Anyone have a good way of sneaking out 2 server racks, one with 2x 1U servers, out of work?! Asking for a friend 😆

On a serious note: I need to find out who to ask about abandoned server racks and servers at work. No ones used them in upwards of 6 months and I’m the only person with access to the room they’re stored in 🤔

👋 Happy Holidays from above the clouds!

When you see a domain admin account signed into an iPad for a client and it’s out of scope to mention to them 🫠

Anyone know of any good, cheap laptops to use for just day-to-day activities (web surfing, sysadmin, web design, etc) that’s not a Chromebook? My Microsoft Surface Go I got some years ago blue screens when I plug it into my dock.

Open to refurbished as well

Been trying to get a vultr.com VPS up and running to host production websites on using zs.

The default Debian and Ubuntu headless offerings come with a very unfamiliar shell that I, for some reason, can’t properly install zs on so will need to explore options for custom ISOs of a Debian/Ubuntu distro to use. Probably the latest LTS versions, I’m thinking.

Last Friday, I had my first public speaking appearance, albeit internal but still spoke in front of 60+ people.

I thought I would crash and burn or run through this too quickly, but the audience made everything super easy. Never thought that public speaking would actually be somewhat of a strength of mine 😳

Moral of the story: get out of your comfort zone, you might discover something you’re good at and enjoy!

Today was an interesting day. Following a suggestion (based on my skills and want to move to a more technical role) my leadership is now chasing a SOC analyst role for me. Bonus: the Director of our SOC wants me in there and they’re super nice 😊

Thoughts on the filter menu being in this position? Other idea I had was along side the search field at the top.

Got an open home today, for 15 mins. Should be fun 😅

Moving by the end of the month to much nicer house (not a townhouse, hooray!), so very excited for that.

Goals for this weekend:

• Stand up a Parrot OS Architect VM.
  
• Create a dev environment of yarn.
  
• Commence actual work on new filter option.
  
• Finish my future-state home network diagram (for when I move in 20 days)
  

Should be a productive weekend 😁

Oof. I would usually go straight to sleep after putting the little one to sleep but here I am, awake and twting. Time to do one of the many things on my list to make me feel like I’m accomplishing something with my spare time

Resurfacing after being enthralled in games for a while. How’s everything going?

Submitting a client document, that I worked on by myself, for first internal review today. Wish me luck 🤞😬

My view is, if we ever get to a point that a true “AI” can be created, something that can entirely learn new concepts by itself and exponentially expand it’s own knowledge base without being told to do so (basically what I would consider sentient at that point), humans won’t know about it until it’s significantly too late to stop it. I think that’s where the general hysteria comes from, but for now I’ll use these LLMs to spit out lists of cyber security controls to make my work that little bit easier

Recently, for the first time ever, I decided to give dual booting a try. It’s actually been working really well. I use Parrot OS (Home Edition) for daily use and Windows 11 for all of my gaming needs. Eventually, I’d like to back up just my games and format all of my storage so I can start those off fresh.

I must say, using a Linux OS as my daily driver OS has been super fun and useful, considering I don’t have to spin up a VM or WLS whenever I want to do some form of sysadmin work (I’m much more comfortable in a Unix terminal than Windows 😅)

@prologic@twtxt.net 😆it’s only early days. Maybe you’re view will change over time! /s

The spaces are definitely too much for me to realistically use. A cool thought exercise around accessibility features for websites though!

Side note: a cool little connection between this and a govt. org. My brother-in-law actually works for a govt. org that audits Australian websites for accessibility and assigns then a score 😄

I posted up a new discussion about the current filter menu on mobile. Keen to hear everyone’s thoughts and even further suggestions :)

https://git.mills.io/yarnsocial/yarn/issues/1129

Out of interest, anyone use a secure IRC client for iOS? Ideally E2EE, but open to suggestions. I figure just going to the App Store and finding the first client may be…risky

👋 Sheesh! I’ve been gone for a good while. Lots of stuff going on between work, new sleep schedule for the kiddo and other personal things. How’s everyone going over here?

Interesting and tough moral dilemma: is it appropriate for Government to strip privacy away from all citizens in favour for the safety of children online to avoid the production and distribution of CSAM? I ask because there’s a podcast from the Australian Federal Police around CSAM in Australia and there was a statement that effectively the prevention of CSAM needs to take a priority over privacy.

Since it’s official, I’m now permanent in my role at work! My probation ended early due to the quality of work and willingness to do anything I’ve been tasked with 🥳