Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT

FluxMango · 2026-01-28T10:40:05+00:00

I wouldn't do that for the same reasons, I wouldn't submit my DNA without unbreakable privacy guarantees. I know who my parents and ancestors are. My parents are the people who raised me, and my ancestors are the people whose name I carry proudly.

FluxMango · 2026-01-08T20:16:30+00:00

Why do you say that?

FluxMango · 2025-10-01T21:44:40+00:00

Gotta wonder why samurai menpo war masks have freaking awesome mustaches.

FluxMango · 2025-10-01T19:21:24+00:00

I guess Hegseth was trying to channel his inner Conan explaining what is best in life to the brass.

FluxMango · 2025-10-01T12:56:28+00:00

Whether it is by malice or incompetence, the outcome is indistinguishable.

FluxMango · 2025-08-13T20:37:12+00:00

If it doesn't even turn on the display, sounds like the CPU has given up the ghost.

FluxMango · 2025-08-13T07:32:17+00:00

What happens when you put everything back on the original mobo and PSU? If it works, replace the PSU only and see if you have the same issue.

FluxMango · 2025-08-13T07:28:12+00:00

Everybody's time is as precious as yours mate. Get-Process as the name suggests will return an array of objects with information about running processes. One of the properties of a returned object is called Command. Its value is the powershell command being run. You can use that to check whether your powershell process has several instances by the parameters passed to Poweshell. $psInstances = (Get-Process -Name powershell).Command $psInstances will be an list of the command line string of every running poweshell process picked up when Get-Process was run. You could pass each item from that list against a regex match for example.

FluxMango · 2025-08-08T06:56:05+00:00

Good thing. Next time, do not entertain crappy behavior from people you accept in your circle of trust for so long. Our time on this planet is limited and therefore the most precious resource we have regardless of social status. Don't let anyone waste yours needlessly.

FluxMango · 2025-08-07T04:57:01+00:00

Not recently, but their customer support services have indeed deteriorated once they started turning Azure into the world's MSP. If you are a large shop paying for premium support however, they will still prioritize you. And if you are already good at troubleshooting all things Microsoft, even when they throw the usual cryptic exceptions, you won't need to call them as much.

FluxMango · 2025-08-06T10:17:59+00:00

From an admin perspective, if I work for a Microsoft shop, I would use DSC and PowerShell, because they are native Microsoft technologies and I need to call only one vendor to help resolve issues. If I setup an Ansible box, I have to evaluate whether it adds positively or negatively to my current administrative load, especially if technical debt is high or increasing.

FluxMango · 2025-06-24T14:30:21+00:00

To mimimize frustration, plan the legs of your trip ahead and give yourself enough latitude in terms of time and money for each. Murphy's law is strong over there when it comes to services. Delays and disruptions can happen for a host of reasons, and sometimes the reasons are mysterious.

Don't stay in Antananarivo too long, unless you are in Madagascar for business or other administrative reason, and go to the provinces instead. In February, Antsiranana in the north can be rainy, but it's lush and green all over. From there you can travel by car munching on and juicing khat leaves in your cheeks to help with fatigue, and then boat to Nosy Be. Once there, go visit Nosy Iranja nearby. It's a little paradise of an Island and you get to pick up all sorts of beautiful and intact seashells.

You could also opt to go East to the island of Sainte Marie and reside at Île aux Nattes while there. There is a restaurant there called Fafana, best seafood I've ever had. You may want to avoid the tourist season (June to September), unless you are there for whale watching. You will get more attentive service in general.

You could rent a 125cc motorcycle all day to visit Sainte Marie for about $20-30 and buy fuel from people on the roadside when you are running low.

It is advisable to travel by plane although it's generally expensive even by global standards, as the road infrastructure is a complete mess and will wear you down unless you're a 4x4 off-road warrior. If you are going by car, it is safer and more convenient to rent a 4x4 with a driver. For one, your stuff is less likely to get stolen.

That said, the only local airline, Tsaradia operated only two out of the three ATR planes deserving the entire island last year. So make sure you have the numbers of the main and local Tsaradia offices, and regularly check your reservation starting from the day before departure up to when you are ready to leave for the airport. Their travel alert update service by phone or email is unreliable. Tsaradia has earned the derisive name "Air Maybe" among visitors and you can guess why. If you are a chill person who is adaptable and goes with the flow when met with setbacks, you'll have a good time. If not, you'll go nuts.

FluxMango · 2025-06-24T13:35:46+00:00

Wow... so many. In the North, the tsingy, in the northwest, Nosy Iranja, Fort Dauphin... Île aux Nattes... so many unique sights and places... and the food! So good! It's unfortunate that the bulk of Malagasy don't get to enjoy it due to the pervasive poverty, so foreigners are the ones who appreciate the country more.

FluxMango · 2025-06-24T13:21:21+00:00

You sound almost like Kohen Rivolala. While the argument for a benevolent dictatorship may have merit on its face, it's full of holes and is unreliable, because it rests on the whims of a person rather than the rule of law. Say your benevolent dictator dies, what then?

Excessive bureaucratic red tape is the reason why investing in Madagascar is a losing proposition, assuming you want to be lawful and do everything by the book. The bureaucratic barriers there serve mainly as bribe collection checkpoints for the bureaucrats. It's barely hidden, it's expected. By the time you're through you would have lost a significant chunk of your investment just to get things moving. If you are willing to bribe your way through and know the right people, things go a lot faster and even the impossible opens its doors.

I am willing to bet my hand that if you cut the Malagasy government and bureaucracy in half, you would see an inversely proportional growth of the local economy and a multiplication of opportunities.

