Same here. A few days before my 40th, I thought I had torn a leg muscle, as did 3 doctors over 5 days. It was a physiotherapist that finally said it wasn't what everyone thought it was. Ended up in hospital for an operation to remove a litre of pus, and then 2 weeks on a drip to be dosed with Vancomycin (as the doctor somewhat ominously put it 'the antibiotic of last resort.')

It was my 40th birthday when they cut me open. When asked how I celebrated my 40th, I told them I had a night at the theatre.

So yes, it is easy to miss, easy to misdiagnose, and it doesn't take too long before it's too late.

Good news is no news.

SBF didn't kill himself.

You'll have the opportunity to say this again in a few days.

Slashdot should hire the bomb squad member as an editor. He clearly has a better sense of what news actually is.

The only solution is to throw soup at priceless works of art.

Fewer.

Yeah ok you can finish it.

Even better - we will be able to enjoy the nostalgia again later this week when our glorious editors post this story again.

For many, signup to mastodon was clearly just another exercise in virtue signalling and flounce rather than any earnest intention to use the new platform. Hopefully some of them have managed escaped the garbage realm of social media altogether. They may inadvertently regain their sanity.

...what did they expect would happen when they made it available?

Six days. Not seven. If you believe the fairy tales.

"I have kept my data and Wi-Fi turned off on my phones for years."

Then what exactly do you think you need a high end smart phone for? If you're just making and receiving phone calls, buy a dumbphone.

There are some considerations at play here related to potential leakage of confidential information, but on the flip side, when you are a specialist in a particular IT field (especially in the cookie cutter world of IT services) it's likely that any second job you take concurrently could be considered as being 'with a competitor' through a certain lens - a patch protection lens, that is.

Does Wipro really believe that some tech support helpdesk guy working on someone else's helpdesk is an "integrity violation" and is damaging Wipro's business? Apparently so - and this technology serfdom is also apparently backed by other behemoths like Infosys, although it's good to see Tech Mahindra CEO CP Gurnani on the other side of the debate, publicly welcoming the disruption to their business model.

Sure, don't share confidential information - that's unethical - but allowing organisations to dictate what you can or can't do with your talents even when you're not working for them? That's quite a different thing, one that I think should be resisted.

Also, if you pay your people properly, they won't need to take a second job.

Betteridge's law of headlines applies.