people are sometimes oddly-shaped"

Great people are racehorses, not donkeys. And racehorses tend be skittish. But they win races for you.

We used to do this in the software documentation team I worked with for 9 years: we would discuss something verbally, then the person who'd called the discussion would summarise the conclusions in an email to team members. They could then edit the summary as needed. It really helped further down the line as a communal memory device.

Secret Santa!

Source headline: Big Tech, big cons: Scammers are hiding in the apps that make your life easy