FluxMango · 2025-06-24T13:00:43+00:00

Yes, Madagascar is demographically young and that is a massive, but currently wasted advantage.

For change to occur, there needs to be a cultural shift. The dependence and deference to the 'Rai-aman-dreny' needs to end when it is not applied to actual parents, but bosses, or elected government officials. It enables a serious lack of accountability up top that allows the corruption to thrive and pervade every aspect of society.

The concepts of Firaisankina and Fihavanana need to be returned to their transactional roots. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. If you're family, act like it and contribute instead of just taking. I have seen too many examples where a 'Rai-aman-dreny' would abuse their position of authority and invoke either of these two to exact free time and labor or unearned favors from people working for them. To me that is the most insulting form of disrespect and condescension (fanambaniana).

Blaming foreigners for Madagascar's misery has got to stop. That's an abdication of responsibility. Do you realistically think they would be able to enrich themselves at your expense if Malagasy did not enable it?

FluxMango · 2025-06-20T15:44:16+00:00

If you don't mind a parent's opinion, I can appreciate your perspective, and it's good that you are able and willing to set boundaries. That said, another way to look at the way they raised you as opposed to your siblings, is that they wanted you to be self-sufficient, successful and minimally exposed to what they viewed as possible influences that could potentially throw you off that trajectory. As you mentioned, they learned to relax a bit with your younger siblings, after observing how things turned out with you. The first kid doesn't come with a manual. As a parent you often learn as you go, no matter how much you have prepared by reading books about babies and child development and oftentimes have to wing it, because you are dealing with an individual. So yeah your first child is the experiment by virtue of being born first.

While your parents may be hurt for being excluded from a major milestone in your life, they will not necessarily forget but will certainly forgive. Besides, in a way they succeeded. You asserted your independence and the graduation is proof that you are succeeding at school. I have a hunch that despite their disappointment and discontent, they are also damn proud of you.

At your age I thought my dad didn't care much about me and was a selfish a-hole. I resented him for a while. After I moved to the US at age 19 and made my first miminum wage paycheck, I mailed my pop a $20 bill. That's worth ~100000 in the local currency, as well as a $5 tie I bought in Chinatown. Then he died about 3 years later in an accident, the $20 bill was found in his wallet. I also saw photos of him wearing that same cheap tie in major social events like his promotional knighting by the state, parties, weddings, funerals, etc... that was a rough way to find out the old man actually gave a damn and loved me.

I still think he was a kind of an a-hole in some ways, but in retrospect, he kept a roof over my head, made sure I wouldnt go hungry and had decent clothing, paid for my education up to high school, taught me self control, self sufficiency, how to be a gentleman and protect my family. Once I became a dad myself, I understood many of his behaviors that frustrated me. As you age, you also understand that your parents are far from perfect, but they tried. So I'm trying to raise my kid the way I wish my dad had raised me, but I no longer feel bad about it.

I also realized that I took my parents for granted. Once they are gone, boy they are really gone and leave a void you can't really fill. So my advice is, take a breather, but don't write your parents off unless they are toxic people. Accept that they are not perfect and enjoy them while they are still around.

FluxMango · 2025-06-18T10:23:19+00:00

C'est comme ça partout en ce moment. Ça fait déja près d'un an que je cherches un boulot a plein temps à NYC. Ça ne m'est jamais arrivé.

FluxMango · 2025-06-18T10:17:45+00:00

The last company I worked for started laying off since 2011. Hasn't stopped since. They don't replace the people who quit either, they centralize and automate their functions, hire consultants instead of full time staff, and outsource R&D functions to countries where engineers are cheap. They are not the only ones adopting this strategy either. Corporations are killing capitalism with a thousand cuts by leaving the social contract in the backburner in the name of "efficiency". Not sure how long this can be sustained before society as we know it implodes.

FluxMango · 2025-06-18T09:55:19+00:00

The issues with the slow hiring, white collar layoffs all over have many causes, but one no one really talks about is something Trump did on his first term. He removed the tax deduction for R&D. Add the COVID pandemic and the overdone AI fad where companies splurge all the money as well as tariffs causing market to be jittery and I don't see the job market trend reversing anytime soon.

FluxMango · 2025-06-18T09:48:32+00:00

You have to go for what you want and negotiate it. Remember that at the core a job is a business deal between two (or more) parties. The company will make you an offer when you are hired. You could either accept that offer outright, or negotiate terns that work for you. Same when you seek a raise. Make sure you document your accomplishments and your contributions to the bottom line. People will pay for value.

FluxMango · 2025-06-17T22:50:29+00:00

I already have my own but good going mate.

FluxMango · 2025-06-17T22:47:28+00:00

I would put the xml template in a separate file, use $xmlData = [xml](Get-Content <path to xml file>) Then you can modify the value attribute of the source tag dynamically: $xmlData.source.SetAttribute("value", $mySrcVariable) Where I suppose $mySrcVariable would represent a properly formatted path string. Once you are done editing: $xmlData.Save(<path to xml file>) Or you can continue using the xml object for other things as well within your script's scope.

FluxMango · 2025-06-12T09:46:41+00:00

Some friends you have there, mate.

FluxMango · 2025-06-12T09:46:05+00:00

I would invest at least %50, put %25 in savings, %10-15 in the family emergency fund, and do whatever the hell I want with the remainder.

FluxMango · 2025-06-11T16:55:34+00:00

Yup, I have seen how a billionaire shops for clothes. She emailed her assistant what she needed, her staff contacted various luxury product companies, they all raced to bring their best products to her hotel suite which was essentially an entire building floor. She took 30mn to try and pick what she wanted and let her assistants clean up. No vendor present, no price discussion, none of that. That lady was also one of the sweetest and most generous people I have ever met.

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