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May 21, 2004

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May 21, 2004

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I've hooked this email thread into Teams so I can respond with a GIF

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We need to move to a new thread, we’ll do it really cheap and have the users move their own posts. Can you provide instructions?

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May 21, 2004

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We should move to the cloud

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May 21, 2004

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Ever since you upgraded me to the new thread I've been having problems sending emails from my phone. Can you please fix this problem once and for all because it's impacting my ability to make sales.

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May 21, 2004

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Personal Lucubrant posted:

Admittedly completely out of my element, but why even give them the time of day? They don't know you, and they don't need to know you.

"Have we worked with you before?"
Nope! Sure haven't. I'm in a completely different state and have no idea who you are.

Even if you've met them in person and they think you look familiar? No, person I don't want to associate with, you're mistaken, we are complete strangers.

Of course thinking of it in the moment is a lot harder than mentally re-treading that conversation in the shower the next day.

If people are being dickheads then I wouldn't want to award them a contract to work for me

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May 21, 2004

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Also nobody agrees on top or bottom posting

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Give them the oldest vacuum cleaner you can find and then clock off

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May 21, 2004

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Stop giving so much of yourself to a company that couldn't give a gently caress less, work to rule from now on

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The Fool posted:

hell yeah

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A Frosty Witch posted:

I think I've finally hit the point in my career and age that my jaded outlook on everything has resulted in a personality that exudes confidence, but is mostly just me not being able to give a poo poo anymore.

I have an interview in an hour and normally I'd be pacing and tearing my hair out and rehearsing questions but today I'm finding it really hard to care.

I'm going to roll in there, put on my customer service voice, act like I want to be there, answer some questions, and then take the mask off and go back to my spreadsheets mildly annoyed that I was taken away from them in the first place.

Did I do it? Am I finally IT?

Congrats. Not appearing desperate for the job is probably a positive.

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May 21, 2004

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A Frosty Witch posted:

I started off the interview by accidentally insulting the interviewer for having had frosted tips as a teenager.

lmao, but also bullet dodged

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May 21, 2004

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Also if you're running critical workloads on AWS and are big enough to have 300 clusters then it's sort of on you to read their blog now and again or look at the mailing list, maybe even respond to your account manager when they try and get your attention.

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May 21, 2004

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Yeah, if you aren't going to read emails then delete your mailbox so at least it bounces

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May 21, 2004

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Your email would be whatever cPanel installed (Horde?), it would authenticate against an IMAP server and everything was in clear text.

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May 21, 2004

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I wonder if Google still have records of who invited who to Gmail, and if that's going to cause some mass account suspension episode in the future.

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May 21, 2004

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Why isn't my 12 year old laptop on Wi-Fi getting the speeds I'm paying for?

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May 21, 2004

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By the time you're having to spend a decent chunk of money on your internal network, faster internet speeds start to look less appealing. Up to 1gb is easy, past that can become a pain in the arse.

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May 21, 2004

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I think stuff like ClearPass makes this a ton easier

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May 21, 2004

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UK wages are in the bin, I’ll see if I can find the stats from the other day

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May 21, 2004

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Certs are a feature on my evaluation of new products/services, alongside SSO. If there's an unreasonable SSO tax or it's not supported, and cert renewal can't be scripted (also give me a really good reason why Let's Encrypt cannot be used) then I'm not interested. The Acme plugin for pfSense can authenticate against Azure as an enterprise app and create the DNS records needed to validate the cert before sending the renewal request and clearing up after itself, every three months. Why can't your commercial UTM box?

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May 21, 2004

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:911:

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May 21, 2004

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Phones are poo poo

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May 21, 2004

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gently caress sake

That's what you get for trying I guess.

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May 21, 2004

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if answer=true

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May 21, 2004

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You'd think that posting about how you were heading off to a place to kill people and then going there with your guns would result in a charge sticking but these are fun times

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May 21, 2004

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It’s very helpful that people still using BlackBerry devices have that signature as it means you can ignore them

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May 21, 2004

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I don't want the ability for my lights to turn on or the temperature of my house to be not freezing to be dependent on an internet service and I have no idea why there has been such a large acceptance cheap poo poo insecure IoT hardware that seems to open permanent connections to Chinese cloud services

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May 21, 2004

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Was helping my dad move from one Samsung phone to the other a couple of weeks ago, searching Google for "Samsung Smart Switch" on an Android device gives the top result as a sponsored link which is an alternate app store hosting what is presumably malware. Google's complete indifference to the user experience of their services is almost without parallel.

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May 21, 2004

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"Oh it's actually good you just need to root it and then use"

No gently caress off

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May 21, 2004

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We hired someone who I had to point out had spelled their own name wrong on their resume that they handed to us

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May 21, 2004

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I can let smart thermostats slide simply because nobody seems able to make a programmable thermostat that is easy to configure. I'll pay double just to get a web UI and automatic DST changes.

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May 21, 2004

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That thing is a relic, wow

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May 21, 2004

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What's the reasoning behind running that thing still?

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May 21, 2004

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The only phone knowledge I will admit to having is "I can give you dialtone in Teams if you'd like"

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May 21, 2004

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Hey do you know about door access control?

Nope, no idea.

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May 21, 2004

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It's cool how the fire code used to be "yeah just punch a hole in the drywall if you want". It's like there was a shortage of saws or something.

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May 21, 2004

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There's a great video where some massive exchange in NYC (maybe) got burned out and due to the size of the company and the fact they were also the manufacturer they pulled in people from all over the country, diverted hardware that was due to go out to other areas and adapted it for the rebuild, expedited cable manufacturing, dragged in trailers of payphones etc. and had everything up in a couple of weeks. Not sure you could do that now where everything is a contract with a third party.

E: This one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_AWAmGi-g8

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May 21, 2004

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UPSes that are monitored and tested gets you around the power loss issue, and for life-critical services you use diversely routed fibre so that digging one route up doesn't cause a problem. There's no inherent reason why POTS needs to be more reliable than IP, I think people are just used to paying telephone line rental money and getting something incredibly robust as a result, even if a lot of that is by accident rather than anything that the phone company promises.

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