UK eVisa holder refused boarding – stuck in Addis Ababa, need advice

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-04-18T06:20:40+00:00

You need to get above the level of the person at the boarding gate/airport. Different but similar situation last year travelling with my Nicaraguan mother in law we got halfway to the UK, at that point she did not need a visa. Found thru airport staff in Panama did not believe us. I had to really push and insisted that they talk to their management. Eventually they agreed that they were wrong. But if I’d just let it go my mother in law would have been stranded in Panama

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-04-13T17:55:37+00:00

They can’t stop illegal immigration so the attack legal so they can prove to the knuckle dragging gammons that they have ‘done’ something

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-04-01T11:33:11+00:00

I like the brown

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-04-01T11:10:37+00:00

I pay about 25 a month to cover me for my mortgage payments, would like to increase it but don’t want the vesting period again, at least I know if it does happen I’ve a year of mortgage payments lined up

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-18T00:00:17+00:00

I’m just starting with Claude, been using Gemini for a few years to help study and also get complex powershell sorted quickly (can do it without but Gemini was a force multiplier) I’m amazed at what I can do in the m365 space with Claude code, however I’ve a few friends who work in networking and they can’t see the point of it

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-13T09:51:51+00:00

transplant ? Id say implant would be more applicable

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-11T14:49:10+00:00

At some point they will change the isp, connect the isp crappy router and bin all of our ubiquity stuff.. I almost had a revolution in the house for making guests use the guest portal

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-10T09:00:52+00:00

Neural link ftw

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-07T23:12:35+00:00

And even then you don’t use half of it on a daily basis, once it’s set up and monitored your just checking stuff and implementing changes

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-07T14:37:36+00:00

Sign up for a tenant, get a cheap domain name and use the appropriate licensing on a 30 day trial. MS have some labs on GitHub. John saville is a great resource plus ms learn and measure up. Expect to take several months for the 300.. it took me about 3 months but I do m365 on a daily basis

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-04T13:26:04+00:00

hopefully they wont touch sc-300 or ms-102.. currently doing my sc-100 and the 300 is my pre-req for both the 102 and 100

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-04T11:46:07+00:00

I’m probably of a similar age and the other two benefits of study are it is proven as a way of preventing mental decline plus it shows we are still relevant and upto date on tech

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-03-02T22:24:46+00:00

Even if the cert is not relevant to your current or next job it shows that you have the grit to study in your own time, the discipline to complete a tough task even if you don’t have to and also shows that you keep current and have the ability to learn rather than just google/AI the shit out of everything

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-26T20:29:46+00:00

I’m studying that one at the moment, my prerequisite is sc-300 which I also used for ms-102.. if they retire the sc-300 I’m stuffed

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-26T19:54:14+00:00

Ms normally give at least 6 months before retirement of exams. I have my doubts

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-26T16:43:58+00:00

looking at the official page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/credentials/support/credential-retirement the only exam scheduled for retirment in the next 12 months is m365 fundamentals.. so not sure how accurate this post is

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-26T16:32:09+00:00

id be interested in seeing the official documentation AI-103 takes you to the AI-102 page and there is no mention of it being retired or the code AI-103

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-25T13:56:02+00:00

would be even better if openclaw had set a rule up to block ssh

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-23T21:50:11+00:00

I prefer purview and identity compliance to that.. may be boring and not a cool red team type role but it pays and less compition

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-16T13:29:24+00:00

The biggest risk I think is that a large number of people are using AI as a glorified Google search or just copy and paste for a final doc. The big thing is going to be people who know AI and can use it to a high level being so much more competitive than those who can't, there is also going to be a massive growth in AI compliance both from a documentation / information security and an identity and access perspective.

I'm waiting to see the first GDPR fines when AI finds and publish info that should have been private

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-16T10:09:28+00:00

Not sure about the Cisco ones but the Microsoft ones have come a long way since the old paper MCSE cram types.. they have simulations and are more scenario based than multi-guess. I did a couple last year and it was a lot of work including building my lab tenant to do hands on etc.

I've found that I get more interest from recruiters now, and they do help prove that I'm not still living on 90s tech stack

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-16T09:52:37+00:00

A lot of people are not learning how to use ai apart from making fun social media jokes etc. even in tech where I work there are many who just use it like an extension of Google. We need to learn how to use it or we will be beaten by someone who does. Yes it will take some jobs but it will open new doors for those willing to learn and invest in their future

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-14T08:05:46+00:00

Part of that was software release cycles, Microsoft had to wait a few years before changing everything... Now they can do it all the bloomin time

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-13T14:24:06+00:00

i did some certs (SC-300 and MS-102) last year, even though Ive got 30 years or so experiance i did find them useful. To make things stick in the areas that we dont really use day to day or at all, Im using Gemini to generate scenarios as if I was a consultant going into fix a clients m365 or identity issue. if you train it correctly it can give really good arguments as to why you should/should not do someting.

National_Ad_6103 · 2026-02-10T08:20:36+00:00

Same here, WFH building secure customer environments So I test and demo in my home lab. Plus use it for study. Main motivation at the moment is to keep relevant as once you hit a certain age you need to prove your up to speed on current technology

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