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Believe me, I know. But management doesn't give a crap about that. We're still on Postgres 10 as well as Redis 5. Send help.

rakoo 3y ago
1. Ask management to write in full letters and sign a paper basically saying "I acknowledge that not maintaining software up-to-date is a security risk and opens the company to substantial financial damage" 2. Hire a Pwn-As-A-Service to extract data from your company from the outside 3. Tell management "I told you so" You didn't read this here More seriously, I think the best you can do is not expect to find happiness in a setting that you don't fully control (ie your job), accept that, and look for joy elsewhere. It might be another job, it might be another hobby. Work fewer hours.
- izietto 3y ago
  > More seriously, I think the best you can do is not expect to find happiness in a setting that you don't fully control (ie your job), accept that, and look for joy elsewhere. It might be another job, it might be another hobby. Work fewer hours. That's how I upgraded from Ruby 2.4 / Rails 5.0 to Ruby 3.2 / Rails 7.0
- web3-is-a-scam 3y ago
  I appreciate your advice. I regularly voice concerns about security and let management make decisions. From my perspective I've done my due diligence and my hands are clean. I've stopped looking for "joy" from work. Mainly focused on finding joy with my children and other hobbies, while working as little as possible. The job is the means to that end now, rather than the end itself. They continue to pay me and it supports the things I want to do outside of work so I am "happy" enough. The work itself is also moderately interesting and a decent challenge from a domain perspective, so it's not all bad.
  - rakoo 3y ago
    > I appreciate your advice. I regularly voice concerns about security and let management make decisions. From my perspective I've done my due diligence and my hands are clean. I feel like the best you can do unironically is the first step I outlined: ask management to formally recognize that despite your warnings, they choose cost reduction. Have a trace of that, not just in case of problems, but for yourself: it's a great reminder that as long as you aren't in charge, it can't be your problem.
nateberkopec 3y ago
Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.
- web3-is-a-scam 3y ago
  I do some...let's say non-trivial reporting and there's so many new features in modern postgres that would make my life so much easier, whenever I accidentally end up on a documentation page for a newer version with something I want but can't use I die a little inside.
twic 3y ago
Oh in that case, there's actually a very simple way to upgrade: get a job somewhere else.

rakoo 3y ago

1. Ask management to write in full letters and sign a paper basically saying "I acknowledge that not maintaining software up-to-date is a security risk and opens the company to substantial financial damage" 2. Hire a Pwn-As-A-Service to extract data from your company from the outside 3. Tell management "I told you so" You didn't read this here More seriously, I think the best you can do is not expect to find happiness in a setting that you don't fully control (ie your job), accept that, and look for joy elsewhere. It might be another job, it might be another hobby. Work fewer hours.

izietto 3y ago
> More seriously, I think the best you can do is not expect to find happiness in a setting that you don't fully control (ie your job), accept that, and look for joy elsewhere. It might be another job, it might be another hobby. Work fewer hours. That's how I upgraded from Ruby 2.4 / Rails 5.0 to Ruby 3.2 / Rails 7.0
web3-is-a-scam 3y ago
I appreciate your advice. I regularly voice concerns about security and let management make decisions. From my perspective I've done my due diligence and my hands are clean. I've stopped looking for "joy" from work. Mainly focused on finding joy with my children and other hobbies, while working as little as possible. The job is the means to that end now, rather than the end itself. They continue to pay me and it supports the things I want to do outside of work so I am "happy" enough. The work itself is also moderately interesting and a decent challenge from a domain perspective, so it's not all bad.
- rakoo 3y ago
  > I appreciate your advice. I regularly voice concerns about security and let management make decisions. From my perspective I've done my due diligence and my hands are clean. I feel like the best you can do unironically is the first step I outlined: ask management to formally recognize that despite your warnings, they choose cost reduction. Have a trace of that, not just in case of problems, but for yourself: it's a great reminder that as long as you aren't in charge, it can't be your problem.

nateberkopec 3y ago

Woof. Postgres 11+ also has some nice speed improvements with each version as well.

web3-is-a-scam 3y ago
I do some...let's say non-trivial reporting and there's so many new features in modern postgres that would make my life so much easier, whenever I accidentally end up on a documentation page for a newer version with something I want but can't use I die a little inside.

twic 3y ago

Oh in that case, there's actually a very simple way to upgrade: get a job somewhere else.