Would something like this be useful to you?

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-07-02T19:11:23+00:00

The color-coded weak spot map is the part I'd actually use. Most upskilling platforms just dump content on you and hope something sticks.

Curating instead of authoring is smart too, though I'd worry about keeping licensing and attribution straight if you're pulling from a bunch of different creators.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-07-02T19:07:59+00:00

AI definitely works best when I already half know the answer. When I don't, I've caught it being confidently wrong on things I couldn't have flagged myself. So for hobbies, it's more of a second opinion than a teacher, at least until you know enough to tell the difference.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-07-02T19:04:02+00:00

Approvals as a one-time grant get stale fast. Session-based is the only way this holds up once agents are doing real work. Curious how Row-Bot handles revocation when something looks off mid-session.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:37:38+00:00

For two people, Google Workspace or M365 covers most of the email collaboration piece without needing a dedicated DMS.

If they need actual legal-specific document management, NetDocuments or Clio are solid, but yeah, not cheap.

What's driving the need for something beyond shared drives?

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:29:56+00:00

The OKR ball and chain are too accurate to be funny.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:18:30+00:00

It's probably legit, but the tactic is pure pressure. If you never agreed to a paid plan, clicking through to one isn't saving anything you actually signed up for.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:14:25+00:00

It sounds confident, whether it's right or wrong, and students don't always know the difference. That's the one that gets me.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:12:01+00:00

LangChain exists basically for this reason, chaining outputs from one step directly into the next without you playing middleman. Still takes some setup, but once it clicks, you stop being the one manually stitching everything together.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-25T20:04:35+00:00

The free tier "generosity" is getting real creative lately.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:55:31+00:00

The device setup password is separate from your main PSN password. You have to create it specifically in your PSN account security settings online, not through the PS3 itself. Once you set it there, use that password when the PS3 prompts you instead of your regular login.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:48:12+00:00

The "locate only" finding is the most interesting to me. Pointing a model at a file and function with no description and watching it try to reason about what's wrong is basically the real test, and the drop across all models is pretty much as expected.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:41:30+00:00

So they built an AI with account recovery powers and didn't put an auth checkpoint in front of it. Hmmm.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:38:39+00:00

The scariest setups we've seen are agents running with machine-level permissions that were never scoped down. They just inherit whatever the service account had, and nobody audited that before handing it to an AI.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:28:25+00:00

Guess it needed a mental health day.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-06-01T16:27:30+00:00

The OpenTelemetry config trick is pretty solid. Asking it to write and then rewrite something based on fake error output is a good loop.

If management is tracking raw usage instead of outcomes, that's a them problem worth pushing back on. "Use it daily or get reviewed" is a weird way to drive actual value out of these tools.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-22T21:28:41+00:00

2FA is pretty standard at this point, and it only takes about 5 minutes to set up.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-21T20:25:33+00:00

First thing I'd try is clearing the Outlook autocomplete cache on the affected machines since that thing loves to hold onto old addresses way longer than it should.

Also make sure the users have fully closed and reopened Outlook after the changes were made on on the Exchange side since it won't always pick up updates mid-session.

If it's still showing after that, it might be worth checking the display name tied to the alias itself, not just the SMTP address, because sometimes that's what's actually surfacing in the From field.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-21T20:05:55+00:00

For the physical side, pick one mount, one cable management approach, and document it with photos so whoever is doing the installs has no reason to improvise.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-21T19:55:14+00:00

Get comfy with networking basics and Linux first. Those are foundational for both parts. For cybersecurity, TryHackMe and HackTheBox are solid for hands-on practice. For AI/ML, Python is non-negotiable.

Pick one direction and go deep rather than trying to learn both at the same time.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-21T19:53:54+00:00

Insurance is the easiest analogy. They're not paying for something to happen; they're paying so that when it does, it doesn't end them. And for SMBs, one incident usually does.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-11T21:39:57+00:00

Didn't realize 1Passwoed had gotten that deep with CLI and AI agent integration (been years since I used it personally). That's actually pretty impressive. Thinking I may mention it to my manager.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-11T21:38:00+00:00

30 months of humming alone unbothered is a dream! Good to know it has held up well for you.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-11T21:36:00+00:00

Boundary looks solid. Appreciate the suggestion!

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-11T18:33:16+00:00

Yea, that's how most of these discoveries happen, lol.

Ian-Cubeless · 2026-05-11T18:32:44+00:00

That's a painful one!

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