Oh shit, I should’ve done this earlier

Not really a thing you can just do, but thick walls. I live in an old house with double layered exterior brick walls. It has such a massive impact that sometimes I wear a vest inside, while it’s heatstroke temperatures outside.

My computer “accidentally” installed windows 11 yesterday. So I spent all of today trying to fix all the stuff that broke. In the end it didn’t work, so I’m finally moving over to Linux soon.

A good step away from the US

Slap my balls and call me Sally, that’s a heck of a story you got there. I hope it has served you well in many a bar night.

We’ll remember this once the tribunals begin

The name is Bond, James Bond

TIL Trumps father wore a Hitler mustache until 1950.

After World War II, toothbrush variants were worn by a small number of notable individuals, e.g. American real-estate developer Fred Trump (who wore a split variant), and former president of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe (covering only the philtrum).

Trump wore a toothbrush mustache from c. 1935 to 1950, about when it fell out if fashion due yo associations with Adolf Hitler

Today I broke a colleague’s app, because I repurposed an unused app registration on azure, or at least I thought it was unused. I thought that would be faster than asking the admins for a new registration on a Friday afternoon. But I forgot that I had used that registration for my colleague 's application.

So when he came complaining that it didn’t work, I just told him he had done something wrong and that he should just restart his computer.

I watch on my phone all the time in the train to and from work. I don’t really care for the aesthetics, I’m in it for the story.

When I download, I go for the 700mb rather than the 15gb movies. I only have a small, dumb tv that’s 10 years old. So watching it there isn’t really a theater experience either.

We use the education subset of Teams. It surely isn’t perfect, but it has many positive features.

Group calls with 30 people work just as good as individual calls, if not better.

You can manage groups into break-out rooms very easily.

There’s whiteboards, forms, polls and other integratable features for interactive communication with students.

The assignments mechanic is pretty decent in general. However, the rubrics very cumbersome to add.

The MsGraph backend is very extensive and let’s you create your own apps that can integrate with all the teams data. That makes it possible to automate a lot. Also MSAL is a tried and trusted authorization mechanism.

It also has a lot of downsides, like bugs, automatic updates that break features you were using, nobody listens to feature requests, shitty documentation, the environment is very big and you can easily get lost (we’ve had to make couple videos and documentation to explain it all to new students). But all in all it is pretty decent to work with.

295 seems like a fair price

Yes, normal client computers. Just for simple document work. Inexcusable indeed

Same with YouTube, honestly.

Just talked to a woman from a company in the same holding as mine. They still run their computers on windows xp. They’re in health care and deal with sensitive, confidential patient data.

I never have that problem with Digital Ocean 😆

Thanks, I guess

What?

Is it running on a dedicated machine? Than what’s the worst that could happen? Say someone hacks your website and gains root access to your machine. Maybe they’ll fuck up your website. Maybe they’ll install some botnet software. But you can basically just flash your device and restart from a backup. No biggie!

The best defence, in my opinion, is awareness and a good backup plan.

But also, if you have a static website with no login or anything, a hacker can’t login either. Maybe you’ve got an ssh connection? That’s pretty secure, just make sure you’ve got it set up correctly and you’ve got a good password. Maybe you have some login from apache? Same as with the ssh, but if you don’t actively use it, you could disable it.

My daughter is turning 12 and going to secondary school after summer. I’m hopefully graduating my bachelor after summer. My wife is starting nursing school after summer.

Lots to look forward to.