How pen and paper comes to the rescue in an IT crisis

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• Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pen and paper is indeed a technology

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  • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    One of the technologies of all time

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    • guy_threepwood@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Technically two?

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    • Xeroxchasechase@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If not THE technology.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article is about how pen and paper are saving companies that haven’t had to use them in a long time.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and its used to write information. you can almost say its… information technology

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• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This should realistically be part of every company’s disaster recovery/business continuity plan.

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bro I wouldn’t trust most companies not to store their only copy of super_duper_important_financial_data_2024.xlsx on an old AliExpress thumb drive attached to the CFO’s laptop in a coffee shop while he’s taking a shit.

    If your company has an actual DRP for if your datacenter catches fire or your cloud provider disappears, you are already doing better than 98 % of your competitors, and these aren’t far-fetched disaster scenarios. Maintaining an entire separate pen-and-paper shadow process, training people for it? That’s orders of magnitude more expensive than the simplest of DRPs most companies already don’t have.

    Friendly wave to all the companies currently paying millions a year extra to Broadcap/VMWare because their tools and processes are too rigid to use with literally any other hypervisor when realistically all their needs could be covered by the free tier of ProxMox and/or OpenStack.

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  • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    offline computers would probably be a better idea, at least then it can be transferred easily and won’t rip and tear.

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    • TriflingToad@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RAAAA! RIP AND TEAR ON GHE OFFIVE COMPUTER 🔫🗡️🗡️🧍‍♂️🩸

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Great idea! If you cannot do any productive at work, play D&D with your colleagues! 👍

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• OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How quickly we forget the lessons that Battlestar Galactica tried to instill in us… :-D

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So say we all

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Cut the corners off of our paper?

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    • OpenStars@discuss.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh uh… I was gonna say “don’t allow an over-reliance on any technology that could be hacked (by Cylons) and thereby become unreliable at any time”, but sure, we could add that one too! :-P

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hooray for physical runbooks!

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